Tulane Global Humanities Center

Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni

These are alumni of Tulane Global Humanities Center fellowships programs, including the Global South Fellowship, Gulf South Writer in the Woods, Monroe Fellowship, and Rosenthal Blumenfeld Gulf South Studies Food Fellowship.

2026

Monroe Fellows

Shelby Kendrick Kirk, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Unpacking Historical Significance: Preservation and Societal Values in the French Quarter and Tremé”
Rachel Kirk, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“(Un-)natural Disaster, Cultural Loss and Preservation in the Franco-Creole Caribbean”
Robert Fieseler, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Mr. Trans-Louisiana: The Robber Baron Reed Erickson in Baton Rouge, a Forgotten Gender Capital of America”
Sina Lee, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Other Mother of My Child: Transnational Solidarity among Korean Adoptees, Adoptive Mothers, and Birth Mothers”
Eileen Tomczuk, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“How Communities Engage with Policy to Preserve Historical Sites Under Threat in New Orleans”
Praveena Fernes, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Inhaling Injustice: Tracing Biomass Production from Mississippi, US to North Yorkshire, UK”

Rosenthal Blumenfeld Fellows

Courses

Brad Bolman, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Past and Future of Gulf South Food”

Research

Kyle DeCoste and Alex Blue V, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Country Rap: An Ethnographic Study of Race, Place, and Sound”
Jane Pyo, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Technological ports and the Identity of the Transported: Global Digital Platforms’ Role in Shaping Asian American Identities”
Ezra Remer, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Dominica Coffee Revitalization Initiative”

Global South Fellows

Sarah Brokenborough, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Crafted Economies: Tracing Jamaican and Bajan Women’s Lace-bark Doilies to New Orleans”
MinJoo Choi, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Understanding the Regeneration of Huarás Societies (400 BCE-100CE) After the Chavín Collapse in Conchucos, Ancash, Peru”
Maryluna Santos Giraldo, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Building the Colonial: Architectural Networks Between Builders and the Environment in the New Kingdom of Granada”
Diego Matadamas Gomora, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Revisiting the model of altepetl: rural archaeology, community practices, and regional interactions at Late-Postclassic Tlalancaleca, Mexico (c. AD 1200-1521)”
Nicole Jozwik, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Potosí’s Conscripted Artists: The Art and Material Culture of the Silver City’s Indigenous Miners”
Sebastian A. Palacios, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“A commerce of souls. Intersecting Jewish and Portuguese mercantile diasporas in the New Kingdom of Granada (1595-1640)”

2023

Rosenthal Blumenfeld Fellow

Marcus Coleman, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Food System Leadership in the Greater New Orleans Region”

2022

Monroe Fellows

Claire Anderson, Tulane University, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2022
Casey Beck, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Changemakers”
Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Aural Industrial Complex in the Gulf of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean”
Gia M. Hamilton, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni, photo: Danielle Miles
“Where the People At“
Annette Hollowell and free feral, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“We are the Promised Land“
Performance still of Tina Girouard 1977 performance ‘Pinwheel’ at the New Orleans Museum of Art
“Posthumous Retrospective Exhibition of Louisiana Artist Tina Girouard (1946-2020)“
Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni, Photo: Russell Costanza
“Music is Life: Coming of Age Stories from the Margins of America“
Raegan C. Stearns, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni, David Campbell, photo
“Unshuttered, Uncovered: Northwest Louisiana’s Black Photographic Legacy”
Tunde Wey, Tulane University, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Tunde Wey at Yes We Cannibal: The Restaurant at the End of the World”

Rosenthal Blumenfeld Fellow

Devin Wright, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Change is Growing: Climate Change and Food Justice Among Small-Scale Agricultural Producers in the Metropolitan New Orleans Area”

Global South Fellows

Deniz Daser, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“New Orleans as Refuge: Central American Migration amid Economic, Political, and Climate Crises“
Freddi Williams Evans, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Congo Square Connections: African Gathering Places and Cultural Practices across the Atlantic World“
Alex Lopez, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Colonial Policy, Tax Exemptions, and Austerity in Puerto Rico“
Katalin Lukács, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Rising Water“
John Maddox, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Working title: Borders and Belonging in a Borderless Alabama“
James Pangilinan, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Refugee-Led Humanitarianism between New Orleans East and Palawan“
John (Ray) Proctor, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Staging Derek Walcott’s Pantomime in Museums and Communities“
R. Volney (Rob) Riser, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Empire’s Ladder: African American Emigration to Hawai’i, 1899-1901”
Ann Tran, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Colonial Policy, Tax Exemptions, and Austerity in Puerto Rico“

2021

Monroe Fellows

Hannah Chalew, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Creating Ink from Petrochemical Waste: Materially Recombining Legacies of Injustice to Envision New Futures“
Liam Grealy, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Getting a Drink in New Orleans: Water Infrastructure and Public Care“
Shana M. griffin, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“DISPLACED”
Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni. © Zeng Xianfang, Little North Road project Daniel Traub
“Black Rice”
Antonia Juhasz, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Working Title, Cancer Alley Rises: One Black Community’s Resistance and the Coming End of the Fossil Fuel Era”
Joseph Makkos, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni, Photo: Zack Smith
“Mapping the Gulf Coast’s Roads, Oil, and Automobile Culture”
Jonathan Mayers, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni. photo: Moïse Fournier
“Kréyolité Lalwyizàn: Gid filozofi”
Cristina Molina, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Neverglades”
Mikael Omstedt, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Money and the Agrarian Question: The Historical Geography of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1914–1929”
Renee Royale, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Landscapes of Matter”
Geovane Paiva Santos, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni. Photo: Currin Wallis
“The GRIOT Series”
Simi Kang, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Refugee Environmentalism: Restoration & Climate Migration in Coastal Louisiana”
D. Caleb Smith, History, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Between Legal Advances and Industrial Ruins: Black Aluminum Workers After the 1964 Civil Rights Act”
Scott Tilton, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Voices of Renewal”
Sarah A. Torgeson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Oral History Project on the Mississippi Gulf Coast”
Elena Vanasse Torres, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Centro para la Ecología y Apicultura Urbana”
Nathan Wendte, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Northshore and Grand Isle: Eroding Linguistic Landscapes”
Allison Young, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Paper Trails: On Art and History in Plantationocene Louisiana”

Gulf South Writer in the Woods

Desiree S. Evans, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Gulf South Writer in the Woods 2021–2022

Global South Fellows

Ifátùmínínú Bamgbàlà Arẹs̀, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“From Nigeria to New Orleans”
Brigid Conroy, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Undercurrents”
Marvin McNeill, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Investigating the Music, History, and Socio-Cultural Importance of the to Be Continued Brass Band (TBC) of New Orleans”
Courtney Desiree Morris, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni, photo: Diamela Cutiño
“Mossville: Race, Ecology, Memory”
Terrell Orr, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Roots of Global Citrus in ‘Nuevo South’ Florida and Rural São Paulo”
Blair M. Proctor, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Pandemics in New Orleans and Johannesburg: From Plessy & Apartheid through COVID-19”
David Thomson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“State Debt Defaults and Global Capital in the Civil War Era”

2020

Monroe Fellows

Imani Jacqueline Brown, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Disentangling The Snarl of Industry”
Aron Chang, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Water Map New Orleans”
Hannah Conway, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“How Infrastructures Age: Engineering, Nature, and Environmental Justice in the Lower Mississippi Delta”
John DePriest, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Chahta Taloa: Sipokni micha Himona (Choctaw Music: Old and New)”
AnnieLaurie Erickson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Research and Experimental Documentation of the Petrochemical Plants of Cancer Alley”
Goat in the Road Productions, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Walter Anderson Immersive Experience”
Ana María Gómez López, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“On Taphonomy”
Rosa Gomez-Herrin, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Emerging Barrios in Metro New Orleans”
Lisa Harris, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni. photo: Molly Stinchfield
“Onshore Trilling: What to do When the Earth Sings the Bruise”
Theo Hilton, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Reconstructing the Future: Race, Heritage, and Coastal Planning in Southeast Louisiana”
Marina Magloire, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Book Project Based on the Last Call Oral History Archive”
Sarah McNamara, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“South of the South”
Laura Murphy, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“A Glossary for the Pluriverse”
Margaret Pearce, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Mississippi Dialogues”
Kalamu ya Salaam, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“SEEING BLACK”
Scott Trafton, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Gulf Coast Blues: Race, Space, and the Afrocreole Coast”
Angela Tucker, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Inquisitor” (working title)
Monique Verdin, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Invisible Rivers”

Rosenthal Blumenfeld Fellows

Amalia Leguizamón, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Sociology of Food and Agriculture”
Allison J. Truitt, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“The Relationship Between Religion and Food in the Gulf South Region”

Global South Fellows

Guadalupe Carrasco-Gonzalez, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Louisiana and U.S.–Spain Maritime Trade, 1790–1815”
Sarah Fouts and Chloe Sigal, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2020
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Gods of the Flesh: Religion, Sexuality, and Circum-Caribbean Migration in Black New Orleans, 1900-1940”
Christina Leblanc, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“After the Storm: Disaster and Development in Puerto Rico, 1928-1960”
Joselyn Takacs, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Petroleum in Five Acts: Slow Violence along the Mississippi River and the Niger River”

2019

Monroe Fellows

Abdul Aziz, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
“Band Together: Music Education in the Margins of America”
Robin Bartram, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
LaTasha Bundy, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Frances Butler, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Cherice Harrison-Nelson and Karen Celestan, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Sokari Ekine, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Emily Ford, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Christopher Grant, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Gia Hamilton, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni. Photo Gia Hamilton
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Jessica Lee Liddell, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Eyal Press, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Greg Robinson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019
Walter C. Stern, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2019

Global South Fellows

Ben Barson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Jayeesha Dutta, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Bridget Gunnels, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Philippe Halbert, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Ra Malika Imhotep, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Ryan Joyce, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Michael Salgarolo, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Natalie Schmitz, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Urmi Willoughby, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019
Atlas Tian Xu, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2019

Gulf South Writer in the Woods

Ladee Hubbard, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Gulf South Writer in the Woods 2019-2020

2018

Monroe Fellows

Kira Akerman, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Manon Bellet, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Anna Livia Brand, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Roberta Brandes Gratz, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Carol Bunch Davis, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Annie Flannagan and Ashley Teamer, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni. Dillard Girls basketball team
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Tom Klingler, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Benjamin Morris, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Ned Randolph, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Dustin Reuther, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Frances Roberts-Gregory, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Kristina Kay Robinson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Casey Ruble, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Nicole Viglini, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018
Keith Wilson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2018

Global South Fellows

Nicholas Paskert, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2018
Gwendolen von Einsiedel, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2018
Lerin Williams, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2018
Maarten Zwiers, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2018

2017

Monroe Fellows

Thomas Beller, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Richard Campanella, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Tori Bush and Richard Goodman, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Jesse Chanin, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Oxbow lake surrounding the Mississippi River, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Hannah Kreiger-Benson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
J. Celeste Lay, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Sedrick Miles, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017
Monique Moss, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2017

Global South Fellow

S. Wright Kennedy, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2017

2016

Monroe Fellows

Adrian Anagnost, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2016
Monica Barra, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2016
Michelle Foa, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2016
Ryan Kennedy, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2016
Dan Sharp, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2016

Global South Fellows

Catherine Burnette, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2016
Jacquelyne Howard, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2016
Sarah Johnson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2016
Nakia Parker, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2016
Michael Powers, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2016

Gulf South Writer in the Woods

Edward Ball, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Gulf South Writer in the Woods 2016-2018

2015

Monroe Fellow

Nathan Halverson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2015

Global South Fellows

J. David Maxson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2015
K Stephen Prince, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2015
Yevan Terrien, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2015

2013

Monroe Fellow

Stephen Ostertag, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2013

Global South Fellows

Crystal Boson, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2013
Daniella Santoro, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2013

2012

Monroe Fellow

Vicki Mayer, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2012

Global South Fellows

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2012
Rob Shapard, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2012
Matthew Sutton, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2012

2011

Monroe Fellow

Nghana Lewis, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Monroe Fellowship 2011

Global South Fellows

Christine Croxall, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2011
Lauren Lastrapes, Tulane Global Humanities Center Fellowship Alumni
Global South Fellowship 2011