2020
Carrasco-Gonzalez, Guadalupe (Early Modern History, University of Cadiz, Spain)
"Traffic and Commercial Networks in New Orleans, 1790-1815: From Colonial Business to the American Atlantic Trade"
Fouts, Sarah and Chloe Sigal (Latin American Studies - Sociology, University of Maryland Baltimore County - New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice)
"From Banana Republics to Palm Oil Plantations and Hotels: Foregrounding Extractivist Development in Discussions on Honduran Migration"
Greene-Hayes, Ahmad (Religion, Princeton University)
"Gods of the Flesh: Religion, Sexuality and Circum-Caribbean Migration in Black New Orleans, 1900-1940"
LeBlanc, Christina (History, Tulane University)
"After the Storm: Disaster and Development in Puerto Rico, 1928-1960"
Takacs, Joselyn (Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern California)
"Petroleum in Five Acts: Slow Violence in the Mississippi River Delta and the Niger River Delta"
2019
Barson, Benjamin (Music, University of Pittsburgh)
"The resistance of jazz cultures to U.S. imperialism and regimes of racial segregation in the Caribbean basin"
Dutta, Jayeesha (Philosophy/Urban Studies, University of New Orleans)
"Floating Adaptations - From Bulbancha* to Bengal"
Gunnels, Bridgette W. (Spanish, Oxford College of Emory University)
"South Bound: Masculinity and maricones in the US Deep South and Cuba"
Halbert, Philippe (History of Art, Yale University)
"Louisiana Purchases: Buying Respectability and Fashioning Identity in Colonial New Orleans"
Imhotep, Ra Malika (African Diaspora, University of California, Berkeley)
"Marking Space: Plantation + Market"
Joyce, Ryan (French and Francophone Studies/Gender & Sexuality Studies, Tulane University)
"Maroon Utopias, Queer Utopias: Flights to Freedom in Circum-Caribbean Writing"
Salgarolo, Michael (History, New York University)
"Manila Bayou: Race, Empire, and Property in Filipino Louisiana"
Schmitz, J. Natalie (Sociolinguistics, and Intercultural communication/French Studies, University Rennes 2/Tulane University)
"Language Practices and Francophone Identity of Louisiana Musicians"
Willoughby, Urmi (History, Murray State University)
"Cultivating Malaria: The Historical Ecology of Fever in Lower Louisiana's Wetlands, 1716-1860"
Xu, Atlas Tian (History, Catholic University of America)
"Navigating Worthiness in America: White Attorneys, Chinese Immigrants, and Black Pensioners, 1873-1910"
2018
Nofil, Brianna Lane (History, Columbia University)
"Detention Power: Jails, Camps, and the Construction of Immigrant Incarceration."
Paskert, Nicholas (African and African American Studies, Harvard University)
"The Elision of Enslaved Laborers in the Archives, Buildings, and Construction of New Orleans"
von Einsiedel, Gwendolen (Music/Ethnomusicology, University of Oxford, UK)
"Keepin' it Country: Music, identity and horsemanship amongst the zydeco cowboys of Southwest Louisiana"
Williams, Lerin (Musicology, Tulane University)
"Soundmarks and Soundscapes in Contested Spaces: A Comparative Study of Repression and Resistance between the most African cities in the US and Brasil"
Zwiers, Maarten (American Studies/History, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Cold War Caribbean: Segregation and Anticommunism in the Gulf South"
2017
Akerman, Kira (Filmmaker)
“Station 6: Stories from a New Orleans Pump Station”
Bardes, John (History, Tulane University)
“American Vagrant: Policing and Confinement in the Shadow of Slavery and Emancipation, 1830-1880”
DeCoste, Kyle (Ethnomusicology, Columbia University)
“Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game”
Havrylyshyn, Alexandra (Law/Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California at Berkeley)
“Free Under the Laws of France: How Enslaved Women and Girls Argued for Liberty in New Orleans Courts (1837-1857)”
Jessee, Nathan (Anthropology and Film, Temple University)
“Displacement and Resettlement Necessitated by Coastal Land Loss in Southeast Louisiana — Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe”
Kaplan-Levinson, Laine (Media Production, Brandeis University)
“TriPod Abroad”
Kennedy, Sheridan Wright (History, Rice University)
“Disease, Race, and Poverty in New Orleans, 1877-1915: The Effects of Mortality Terrains on Socioeconomic Development”
Roberts, Shearon (Mass Communication and African American and Diaspora Studies, Xavier University)
“Reconnecting New Orleans to Havana in a Post-Fidel Castro Era: Exploring Emerging Mediated Linkages in the Global South”
Vaz-Deville, Kim (Education, Xavier University)
“Cultures in Conversation: African Diaspora Sacred and Secular Ritual Practitioners on Leadership, Communication, Beauty, and Community”
Wagner, Bryan (English, University of California at Berkeley)
“Louisiana Slave Conspiracies” and “The Wild Tchoupitoulas”
Warden, Paul (History, University of California at Santa Barbara)
“The Peculiar Affliction: Yellow Fever in the Imagination and Development of Antebellum New Orleans, 1803-1860”
Wendte, Nathan (Anthropology, Tulane University)
“Creoles Who Have Emigrated from Louisiana to Texas”
2016
Burnette, Catherine (Social Work, Tulane University)
“Addressing Violence and Health Disparities Experienced by Indigenous Peoples of the Gulf South”
Capelli, Amanda (English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
“Creole Culture of Louisiana; in Particular Experiences of 19th & 20th Century Creole Women of Color”
Diaz, Maria Angela (History, Texas Tech University)
“Saving the Southern Empire: Territorial Expansion in the Gulf South and Latin America, 1845-1865”
Francis, Terri (Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University Media School)
“Second Lining in New Orleans, the Afrosurreal Global South, and Spike Lee’s Vernacular Sublime”
Howard, Jacquelyne Thoni (History, Fordham University)
“Reading the ‘Bans’: Marriage and Kinship Practices in French Louisiana’s Gulf South Borderlands, 1682-1770 (Working Title of Dissertation)”
Johnson, Amanda (English, Rice University)
“New World Romance, 1689-1839”
Johnson, Cedric (African American Studies and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago)
“The Next Urban Frontier: Race and Real Estate Development in Post-Disaster New Orleans”
Johnson, Sarah (English, University of California at Berkeley)
“Maroons Walk About: Literature, Objects, and Marronage”
Lennon, John (English, University of South Florida)
“New Orleans' Conflict Graffiti: From Katrina to Present Day”
Lightweis-Goff, Jennifer (English, Tulane University)
“Temporary Housing: Slavery in the American City”
Mehta, Aditi (Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“The Politics of Community Media in the Post-Disaster City”
Parker, Nakia (History, University of Texas at Austin)
“Trails of Tears and Freedom: Slavery, Migration, and Emancipation in the Southwest Borderlands 1830-1887”
Powers, Michael (History, University of Arkansas)
“The Commercial Union of the Three Americas: Major Edward A. Burke and Transnational New South Visionaries, 1870-1928”
2015
Applehans, Jeff (History, University of Delaware)
“Catholic Persuasion: Power and Prestige in Early American Civil Life”
Baker, Bruce (History and Public Health, Queen’s University, Belfast)
“Rat-Proofing Orleans and the Gulf South: Bubonic Plague and Public Health, 1912-1920”
Farmer, Ashley (History, Boston University)
“Pan-Africanism in the Crescent City: Audley Moore and the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, 1955-1965”
Gallman, Nancy (History, University of California at Davis)
“American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida”
Johnson, Cedric (African American Studies and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago)
“The City That Care Forgot: New Orleans and American Urbanism”
Jones, Peyton (History and Sociology of Science, Tulane University)
“The Shelter Revolution: A History of Housing and Community in Tampa Bay, Florida, 1940-1985”
LaFay, Elaine (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania) “Atmospheric Bodies: Medicine, Meteorology, and the Cultivation of Place in the Antebellum Gulf South”
Maxson, David (Communication, Pennsylvania State University) “Fluid Icons, Mobile Traditions: Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Commemorative Jazz Funerals”
Ogunmodimu, Morakinyo (Linguistics, Tulane University)
“The Second Line as Cultural Retention”
Prince, K. Stephen (History, University of South Florida)
“The Ballad of Robert Charles: Race, Violence, and Memory in the Jim Crow South”
Rothera, Evan (History, Pennsylvania State University)
“Reconstructions in America: The US, Mexico, and Argentina, 1861-1880”
Terrien, Yevan (History, University of Pittsburgh)
“Exiles and Fugitives: Mobility, Labor, and Power in French Louisiana”
Weber, Benjamin (History, Harvard University)
“America's Carceral Empire: Confinement, Punishment, and Work at home and Abroad, 1865-1945”
2014
Burnette, Catherine (Social Work, Tulane University)
“Bolstering Resilience to Ameliorate Violence and Reduce Disparities in the Gulf South”
Creagh, Anna (Culture and Performance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
“The Obscured Origins of the Rise of Zonbi Folklore”
Hartnell, Anna (English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London)
“After Katrina: Race, Transnationalism, and the End of the American Century”
Jackson, Hunter (Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
“Migration, Criminalization, and Race-Making in 21st-Century Alabama”
McNamara, Sarah J. (History, Texas A&M University)
“From Picket Lines to Picket Fences: Latinas and the Remaking of Ybor City”
Robinson, Greg (History, University of Quebec) “The Gulf Coast’s Transnational Japanese Connections”
Sell, Zach (History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
“Fields of Golden Cane: British Honduras and the Reconstruction of Plantation Dominance, 1861-77”
2013
Beasley, Betsy A. (History, Yale University)
“Energy Contracting in the Gulf South and the Culture of Globalization, 1945-2008”
Boson, Crystal
“Hoodoo and Vodun in Haiti and Louisiana”
Goodman, Joshua (History, Tulane University)
“Gateways to Latin America: Pan Americanism as a Business Strategy in Gulf South Port Cities, 1940-1970”
Santoro, Daniella (Anthropology, Tulane University)
“Second Line Dance and Disability”
Schottenstein, Allison (History, University of Texas at Austin)
“The Jewish Community’s Response to the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas”
2012
Cleaver, Ana
“Circulation of FPC Between NOLA and Circum. Carib. Region”
Horowitz, Andrew (History, Tulane University)
“The End of Empire, Louisiana: Disaster and Recovery on the Gulf Coast, 1915-2011”
Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua (Journalism, New York University)
“Fruit’s Fortunes and the Ecology of Cultures at the ‘Gate of the Tropics’”
Lloret, Mariona (Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University)
“Huey P. Long of Louisiana and Gerardo Machado of Cuba: Caribbean Political Dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico, 1920-1940”
Shapard, Rob (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“A Prospect of Beauty: Decline and Discourse in the Great Southern Longleaf Forests”
Smyth, Noel Edward (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)
“The Natchez Diaspora: A History of Indigenous Displacement and Survival in the Atlantic World”
Sutton, Matthew (Literature and Language, East Tennessee State University)
“Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians’ Autobiographies”
2011
Bouton, Cynthia (History, Texas A&M University)
“Subsistence, Society, and Culture in the Atlantic World in the 18th Century and Age of Revolution”
Croxall, Christine (Religion and Politics, University of Delaware)
“Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830”
Lastrapes, Lauren (Urban Studies, University of New Orleans)
“Casa Samba: Identity, Authenticity, and Tourism in New Orleans”
Nunéz, Chanda (History, University of New Orleans)
“Comparative study of Praline and Other Street Vendors in the Gulf South”
Olsson, Tore (History, University of Georgia)
“Green Revolutions: Agricultural Science and Agrarian Politics in the U.S. South and Mexico, 1900-1970”
Shelton, Kyle (History, University of Texas at Austin)
“Building a Global City: The Construction of Modern Houston”