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The American Council of Learned Societies has an HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant?

Dr. Karen Cook Bell, Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor at Bowie State University and a 1994 and 2008 graduate of Howard University’s Graduate School has been awarded a 2024 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

The program provides flexible support that attends to the research, teaching, and service commitments at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This year, the program will support 20 HBCU faculty scholars pursuing exceptional research projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Selected from a pool of more than 150 applications, Dr. Cook Bell has been recognized as one of eight fellows who will receive up to $50,000 each supporting long-term engagement with a significant research project. All awardees will also have access to networking and scholarly programming that aligns with their academic goals and institutional contexts. Each award includes an additional grant of $2,500 to the awardee’s home institution to support humanities programming or infrastructure. Dr. Cook Bell’s research project titled “Black Resistance: Family, Gender, and Slave Politics in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy” is a history that interrogates the silences in the archive on Black women and Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy.