Molly Todd (NHC Fellow, 2022–23)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2022–23

Molly Todd spent much of her time at the National Humanities Center conducting research for her current book project, Pictures of Conscience: Central American Refugees and International Human Rights Campaigns, 1979–2019. Based on this research, she drafted two new chapters of the manuscript and restructured the study. In addition, she and her coeditor, Jason Cohen, completed work on their edited collection, Activist Scholarship in the Public Humanities. Todd also completed revisions to her chapter for that edited collection, “Making History: A Transnational Story,” and wrote another chapter, “Salvadoran Refugees and US-El Salvador Sister Cities,” for She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World, edited by Marral R. Shamshiri-Fard and Sorcha Amy MacGregor Thomson (Pluto Press, forthcoming, 2023). Todd also completed revising and editing work on two articles, “Through the Lens of Solidarity: Pictures of Conscience from Salvadoran Refugee Zones, 1979–1999” (with coauthor Jacey Anderson) for ISTMO: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos (Nicaragua), edited by Magdalena Perkowska and Cristina Pardo Porto (forthcoming, 2023); and “‘Tangled Times’: Central American Refugee Perspectives on the Long Cold War,” which was submitted as part of a proposed special issue on refugees, edited by Bastiaan Baumann, of Cold War History. In her role as coordinator of El Proyecto Solidaridad / Project Solidarity, she collaborated with the Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project and the Madison Public Library to complete a series of oral history interviews for a digital “living history” exhibit (forthcoming 2023).