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Delta Delta Delta Fellowship

The Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) sorority endowed two fellowships at the Center in 1988. The Delta Delta Delta fellowships are awarded annually to scholars affiliated with college and university campuses where active Tri Delta chapters exist.

The Tri Delta sorority was founded by Sarah Ida Shaw in 1888 at Boston University. There were few women’s organizations in existence and Shaw never found a fit amongst those organizations. As a senior, she recognized the need for a place where women could belong. With her friend, Eleanor Dorcas Pond, she created an organization with the conviction that the women would be kind to all and focus on a woman’s inner character. Today, Tri Delta has initiated more than 320,000 women with more than 140 collegiate chapters across North America.

1988–1989  Jaroslav Folda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1187–1291
1988–1989  Michael White Arizona State University The Physical World: Three Hellenistic Models
1989–1990  Thomas Metcalf University of California, Berkeley Ideologies of the Raj, 1860–1920
1989–1990 Barbara Metcalf University of California, Davis The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj
1990–1991 Linda Kerber University of Iowa Women and the Obligations of Citizenship: The Gendered Discourse of American Law
1990–1991 Steven R. Goldsmith University of California, Berkeley Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse, Discourse, Romanticism
1991–1992 James McCann Boston University People of the Plow: A Modern History of Ethiopian Agriculture
1991–1992 Linda Peck Purdue University Britain in the Age of the Baroque
1992–1993 Eleanor Leach Indiana University, Bloomington Roman Painting and Roman Society
1992–1993 Barry Schwartz University of Georgia Now He Belongs to the Ages: Lincoln in Collective Memory
1993–1994 Alan S. Taylor Boston University William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Early American Frontier
1993–1994 Edna G. Bay Emory University Women and Power in Dahomey (West Africa)
1994–1995 Sarah T. Beckwith University of Pittsburgh Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi
1994–1995 Mary E. Barnard Pennsylvania State University The Gods in Garcilaso de la Vega: Renaissance Rewritings of Pagan Myths
1995–1996 Arleen Tuchman Vanderbilt University Against Sentimentality: The Life and Work of Marie E. Zakrzewska
1995–1996 Sally Haslanger University of Michigan Rebuilding the World: Ontology and Social Construction
1996–1997 Jane M. Gaines Duke University Other/Race/Desire: Early Cinema and Nationhood
1996–1997 Joy Kasson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show: History, Performance, and Cultural Identity
1997–1998 Barbara Hanawalt University of Minnesota Women in Medieval London
1997–1998 Ronald Giere University of Minnesota Perspectival Realism
1998–1999 Melissa Bullard University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letters of Lorenzo de’Medici and the Language of Diplomacy in the Renaissance
1998–1999 Sharon Strocchia Emory University Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence
1999–2000 Michelle Massé Louisiana State University The Mirror of Fashion: Critical Expectations and the Work of Louisa May Alcott
1999–2000 Marjorie Woods University of Texas at Austin Rhetoric in the Medieval Classroom
2000–2001 Jeremy Popkin University of Kentucky History, Historians and Autobiography
2000–2001 Martha Vicinus University of Michigan Romantic Friendships: Modern Lesbian Identities, 1800–1930
2001–2002 Luis Corteguera University of Kansas Before God and King: Ordinary People in Politics in Early Modern Spain
2001–2002 Kristin Hanson University of California, Berkeley An Art that Nature Makes: A Linguistic Perspective on Meter in English
2002–2003 Grace Hale University of Virginia Rebel, Rebel: Outsiders in America, 1945–2000
2002–2003 Sigrun Svarvarsdottir Ohio State University Value Concepts and Objectivity
2003–2004 Ann Margaret Baxley Virginia Tech Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Importance of Autocracy
2003–2004 Anne Williams University of Georgia Monstrous Pleasures: Gothic Operas from Horace Walpole to Horror Movies
2004–2005 Mary Favret Indiana University, Bloomington Invisible Violence: Wartime in British Romanticism
2004–2005 Andrew Miller Indiana University, Bloomington Improving Occasions
2005–2006 Mark Maslan University of California, Santa Barbara False Lives: Biographical Fraud and Contemporary Fiction
2005–2006 Madeleine Zilfi University of Maryland Slavery and Society in the Late Ottoman Middle East
2006–2007 Daniel Conway Pennsylvania State University Kierkegaard’s Modernity
2006–2007 Sarah Shields University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fezzes in the River: Creating and Contesting Identities in Alexandretta
2007–2008 Su Fang Ng University of Oklahoma Global Renaissance: Early Modern Classicism and Empire
2007–2008 Nancy Warren Florida State University The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1450–1700
2008–2009 Kathleen DuVal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Revolution Without Rebels: The Battle of Pensacola and the War for America
2008–2009 Elizabeth Payne University of Mississippi Shattering White Solidarity: A History of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
2009–2010 John Hanson Indiana University, Bloomington Islam, Schooling and the Public Sphere: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana, West Africa
2009–2010 Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina Green Tourism: Consumption and Conservation in Twentieth-Century Germany
2010–2011 Gerard Passannante University of Maryland (1) Earthquakes of the Mind (2) The Physics of Thought
2010–2011 Leah Rosenberg University of Florida Contested Possessions: Tourism and thre Representation of Caribbean Folk Culture
2011–2012 Matthew S. Gordon Miami University Singers and Soldiers:  Slavery and Slave Households of the 9th Century Abbasid Empire
2011–2012 Paul Losensky Indiana University, Bloomington Sa’eb Tabrizi and the Poetics of Effulgence
2012–2013 Randolph Clarke Florida State University Agency, Free Will, Moral Responsibility
2012–2013 Craige Roberts Ohio State University Content in Context: Interpreting Definite Noun Phrases
2013–2014 Nora Fisher-Onar Bahçeşehir University, Turkey Post-Western Liberalism(s): Sources and Patterns from Istanbul to Beijing
2013–2014 Michael Puri University of Virginia Ravel the Cosmopolitan
2014–2015 Ann G. Gold Syracuse University Shiptown: North Indian Lives between Rural and Urban
2014–2015 John Willis University of Colorado, Boulder After the Caliphate: Mecca and the Geography of Crisis and Hope
2015–2016 Thomas Brown University of South Carolina The Reconstruction of American Memory:  Civic Monuments of the Civil War
2015–2016 Akinwumi Ogundiran University of North Carolina at Charlotte Cultural History of the Atlantic Experience in the Yoruba Hinterland (West Africa), ca. 1550–1830
2016–2017 Benjamin Kahan Louisiana State University Sexual Etiologies and the Great Paradigm Shift
2016–2017 Richard Turits College of William & Mary New World of Color:  Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo and the Atlantic World
2017–2018 Todd Ochoa University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Conjecture for a Bembe:  Religious Recombination in the Black Atlantic
2017–2018 Hollis Robbins Johns Hopkins University Forms of Contention:  The African American Sonnet Tradition
2018–2019 James Chappel Duke University Old Volk: The Invention of Old Age in a Global Germany
2018–2019 Frances Hasso Duke University Palestinian Perinatal and Young Child Death During the British Mandate
2019–2020 Chérie Ndaliko University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Archival Mutations: Decomposing Aesthetics of Atrocity in Congo
2019–2020 Angela Steusse University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill #FreeDany: Dreaming and Detention in Dixie
2020–2021 Emily Baragwanath University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Xenophon’s Women
2020–2021 Molly Worthen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Spellbound Nation: Charisma in American History
2021–2022 Mark Evan Bonds University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Music’s Fourth Wall and the Rise of Modern Listening
2021–2022 Samantha Pinto The University of Texas at Austin Under the Skin
2022–2023 Amy Louise Wood Illinois State University Sympathy for the Devil: The Criminal in the American Imagination, 1870–1940
2023–2024 Rebecca Maloy University of Notre Dame Sounding the Saints in Early Medieval Iberia
2024–2025 R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Intersectional Justice Denied: Warring Masculinity, Violence, and Peacemaking in Post-Accords El Salvador