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Research Triangle Foundation Fellowship

In 1985, the Research Triangle Foundation endowed fellowships to support humanities scholars from the Research Triangle’s three largest research universities: Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally named to honor local historical figures with ties to the universities, in 2021 these fellowships were redesignated as simply Research Triangle Foundation Fellowships.

The Research Triangle Foundation is committed to promoting economic development within the Triangle and facilitating strategic partnerships that benefit both the region and the state of North Carolina. They have supported Center programs in multiple ways since it opened in 1978.

The names of Fellows supported by the endowment created by the Research Triangle Foundation can also be found on pages for the Benjamin N. Duke and Walter Hines Page fellowships.

1985–1986 Bernard Romaric Boxill University of South Florida Moral Issues in Development
1986–1987 C. John Herington Yale University Herodotus
1987–1988 Sydney Shoemaker Cornell University Subjectivity and the Mental
1988–1989 David Copp Simon Fraser University Reason and Needs
1989–1990 Graham Bradshaw University of St. Andrews Poetic Drama and Music Drama as Metaphor
1990–1991 Silas Douglass Cater Washington College (1) The Small Liberal Arts College: Prospects for the Future
(2) A Retrospective on Life among American Politicians
1991–1992 Graeme Clarke Australian National University The Letters and Fragments of Dionysius of Alexandria
1992–1993 Scott MacDonald University of Iowa Rational Pursuit of the Good: Deliberative Desire in Aquinas’s Moral Philosophy
1993–1994 Dorothy Thompson University of Cambridge The First Hundred Years: a Study in Early Ptolemaic History
1994–1995 Jack Sasson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Life and Times of Zimri-Lim, King of Mari
1995–1996 Brad Inwood University of Toronto Reading Seneca
1996–1997 Samuel Floyd Columbia College Chicago Music in the Black Diaspora
1997–1998 Jay Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Status, Class, Identity: Claiming Honor in Eighteenth-Century France, 1740–1792
1998–1999 Ralph Wedgwood Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Metaphysical Sources of Norms and Values
1999–2000 Laura Gowing University of Hertfordshire Women, Sex and the Reproductive Body in Seventeenth-Century England
2000–2001 Jan Willem Drijvers University of Groningen Cyril and Jerusalem
2001–2002 Winston James Columbia University Claude McKay: From Bolshevism to Black Nationalism, 1923–1948
2002–2003 David Schimmelpennick van der Oye Brock University Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Catherine the Great to the Emigration
2003–2004 Jordanna Bailkin University of Washington Making Faces: Economies of Color in Imperial Britain
2004–2005 Lawrence Jackson Emory University A Song in the Front Yard: A Cultural History of African American Writers and Critics, 1935–1960
2005–2006 Phyllis Hunter University of North Carolina at Greensboro Geographies of Capitalism: Imagining Asia in Early America
2006–2007 Sukjae Lee The Ohio State University The Untimely Modern: Leibniz and His Rehabilitation of Formal and Final Causes
2007–2008 Ellen Garvey New Jersey City University Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake Nineteenth Century Print Culture
2008–2009 Alexander Welsh Yale University Meditations on New Comedy and Other Foolishness
2009–2010 Jack Greene Johns Hopkins University The British Debate on American Colonial Resistance, 1760–1783
2010–2011 Sabine Hake University of Texas at Austin Political Affects: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema
2011–2012 Morgan Pitelka University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sixteenth-Century Losers: A History of Daily Life and Destruction in Ichijodani, Japan
2012–2013 Christia Mercer Columbia University Platonisms in Early Modern Philosophy
2013–2014 Ellen Welch University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Spectacles of State: Diplomacy and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France
2014–2015 Lisa Levenstein University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bringing Beijing Home: The Fourth World Conference on Women and the Global Politics of American Feminism
2015–2016 Gregg Hecimovich Winthrop University The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
2016–2017 Marlene Daut University of Virginia An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery)
2017–2018 Sara Poor Princeton University Telling Tales of Clever Women: Authorship and the Devotional Book in Late Medieval Germany
2018–2019 Alka Patel University of California, Irvine India, Iran and Empire: The Shansabanis of Ghur, c.1150–1215
2019-2020 Katherine Mellen Charron North Carolina State University “Possibility Thinkers”: Rural Black Power and Women’s Liberation Politics after 1965
2020–2021 Alexis Gumbs Independent Scholar The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony
2022–2023 Keith Richotte Jr. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, Plenary Power, and the U.S. Constitution
2023–2024 Frederico Freitas North Carolina State University Concrete Tropics: An Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital
2024–2025 Joseph R. Winters Duke University Beyond Imperial Piety: Black Study, the Opaque Sacred, and World De-formation