Outstanding Scholars Named As 2024 Career Enhancement Fellows

PRINCETON, NJ (June 3, 2024)—The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named 20 new Career Enhancement Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year.

The Career Enhancement Fellowship, funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by Citizens & Scholars, seeks to increase the presence of outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

The 2024 Career Enhancement Fellows’ research advances disciplines such as history, Chicana and Chicano Studies, religious studies, gender and women’s studies, literature, African Diaspora Studies, and more. Beyond academic diversity, the 2024 Fellows come from an equally diverse range of institutions from across the country. Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, Fellows are expanding perspectives within their disciplines and are committed to research and service that increases engagement and inclusion on campus. (Full list of Fellows, institutions, and departments below.)

The program provides Fellows with a six-month or one-year sabbatical stipend (up to $35,000); a research, travel, or publication stipend (up to $1,500); mentoring; and participation in a professional development retreat. For 2024, ten junior faculty members will receive 12-month Fellowships and 14 will receive six-month Fellowships.

Administered at Citizens & Scholars since 2001, the Career Enhancement Fellowship has supported more than 500 junior faculty members, creating a robust network of scholars committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities.

Fellows have gone on to serve in administrative and leadership roles, receive high honors like MacArthur Fellowships, and teach new generations of students.

For more information about the Career Enhancement Fellowship, eligibility requirements, and the next application cycle, visit the Career Enhancement Fellowship page.

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12-Month Fellows

Rosie Bermudez | University of California, San Diego, History

Khytie Brown | University of Texas at Austin, Religious Studies

Sigma Colón | Lawrence University, Ethnic Studies

Jasmine Hill | University of California, Los Angeles, Public Policy

Marlen Rios-Hernandez | California State University, Fullerton, Chicana and Chicano Studies

Janet Muñiz | California State University, Long Beach, Sociology

Celina de Sá | University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology

Marisa Salinas | California State University, San Marcos, Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies

Dario Valles | California State University, Long Beach, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies

Kelly Ward | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Gender and Women’s Studies

Six-Month Fellows

Andrea Bolivar | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Women’s and Gender Studies

V Varun Chaudhry |Brandeis University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sophia Enríquez |Duke University, Music

Jazmin Eyssallenne | University of North Carolina, Greensboro, African American & African Diaspora Studies

Robert Franco | Kenyon College, History

Stephanie Huezo | Fordham University, History

Francisa Delali Kumavie | Syracuse University, English

May Lin | California State University, Long Beach, Asian & Asian American Studies

Corey Miles | Tulane University, Sociology

Whitney Pow | New York University, Media, Culture, and Communication

Maria Ryan | Florida State University, Musicology

Anna Storti | Duke University, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Daniel Valella | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Language and Literature

Emily Yoon | University of Maryland Baltimore County, English