Dr. Adenike Davidson has been awarded the UNCF/Mellon Fellowship.
Congratulations to associate professor and director of the W.E.B. DuBois honors program Dr. Adenike Davidson as she has received one of three national UNCF/Mellon Foundation summer research fellowships. Davidson will travel to Paris, France and additionally to New York University and the Schomburg Center for Reasearch in Black Culture as she works to complete her second book, “Blackness and Modernism in the City of Lights: New Negro and Negritude Conversations in Print.”
Dr. Davidson has also been invited as one of fifteen professors to participate in the 2009 Summer Institutes in Literary Studies at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Congratulations!!! What a great and well deserved honor. It looks like the world is finding out what we at Fisk already knew.