Professor Bianca C. Williams Awarded $75,000 Mellon/ACLS Fellowship for Project in Partnership with Well-Read Black Girl
Bianca Williams
Professor
Bianca C. Williams (Anthropology, Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies) was awarded a 2021–2022 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Scholars and Society Fellowship, which provides a $75,000 stipend, an additional $6,000 for research, travel, and project costs; and $10,000 in support for each fellow’s host institution.
The goal of the fellowship is to support doctoral faculty with work on “a major research project in the humanities or humanistic social sciences that treats a significant issue or grand challenge in society such as democratic governance, technological change, racism, climate change, economic inequality, or migration and immigration,” according to ACLS.
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For some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole argues in her new book, embracing diversity and inclusiveness is more than a virtuous ideal; it is essential to a healthy, productive society. Focusing on higher education and other arenas of cultural development, Cole explores our institutions’ vulnerability to the influence of racism and the wider implications for American society. At the core of Cole’s argument is the belief that increasing the representation of historically marginalized groups on college campuses, and in museums, media, and other institutions is, like the liberal arts, vitally important to social progress. Accompanying Cole’s urgent calls to implement social change are vividly rendered experiences from her own remarkable life. Cole issues a challenge for courageous conversations about race a