FELLOWSHIPS
The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive Fellowship Program is an intensive, graduate-level introduction to the history and study of Black craftspeople. BCDA fellows push the BCDA’s mission forward by delving into records documenting numerous craftspeople.
2022 - 2023 MTSU CHP Residency Fellow
Kate Hughes
2022 - 2023 BCDA Emerging Scholar
Rose Camara
2022 SUMMER FELLOWS
Investigating New Jersey and Black Craftspeople Objects
Daniel Chamberlin
Chamberlin is a current M.A. student at the Bard Graduate Center. His research interests included the middle and lower Georgia Piedmont as well as the Georgia Lowcountry. His first BCDA fellowship in 2021 focused on Black craftspeople from Georgia.
Morgan Pigott
Pigott was a first-year student at the Cooperstown Graduate Program at SUNY Oneonta.
2021 - 2022 FALL/SPRING FELLOW
Investigating North Carolina
Sade Comiska
Comiska was a public history master’s degree student at the University of North Carolina Greensboro with an interest in the intersections of museums, the decorative arts, and the Black experience. Her research focused on Black craftspeople and acts of resistance.
2021 FALL FELLOWS
Investigating New Orleans
Ashanty Felipe
Felipe was a student at Xavier University of Louisiana. She was a history major and a sociology minor.
Joseph Will
Will was a student at Xavier University of Louisiana. He was a history major with concentrations in physics and mathematics. Will’s resarch interests included New Orleans history, Louisiana history, and the history of Black Creoles in Louisiana.
2021 SUMMER FELLOWS
Investigating New York
Caitlin Snyder
Snyder was a graduate student at Cooperstown Graduate Program at SUNY Oneonta. Through her focus in museum studies, she explored methods of reinterpreting historical objects in new ways and created educational lessons for local museums. Her areas of research were material culture, as well as public programming and education.
David Gain
Gain was a M.A. student at the Cooperstown Graduate Program at SUNY Oneonta. Interested in museums, he conducted oral histories and created exhibits that shine a light on local communities during major historical events. His research focused on material culture and the power of language as it applies to cultural understanding.
FORMER RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Sarah Grahl
Grahl was a graduate of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She earned her Master of Arts Degree in History and Museum Studies. Grahl’s capstone project focused on researching the lives of enslaved people who labored for the Fries family in Salem, North Carolina during the early to mid-nineteenth century.
