Graduate Fellowship Recipients

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows

The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) provides a unique opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research to study with faculty at one of the University’s interdisciplinary research centers or institutes during the fellowship year. 

2024-25 UMN IDF CLA recipients:

  • Akeem Anderson, American Studies | Institute for Advanced Study
  • Vanessa Anyanson, Psychology | Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Dwjuan Frazier, History | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
  • Richard Lim, American Studies | Institute for Advanced Study
  • Chelsea Osademe, American Studies | Center for Premodern Studies

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Fulbright Fellowship Winners

The purpose of the Fulbright program is to increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. Approximately 1,900 grants are available to over 140 countries.

 

Endowed Fellowship Recipients

HAROLD LEONARD MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP IN FILM STUDY

The Leonard Memorial Fellowship supports graduate students who conduct study/research in film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics. The fund was established by the will of Clara Lefkovits in honor of her son, Harold Leonard.

2024-2025 Recipients

  • Daniel Aufmann, Comparative Literature | Silent Suffragists: American Cinema and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1920
  • Nina Peterson, Art History | Ridiculous Contraptions: American Art, Humor, and Machine Technology to Effect Social Change, 1954-1975

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