Bentley Fellowships Announced

The Bentley Historical Library is proud to announce the awardees for its annual fellowship program. The fellowships support the use of Bentley collections by K-12 educators, artists, and researchers. Recipients are awarded $3,000 stipends to conduct in-person research at the library.

The library received a record number of applicants this year. Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS

• Camille Brewer
  Woven Currents: Charting Social Histories on the Detroit River’s Cartographic Frame
• Lisa Baugh
  Creative nonfiction on Edith Priscilla Butler and Roland Fountain Hussey
• River Forest Berry
  Digital Jacquard Weavings Inspired by Images of Labor Organizing at the University of Michigan
• Kiri Dalena
  When Photographs Remember: A Solo Photography Project Engaging Existing Collections of Colonial Photographs and Materials Related to the Philippines

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

• Hayden Nelson
  The North Woods: An Environmental History
• Mary Claire Malasaga
  Colonial Transformations and Negotiations of the Ifugao Headhunters during the Early American Period (1899-1916)
• Jan Michael
  Homegrown Goliath: How the Homeschool Movement Reshaped the U.S. State and American Education
• Matthew Kunkel
  Working in Nature: Loggers, Miners, and Commercial Fishermen in the Northern Great Lakes, 1860-1930
• Nicholas Shrum
  On the Corner of Linwood and Hogarth: Black Christian Nationalism and Black Zions in America
• Sayyara Poliferno
  Muslim Women’s Transnational Education in the Late Russian Empire: The Story of Kamer Aga-O?lu

TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS

• Chloe Root
  Grutter v. Bollinger: Changing Interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment (Unit of Study) and Using Archives for Independent Research (Lessons for a High School Law Class)
• Jeff Demoss
  Second Wave Feminist Protest in Ann Arbor: A Curriculum Project on the Question, “What tactics did Ann Arbor women use to protest sexism in the late 1960s and early 1970s?”

More information on Bentley fellowships is available via our website. The next application deadline will be in March 2027.