We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 8th annual Sidney Mintz Fellowship. Inaugurated in 2015, the Sydney Mintz Fellowship seeks to support graduate field and archival research that echoes the spirit of Professor Mintz’s own work, with a focus on inequality and race, food and agricultural histories, and the place of language in social and cultural understanding. Engaging anthropology and history, the Caribbean and its diaspora, including in the USA and locally in Baltimore, this fund primarily supports fellowships for exploratory phases of Johns Hopkins University graduate projects in anthropology, and more broadly in the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to this year’s awardees!

Kinriwiliu Ringkangmai (Anthropology)
“Objects, Images and Materiality: Negotiating the Contemporary Discursive Reality and Everyday Practices of the Nagas”.

Sasha Kramer (Anthropology)
“Mourning at a Green Burial Cemetery in Rural New Hampshire”

Emmanuel Awine (History)
“British Administrative Practices and the Construction of Ethnic Stereotypes in Raided Communities in the Gold Coast, and Burkina Faso, 1874-1960”

Nicholas McKenna (History)
“Before the Shot Heard ‘Round the World: Atlantic Entanglements and the Making of Revolutionary Ideology”