2019-20 Fellows

Hyeonjin Bak is a fourth year PhD student in the Psychology Department. She is broadly interested in using social psychology to understand and identify factors that contribute to confronting...

Grace Alvino is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English. Her work emerges from the intersection of literary scholarship, American and cultural studies, and the digital humanities...

Diane-Jo Bart-Plange is a fourth year PhD student in social psychology. Her research focuses on the maintenance and reproduction of racism on the individual, institutional, and structural levels of...

Elizabeth Cable is a fifth year PhD Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies. She is interested in broadly liberationist theologies, including Latin American, feminist, Womanist, black, queer...

Simone Jaeckl, RN, MSN, is a third year PhD student in the School of Nursing at University of Virginia. Her research is situated at the intersection of health, law and gender-based violence with a...

Amy Laboe is a third year doctoral student in Social Foundations of Education.  Previously, she taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and abroad in Ecuador, Colombia...

Jessica Mazen is a fifth year PhD student in social and quantitative psychology. Broadly, her research focuses on better understanding speciesism, or a set of socially shared beliefs that...

Meredith Powers is a second year doctoral student in Clinical-School Psychology at the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Meredith worked as a...

Patrice Wright is a third year PhD Student in the Department of Sociology. Broadly, she is interested in cultural and intersectional examinations of motherhood and reproduction. She is...