navBrown Family Collection Fellows
The Brown Family Collection Fellowship, supported by funds provided by the late Hall J. Peterson and Kate B. Peterson, is intended for researchers whose projects would benefit from working with the Brown Family Collections as well as many other AAS collections related to African Americans and Indigenous Peoples. The Brown family, for whom the fellowship is named and whose descendants entrusted the collections to AAS, were a Black family in nineteenth-century Worcester with familial connections to the local Nipmuc tribal community. Descendants donated correspondence, official documents, photographs, portraits, and the family's library to AAS.
| Fellowship | Affiliation | Position | Project | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blakeslee | Thomas | 2023-24 | Brown Family Collection | Harvard University | PhD candidate, teaching fellow in history | Domestic Disturbances: The Shaping of Black Fatherhood, Manhood, and Resistance in America |
| Jao | Charline | 2023-24 | Brown Family Collection | Cornell University | Graduate candidate in literatures in English | Family and Bereavement in the Album |
