Previous Travel Award Recipients

Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers Travel Award

Dr. Zeb Baker (2017), Miami University

Race and College Football in Post World War II Midwest

Charisse Burden-Stelly (2020), Carleton College

Professional Revolutionary: The Political Theory of Doxey Wilkerson, 1930-1960

Brent Campney (2018), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Black freedom struggle in Kansas, World War II to the 1970s

The Peculiar Climate of This Region: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest

Paul Fowler III (2017), University of Massachusetts

Civil Rights Organizations in the Midwest

Curtis Inabinett, Jr. (2016), Charleston State University

Dr. William P. Foster and the Florida A&M University Marching Band

Sandra Jackson-Opoku (2022), Author

Black Exoduster experience in Kansas for her novel Black Rice

Paul Putz (2016), Baylor University

Western Negro Press Association

Crystal Sanders (2018), Pennsylvania State University

Out-of-state tuition grant programs instituted to prevent African American students from attending public universities, 1921-1948

Kristin Schodorf (2022), Little House on the Prairie Museum

Verlean Tidwell Family Papers, Black churches in and around Independence, Kansas

Sherri L. Smith (2020), Goddard College and Hamline University

United African American Aviators Project

Brandy Thomas Wells (2018), Augusta University

African-American women’s internationalism, 1890-1970

Derrick E. White (2019), Dartmouth College

Ball and Parlay: Black Culture and Black College, Dr. William P. Foster and the Florida A&M University Marching Band

Jeffrey Williams (2017), University of South Carolina

Topeka, Kansas, civil rights lawyer Charles S. Scott

Alexander and Valentine Janta Endowment Travel Award

Giacomo Mariani (2022), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

The Graziani Archive: A Virtual Reassembling of a Divided Archive

Massimo Moretti (2020), Sapienza University of Rome

Art and Diplomacy in the Europe of the Counter-Reformation: The Archive of A. M. Graziani

Spencer Research Library Travel Award

Richard Branscomb (2020), Carnegie Mellon University

Defending the Self, Preserving Community: Paramilitarization and the Radical Right

John A. Carranza (2020), University of Texas at Austin

Explaining Sex: Sex Education and Disability in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s

Stephen Karian (2020), University of Missouri

The Oxford Edition of Alexander Pope’s Miscellany Poems

Samantha McLoughlin (2022), Florida State University

“I’d Like to Thank My Husband for His Permission to Be Here”: How Phyllis Schlafly Successfully Organized Equal Rights Amendment Opposition

Chelsea Reutcke (2022), University of St Andrews

Catholic Print Networks in Restoration England

Sean Scanlon (2019), University of Nebraska

Conservative Evangelical Christians, Israel, and U.S. foreign policy

Elle Schneider (2022), Director and Cinematographer

Why Study Industrial Film? The Story of Centron Corporation

Kitty Shropshire (2019), Carnegie Mellon University

American Apocalypse: White Nationalism, Race War, and the Media

Sarah Anne Storti (2019), University of Virginia

English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.)