CERCL in partnership with the African American History Research Center - Gregory Campus offers residential fellowships for scholars whose research would benefit from the Houston Public Library special collections (particularly the AAHRC - Gregory Campus archives).
Professor-Scholar | Conceptual DiasporArtist | Afrocentric Entrepreneur
Dr. Lindsay Gary (PhD, MFA, MA, MPA) is a professor-scholar, conceptual diasporArtist, Afrocentric entrepreneur, and cultural curator whose mission is to educate, connect, and empower the African Diaspora. She graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in History and minors in Dance and Business Administration, and later obtained her Graduate Certificate in African American Studies.
Creative Researcher, Community Artists' Collective
Viktor le. Givens is a found object installation performance artist whose practice centers around the gathering and arrangement of ancestral objects to activate spaces for site specific public rituals. By connecting the material culture of his ancestors with pre and post modern spiritual theologies, le. Givens hopes to extend and reimagine the folk customs of his family. His material archive is comprised of the forgotten and discarded household items found during excavations of East Texas, Louisiana, Havana Cuba and Mexico City.
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Florida
Dr. Wright's research interest includes the study of social movements and urban Black geographies. He has published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, City & Society, and The Black Scholar. In 2021, he co-curated Project Row Houses "Round 52: Gulf Coast Anthropecene," a collection of art interrogating the impact of climate change throughout the Gulf Coast South.
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Camesha Scruggs is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A native Texan, she received a BA and MA in history from Texas Southern University. Her research fields are 20th century US, African American, Public History and Gender and Empire.
Camesha Scruggs gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2019.
"Toiling in Texas: African American Female Domestic Servants"
"Learning to Labor: Domestic Service Education in Texas"
PhD Candidate, Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University
Gina Bienski earned a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Houston and is a licensed architect in Texas. Her research focuses on residential segregation patterns, community redevelopment, and neighborhood change.
Gina Bienski gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2017.
"Phases of Redevelopment in Freedman’s Town"
"Documenting Change in the Built Environment of Freedman's Town"
Educator, Scholar, Writer, Advocate
Maco L. Faniel researches and writes about African American life in the late twentieth century. He is particularly focused on writing histories of how those considered invisible, deviant, worthless, or marginal made meaning of American life. More, specifically he will now be investigating the political economy and lived experience of the War on Drugs in Houston, TX.
Maco L. Faniel gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2017.
"Houston Crackdown: Federal Mandate, Local Policy"
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas Southern University
Received his Ph.D. in 2008 in History from the University of Houston. His area of expertise is on the history of Chicano / Latino education in the United States and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Race Schools: Latino, Asian, and Black Educational Autonomy and Activism in Texas, 1920-1980 that offers a comparative analysis of Latino, Asian, and African American-owned schools in Texas since the end of World War I through the post-civil rights era.
Dr Esparza gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2016.
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Rice University
David Ponton, III earned his BA in Religion from Princeton University, where he also received certification in African American Studies and secondary social studies education. His current research focuses on residential segregation, Cold War-era transformations of race and racism, and the criminalization of space in mid-twentieth century Houston.
David Ponton gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2016.
"It Was Like a Nightmare": Police Brutality in Houston, 1950-1967
Professor, History Department, Lee College
Is the recipient of the St. Clair Wright Endowed Scholarship and the Bode-Wise Fellowship at the University of Maryland. Before pursuing her doctorate she earned a Bachelors in History from Texas Christian University in 2006 and a Masters in American Studies from the University of Alabama in 2008.
Portia Hopkins gave four lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2014 & 2015 on her research on Historic Preservation.
Dangerous Ground: Assessing the Destruction of African American History in Texas’ Textbooks
Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
Having received her PhD from the Department of History at Rice University and MA at the University of Houston, she teaches and works on racial formation in the American South after 1965, urban history, the history of immigration to Houston, and ethnic and diasporic identities.
Uzma Quraishi gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2015 on her research on Jim Crow in Houston Neighborhoods.
Race and the City: Houston Neighborhoods in the Post-Jim Crow era
