U.S. Intellectual History Blog

Meet the 2024 Henry F. May Fund Fellows

Huzzah, historians! We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of our Henry F. May Fund Research Fellowships, who will each receive $500 to support their scholarship this summer. Read on to learn about their works in progress.

Ashley Everson is a PhD student in Africana Studies at Brown University. Ashley earned her B.A. with honors distinction in Social Thought and Political Economy and her  M.A. in Political Science with a graduate certificate in African Diaspora Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include Black feminist thought, political theory, labor history, and Black women’s political histories. Her most recent research seeks to investigate the relationship between Black political mobilization in the Tennessee Valley region and decolonial organizing throughout the African Diaspora during the interwar period.

Ella Hadacek is a PhD student in History at the University of Notre Dame. She holds an MA in History from Baylor University. Her research explores how the interplay of ideas between American Catholicism and American Protestantism illuminates the development of American identity during the long nineteenth century, particularly among Catholic women.  Her dissertation research focuses on Protestant women’s conversion to Catholicism in the U.S. and England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.