2015-2017 AJC Post Doctoral Fellow, Professor Sherri Williams is an award winning journalist, scholar, and teacher and a nationally recognized expert on race and representation in media.
POST DOCTORAL FELLOWS
From 2013-2019 the Anna Julia Cooper Center hosted residential, postdoctoral fellows across multiple academic disciplines. These fellows created a hub of intellectual collaboration, collegial interaction, and scholarly support for interdisciplinary research.
Former AJC post-doctoral fellows are leaders in their respective fields. They contribute to intersectional scholarship and teaching in the academy and influence broader national and global conversations with their contributions to the public sphere. The AJC post doctoral program at Wake Forest University was suspended in 2019 when the university ceased all support of the AJC Center. We hope to resume the Fellows program in the future.
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Trimiko Melancon, PROFESSOR, African and African American Studies at Michigan State University. AJC POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW 2013-2014
Professor Melancon’s first feature film, What Do You Have to Lose? received the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival.0-awards
Dr. Sherri Williams, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Communication, American University. AJC POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW 2015-2017
Professor Williams was awarded the 2021 Journalism Educator of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Dr. Jaira Harrington, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Black Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago. AJC POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW 2015-2017
Professor Harrington was awarded the 2021 International Studies Association Early Career and Community Engagement Award of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section
Dr. Jessica Lynn Stewart, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of African American Studies, Emory University AJC POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW 2018-2019
Professor Stewart was awarded a 2022 Pipeline Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation