2022-2023 Crossroads Fellows

2022-2023 Crossroad Fellows Grant Recipients

The Crossroads Project is pleased to announce the recipients of the first Crossroads Fellows grants for  projects that will help advance understanding of the diversity of Black religious communities and cultures, past and present.

The 2022-2023 cohort of Crossroads Fellows represent scholarly, artistic, activist, and religious communities, and their projects will take a variety of forms, including documentary and experimental film, digital mapping, oral history interviews, curated digital exhibits, research reports, sound installation, dance and spoken word performance.

We are grateful to the members of the Crossroads Project Advisory Board for their their contributions to the development of the Request for Proposals and their thoughtful consideration of the proposals during the selection process.

This grant program is made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.

Arts Fellows

Community Stories Fellows

  • Kahdeidra Monet Martin, Embodied Memories of the Bay: Narratives of African Diasporic Religious Communities
  • Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad, The People’s Effort to Return to Allah: The Formation, Dissolution and Reconfiguration of the Dar-ul-Islam Movement in the United States.
  • Colin Bossen and Sade Perkins, Religion in Houston’s Pan-African Community

Research Fellows

  • Tyler Davis, God in the Whirlwind: An Archive of Black Waco Oral Tradition
  • Ambre Dromgoole, There’s a Heaven Somewhere: Itinerancy, Intimacy, and Performance in the Lives of Gospel Blues Women, 1915-1983
  • Ahmad Greene-Hayes, To Tell Our Story: The Founding of Black Religious Studies and the Role of Its Founders 
  • James Howard Hill, “All that Noise is about America:” Religion, Race, and Michael Jackson
  • Kelsey Moore, Visualizing the Conjure South
  • Chandra Plowden, Standing up for “Good-Work”: A Labor History of Black Charleston Women in the Civil Rights Era