2023-2024 Crossroads Fellows Grant Recipients
March 6, 2023
The Crossroads Project is pleased to announce the recipients of the second Crossroads Fellows grants for projects that will help advance understanding of the diversity of Black religious communities and cultures, past and present.
The 2023-2024 Crossroads Fellows represent scholarly, artistic, activist, and religious communities, and their projects will take a variety of forms, including documentary film, musical composition, musical performance, comic books, digital mapping, digital preservation, and community history. The Fellows' projects address Black religious experiences in a broad geographic range, including locations in North America, the Caribbean, and Africa.
We are fortunate to have a wonderful, engaged, and thoughtful Crossroads Project Advisory Board, and we are grateful for their work in the selection process.
This grant program is made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.
Arts Fellows
- Shamara Wyllie Alhassan, Balanced Livity
- Charrise Barron, What Platinum-age Gospel Taught Me
- LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Sacred AXA
Research Fellows
- Dorcas Dennis, Spirituality, Crime, and the Dispensation of Justice: Vodou Discourse and Practice in South Florida
- Elizabeth McAlister and Lewis A. Clorméus, Documenting & Collaborating with the Sacred Vodou Temple Na-Ri-VéH 777
- Cori Tucker-Price, Migration as Methodology: Digital Mapping and Black Religion in the American West
Community Stories Fellows
- N. Fadeke Castor, Digital Ancestral Altars: Remembrances of Trinidad Ifá/Orisha Elders
- Matthew Cressler, Bad Catholic Comics
- Jean-Daniel Lafontant, Digitizing the Art and Soul of the Sacred Vodou Temple Na-Ri-VéH 777
- Alexis McKenney, Psalms By the Riverside: An Archive of Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church and the Shore Drive Community
- Fatima Siwaju, “Never Surrender Yet!”: Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in Trinidadian Islam
- Deborah Thomas and Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, Bush Music