Indiana Humanities is pleased to offer the Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships, which provide $5,000 stipends to support new humanities research that explores anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and that considers how Black Hoosiers have responded.
Donor Name: Indiana Humanities
State: Indiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 02/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Indiana Humanities believes that the humanities provide context for understanding complex issues and that they can be a force for strengthening the civic fabric of the state. Outstanding public humanities programs, which can bring Hoosiers together to talk through differences and solve problems, are rooted in high-quality humanities scholarship. The purpose is to increase the amount and quality of such humanities scholarship about Indiana.
Goals for the Fellowship
- Understand Black Hoosiers’ responses to racial injustice and structural racism through the creative arts and/or involvement with political, economic, social and cultural programs/activities at the neighborhood, city or state level.
- Increase knowledge of Black Hoosiers’ strategies for overcoming racial injustice and structural racism over time.
- Increase the amount and quality of humanities scholarship on the causes and effects of racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana.
- Document and/or analyze the decisions, policies and actions that created racial inequality in the past and/or the present.
- Add or expand the stories of Hoosiers in regional and national historiographies of racial injustice and/or structural racism.
- Increase the use of Indiana-based archives and collections by humanities scholars and researchers.
Topics
These include:
- Institutional barriers for Blacks in politics, the economy, and/or the cultural life of Indiana
- The patterns as well as particularities of migration and urbanization that shaped Black communities in Indiana
- The effects of deindustrialization, white flight, and/or urban renewal on Black Hoosiers
- Literary and artistic works by Black Hoosiers as they relate to themes of structural racism, racial injustice, policing, and/or protest
- The history of and/or analysis of the influence of the Ku Klux Klan on Black Hoosier political, social, cultural, and/or economic life
- The history of and/or analysis of policing and incarceration of Black Hoosiers
- The long civil rights movement as it unfolded in Indiana, including its goals, tactics, achievements, and setbacks
- Analysis of Black codes and other laws that contributed to racial inequality
- Interpretative analysis accompanying relevant primary-source documents
- Historical memory as it relates to any of the topics above.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for the fellowship, applicants should be affiliated with a research institution, including but not limited to full-time or adjunct faculty at a college /university; be enrolled as a graduate student (master’s degree or Ph.D.); or be a curator, librarian, or archivist at a research archive or collection. Independent scholars are also welcome to apply but must demonstrate credibility as a researcher.
- Fellowships are open to individual scholars or research teams. Research teams must indicate a principal investigator in their application.
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
For more information, visit Indiana Humanities.
