Peters Fellows: 2001/2002
Candidates for 2001-2002
Jacquetta Amdahl
(BA, St. Olaf College; ABD, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota) Erskine Peters Fellow
Ms. Amdahl's training is in African American cultural studies, American Studies, history, and cultural theory. Her research interests are in oppositional cultural criticism in African American studies and the development of a postmodern and inclusive African American identity, the mixed race movement, and the development of a mixed race aesthetic. Her dissertation focuses on the impact of mixed race black identity on essentialized notions of who is African American, and on mixed race identity's continued support of the racial binary through the investigation of work produced by mixed race artists. As an Erskine Peters Fellow, Ms. Amdahl is being hosted by the African and African American Studies Program. Her mentor is Professor Heidi Ardizzone.
Angela Hornsby
(BA, University of Georgia; MA, North Carolina State University; PhD candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Erskine Peters Fellow
Ms. Hornsby's research interests include African American gender identity in the early twentieth century South. Her dissertation entitled Reconstructing Manhood: Black Men and Racial Uplift in North Carolina, 1900-1930 examines the community-building activities of black men in order to gain insight into the changing concept of manhood and the relationship between black men and women during the age of Jim Crow. As a Peters Fellow, the African and African American Studies Program and the History Department will host Ms. Hornsby. Her faculty mentor is Professor Gail Bederman.
Hilary Jones
(BA, Spelman College; PhD Candidate, Michigan State University) Erskine Peters Fellow
As a Fulbright Fellow, Ms. Jones spent the 2000-2001 academic year conducting dissertation research in Saint Louis, Senegal West Africa. Her major area of study is the history of West Africa during the colonial period with particular emphasis on the social and cultural history of the coastal regions of Senegal and Gambia. The title of her dissertation is French citizens or Imperial Agents?: The Métis of Saint Louis, Senegal and Republicanism in the Colonial Period 1871-1920. As a Peters Fellow, the African and African American Studies Program and the History Department will host Ms. Jones. Her faculty mentor is Dr. Emily Osborne.
Blair L. M. Kelley
(BA, University of Virginia; MA Duke University, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University) Erskine Peters Fellow
Ms.Kelley's work focuses on the study of African American culture, community, and the political fight against segregation at the turn of the twentieth century. Her dissertation "A gratuitous insult to every one with a drop of Negro blood": African American Citizenship, Identity, and the Protest over Jim Crow Transportation, examines the ways that social status, gender, and skin color interconnected to create social meaning within segregated black communities, and the political ramifications of these differences among African Americans during the protests and boycotts of segregated trains and streetcars in New Orleans, Savannah, and Richmond at the turn of the twentieth century. As a Peters Fellow, the African American Studies Program and the History Department will be Ms.Kelley's hosts. Her faculty mentor is Richard Pierce.
Daniel R. Watson
(BA, Liberty University; MTh, Grace Theological Seminary; MPhil, Hebrew Union College; PhD Candidate, Hebrew Union College) Erskine Peters Fellow
Mr. Watson is a PhD Candidate in the field of biblical and ancient near eastern studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. His doctoral studies have encompassed three areas: Hebrew Bible, Semitic languages, and Ancient Near East civilizations.