Two Weinberg College alumni have been awarded the American Council of Learned Societies’ Emerging Voices Fellowship. The fellowship was created in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it aims to support early-career scholars who will strengthen the humanities disciplines in the years to come.
Each of the fellows will take up year-long placements with members of ACLS’ Research University Consortium. They will work to advance their research and professional development while teaching, programming, and carrying out administrative work at their host university.
Maria Dikcis
Maria A. Dikcis graduated with a PhD in English from Northwestern in 2021. Dikcis was named the Mass Incarceration and Policing Fellow for ACLS, and she will work with the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
Dikcis’ research covers the fields of 20th and 21st century Latinx, African American, and Asian American literature; critical race and ethnic studies; poetry and poetics; digital media theory; and critical prison studies.
Marcos Leitao de Almeida
Marcos Leitao de Almeida graduated with a PhD in history from Northwestern in 2020. He was named ACLS’ Postdoctoral Fellow in Publicly Engaged Scholarship, and he will work with the Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Leitao de Almeida’s research traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the lower Congo between 500 B.C.E. and the nineteenth century.
Tuyen Le
Additionally, one postdoctoral fellow was placed at Northwestern and will work with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities through the upcoming year. Tuyen Le graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a PhD in geography. Her research focuses on conservation policy, political ecology, environmental justice, and affect, so she was named the Postdoctoral Fellow in the Environmental Humanities.
Read more about the fellowship here.