Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Fellows
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program was designed as part of a long–term commitment by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help remedy, and eventually eradicate, the serious shortage of faculty of color in higher education.
Through the comprehensive mentoring and financial support which the MMUF Program provides to selected Fellows, starting at the end of their sophomore year, the Program seeks to provide the requisites for a successful preparation for training for, and entering the professoriate.
The central aim of the program is to increase over time, the diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning within the U.S. academy. In addition to this fundamental objective of alleviating the under-representation of minorities on the faculties of institutions of higher learning, the program also serves the related goals of addressing the attendant educational consequences of these racial disparities, improving ethnic and racial relations in campus environments, and of providing role models for all youth.
2023-2024 Fellows
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Lorelle Adames '25
she/her
English major
Hometown: West Orange, NJ
Faculty Mentor: Maud McInerney
Research Interests: Poetry in Translation and Visual Aspects of Literature -
Kahlia Boutier '25
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Vic Brown ‘24
he/him
Literatures of English Major
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Harford Vargas, Bryn Mawr College
Research Interests: Speculative Fiction, Children's Education -
Taylor Johnson ‘24
she/her
Sociology Major, Africana Studies & Anthropology minor
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Mentor: Piper Sledge, Bryn Mawr College
Research Interests:Sociology, Cultural Appropriation, Black Studies -
Pendo Kamau '24
she/her
Anthropology major
Hometown: Media, PA
Faculty Mentor: Anna West
Research Interests:Black ecology, community-directed urban planning, speculative fiction, Francophone identity formation -
Estella Pacheco '25
she/her
Growth and Structure of Cities major
Hometown: Sebastopol, CA
Faculty Mentor: Lauren Restrepo
Research Interests:Disaster planning, sociolinguistic impacts on planning, community placemaking, housing policy -
Jorge Paz Reyes ‘24
he/him
Latin American and Latinx Studies Major
Hometown: Queens, NY
Faculty Mentor: Nanci Buiza
Research Interests: Latin American, Central America, Labor movement, Militarism -
Maria Reyes Pacheco ‘24
she/ella
Sociology major and Latin American and Latinx Studies Minor
Hometown: Frederick, MD
Faculty Mentor: Lina Martinez Hernandez
Research Interests: Political Engagement, Latinx Studies, Immigration Studies -
Alex Rodriguez-Gomez '24
they/them
Environmental Studies major
Hometown: Trenton, NJ
Faculty Mentor: Maud McInerney
Research Interests: Environmental humanities, Caribbean literature and history, religious studies -
Alexandra Stevens '25
she/her
History major
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Faculty Mentor: Marlen Rosas
Research Interests: Latin American labor movements, Haitian migration to Latin America -
Yuriko Zhang '25
she/her
Anthropology major
Hometown: Flushing, Chinatown, New York
Faculty Mentor: Shu-wen Wang
Research Interests: Asian-American communities, migration, ethnic studies