Marshall Researching Feminism, U.S. Imperialism on AAUW Fellowship

Jocelyn E. Marshall, affiliated faculty in the departments of Visual and Media Arts and Writing, Literature and Publishing is currently completing an American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship supported by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

The American Fellowship program began in 1888, a time when women were discouraged from pursuing an education. This prestigious award is highly competitive and selective. It is AAUW’s largest fellowship program and the oldest non-institutional source of graduate funding for women in the United States.

AAUW American Fellowships support women scholars who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication.

Marshall, who has taught at Emerson since 2022, is currently on leave and using the fellowship to support one academic year of research on their current book project, Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism. This book project was also awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association University of Illinois Press First Book Prize.

Prior to Emerson, Marshall was a Dissertation Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. Their interdisciplinary projects focus on contemporary U.S.-based diasporic women and LGBTQ+ artists and writers, researching relationships between historical trauma and queer and feminist activism.

Story contributed by the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS).