Established in honor of Zora Neale Hurston, a leading African American anthropology and literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Read more information on Zora Neale Hurston (opens in new tab) and the Zora Neale Hurston Fellowship Award Fund.
Eligibility: Award varies in amount and duration. Applicant should be an incoming student with interests in the African Diaspora. Given by nomination of faculty only.
Allan Burns, Milred Bradham, Liz Eddy at Zora Neale Hurston Fellowship Award Reception, April 1985
Past Recipients
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Eshe Lewis, 2012, “Intimate Partner Violence among Afro-Peruvian Women”
Camee Maddox, 2008, “Drum, Dance, and the Defense of Cultural Citizenship: Bele’s Rebirth in Contemporary Martinique”
Michelle Edwards, 2003, “A New Pan-Africanism: Diaspora African Transnational Entrepreneurs and Philanthropy between Ghana and Atlanta, USA”
Daphine Washington, 2000
Tahra N. Edwards, 1997, “Não bate-me! (Don’t beat me!): domestic violence in Mozambique”
Michelle A. Smith, 1995
Karla Slocum, 1991, “Producing under a globalizing economy: the intersection of flexible production and local autonomy in the work, lives, and actions of St. Lucian banana growers”
Jacqueline Berry, 1987
Gloria B. Bryan, 1984, “The well-being of an urban African-American community”
