Doctoral student Yuri Fraccaroli is among 45 awardees selected from a nationwide pool of more than 700 Ph.D. students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to win the prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Fraccaroli is a first-generation doctoral student from Brazil pursuing research in the feminist studies department based on their work as an educator, artist and researcher with Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in São Paulo. They will use the funding and support from the award to expand the scope of their winning dissertation, “Archivo vivo! An Ethnography of the Archive: Latin American Sex and Gender Community Archives.”

Each fellow receives an award of up to $50,000, consisting of a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year; up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, professional development and travel expenses; and a $2,000 stipend to support external mentorship that offers new perspectives on the fellow’s project and expands their advising network. ACLS will also provide opportunities for virtual networking and scholarly programming throughout the fellows’ award terms.