Kelsey Moore has been awarded a 2022-2024 Carter G. Woodson Predoctoral Fellowship at the Carter G. Woodson Institute (UVA). Her dissertation, “Clearing Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina,” focuses on the displacement of 901 black families and the plan to flood over 9,000 graves for rural redevelopment in South Carolina between 1938 and 1942. (Advisors: Connolly, Jones) https://mailchi.mp/e991acad2c99/cgwi-march-newsletter-new-fellows 

The Carter G. Woodson Institute’s distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral students whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora.