Historian’s book project wins NEH backing

Elisa Camiscioli’s research requires her to dig into early 20th-century ship manifests and police reports, translate handwritten letters and use genealogical websites to map lineage connections. She studies immigration to and from France, trafficking between Europe and Latin America, and race and sexual politics in modern France and its empire.

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the associate professor of history a $60,000 fellowship in January to complete her research and write her second book. She expects “Trafficking, Travel, and Illicit Migration in Early Twentieth-Century French and the Americas” to be published in 2022.