Sameena Mulla and Christina E. Crawford receive highly competitive NEH Fellowships

Emory University News

Two Emory College of Arts and Sciences professors have won highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships that provide critical research funding. Both awardees are focused on deepening our knowledge of history, laws and communities across the state and the nation.

Christina E. Crawford, associate professor of modern and contemporary architecture and Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Art History, received $60,000. The funds will go toward a book on America’s first two public housing projects fully funded and directly built by the federal government: a pair of racially segregated developments in Atlanta.

Sameena Mulla, an associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, received $30,000 to help draft a book on racial rhetoric in court sentencing hearings in sexually violent crimes. It is her third book examining how the legal system treats sexual assault crimes, victims and defendants.

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