Fletcher Foundation

2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows

• Elizabeth Alexander, poet and African-American studies professor, Yale University
• Devon Carbado, law professor at University of California, Los Angeles
• Kathleen Cleaver, author and former Black Panther Party activist
• Stanley Crouch, cultural critic and author
• Roland Fryer, economist and member of Harvard Society of Fellows
• Anita Hill, civil rights attorney and law professor Brandeis University
• Nina Jablonski, biological anthropologist and author of Skin
• Glenn Ligon, artist, New York
• Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
• Bob Moses, educator and civil rights leader
• Thomas Sugrue, civil rights historian and professor at University of Pennsylvania
• Deborah Willis, photographer and documentarian and professor at New York University

  2006 Fletcher Fellows

• Lawrence Bobo, race relations scholar and professor at Stanford University
• Fatimah L.C. Jackson, professor of anthropology, University of Maryland
• Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University
• Miranda Massie, civil rights attorney, Detroit, Michigan
• Lorna Simpson, artist, New York
• Anna Deavere Smith, performance artist, actress, and University Professor, New York University
• Valerie Smith, professor of English and director African-American Studies Program, Princeton University
• Margaret Beale Spencer, professor of education, University of Pennsylvania
• Brent Staples, award-winning journalist, The New York Times
• Patricia Sullivan, associate professor of history, University of South Carolina
• Loïc Wacquant, professor of sociology and boxer, University of California, Berkeley

  2007 Fletcher Fellows

• Hilton Als, journalist and literary critic
• Cheryl Finley, assistant professor of art history, Cornell University
• Joy A. James, professor of Africana Studies, Williams College
• Kenneth W. Mack, professor of law, Harvard University
• Charles Payne, professor of sociology and education, Duke University

  2008 Fletcher Fellows

• Clayborne Carson, professor of history, Stanford University
• Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law, UCLA and Columbia Law School
• Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history and archaeology, Columbia University
• Stacy L. Leeds, professor of law, University of Kansas

  2009 Fletcher Fellows

• Emily Bernard, associate professor of English, University of Vermont
• Rachel Devlin, associate professor of history, Tulane University
• Llewellyn M. Smith, filmmaker
• Keivan G. Stassun, associate professor of physics and astronomy, Vanderbilt University

  2010 Fletcher Fellows

• Mia Bay, associate professor of history, Rutgers University
• Richard Thompson Ford, professor of law, Stanford University
• Tyrone Forman, associate professor of sociology, Emory University

  2011 Fletcher Fellows

• Ian Haney-López, professor of law, University of California, Berkeley
• Sharon D. Raynor, associate professor of English, Johnson C. Smith University
• Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, Vanderbilt University
• Rachel Swarns, correspondent, The New York Times
• Jonathan Holloway, professor of history and African American studies, Yale University

  2012 Fletcher Fellows

• Jane Dailey, associate professor in the Department of History, the College, and the Law School University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago
• Trey Ellis, assistant professor at the School of the Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, Columbia University
• Rucker Johnson, associate professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley