{"id":26299,"date":"2023-06-19T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26299"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T17:58:08","slug":"hecimovich-named-a-w-e-b-du-bois-research-institute-fellow-at-harvard-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/hecimovich-named-a-w-e-b-du-bois-research-institute-fellow-at-harvard-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Hecimovich named a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time Gregg Hecimovich<\/a> was selected as a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute fellow at Harvard University, in 2014, the experience led to his first major biography project, \u201cThe Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman\u2019s Narrative<\/a>,\u201d due out this year. It also served as the seedbed for his latest work in progress, \u201cThe Columbia Seven: The Life and Times of the Zealy Daguerreotypes,\u201d about seven of the first known photographs of enslaved people, whose likenesses were recorded in Columbia, South Carolina, in March 1850.<\/p>\n

When Hecimovich heard in May that he\u2019d won a second W.E.B. Du Bois fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research<\/a>, he literally jumped for joy, suited up for a long run, and allowed the news to sink in.<\/p>\n

One of 22 fellows<\/a> selected for 2023-2024, Hecimovich will embark on the fellowship during his sabbatical beginning in September.<\/p>\n

The institute represents a unique blend of extended social connections, like the undergraduate experience, Hecimovich said, and the opportunities of graduate school, \u201cwhere you push the boundaries of your discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have this wonderful opportunity to personally connect with experts from all over the world in different fields who are engaged in groundbreaking research,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hecimovich said his colleagues at the Du Bois Research Institute in 2014-2015 pushed him to write in a broader, less specialized fashion to reach a wider audience. And besides the obvious advantages of living near the Zealy daguerreotypes<\/a> that he intends to study further at Harvard\u2019s Peabody Museum<\/a>, he\u2019s anticipating more of the same kinds of collaborations and inspiration in this upcoming stint strengthened by the resources available to his fellowship class.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast time, I was able to get a sense of a larger audience and engage the talents of a coterie of people from all over who weren\u2019t trained like me, who haven\u2019t thought like me, who haven\u2019t read the books I\u2019ve read. Being in such proximity (with these scholars), it\u2019s like being a kid in a candy store,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought, \u2018this is my one year of heaven,\u2019 and somehow, it\u2019s happening again. I\u2019m just so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hecimovich wins a second W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[478,802,2130,2129,1110,2128,2127],"class_list":["post-26299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","tag-faculty-development","tag-harvard-university","tag-hutchins-center-for-african-and-african-american-research","tag-peabody-museum","tag-slavery","tag-w-e-b-du-bois-research-institute","tag-zealy-daguerreotypes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}