{"id":301196,"date":"2026-10-07T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301196\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:26:19","slug":"robin-brooks-was-awarded-a-national-humanities-center-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301196\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Brooks was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Brooks, associate professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences\u2019 Department of English, was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalhumanitiescenter.org\/fellow\/2026-27\/robin-brooks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trustees\u2019 Fellowship<\/a> by the National Humanities Center, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing research and discovery about the human experience and fostering connections among scholars and educators. <\/p>\n<p>Brooks joins 30 fellows chosen from 453 applicants, representing humanistic scholarship, including specitalites in African American studies, anthropology, archaeology and food studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.english.pitt.edu\/people\/robin-brooks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks<\/a> is a cultural and literary analyst who explores matters concerning Black communities in the United States and the African diaspora. For the duration of her fellowship, she will be writing her book-in-progress, \u201cDeath Proximity: Grief and Emotional Wellness Stories in Black Communities.\u201d The book examines the subject of human death via interviews with people of African descent and detailed analyses of published 21st-century memoirs by Black authors in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Her 2022 book, \u201cClass Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women\u2019s Fiction,\u201d received an honorable mention for the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award from the Caribbean Studies Association. Brooks\u2019 research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Brooks, associate professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences\u2019 Department of English, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-301196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}