Professor Mount Wins Prestigious Woodson Fellowship

Assistant Professor Guy Emerson Mount has been named a 2024-2026 Woodson Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia.  As one of the premier academic centers for the study of Black life globally, the Woodson Institute has served as an incubator for cutting edge scholarship and interdisciplinary exchange since its founding in 1981.  Coinciding with his junior faculty research leave at Wake Forest, Prof. Mount will be in residence at Charlottesville, Virginia finishing his first book project “Slavery’s Empire: Reconstruction in the Black Pacific” which traces the everyday lives of Black peoples from 1840 to 1940 who left the Atlantic world in an effort to create a world beyond slavery during the rise of American overseas empire. As one of only two historians in a cohort of eight fellows, he will engage in a vibrant series of exchanges where fellows at the Woodson Institute will work collaboratively to hone their research projects and explore new directions in Black Studies more broadly.  As part of the Institute’s engagement with the broader campus community Prof. Mount will also be offering a course at UVA in the Spring where students can learn more about his research approach on ‘the grounds’ of Thomas Jefferson’s university—the only campus UNESCO World Heritage site in the United States.