Faculty Spotlight: Salamishah Tillet
Congratulations to Pulitzer prize-winning Rutgers-Newark professor and ISGRJ Senior Faculty Fellow Salamishah Tillet for being awarded the Genevieve Young Fellowship in Writing from the Gordon Parks Foundation!!
The foundation’s fellowship supports work on representation and social justice inspired by Parks’s legendary photography, writing, and filmmaking. Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing and the executive director of Express Newark.
Concurrently, Scheherazade Tillet, an activist and photographer, has been awarded the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship in Art. This is the first time the foundation has awarded two siblings fellowships for their distinct bodies of work.
In honor of photographer Gordon Parks’s historic collaboration with writer Ralph Ellison–who worked together on a photo essay illustrating themes from Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” and another piece documenting Harlem’s Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic– Tillet will work with her sister on a series of projects exploring the themes of Black girlhood and play.
