Virginia Humanities Announces New Fellowships
Charlottesville—Virginia Humanities, the state humanities council, has awarded three individual fellowships for 2025–26, supporting projects that uncover new aspects of Virginia’s story.
“Our fellows bring to light untold stories and fresh perspectives on what it means to be a Virginian,” said Adam Courville, director of grants and fellowships at Virginia Humanities. “Their work is essential to building engaged communities across the commonwealth that seek to understand one another.”
Lincoln Lewis (Public Humanities), Morgan Avery McCoy Harris (Rosel Schewel), and Ethan Evan (Health Humanities) received fellowships for projects that expand our understanding of Virginia’s watermen, women’s contributions to history, and the connection between narrative and addiction.
To learn more about Virginia Humanities’ fellowship programs, visit VirginiaHumanities.org/fellowships.
Public Humanities Fellow
Lincoln Lewis
Location: Tangier, VA
Project: “We want to tell our story our way,” Tangier History Museum Conversations
The 2025-2026 Virginia Humanities Public Humanities Fellow is supported by the Edna and Norman Freehling Fellowship in South Atlantic Studies Fund.
Rosel Schewel Fellow
Morgan Avery McCoy Harris
Location: Midlothian, VA
Project: Bricks Without Straw: Virginia’s Finest – Women of History Who Made It Despite the Odds
Health Humanities Fellow
Ethan Evans
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Project: Our Own Narrative-Addiction & Reclaiming the Clinical Encounter
The Health Humanities Fellowship is an initiative of the UVA Center for Health Humanities and Ethics (CHHE) in partnership with Virginia Humanities.
Lincoln Lewis
Location: Tangier, VA
Project: “We want to tell our story our way,” Tangier History Museum Conversations
The 2025-2026 Virginia Humanities Public Humanities Fellow is supported by the Edna and Norman Freehling Fellowship in South Atlantic Studies Fund.
Rosel Schewel Fellow
Morgan Avery McCoy Harris
Location: Midlothian, VA
Project: Bricks Without Straw: Virginia’s Finest – Women of History Who Made It Despite the Odds
Health Humanities Fellow
Ethan Evans
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Project: Our Own Narrative-Addiction & Reclaiming the Clinical Encounter
The Health Humanities Fellowship is an initiative of the UVA Center for Health Humanities and Ethics (CHHE) in partnership with Virginia Humanities.
About Virginia Humanities
Virginia Humanities is the state humanities council. We aim to tell the stories of all Virginians—or, better yet, find ways for people to tell their own stories. We want Virginians to connect with their history and culture and, in doing that, we hope we will all get to know each other a little better. Virginia Humanities is headquartered in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia, but our work covers the Commonwealth. Founded in 1974, we are one of fifty-six humanities councils created by Congress with money and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make the humanities available to all Americans. To learn more visit VirginiaHumanities.org.
