2023-2024 PAGE Fellows

Imagining America (IA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 IA Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship. The incoming PAGE cohort demonstrates a range of creative and intentional commitment to public engagement. Eight graduate students from across IA’s national consortium were chosen as this year’s fellows.

The 2023-2024 IA PAGE Fellows

• Racquel Banaszak, University of Minnesota – Heritage Studies and Public History
• Chelsea Bouldin, Syracuse University – Cultural Foundations of Education
• monét cooper, University of Michigan – English and Education
• Angela Rose David, University of California, Los Angeles – Fielding School of Public Health
• HL Doruelo, University of California, Riverside – Ethnic Studies
• Ural Grant, Michigan State University – Theatre
• S. Coco Herda, University of California, Davis – Community Development Graduate Group
• Sonya Squire-Caesar, University of Maryland, Baltimore – Language, Literacy and Culture

Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) is IA’s network for publicly-engaged graduate students. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship, fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars, and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.

Through PAGE, fellows receive a year’s worth of mentorship, professionalization training, and community support, as well as financial support to facilitate participation in monthly webinars and an annual PAGE Summit, a day-long convening on October 20. This convening allows fellows to set intentions and frameworks for accountability and support throughout the year. It also provides space for play and community building. Following their participation in the Summit, fellows will present their work to the greater IA community through Lightning Talks, as part of the Imagining America’s 2023 National Gathering, Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change.

PAGE is a peer network organized not by an individual director, but instead by a rotating cohort of PAGE alumni who serve as co-directors and share responsibility for mentoring and designing support structured for each new cohort of fellows. The 2023-2024 PAGE Co-Directors are Caroline Cheung, Dominic Bednar, Marisol Fila, and Rashmeet Kaur.

Learn more about the IA PAGE Fellows Program here.

The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues. By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures