Journalism Fellow Annie Li has received a 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for her project “Chinatown’s Calling: Chinese American Religious Activism in the Civil Rights and Asian American Movements.”
The fellowship, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, supports “emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences,” according to the American Council of Learned Societies website.
Li’s dissertation examines the lives and activism of Chinese American Presbyterians from San Francisco’s Chinatown, who mobilized in the Civil Rights Movement in the South and the Asian American Movement in the Bay Area.
Li is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Religion. As a fellow with the Program in Journalism, she created and now coordinates its inaugural mentorship program.
