Huggins is JEC Archives Fellow at Davidson College

Ellen Huggins was recently named a Justice, Equality, and Community (JEC) Archives Fellow at Davidson College.

In this role, Ellen will help to advance research on Davidson’s nineteenth-century involvement with enslaved peoples and its role in justice movements in the twentieth century by processing relevant collections, revitalizing digital resources for use in the JEC college curriculum and collaborating on campus-wide research projects. As the JEC fellow, she’ll also be joining a cohort of researchers from Duke University, Furman University, and Johnson C. University in their second year of exploring the racial history of their respective institutions.

Ellen is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa, Fall 2021, earning her B.A. in Creative Writing with minors in American Studies and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. At Iowa, Ellen participated in organizations that promoted local labor rights by highlighting worker voices from the past and present, including the Iowa Women in Trades Network and The Iowa Labor History Oral Project. After completing her fellowship at Davidson, Ellen hopes to attend graduate school in American Studies.