{"id":7598,"date":"2025-07-19T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:33:08","slug":"ursula-rall-awarded-fellowship-at-the-mcneil-center-at-the-university-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/07\/19\/ursula-rall-awarded-fellowship-at-the-mcneil-center-at-the-university-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula Rall Awarded Fellowship at the McNeil Center at the University of Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/07\/image002-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/07\/image002-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/07\/image002-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/07\/image002-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/07\/image002-4-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/07\/image002-4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Doctoral student Ursula Rall has won a fellowship for at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is working on her dissertation, entitled &#8220;Forging Inter-Urban Communities: Spatial Mobilities and Social Networks of Women of African Descent in New Spain, 1580-1740.&#8221; Drawing on research in Spain and Mexico, the project explores how the social networks that Black women formed across urban centers were key to the socioeconomic mobility of the Black Mexican population during the seventeenth century. She argues that Afro-descended women had a sense of a shared racialized and gendered community, forming close ties and financial networks that improved their social and material lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rall&#8217;s research has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Grant, the American Historical Association, the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions, the Conference on Latin American History, and Emory University&#8217;s Halle Institute for Global Research. Dr. Yanna Yannakakis, Professor and Department Chair, is Rall&#8217;s faculty advisor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral student Ursula Rall has won a fellowship for at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is working on her dissertation, entitled &#8220;Forging Inter-Urban Communities: Spatial Mobilities and Social Networks of Women of African Descent in New Spain, 1580-1740.&#8221; Drawing on research in Spain and Mexico, the project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awards","category-global-reach","category-graduate-students","category-grants-and-fellowships","category-research","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}