Solaire Denaud (she/they), French and Haitian Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature Program, has been awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for the year 2025-2026. She will complete her project, Plant-Based Diets and Animal-Centric Thinking Throughout the African Diaspora from 1930 to the Present-Day, which examines the role of animal and environmental ethics in key anti-racist and anti-colonial political and artistic movements, including Rastafari, the Nation of Islam, the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-futurism, and Womanism.

The Newcombe Foundation offers this nationally recognized award to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences to PhD candidates in their final year of writing.