First Wave Hip Hop & Urban Arts and Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The First Wave Fellowship is a new initiative of OMAI following years of sponsoring postdoctoral fellows in the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing: First Wave Poetry Fellows (Natasha Oladokun (MFA: Hollins U), 2018-20; Xandria Phillips (MFA: Virginia Tech) 2019-20; Jari Bradley (MFA: U. of Pittsburgh), 2020-21). The poetry fellows were responsible for developing their own creative research and projects, as well as part-time instruction and mentorship of undergraduate First Wave Scholars. After a two-year hiatus, OMAI is elated to re-imagine its postdoctoral support for the arts at UW in partnership with the Division of the Arts, by launching a fellowship program that will rotate to various departments in the arts every two years