Alumni Feature: Aaryan Morrison '22.5 on the Booth Fellowship

Aaryan Morrison '22.5 graduated from Harvard College with a concentration in Social Studies and was awarded a 2023 Alex G. Booth Fellowship, during which she pursued a project titled Teaching Africatown: Community-based Curriculum Development in Mobile, Alabama. The Booth Fellowship helps to defray the cost of travel and associate project expenses for an experience related to an intellectual field of interest. Eligible projects may be academic in nature (enrollment in an academic program or research) or may allow for learning in a less academic setting (an internship, service project, or travel experience). Proposals may be for any length of time up to 12 months, in any location domestic or international, within GSS guidelines.

After reading about Aaryan’s interests through her application and former her Mellon Mays project, I hoped to speak to Aaryan surrounding her experiences working and learning in Africatown. Aaryan had just completed her Booth fellowship the month before we spoke, so it was truly fascinating to hear Aaryan’s reflections on an experience that was quite recent. The following transcript records the conversation I had with Aaryan.

Introduction, interview, and transcript by Irene Hill, URAF summer intern.