SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
Mellon Foundation Grant for Prison Art Initiative, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2022
MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2021-2026
Inaugural Genevieve Young Fellowship in Writing, Gordon Parks Foundation, 2022
New Leadership Award and Annual Gala Honoree, ArtTable, 2022
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2021
Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2021
Art for Justice Fund Grant, $225,000 awarded to NYU (Fleetwood as principal investigator) for the touring exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2021
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2020
Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in Art History, awarded by the College Art Association for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2021
Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism awarded by the College Art Association for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2021
MoMA PS1 Annual Benefit Gala Honoree, May 2020
Art for Justice Fund Grant, awarded to MoMA PS1 for the exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, 2020
Academic Writing Fellow, The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Italy, November 2019
Writing Fellow, Denniston Hill Residency, Glen Wild, New York, August 2019
ACLS/NYPL Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, 2016-2017
American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship, 2016-2017
Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship, 2016-2017
Faculty Award of Distinction, Chancellor’s Excellence Awards, Rutgers University, 2015-2016
Visiting Foreign Researcher at Wits University, Knowledge, Interchange and Collaboration Grant, National Research Foundation, South Africa, April 2016
New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Principal Investigator: “Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism” Conference and Exhibition at Rutgers University, 2014
Ford Foundation, Global Travel and Learning Funds Award to convene “Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism” Conference at Rutgers University, 2014
Puffin Foundation Award to convene “Marking Time: Prison Arts and Activism” Conference at Rutgers University, 2014
Lora Romero First Book Prize, awarded by the American Studies Association for Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness, 2012
Schomburg Scholar in Residence, The Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture at the New York Public Library and the National Endowment of the Humanities, 2007-2008
Research Fellow, The Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 2005-2006