Residential & Research Fellows



Katherine Everhart 
Graduate Research Fellow 
Katherine Everhart is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Katherine holds a BA degree in Sociology from UNC-Asheville and a MA degree in Sociology from UNC-Charlotte.  Katherine is currently a research assistant with The Curb Center and The Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies. Her research interests are gender and culture, specifically music. In particular, she is currently researching music and autobiographical memory, as well as migration patterns of musicians in the United States.

Michal Fischer
Research Fellow
Michal Fischer is a recent alumna of the Wisconsin School of Business, where she earned her MBA in Arts Administration.  Throughout her tenure as an MBA student, she worked as a Project Assistant at Madison Children’s Museum and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration in Development and Alumni Relations respectively.  She is now living in the Denver Metro area, where she is working to start a career in Event Planning and Experience Design.

Aimee Fullman
Research Fellow
I am an independent arts and cultural policy consultant specializing in North American comparative cultural policy, cultural diplomacy and exchange, cultural diversity, and culture and technology. In 2007 I became the principle investigator and project advisor for the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation’s Cultural Diplomacy Initiative. In the past, I served a 15-month assignment as an Associate Expert for the Canadian Cultural Observatory and a five-year tenure with the Center for Arts & Culture, an American non-partisan cultural policy think tank, as a Program Officer and Administrator. In the United States, I have worked primarily on behalf of international programs, executing and managing UNESCO, State Department, USAID, Fulbright and the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities contracts. My academic background includes an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (International Cultural Policy and Public/Nonprofit Administration) from George Mason University and a B.A. in International Affairs with a minor in Dance from George Washington University. A complete survey of my work and clients can be found at www.aimeefullman.com. 

Evan Harris
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Evan Harris is a sophomore and an English major coming to Vanderbilt from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Evan grew up all over Europe and South America until moving to the United States at the age of 12. Like his brother and grandfather Evan attended boarding school at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. His interests include tennis, electronic music, and creative writing.

Diego Montero 
Graduate Research Fellow
Diego Montero is a Master in Public Policy student at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His studies focus on national strategic and diplomatic issues, with a special emphasis on US-China relations. Prior to matriculating at the Kennedy School, he was a domestic news editor at Xinhua News Agency, based in Beijing, China.   Diego is conducting his Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE), the capstone of the Master in Public Policy curriculum, with the Curb Center in the area of cultural diplomacy.   


Stephanie Pruitt
Stephanie Pruitt is a poet, arts educator and dot-connecting innovative thinker whose bills are delivered to a Nashville, Tennessee address. This Cave Canem Fellow and member of the Affrilachian Poets received the 2010 Academy of American Poets Prize, the 2009 Sedberry Prize and was a finalist for Poets and Writers' Maureen Egen Award. Essence Magazine selected her as as one of their "40 Favorite Poets" in 2010. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies along with an audio CD entitled "Choice Words." Stephanie is the author of the collection i am and Life on Lay-a-Way, a chapbook of poetry. She conducts artist residencies in k-12 schools in conjunction with the TN Arts Commission and Youth Speaks Nashville. Stephanie also leads writing workshops for and serves on the Board of Directors of Magadalene House, a recovery community for women. Her poems have been described as "high art with a hearty dose of biscuit-sopping goodness."

Liz Clayton Scofield
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Liz Clayton Scofield is a junior pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in cultural musicology through the College of Arts and Sciences.  She is also an active member of the McGill Project on-campus, a DJ on WRVU Vanderbilt Radio, and a singer/songwriter learning the ropes of recording on an 8 track.