Dr. Mark Fernandez is the recipient of the 2012 Woody Guthrie fellowship. The fellowship supports projects that examine Woody Guthrie in an American historical and cultural context, as well as projects that explore Woody Guthrie life and work in a global context. Through his proposed research topic, Movement, Motion, and Travel in the Life and Art of Woody Guthrie, Dr. Fernandez hopes to examine the evidence that relates Guthrie to the industrial age, especially in the form of travel and transportation.
Since 2006, the Woody Guthrie Fellowship has supported the scholarly research of 20 individuals, ranging from visual artists to musicians to academic authors. Now in it’s seventh year, the Woody Guthrie Fellowship has produced a variety of excellent scholarly work, and has been the driving force for much new scholarly research on Guthrie and his life.