Marissa Jackson Sow, a law professor at the University of Richmond, was recently awarded a $27,000 grant from the Institute of International Education to support her research on Black and Indigenous legal issues.

Ms. Sow plans to utilize the IIE funding to advance her work on an edited volume. Additionally, she aims to make all materials she uses for her projects accessible to the public.

“I am developing repositories of legal materials that focus on Black and Indigenous people and curating digital installations that will further amplify Black women’s human rights histories. I look forward to creating these scholarly resources and making them accessible for fellow teachers, scholars, community members and within the University of Richmond community.”

Ms. Sow earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and a master’s of laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the University of Richmond faculty in 2022, she served as a Leadership in Government Fellow for the Open Society Foundations and as a 2020 Fellow for the Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent hosted by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.