ACLS Staff

Nicole Stahlmann Director of Fellowship Programs 212-697-1505 x134 email

Nicole A. Stahlmann is the director of fellowship programs of the American Council of Learned Societies. These programs support individual and collaborative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Stahlmann joins the ACLS from the Social Science Research Council where she served as program director of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program and director of the Fellowships Office for seven years.

Before receiving her Ph.D. in American studies from the Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz (Germany), she was a graduate fellow at Columbia University, a teaching fellow at Bowdoin College, and an Erasmus scholar at the Rijksuniversiteit, Gent (Belgium). Stahlmann's research interests include theories of transnationalism, transculturation, and migration, with a specific focus on the Caribbean diaspora. Stahlmann is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.