ACLS congratulates Javier Auyero F'08 on the success of his book, Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown, based on his ACLS Fellowship research and winner of four book awards in 2009 and 2010. Read more.
"ACLS Fellows: Perspectives on Haiti" includes reflections from literature scholar Raphael Dalleo F’08, political scientist Alan Gilbert F'99, F'89, F'79, linguist Iskra Iskrova F’07, and art historian Lindsay Twa F’04 on the disaster in Haiti and the U.S. response to it. Read more.
In 2001, CNN and the FBI acquired over 1,500 audio tapes from Osama bin Laden's personal collection. In 2009, ACLS awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship to linguistic anthropologist Flagg Miller to support his work on the tape library.
Miller explains, "Much of the extraordinary value of this collection lies in the more intimate, frequently extemporaneous nature of recorded speech events, including conversations between well-known militants and their audiences, celebrations after militant operations, and poetry." Read more.
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