ACLS News

The report features a message from President Yu and highlights of the year's activities, along with a complete listing of 2012 fellows and grantees and their research projects.

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Gerda Lerner, a pioneer in the field of women's history and the 2005 Charles Homer Haskins Lecturer.

ACLS is pleased to announce that Bruno Nettl will deliver the Haskins Prize Lecture at the 2014 ACLS Annual Meeting. 

ACLS is pleased to announce the publication of the 2012 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture by Joyce Appleby.

The report is available online and in print.

The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men and women—from all eras and walks of life—whose lives have shaped the nation.

Anne was associated with the ACLS-sponsored Darwin Correspondence Project since its beginnings in 1974.

ACLS is pleased to anounce that Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, will deliver the Haskins Prize Lecture at the 2013 ACLS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

The ANB is the premier print and online reference source for significant figures in American history.

The ACLS Annual Report for 2009-2010 has just been released, online and in print. 

Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto, co-directors of ACLS Humanities E-Book, jointly named executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and editor of Speculum.

ACLS congratulates Alexander C. Y. Huang F'10 on his receipt of the Modern Language Association's eighteenth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange.

Joyce Appleby, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, will deliver the 30th Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture at the 2012 ACLS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. 

ACLS is pleased to announce the publication of the 2010 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, A Life of Learning by Nancy Siraisi.

Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown studies the effects of environmental poisoning in a poverty enclave on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Listen to a panel discussion on the Google Books project and its implications for scholarship from the 2010 ACLS Annual Meeting.

Entitled “A Life of Learning: Six People I Have Learned From,” the lecture presents the voices and stories of six Americans who have enriched and transformed the English language.

Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus of Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, will deliver the 29th Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture at the 2011 ACLS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.

Two ACLS member societies recognize What Blood Won´t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross F’03.

Nancy Siraisi, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York (retired), will deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture at the 2010 ACLS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia next May. 

ACLS mourns the passing of John Hope Franklin, who died on March 25th.  One of the most accomplished and widely read historians of the United States, Professor Franklin served on the ACLS Board and delivered the 1988 Haskins Prize Lecture.

The American Historical Association, an ACLS member society, has announced book prizes awarded to ACLS Fellows Amalia D. Kessler F'07 and Atina Grossmann F'01, F'91, G'84.

William Labov, professor of linguistics and director of the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylavia, will deliver the 2009 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture.

Congratulations to ACLS Fellows who had books published in 2008.

The redesigned, double-year report covers the years 2006-2007 and 2005-2006.

The ACLS is pleased to announce the publication of A Life Of Learning. The 2008 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture by Theodor Meron.

Elizabeth Helsinger F’97 is spending 2007-08 as the first Meyer H. Abrams Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

The March 2008 issue of the Journal of American History features an award-winning article by Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow Andrew Kahrl F’07.

The 2007 Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History was awarded to The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150 by Valerie Ramseyer F'06.

The Modern Language Association of America awarded the forty-fourth annual William Riley Parker Prize for an Outstanding Article Published in PMLA to ACLS President Pauline Yu.

In January 2008, PBS debuted "The Jewish Americans," a six-hour documentary following 350 years of Jewish-American history. Beth S. Wenger F'06 wrote the companion volume to this series.

The 2007 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture was delivered by Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, on May 11 during the ACLS Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The American Council of Learned Societies mourns the passing of Professor John A. Garraty, who died in Sag Harbor, New York on December 20th at the age of 87.

In 2007, the American Musicological Society, an ACLS constituent society, presented the Lewis Lockwood Award to Susan Boynton F’07 for her work Shaping a Monastic Identity Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (Cornell University Press, 2006).

In 2006, the Social Science History Association presented its President’s Book Award to The Averaged American Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Harvard University Press, 2007) by Sarah E. Igo F’04.

Kristen Ghodsee F’05 continues research and publication on gender issues in the Muslim world, the subject of her 2005 ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in East European Studies.

The American Council of Learned Societies mourns the passing of its President Emeritus Frederick Henry Burkhardt, who died in Bennington, Vermont on September 23, 2007, at the age of 95.