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 pleased to announce that Jack Fitzmier, executive director of the American Academy of Religion, will serve as chair of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Administrative Officers.

The report is available online and in print.

The World History Association (WHA) was admitted to constituent membership in the American Council of Learned Societies at the 2011 ACLS Annual Meeting.

Gerhard L. Weinberg G'71, F'65 has been awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History, the newest of ACLS's 70 member societies.

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.

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

The Society for Military History was admitted to the American Council of Learned Societies at the 2010 Annual Meeting.

The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) will welcome John F. Kutsko on July 1, 2010, when he succeeds Kent Richards as executive director of the Society of Biblical Literature. 

We are saddened at the loss of Michael Leff, president of the Rhetoric Society of America.

The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) welcomes Katherine Finley, who will assume the position of executive director of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) on March 1, 2010.

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

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.

The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) of ACLS member societies welcomes new representatives.

The Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) joins ACLS as its 70th member society. The RSA was admitted at the 2008 ACLS Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh.

Susan Westerberg Prager, former dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will succeed Carl Monk as Executive Director of Association of American Law Schools.

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 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.

The Society for Ethnomusicology has announced the appointment of Stephen Stuempfle as the first full-time Executive Director for SEM.

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).