ACLS Fellows

Assistant Professor, History, New York University - Ecologies of Beef: Epizootics, Science, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Assistant Professor, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California - How Buddhist Views of the Female Body Entered Popular Discourse: Tracing Ideological Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan

Idelber V. Avelar

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University - Rethinking Masculinity in Contemporary Brazilian and Argentinian Literatures.

Kathryn A. Miller

Assistant Professor, History, Stanford University - Business with Infidels: Christian-Muslim Exchanges of Captives across the Medieval Mediterranean

Assistant Professor, History, University of San Diego - In the Shadow of Conquest: Settlement, Memory, and Authority in the Crown of Aragon, 1148-1300

Assistant Professor, Music, Brown University - Technomusicality: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance

Assistant Professor, History, California State University, Long Beach - The Science of Empire: The Bishop's Practical Utopia in Colonial Peru

Daisuke Miyao

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon - The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting in Japanese Cinema

Professor, History, Religion, and Gender Studies, University of Southern California - Lady of the Rock: Vision, Faith, and Cult in the Modern Desert

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame - Sacred Echoes: Repetitive Prayer and Reformation-Era Poetics in Early Modern England

Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Harvard University - The Mind of a Rational Animal

Assistant Professor, History, Indiana University, Bloomington - Tuning in to Nation: Radio Technology and Politics in Angola, 1961-2002

Professor, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles - Constitutive and Phylogenetic Origins of Reason

Associate Professor, Art and Visual Culture and Asian Studies Program, Bates College - The Burning Monk: A Study of Thich Quang Duc’s Self-immolation, His Life, and His Impact on Modern History of Vietnam.

Lecturer, Continuing Studies, Stanford University - From the London Stage to Westminster Abbey: Cultural Mobility of Handel’s Oratorios in Britain, 1732-1784

Carrie Jaurès Noland

Professor, French and Italian, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine - Not a Dancing Bear: Poetry of the French Caribbean

Associate Professor, History, Tulane University - The Strange History of the American Quadroon, 1700-present

Professor, History, City University of New York, Graduate Center - “Out of the Darkness”: The End of Slavery in the United States, 1860-1865

Associate Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University - Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century

Gregory E. O'Malley

Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Santa Cruz - Final Passages: The British Intercolonial Slave Trade, 1619-1807

Professor, Religious Studies, Fairfield University - Imperial Buddhas, Tantric Origins: The Emperor Arising from the Buddha’s Turban

Associate Professor, History, Carleton College - The British Workhouse in the Long Eighteenth Century

Assistant Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania - Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: Pirates, Plagiarists, and Technophobes, from Edison to the Internet

Professor, English & German (joint appointment), Duke University - Parables of Life: “Bildung” and the Transformation of Knowledge, 1780-1924

Professor, English, Johns Hopkins University - Designing Education in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Associate Professor, History, Columbia University - A Century of Crime in Modern Mexico: A Historical Perspective

Associate Professor, Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Law’s End: Community Justice, Citizen Security, and Human Rights in Evo’s Bolivia

Visiting Scholar, History, Wesleyan University - Enlightenment’s Reformation: Recasting German Protestantism, 1770-1830

Professor, History, Brown University - Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Revolutionary

Assistant Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles - “Jewface” Minstrelsy and “Jewfaçade” Display: Performing Cultural Memory in Contemporary Europe and Eurasia

Associate Professor, English, University of Chicago - Foreign Correspondence: Victorian War and Opinion Culture

Mark Sanders

Professor, Comparative Literature, New York University - Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa

Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College (CT) - A Colored Man’s Constitution: Emancipation and the Act of Writing

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside - Revitalizing the City: Socialist Architecture, Postwar Memory, and Urban Renewal in Vietnam

Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley - The “Moorish Problem” and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Spain

Sarah Shields

Associate Professor, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Yusuf’s Dilemma: The Middle East and Identity Politics between the Two World Wars

Assistant Professor, Classics, Princeton University - Feeling Nature: Sympathy in Hellenistic Science, Philosophy, and Poetry

Professor, English, University of California, Davis - Strangers in the House: Home and World in Romantic Literature

Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Fascinating Rhythm: Performance and Direction in Hollywood after Sound

Associate Professor, Law, State University of New York, Buffalo - Spiritual Governance: The New Establishment

Professor, Greek and Latin, Ohio State University - The Fragility of Friendship

Associate Professor, History, Ohio University - The Culture of Penance in Late Antiquity

Professor, History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Quasi-Marital Unions in Medieval Europe

Professor, Music, University of California, Berkeley - Musica Transalpina: French Music, Culture, and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania - Beginning the Day in Ancient Rome: Morningtime, City, and Self

Assistant Professor, Languages and Literature, University of Utah - Drum Ballads as Local Literature in Nineteenth-Century China

Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Corporations and Their Critics: Mining and Indigenous Politics since the 1990s

Associate Professor, English, University of California, Davis - Translation, Education, and Salvation in the Thirteenth Century

Associate Professor, History, University of Chicago - The Indigenous Community in Mexican Social Thought

Stephen H. West

Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University - Remembering Bianliang: Space, Place, and Collective Memory in Emergent Urban Voices in Twelfth-Century China

Professor, History, University of California, Davis - Disability and the Hidden History of Smallpox in France, 1700-1900

Assistant Professor, English, University of South Carolina - Romance to Novel in Early America

Assistant Professor, English, Long Island University - Secular Relics and Death in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

Associate Professor, Music, University of Chicago - Foundations of Musical Grammar

Assistant Professor, Music, Northeastern University - Breaking Time’s Arrow: Temporality in the Music of Charles Ives

Assistant Professor, English, University of Notre Dame - Richard Rolle and His Readers: Defining the Literary in the Fifteenth Century