ACLS Fellows

Professor, Anthropology, Columbia University - Do Muslim Women Have Rights? An Anthropologist's View of the Debates about Muslim Women's Human Rights in the Context of the "Clash of Civilizations"

Assistant Professor, Classics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Gods and Monsters: Roman Representations of Epicureanism

Assistant Professor, Government Department, City University of New York, John Jay College - Democracy and the Privatization of Violence in Rio de Janeiro: An Ethnographic Study of Politics and Conflict in the Three Neighborhoods

Associate Professor, History, University of Colorado, Denver - "So Much Honest Poverty": Gender, Work, and Welfare Liability in England, 1870-1930

Associate Professor, English, University of Texas, Austin - Heroes and Villains of Grubstreet: Edmund Curll, Samuel Richardson, and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, City University of New York, Queens College - Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab

Associate Professor, History, University of South Florida - Visions of the Social Order: Women's Last Wills, Notaries, and the State in Baroque Tuscany

Associate Professor, History, University of Florida - Making Catholicism Cosmopolitan: Italy and the Transformation of Early Modern Central Europe

Aviva Ben-Ur

Associate Professor, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Jewish Identity in a Slave Society: Suriname, 1660-1863

Associate Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University - Figuring the Human, Moralizing World Order

Professor, French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh - The Dream World of Philippe de Mézières (1327-1405): Politics and Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages

Professor, Religion, Wellesley College - American Reformation: Religious Culture in the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1790

Associate Professor, Political Science, Duquesne University - Globalizing the Right-Wing: Conservative Activism and World Politics

Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Chicago - The Architecture of "The Human Condition"

Associate Professor, Music, Columbia University - Silent Music: Medieval Ritual and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Professor, History, State University of New York, Stony Brook - Mazepa and the Preachers: Ukrainian Clergy and the Discourse of “Russia” in the Early Eighteenth Century

Professor, English, Boston University - The Tragedy of Succession: Shakespeare in History

Associate Professor, History, University of California, Santa Barbara - Akosombo Stories: The Volta River Project, Modernity, and Nationhood in Ghana

Associate Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago - Sex and Salvation: Youth, Families, and the Intimate Politics of Social Change in Madagascar

Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley - Clerical Clothing and Priestly Authority in Medieval Rome, 800-1200

Assistant Professor, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Crafting Narratives: Artisans, Authors, and the Literary Artifact in Late Medieval England

Assistant Professor, History, California State University, Long Beach - Changing Places: Mobilizing Society, Culture, and Territory in Central Europe’s Borderlands, 1870-1938

Jacob P. Dalton

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Yale University - Liberating Demons: Violence in the Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism

Julia Killin Murray

Professor, Art History; E Asian Studies; & Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Mysteries of Kongzhai: Relic, Representation, and Ritual at a Southern Shrine to Confucius

Associate Professor, Art & Art History, University of Texas, Austin - Art and Persuasion in Republican Rome

Moses Ebe Ochonu

Assistant Professor, History, Vanderbilt University - Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression

Katia Dianina

Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia - The Rise of a National Culture: The Visual Arts and the Press in Imperial Russia

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Crisis at the Patent Office: Rethinking Governance of Biotechnology in the United States, Europe, and on the Global Stage

Professor, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University - "Bigger Than Life": The Close-up and Scale in the Cinema

Allyson M. Poska

Professor, History, University of Mary Washington - Iberian Regionalism and the Formation of Gender Norms in Colonial Spanish America: an Examination of the Gender Expectations of Galician Immigrants to Buenos Aires During the Eighteenth Century

Benjamin A. Elman

Professor, East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University - The Intellectual Impact of Late Imperial Chinese Classicism, Medicine, and Science in Tokugawa Japan: Reconsidering Sino-Japanese Cultural History, 1700-1850

Associate Professor, Political Science, City University of New York, Brooklyn College - The Varieties of Counterrevolutionary Experience: An Intellectual History from the English Civil War to the Bush Administration

Professor, History, College of William and Mary - A Horrible Intimacy: Whites and Enslaved Blacks in Old Virginia

Professor, English, University of Kentucky - Fictions of Belonging: Penny Dreadfuls and the Victorian Working Class Imagination, 1840-1870

Bogac Ergene

Associate Professor, History, University of Vermont - Class, Court, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire, 1685-1794

Assistant Professor, History, Saint John's University (NY) - The Politics of Female Companions (houris) of Islamic Paradise in Contemporary American, European, and Muslim Discourse

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University - Afterlives of the Spanish Sentimental Romances: Transmissions and Translations

Associate Professor, History, University of San Diego - Revolutionary Lives: The Epic of Brazil's Resistance Fighters

Assistant Professor, History, Harvard University - Healthy Environments, Environmental Health: The Relationship between Clean Air, Divine Landscapes, and Economic Development in the European Alps

Assistant Professor, English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry

Joanne B. Freeman

Professor, History, Yale University - “The Field of Blood”: The Culture of Congress in Antebellum America

David J. Silverman

Assistant Professor, History, George Washington University - Brothertown: American Indians and the Problem of Race

Professor, Slavic (Affiliated Professor, History), University of California, Berkeley - Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: The Community of Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius

Professor, Philosophy, Committee on Jewish Studies, University of Chicago - Moses Maimonides' Skeptical Philosophy: The Matter and Form of The Guide of the Perplexed

William O. Gardner

Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Swarthmore College - Virtual Japan: Media, Architecture, and Contemporary Fiction

Professor, History of Art; Classics, University of California, Berkeley - The Persian Invasions of Greece and the "Classical Revolution" in Greek Art: A Reappraisal

Professor, Philosophy, College of William and Mary - Reasons from Within: A Subjectivist Account of Practical Reasons

Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Davidson College - The Foundations of Aristotle's Categorial Scheme

Associate Professor, Political Science, San Diego State University - Justice at the Margin: Aggrieved Citizens, Nervous Officials, and the Making of Petitions as a Political Institution in China

Professor, History, University of Richmond - A Family Politics: Popular Activism in Late Colonial Buganda [Uganda]

Associate Professor, Anthropology, Brown University - Iraq Veterans in Dissent, Masculine Loyalties in Contention: Epiphanies among the Troops

Associate Professor, History and American Studies Program, Fordham University - Bringing Home the Bacon and Frying It Up Too: A Cultural History of the Working Mother in America, 1950-2000

Professor, Divinity School, Harvard University - Medicine and Religion at the Apogee of the Tibetan Buddhist State

Assistant Professor, History, University of Toronto - Vietnamese Women at the Crossroads of Southeast Asia: Gender, State, and Society in the Early Modern Period

Professor, Religious Studies, Brown University - Teaching Women: Biblical Women and Women's Choirs in Syriac Tradition

Associate Professor, History, Vanderbilt University - Diabetes: A Cultural History

Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley - The Children of Missionaries and the American Encounter with the non-European World, 1930-1980

Professor, Philosophy, Wellesley College - “All is Revolution in Us”: Personal Identity in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy

Jon D. Holtzman

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University - Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship, Violence, and Identity in Northern Kenya

Professor, English, Boston University - Queen Anne Style: An Interdisciplinary History of British Culture, 1702-1714

Assistant Professor, History, California State University, Long Beach - The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in Medieval Spain

Professor, Architecture, Cornell University - Women Architects in India and Sri Lanka: Crafting a Modernism for the Nation-State, 1930s to Present

Assistant Professor, Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology - Strong Hands, Clean Words: Renaissance Surgery and Its Patients

Professor, American Studies, California State University, Fullerton - Yale's Seminar on the Impact of Culture and Personality and Its Legacies

Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Migration, Citizenship, and Empire in the Interwar Pacific