ACLS Fellows

Javier Auyero

Associate Professor, Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook - Flammable: An Ethnography of Environmental Suffering

Allen Isaacman

Professor, History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Displaced People, Displaced Energy, Displaced Memories: A Social and Environmental History of the Building of the Cahora Bassa Dam [Mozambique], 1975-2007

Professor, History, Harvard University - The Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Associate Professor, English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Romanticism and Secularism

Associate Professor, History, University of Notre Dame - Sex, Politics, and Contraception in England and the United States, 1793-1831: The Earliest Origins of the Reproductive Rights Movement

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Princeton University - Representing Slavery: Class and Status in Late Choson Korea

Professor, History, Vanderbilt University - Icarus 2.0: A Historian’s Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement

Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics and Art, Macalester College - Kalos Kosmos: The Body, Dress, and Identity in Early Greece

Assistant Professor, History of Art, Vanderbilt University - The Birth of the Middle Class and the Rise of Painting in Early Modern Flanders

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Boston University - Music Hath Charms: Ritual, History, and Representation

Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara - Color in Cinema: Language, Memory, Commerce

Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania - The Flood of Pictures in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Assistant Professor, History, Northeastern Illinois University - Excavating Identity: Archaeology and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1877-1911

Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, City University of New York, City College - Inventing the Popular: Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France

Professor, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley - “The Critique of Violence and Other Jewish Quandaries”: A Study of Jewish Criticisms of State Violence and Dispossession in the Twentieth Century, Focusing on Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, and Emmanuel Levinas.

Professor, English, Indiana University, Bloomington - Looking Backwards: Imagining Utopia in the Middle Ages

Professor, History, Boston University - The Transcendental Moment: Romantic Intellect and America's Democratic Awakening

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Stonehill College - Sex and God: On Religious Scholars and Erotic Love Poetry in Medieval Andalusia

Associate Professor, English, Fordham University - Old Norse Christian Poetry at the End of the Middle Ages

Professor, History, Northwestern University - “Freedom Is the Answer”: The Strange Career of School Vouchers

Zahid R. Chaudhary

Assistant Professor, English, Princeton University - Afterimages of Empire: Photography, Aesthetics, and Colonialism in Nineteenth Century India

Professor, English, Saint John's University (NY) - "House of Art: A Cultural History of Nazi Germany"

Janet Y. Chen

Assistant Professor, History, Princeton University - Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1951

Associate Professor, History and Judaic Studies, Brown University - Beyond Antisemitism: Muslims and Jews in France, 1948-2007

Senior Lecturer, Department of Drama and Theatre, University of London - Performing Java and Bali on International Stages: Routes from the Indies, 1905-1952

Associate Professor, History, University of Notre Dame - Enlightened Absolutism and Urban Modernity in Moscow, 1763-1881

Professor, History, New York University - Citizenship between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa, 1945-1960

Fiona McLaughlin

Associate Professor, African & Asian Langs & Literatures/Linguistics, University of Florida - Dakar Wolof: The Language of an African City

Associate Professor, Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington - The “Extremism” of the Center: Faces of Moderation in Modern Political Thought

Professor, Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - The Morality and Law of War

Visiting Assistant Professor, Lindner Center for Art History, University of Virginia - The House of Kadmos at Thebes, Greece: The Excavations of A. D. Keramopoullos

Professor, History and American Studies, Yale University - Explaining Human Difference

Assistant Professor, English, Florida Atlantic University - Caribbean Literature from Anticolonial to Postcolonial

Senior Lecturer, MFA Creative Writing Program, Goddard College - GOTHICKA: A Story of Subgenres

Associate Professor, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University - A Natural History of the Self

Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington - Love at the End of Empire: A Cultural History of the Late Maratha Confederacy in India

Assistant Professor, History/African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia - Bonds of Captivity: Brazil and the Transformations of Atlantic Slaving in Angola, 1680-1830

Assistant Professor, English, University of Massachusetts, Boston - Rhetorics of Literacy: American Dialect Poetry, 1870-1930

Visiting Scholar, African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University - Bordeaux's Africa: People and Things in the Slave Trade and After

Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Grinnell College - De Volder and the New Physics at the University of Leiden

Assistant Professor, History, California State University, Northridge - Strange Bedfellows: Catholic-Civil Alliances and their Unintended Outcomes in Revolutionary Guatemala, 1943–1996

Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame - Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution

Associate Professor, History, University of Chicago - "Lord, Open My Lips": The Virgin Mary and the Art of Prayer, 1000-1500

Associate Professor, History, City University of New York, City College - The Colonial Politics of Public Health: Combating the Spread of Tuberculosis Between France and the Maghreb, 1830-Present

Thomas P. Gibson

Professor, Anthropology, University of Rochester - Ritual Knowledge and Social Movements in Islamic Southeast Asia

Professor, History, University of Washington - Dread and Enchantment in the Indonesian Literary Archive

Jane E. Goodman

Associate Professor, Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington - Producing Algerian Publics: Theater, Ideology, and Civic Life

Professor, Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union - Secularization and Sexuality: The Rise of Modern Jewish Literature and the Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz

Professor, Classics, University of Cincinnati - The Poetics of Anthology: An Edition, Translation, and Commentary for the Epigrams of Meleager

Adam Sitze

Assistant Professor, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College - The Immune System: Amnesty, Indemnity, and Sovereignty in South Africa

Associate Professor, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley - Archaic Greek Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers

Evgeny Steiner

Visiting Professor, Centre for Russian & Eurasian St.; Japan Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom - “Special Collections” of Far Eastern Art in Moscow Museums: Displaced Art and Unraveling the Legacy of the Second World War

Professor, Dept. of East Asian Langs. and Civs., University of Chicago - Occult Texts and Everyday Knowledge in China in the Age of Manuscripts, Fourth Century B.C. to Tenth Century A.D.

Associate Professor, History, State University of New York, Albany - An Army of Fugitives: A History of the Men, Women, and Children Who Fled Slavery During the United States Civil War.

Professor, English Department, Ohio State University - Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

Associate Professor, History, Bucknell University - Household, Community, and the Right to Bear Arms in Early Modern Germany

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington - Building the Barracks

Professor, History, University of Notre Dame - The Spirit of Twelfth-Century Europe: Reason and Revolt, Reading and Romance, in a World of Custom

Peter Isaac Holquist

Associate Professor, History, University of Pennsylvania - "By Right of War": The Discipline and Practice of International Law in Imperial Russia, 1868-1917

Associate Professor, Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Village Elites in Egypt Between Ptolemaic and Roman Rule

Professor, Classical Studies, DePauw University - Aristoxenus on the History of Greek Philosophy and the Biography of Greek Philosophers: Pythagoreanism, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato

Professor, English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University - Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology and the Secularization of England, 1050-1550

Professor, Philosophy, University of Virginia - Emergence: Philosophical and Scientific Aspects

Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Toronto - The Logic and Meaning of Plural Constructions of Natural Languages

Assistant Professor, Program of Literatures in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Fatal Revolutions: Caribbean Natural History, Atlantic Slavery, and the Routes of Early American Literature