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The American Council of Learned Societies encourages and enables scholarship to help us understand the human experience — and improve it.
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ACLS supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors in the past, present, and future, with a view toward improving human experience.
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Abby Ang
Center for Popular Democracy
Akira Shimada
State University of New York at New Paltz
Alicia Carroll
University of California, Irvine
Anthony Johnson
PEN America
Ashley Cordes
University of Utah
Ayur Zhanaev
University of Warsaw
Azizat Amoloye-Adebayo
University of Ilorin
Baligh Ben Taleb
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Betsy Brody
Collin College
Bobby Smith II
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brandon Morgan
Central New Mexico Community College
Briana Meier
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bright Nkrumah
University of Witwatersrand
Casely Coan
Southwest Folklife Alliance
Chioma Ngonadi
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Chris Hedlin
PublicSource
Cinthya Ammerman Munoz
Georgetown University
DOROTHY ATUHURA
Kyambogo University
Eben Yonnetti
University of Virginia
Eric Harvey
Independent Scholar
Eric Sippert
Environmental Law Policy Center
Franco Rossi
Johns Hopkins University
Gaelle Le Calvez House
Yale University
George Bishi
Rhodes University
Godwin Onuoha
Mercer County Community College
Habiba Boumlik
City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Heider Tun Tun
University of California, Irvine
Hortsang Jigme
Iddy Magoti
University of Dar es Salaam
Imomotimi Armstrong
Niger Delta University
Irina Garri
Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
Jack Morales
Community College of Allegheny County
Jay Miller
University of Notre Dame
Jayashree Kamblé
City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Jesse Chanin
Freedom Project Network
Joel Correia
University of Florida
Joella Bitter
University of Virginia
John Lopez
University of California, Davis
Jonathan Henry
Common Cause
Joy Brennan
Kenyon College
Julia Mollenthiel
The Brotherhood Sister Sol
karen williams
City University of New York, Guttman Community College
Kenneth Yin
City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Kerry Manzo
State University of New York, College at Purchase
Keyvan Shafiei
American Friends Service Committee
Kim Williams-Pulfer
Independent Scholar
Laura González
San Diego Miramar College
Lauren Lefty
Children’s Defense Fund
Lawrence Whitney
National Museum of American History
Leah Anderst
City University of New York, Queensborough Community College
Leopoldo Peña
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Marcos Almeida
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Maryam Magaji
Federal University Wukari
Matthew Morrison
New York University
Maurice Adkins
University of Virginia
Maxmillian Chuhila
University of Dar es Salaam
Melinda Sebastian
Data & Society
Michelle Velasquez-Potts
University of Texas at Austin
Mikael Muehlbauer
Nathaniel Lovdahl
Yale University
Nir Feinberg
University of California, Berkeley
Rachael Nez
Indiana University Bloomington
Rachelle Saruya
University of Toronto, Mississauga
Retika Adhikari
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Gioielli
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
Roneva Keel
National Park Service
Rosanna Dent
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Samuel Ng
Smith College
Sangyop Lee
Stanford University
Sara Partridge
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Sifiso Ndlovu
University of Johannesburg
Sinae Kim
Princeton University
Sonam Choden
Universität Hamburg, Germany
Sonia Rodriguez
City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Sophie Maríñez
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Sujung Kim
DePauw University
Tawni Tidwell
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tempest Henning
Indiana University Bloomington
Tuyen Le
Northwestern University
Unaludo Sechele
University of the Free State
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
University of California, Santa Barbara
Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez
The Ohio State University
William Kelly
Washington University in St. Louis
Yasmine Espert
Spelman College
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