Impact of Giving

We are grateful to our many loyal donors for their generosity in supporting ACLS. For the most up-to-date list of donors, please see our most recent Annual Report.

Here are profiles of just a few of our dedicated supporters working with us in different ways.

The Impact of Your Gift

I have something to say, and the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship is allowing me the time I need to say it right.

For the first time since I received my PhD, I have not had to teach any classes for the entire semester. During this time, I have organized years’ worth of research and sat with my sources in a way that does not allow for distraction. I’ve also developed a workable draft of my project and successfully met my timeline goals for this half of the Fellowship. The ability to buy-out my courses in concurrent semesters, and the willingness of Albany State University to support me in this adventure has given me the ability to fully focus on the revision process in the coming months.

Alisha Marie Topete Cromwell F’24
ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellow

History, Albany State University

I come from a Mexican American working class background. I was a first-generation college student. I am a rare breed in my discipline and in academia writ large. When I entered my PhD program, I knew I would need research support beyond the 5 years of funding I was guaranteed.

The ACLS Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellowship in Music Studies provided me the time off from teaching to complete my book first book, Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain (Oxford University Press, 2023) as well as to begin research on a second book project.”

Cesar D. Favila F’22
ACLS Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellow in Music Studies

Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Supporting Special Funds

When you give to ACLS, you can choose to direct your support to a specific fund:

ACLS Scholars and Scholarship (formerly the Fellowship Fund) supports scholars through our central fellowship and grant programs, convenings and workshops.

The John D’Arms Fund, named for past ACLS president John D’Arms, a historian and recipient of an ACLS fellowship in 1971, supports the ACLS Fellowship Program and initiatives identified with D’Arms’s leadership in the humanities.

The ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowships in American History, established by the late Oscar Handlin, Professor of History at Harvard University, and his wife Lilian, support scholars pursuing archival research on American history. Professor Handlin, who taught American History from 1939-1984, was known for his promotion of social, ethnic, and immigration history.

The ACLS/Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellowship Fund is named in memory of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr., Haas Professor of Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1965 until his retirement in June 2006. The fund supports a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese history each year.

The Steven Wheatley Fund for Learned Societies is used to strengthen ACLS’s work with our 81 member learned societies, and thereby carries on Steve’s impressive legacy in championing and strategically bolstering these organizations and, by extension, supporting the 300,000 scholars they represent.   

The ACLS/Pauline Yu Fellowships in Chinese or Comparative Literature support scholars pursuing research in Chinese and/or comparative literature. Established in honor of Pauline Yu, president emeritus of ACLS and a prominent scholar of Chinese Literature, by her family, friends and colleagues.

On the Donate page, select a fund from the dropdown menu under “What would you like your donation to support?”