ACLS Research in Path to Open
In January 2026, the first 100 e-books in the Path to Open collection at JSTOR flipped to open access as part of a multiyear pilot supported by ACLS. Among these books are five titles that result directly from ACLS research funding.
The Path to Open pilot aims to open 1,000 books by 2029. View all the titles in the collection here.
2023 Path to Open Titles
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Marlene Daut is Professor of French, Black Studies, and History at Yale University. Research for this book, published by the University of North Carolina Press, was supported by an ACLS Fellowship in 2019 for the project “Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of Haiti.”
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Philip Ewell is Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College, City University of New York. Research for this book, published by the University of Michigan Press, was supported by an ACLS Fellowship in 2020 for the project “Music Theory’s White Racial Frame.”
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition
Carolyn L. Karcher is Professor Emerita of English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at Temple University. Research for this book, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, was supported by an ACLS Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the PhD Degree in 1981 and an ACLS Fellowship in 1986 for the project “Lydia Maria Child: the Woman of Letters as Political Activist.”
Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Kathleen S. Murphy is Dean, College of Library Arts and Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Research for this book, published by the University of North Carolina Press, was supported by an ACLS Fellowship in 2013 for the project “Slaving Science: Natural Knowledge and the British Slave Trade, 1660-1807.”
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Elizabeth O’Brien is Associate Professor, History of Medicine and Latin American History, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Research for this book, published by the University of North Carolina Press, was supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2018 for the project “Intimate Interventions: The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Surgery in Mexico, 1790-1940.”