ACLS Fellowship Program
Supporting outstanding scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences
Zamira Abman
Year:
- 2024
San Diego State University
The Inevitable Conflict: The Soviet Delimitation of Central Asia, a Case Study of Northern Tajikistan
Joseph Albernaz
Year:
- 2026
Columbia University
Time Torn Holiday: Romanticism Between Festival and Revolution
ACLS Morton N. Cohen and Richard N. Swift Fellow
Adey Almohsen
Year:
- 2024
Georgetown University
Minds in Exile: An Intellectual History of Palestinians 1945–70
Nina Amstutz
Year:
- 2025
University of Oregon
A Multispecies Framework for Art: The Bowerbird Across Disciplines, Cultures, and Time
Abdulhamit Arvas
Year:
- 2026
University of Pennsylvania
The Grammar of the Other: Translation and the (Un)Making of Gender, Sexual, and Racial Difference
Maile Arvin
Year:
- 2024
- 2025
University of Utah
Nā Lei Poina ‘Ole (Beloved Children Not Forgotten): Institutionalized Children in the Hawaiian Kingdom and U.S. Territory of Hawaiʻi
Michitake Aso
Year:
- 2010
- 2026
University at Albany, State University of New York
After Agent Orange: The Global Politics of Knowledge, Justice, and Postwar Reconciliation
Molly C. Ball
Year:
- 2026
University of Rochester
Pushing Past GDP per Capita: Brazilian Maternal Health 1915–75
Lloyd D. Barba
Year:
- 2025
Amherst College
A Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement
Corey L. Barnes
Year:
- 2026
Northwestern University
Race’s Shadowy Subjects: Conceptions of Race in Early Black Intellectual Thought
Tagimamao Melanie Puka Bean
Year:
- 2024
University of Utah
Home beyond the Reef: Mapping Tokelau Imaginaries through Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Oahu, Hawai'i
Catherine Benamou
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Irvine
Latinx Media and the Pursuit of Social Justice: A Transmedial Approach
Alisa Bierria
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Decriminalize Survival: An Archive of Activism
Tria Blu Wakpa
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Los Angeles
Choreographies in Confinement: Native Education, Incarceration, and Performance
Keith L. Camacho
Year:
- 2013
- 2026
University of California, Los Angeles
Street Cred: Samoan Gangs, Indigenous Cities, and the Transoceanic World
Bobby Cervantes
Year:
- 2021
- 2024
Harvard University
Las Colonias: An American History
ACLS Oscar Handlin Fellow
Yannick Coenders
Year:
- 2025
Washington University in St. Louis
Dispersal: Governing Against the Ghetto in Post-World War II Europe
Claire Cooley
Year:
- 2026
Emerson College
Not Afraid of My Sponsor: Sounding Global Cinema and Migrant Labor in the UAE
Gabrielle Cornish
Year:
- 2019
- 2023
- 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity after Stalin
Maurice Crandall
Year:
- 2025
Arizona State University
Tiger of the Human Species: Yavapai-Apache Scouts and the Worlds They Made
Edward E. Curtis IV
Year:
- 2026
Indiana University Indianapolis
The Riddle of the Evil Eye: Religion in Arab American History
Devaleena Das
Year:
- 2026
University of Minnesota
Grief as Feminist Pedagogy: Rural Care, Community, and Medical Education
Nushelle de Silva
Year:
- 2025
Fordham University
Conveying Culture: The Control and Care of Art in Transit
Douglas de Toledo Piza
Year:
- 2024
Lafayette College
Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy
Max Deardorff
Year:
- 2026
University of Florida
At Sea and Ashore: Convicts, Slaves, and the Galleys of the Spanish Global Monarchy
Scott Doebler
Year:
- 2025
Pomona College
The Lure of the Lowlands: An Early Modern Environmental History of Yucatán and Guatemala’s Maya Forest, 1517-1817
Theodora Dragostinova
Year:
- 2004
- 2008
- 2025
The Ohio State University
Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the Post-1918 Balkans
Jordan Ealey
Year:
- 2026
University of Rochester
Dissonant Dramaturgy: Black Women’s Music-Theatre and the Politics of Possibility
Natalie Ghassan El-Eid
Year:
- 2025
Georgetown University
Transnational Druze and Reincarnation: Remembering, Recording, and Reconnecting
ACLS/Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America
Nisrin Elamin
Year:
- 2024
University of Toronto
Stratified Enclosures: Land, Capital and Empire-making in Central Sudan
Ariel C. Evans
Year:
- 2024
University of Texas at Austin
Pussy Porn and Other Arguments: Feminist Photographies in American Art, 1979-1987
Ruth Madeline Ezra
Year:
- 2025
University of St. Andrews, UK
Leaves of Glass: Mica between Art and Science in Early Modernity
Stephen C. Ferguson
Year:
- 2025
North Carolina State University
On the Black Side of Philosophy: Black Philosophers Confront Black Power and Communism
Tamara Surani Fernando
Year:
- 2025
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Shallow Blue Empire: Pearl Diving in the Indian Ocean 1850-1925
Robert Franco
Year:
- 2024
Kenyon College
Revolution in the Sheets: Sexuality and Tolerance in the Mexican Left
Carrie Rebecca Freshour
Year:
- 2024
Georgia State University
Making Life Work: Racial Capitalism, Black Families, and the Poultry Capital of the World
Gabriella Friedman
Year:
- 2024
Skidmore College
Speculative Historical Radicalism: Black and Indigenous Practices of Refusal
Laura M. Furlan
Year:
- 2026
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Archival Turn in Native American Literature and Art
ACLS Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Fellow
Maria Cristina Galmarini
Year:
- 2026
William & Mary
Dissenting Invalids: A Disability History of the Post-Soviet Transition
Christine Garnier
Year:
- 2024
University of Southern California
The American Silverscape: Art, Land, and Extraction, 1848-1905
Zoltán Glück
Year:
- 2018
- 2025
American University
The Long War on Terror: Decolonization and Recolonization in Kenya
Katherine Alexandra Godfrey
Year:
- 2024
Pennsylvania State University
Matrilineal Routes: Indigenous Kinship Networks, Gender, and Mobility in Early Modern Colombia
Eric Godoy
Year:
- 2025
Illinois State University
Public Power: Ethical Energy and Democracy's Role in a Just Transition
april l. graham-jackson
Year:
- 2025
University of Chicago
Black Life Beyond The City: Black Suburbanization Across Chicago Southland
Michelle Granshaw
Year:
- 2026
University of Pittsburgh
The Fight for Desegregation: Race, Freedom, and the Theatre After the Civil War
Anne Gray Fischer
Year:
- 2017
- 2025
University of Texas at Dallas
Going Ballistic: A Concealed History of Feminism and Guns
Adriana Green
Year:
- 2026
Princeton University
Nevermind the Moon: Outer Space, US Empire, and Black Futures
Hannah Greenwald
Year:
- 2026
Gettysburg College
Who is an ‘Old Settler’? Race, Property, and Patriotism in Argentina and the Americas
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen
Year:
- 2025
Yale University
Bordering Blackness: Migration and Dispossession in the Afro-Mediterranean
Rebecca L. Gruskin
Year:
- 2026
Hamilton College
Extracting Tunisia: Phosphate Mining and the Making of Modern Agriculture
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Year:
- 2025
University of Texas at Austin
Queer Survival: Gender, Sexuality and the History of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Tyrell Haberkorn
Year:
- 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Carceral Kingdom: Political Prisoners, Monarchy and History in Thailand
Amanda Joyce Hall
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Santa Barbara
Shantytown Solidarities: Black Consciousness and Global Anti-Apartheid
Justin Lee Haruyama
Year:
- 2024
University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
Reconfiguring Chinese-Zambian Encounters: Language, Religion, and the Limits of “Soft Power”
ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Fellow
Sylvia W. Houghteling
Year:
- 2014
- 2026
Bryn Mawr College
Fleeting Dyes and the Environment in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia
Junting Huang
Year:
- 2020
- 2024
Harvard University
The Noise Decade: Acoustic Entanglement across the Taiwan Strait
ACLS Pauline Yu Fellow
Nadine Hubbs
Year:
- 2025
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Border Country: Mexico, America, and Country Music
Theresa Iker
Year:
- 2026
Stanford University
Making America Male Again: The Men’s Rights Movement, 1960–2005
Anna James
Year:
- 2026
Franklin College, IN
A World of Our Own: Histories, Forms, and Communities of Trans Poetry and Poetics
Tai Johnson
Year:
- 2026
Longwood University
Shifting Nature: Food, Environment, and Health on the Hopi Mesas
Stacy Kamehiro
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Santa Cruz
Objects of the Nation: Hawaiʻi at the World Fairs, 1855-1899
Naiima Khahaifa
Year:
- 2025
Duke University
Making Prisons Work: Black Correctional Officers and Carceral Geographies of Western New York
Charlotte Anne Kiechel
Year:
- 2024
Williams College
The Politics of Comparison: Holocaust Memory, the European Left, and Visions of Third World Solidarity
Jinsook Kim
Year:
- 2024
Emory University
Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Activism in South Korea
Dela Kuma
Year:
- 2024
University of Pittsburgh
Africanized Tastes and Consumer Power in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century West Africa
Kyrill M. Kunakhovich
Year:
- 2012
- 2026
University of Virginia
The Old Town: Warsaw, UNESCO, and the Polish Origins of World Heritage
Paula V. Kupfer
Year:
- 2026
University of Pittsburgh
Reparative Interventions: Photography, Contemporary Art, and the Afterlives of Empire in Panama