Impact of Giving

The American Council of Learned Societies is grateful for the steadfast commitment of each of our donors in helping us promote and advance humanistic scholarship and knowledge throughout society.

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

The ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship is going to provide me with the time and resources necessary to teach and further develop my scholarship as a historian of the Haitian Revolution, the Black Atlantic, and Afro-Latin America.

Being an ACLS Fellow at Duke University is also going to present me with a new set of disciplinary and methodological tools since a crucial component of the fellowship is to work and teach in the Critical Digital Humanities.

Jesús G. Ruiz F’20
ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow

Latin American Studies, Duke University

The ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship gave me a critical opportunity as I graduated with my PhD into a challenging academic market during the COVID-19 crisis.

With this support, I’m able to continue building on my skills in curriculum design and humanities pedagogy. The Emerging Voices Fellowship grants me time to develop my own work on exploring the ways Black people have taken up science fiction and technology as social and political tools. In this socially-distanced and virtually-mediated social landscape of 2020, I teach and research the Black feminist thinkers who are using speculative fiction and social media discourse as blueprints for survival, joy, and community-building.

Caitlin Gunn F’20
ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow

Feminist Studies, Harvard University

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?”