ACLS President’s Report to the Council
Presented as part of the ACLS Annual Meeting
Friday, May 3rd, 2024 | 2:30 PM EDT
ACLS President Joy Connolly delivers her annual report to the council from Baltimore, MD on May 3, 2024 as part of the ACLS Annual Meeting. The event will also be livestreamed, please register below to attend virtually.
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Joy Connolly began her service as President of the American Council of Learned Societies on July 1, 2019. Previously, she served as provost and interim president of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she was also Distinguished Professor of Classics. She has held faculty appointments at New York University, where she served as Dean for the Humanities from 2012-16, Stanford University, and the University of Washington. Committed to broadening scholars’ impact on the world, as provost at the Graduate Center Connolly secured generous support from the Mellon Foundation to foster public-facing scholarship through innovative experiments in doctoral training. She has published two books with Princeton University Press and over seventy articles, reviews, and short essays. Connolly earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and a PhD in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
