Fellows and Grantees

Over the past century, more than 12,000 scholars have been awarded ACLS fellowships and grants, which recognize excellence in research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The peer-review process used to select awardees enables distinguished scholars to reach a broad consensus on standards of excellence in humanistic research.

Search for current and past fellows and grantees below.

Farhad Ameen

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
State University of New York, Westchester Community College
Equitable Human Development: The Path-Breaking Contributions of BRAC and Grameen Bank to Bangladesh and Beyond

Leah Anderst

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, Queensborough Community College
#MeToo: A Testimonial Imperative and A Collective Autobiography

Lucha Arévalo

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
  • ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
Río Hondo College
Sustaining Public Engagement through the Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project of Rio Hondo College and its Partners in Community (Host Institution: Rio Hondo College)

Sharon Avni

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Hebraists by Choice: American Jews and the Mobilization of Modern Hebrew

Cinder Cooper Barnes

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Montgomery College
Jesus and Juke Joints: Exploring the Histories and Stories of Nontraditional African American Cultural Artifacts in the Digital Age

Beth Baunoch

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Community College of Baltimore County
New Media, Old Problem

Monika Bilka

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Remaking a People, Restoring a Watershed: Klamath Tribal Empowerment though Natural Resource Governance

William Billingsley

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Saddleback College
Seeing Red behind the Orange Curtain: The John Birch Society and Conservative anti-Communism in Orange County, California, 1959-1974

Shannon T. Bontrager

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Georgia Highlands College
The Affinity of War: Traveling Memory, the War Dead, and the American Empire in France

Habiba Boumlik

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Amazigh Cinema in North Africa and the Diaspora: Finding A Newfound Voice for a Pan-Amazigh Identity

Betsy Teresa Brody

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Collin College
Digging In: How Food, Culture, and Class Shape the Story of Asian Dallas

Emily M. Brooks

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
Gotham's War Within a War: Anti-Vice Policing, Militarism, and the Birth of Law and Order Liberalism in New York City, 1934-1945

Ellen C. Caldwell

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Mt. San Antonio College
Visualizing the Transhistorical Body on the Book Covers of Octavia E. Butler's “Kindred”

Thomas Francis Clarkin

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
San Antonio College
Remembering Goliad: Myth and History in the Texas Revolution

Tanya N. Cook

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Community College of Aurora
Always Keep Nerd Fighting: Fandoms as Social Movements

Raquel C. Corona

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, Queensborough Community College
Documenting Dominican Women’s Sexual Resistance: Building a Digital Repository for Their Stories

Stacy Davidson

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Johnson County Community College
We Are For Egypt: The History, Culture, and Legacy of Egyptian Southern Illinois

Leslie Dávila

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Long Beach City College
Latinx Artivists Resist Violence in the 21st Century

Maggie Dickinson

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, Guttman Community College
Repairing Inequality?: Disaster Relief, Deservingness, and the Growing Wealth Gap in the United States

Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
The Expanding Photographic Archive of Feminist Movements in Chile

Phuoc Duong

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
San Bernardino Valley College
The Making of Civil Society in Contemporary Socialist Vietnam: Youth, Morality, and Collective Action

Leila F. Easa

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
City College of San Francisco
Palestinian American Women's Poetry: Contesting and Constructing Home through Articulation and Embodiment

Mario Alberto V. Espinoza-Kulick

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
Cuesta College
La Gente Unida: Latinx Immigrant and Indigenous Health Equity during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wanda Little Fenimore

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
University of South Carolina, Sumter
Elizabeth and Waties Waring: Paving the Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education