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.

Tiffany W Beres
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of California, San Diego
Modern Antiquity: Chinese Bogu Painting in the Late Qing and Early Republic

Dijia Chen
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Virginia
Chinese Architects on Display: the Making of Contemporary Chinese Architecture in Transnational Exhibitionary Events from the Late 1990s to the Early 2000s

Preston Decker
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Kansas
Toward a Modern Makan and Jiayuan: Discourses of Environmental Modernity in Twentieth Century Xinjiang

Ke Hu
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Investing in a Food Utopia: How emerging food technologies are incubated transnationally

Bill Kelson
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Georgia
Shanghai Panic, 1883: World Markets, Semicolonial Finance, & China's First Empirewide Financial Crisis

Weiyu Li
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Washington
Designs and Performances of Blackness: Contextualizing the Performance of Blackness in Modern China

Yue Liang
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Binghamton University, State University of New York
When Disaster Strikes: The 1954 Yangzi River Flood and Competing Responses in Communist China

James Arya Moallem
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Harvard University
Lord of Men in the Land of Gods: on the Cosmo-Moral vision of a Tibetan King and the Limits of Qing Universalism

Alexandra Noi
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of California, Santa Barbara
Life after the Soviet Gulag and Chinese Laogai: Mechanisms of Reentry into Society

Yuanxie Shi
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Chicago
Interlaced Economies and Knowledges: Rural Women’s work and Export Lacemaking in Socialist China

Yu-Cheng Shih
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Brown University
Watery State: Environmental Changes, Water Communities, and Religion around Lake Tai in Modern China, 1850-1950

Siwei Wang
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Columbia University
Towards Third World Solidarity: The Sino-Latin American Literary World in Cold War

Wei Mei Wong
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Pittsburgh
The relationship between a mobile dating app and intimate relations in contemporary China

Huiqiao Yao
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
University of Arizona
Popularizing the Sage: Wang Yangming and Vernacular Confucian Hagiographies in Late Imperial China

Jongsik Christian Yi
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Harvard University
Animals and Acupuncturists of Revolution: Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine and Commune Science in Maoist China, 1949-1976

Xin Yu
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grants to China
Washington University in St. Louis
Books for All: The Rise of Genealogies in China, 1500-1644