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.

Sophie Abramowitz
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Brown University
PhD, English, University of Virginia

Kimberly Adams
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Stanford University
PhD, English & American Literature, New York University

Maurice L. Adkins
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Virginia
PhD, History, University of Cincinnati
Maurice L. Adkins
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Virginia
PhD, History, University of Cincinnati

Danya Al-Saleh
Year:
- 2020
- 2021
Program:
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Kaylee P. Alexander
Year:
- 2022
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Utah
PhD, Art History and Visual Culture, Duke University

Craig Lanier Allen
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
New York University
PhD, American Studies, The George Washington University

Marcos L. Almeida
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
PhD, History of Africa, Northwestern University

Maira Elizabeth Alvarez
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Arizona State University
PhD, Latino Literature, University of Houston

Cinthya Ammerman Munoz
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Georgetown University
PhD, Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Chandana Anusha
Year:
- 2022
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Northwestern University
PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University

Torang Asadi
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Religious Studies, Duke University

Hadeel Assali
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Pennsylvania
PhD, Anthropology, Columbia University

Evelyn Saavedra Autry
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
PhD, Hispanic Studies, University of Georgia

Geronimo Barrera
Year:
- 2022
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Brown University
PhD, Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Francisco Beltran
Year:
- 2020
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
PhD, History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Baligh Ben Taleb
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD, History and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Elizabeth Bentley
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
New York University
PhD, English Rhetoric and Composition, University of Arizona

Olga Blomgren
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Brown University
PhD, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Abikal Borah
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Cornell University
PhD, History, University of Texas at Austin

Suzanne F. Boswell
Year:
- 2022
- Summer 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
- ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Center for Justice Innovation
Appointed to the Center for Court Innovation for the project "Reimagining Public Safety and Community Development"

Trish Bredar
Year:
- 2022
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Northwestern University
PhD, English, University of Notre Dame

Sarah E. Bruno
Year:
- 2020
- 2021
Program:
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Duke University
PhD, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tarrell Campbell
Year:
- 2021
Program:
- ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD, English, Saint Louis University