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.
Clark L. Alejandrino
Year:
- 2014
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Georgetown University
Storm Clouds Over China: Storms, Typhoons, and Society on Coastal Late Imperial and Modern China
Selda Altan
Year:
- 2013
- 2022
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term
Randolph College
A Sisterhood to Save China: Women’s Leadership and Labor in the “Gung Ho” Industrial Cooperatives (Indusco), 1938–1952
Larry Au
Year:
- 2017
- 2024
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Flexible
City University of New York, City College
Science in the Chinese Periphery
Kyoungjin Bae
Year:
- 2013
- 2022
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term
Kenyon College
Guangdong’s Flowing Mechanism: Furniture, Craft, and Artisans across Early Modern Borders
Mark Baker
Year:
- 2014
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Yale University
Rural-Urban Margins on the Central Plains: Zhengzhou, Kaifeng and the Henan Hinterland, 1890 to 1954
Peter W. Braden
Year:
- 2017
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, San Diego
Did Animals Have a Chinese Revolution? : Animal Experiences During China's Post-War Transition to Socialism
Ernest Billings Brewster
Year:
- 2015
- 2017
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
Harvard University
The Yoga of Dying: Consciousness and Mortality in Tang Yogacara Buddhism
Tristan G. Brown
Year:
- 2013
- 2016
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Columbia University
The Veins of the Earth: Law, Geomancy, and the Transformation of Property in Modern China, 1865-1928
Darren T. Byler
Year:
- 2014
- 2021
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term
Simon Fraser University
Thinking with Violence: Narratives of Reeducation Camps & Infrastructural State Power in Northwest China
Yifeng Cai
Year:
- 2018
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Brown University
Transactional Sex on the Phone: Technology, Market Economy, and the Transformation of Male-to-Male Intimacy in Contemporary Urban China
Kent Cao
Year:
- 2015
- 2021
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
New College of Florida
On Their Own Merits: Indigenous Bronze Cultures in the Yangtze River Valley, c. 1500-900 BCE
Harlan David Chambers
Year:
- 2019
- 2020
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Program in China Studies Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants
Columbia University
Chinese Socialism in/as Theory: Political Economy in Revolutionary China
Annie Chan
Year:
- 2014
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of Pennsylvania
Technologies and the Sustainability of Pastoral Subsistence: Archaeological Evidence from Bronze Age Xinjiang
Thomas Chan
Year:
- 2017
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, San Diego
Bottoms-Up History: Maoism, Maotai, and the Building of the Chinese Nation, 1949 to 1976
Yen-ling Chen
Year:
- 2015
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of Hawaii at Manoa
A Grammar of Ong-Be
Xiang Chi
Year:
- 2017
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, Los Angeles
Sovereignty, War, and Natural Resource: Northeast China’s Economic Development (1901 to 1937)
Kyle Ellison David
Year:
- 2016
- 2019
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
University of California, Irvine
Children of the Revolution: Childhood and Conflict in Rural North China, 1937-1948
Austin Dean
Year:
- 2013
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
The Ohio State University
A Coin for China? Minting Money and Modernity in the Late Qing Dynasty, 1870 to 1912
Jia Feng
Year:
- 2016
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, Los Angeles
The Emperor’s Coffer: the Qing Imperial Fiscal Separation Between Privy Purse and State Treasury, 1644 to 1912
Devin Fitzgerald
Year:
- 2014
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Harvard University
Global News, Information, and the Qing Remaking of China
Mark Frank
Year:
- 2015
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Rooted State: Materiality in the Making of Modern China's Xikang Province
Xiaofei Gao
Year:
- 2014
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, Santa Cruz
Maritime Manchuria, 1898 to 2011
Xiaofei Gao
Year:
- 2014
- 2023
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
- Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term
University of Colorado Denver
The Blue Revolution: Maritime Connections and Coastal Communities in Modern China, 1910-2010
James J. Gerien-Chen
Year:
- 2015
Program:
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Columbia University
Between Empire and Nation: Taiwanese Settlers and the Making of Japanese Empire in China