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.

Jasmine A. Alinder

Year:
  • 1997
  • 2009
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
  • Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Lens and the Law: The Rights of Photographic Representation

Kenneth D. Allan

Year:
  • 2004
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Chicago
Making the Scene: Assemblage, Pop Art and Locality in 1960s Los Angeles

Beth A. Allen

Year:
  • 2002
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of California, Los Angeles
The place of poetry: performance and the public sphere in 1960's New York

Jennifer (Gwen) L. Allen

Year:
  • 2002
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Stanford University
From specific medium to mass media: art magazines and art of the 1960's

Laura M. Andre

Year:
  • 2000
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Strange territories: space-age frontiers in American art and architecture of the 1960s

Lauren Applebaum

Year:
  • 2015
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elusive Matter, Material Bodies: American Art in the Age of Electronic Mediation, 1865-1918

Heidi Applegate

Year:
  • 2007
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Columbia University
Staging Modernism at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair

M. Rachael Arauz

Year:
  • 1997
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Pennsylvania
Articulating "American": text and imagemaking among the early American modernists

Elise Armani

Year:
  • 2024
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Making Rhythms Out of Barriers: Infrastructural Interventions by Migrant Artists on the Lower East Side (1975-1989)

Renée D. Ater

Year:
  • 1999
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Maryland, College Park
Cultural narratives and the sculpture of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Elizabeth Athens

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Yale University
Figuring a World: William Bartram's Natural History

Anastasia R. Aukeman

Year:
  • 2011
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
The Rat Bastard Protective Association: Bruce Conner and His San Francisco Cohort, 1958-68

Amanda Badgett

Year:
  • 1995
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Columbia University
Gothic Revival churches and the meaning of architectural style in the antebellum South

Matthew K. Bailey

Year:
  • 2010
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Washington University in St. Louis
Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in Modern American Painting, 1880-1930

Marissa Howard Baker

Year:
  • 2016
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Nation Within: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement and the Figuration of Black Liberation

Constance J. Balides

Year:
  • 1992
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Making dust in the archives: women, management, and early cinema

Lacey Baradel

Year:
  • 2012
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Pennsylvania
Mobile Americans: Locomotion and Identity in US Visual Culture, 1860-1915

Jessica Bardsley

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Harvard University
Fluid Materialisms in Contemporary Art, 1960s-Present

Deborah Barkun

Year:
  • 2003
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Bryn Mawr College
Imaging AIDS: art, activism, and visual culture

Clara Elizabeth Barnhart

Year:
  • 2013
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Washington University in St. Louis
A New Unity: Montage in the Murals of Ben Shahn and Stuart Davis in the 1930s United States

Ross Barrett

Year:
  • 2005
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Boston University
Rendering Violence: Riots, strikes, and upheaval in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture

Aleisha E. Barton

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vibrating Boundaries: Psychedelic Aesthetics in the Post-War Age, 1966-1970

Jill Patricia Baskin

Year:
  • 2012
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of Virginia
Picturing Freedom's Shores: The Visual Culture of African Americans in Liberia, 1821-1865

Samantha Baskind

Year:
  • 2000
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lost in America?: Raphael Soyer and Jewish identity in the 20th century