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

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

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

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

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

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

Amy Gordanier

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, Los Angeles
Shows on the Road: Professional Networks and Opera Performance in Qing China

Koji Hirata

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Stanford University
Steel Metropolis: Developmental State, Technology Transfer, and Urban Space in Northeast China, 1906 to 1966

Yitzchak Y. Jaffe

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Harvard University
Negotiating the Frontier- Uncovering Regional Variation in the Early Western Zhou Expansion (1046 to 771 BCE)

Ulug Kuzuoglu

Year:
  • 2014
  • 2017
  • 2024
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
  • Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term
Washington University in St. Louis
Cang Jie: Artificial Intelligence and Pseudoscience in the Sinosphere

Ho Chak Law

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Cinematizing Opera or Theatricalizing Cinema?: Chinese Opera on the Silver Screen, 1905 to 1976

Teng Li

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Northwestern University
Peasants and Their Law: Land Ownership and Legal Culture in Post-Colonial Northeast China and Taiwan, 1945 to 1952

Thomas Peng

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, Berkeley
The Everyday Life Formation of Collective Consciousness in Contemporary Chinese Urban Villages

Carolyn S. Powers

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Washington University in St. Louis
The Localization of Psychotherapeutic Treatment Knowledge in Post-Disaster West China

Yidi Wu

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
University of California, Irvine
Blooming, Contending and Staying Silent: Student Activism and Campus Politics in China, 1957

Dongxin Zou

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants
Columbia University
A Health Care Odyssey: Chinese Medical Missions in North Africa, 1963 to 2013