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.

Richardson Addai-Mununkum

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Pidgin English in Ghanaian high schools: Exploring the problematization and disavowal of school acquired language

Joshua Agbo

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
Benue State University
Hybridise or Disappear: Understanding Departure, Migration/Diaspora, Environment and Cultural Ecology in Helon Habila’s Fiction

Yunana Ahmed

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
Gombe State University
Discursive Strategies and Rhetorical Moves in Selected Suicide Notes from Nigeria

Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Conceptual Innovation and Epistemic Orientations in African Studies

Toyin Samuel Ajose

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of Ibadan
Sounding the Sacred Spaces: Musical Engagements in Orí-òkè in Osun State, Nigeria

Eram Alam

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Harvard University
The Care of Foreigners

Kaylee P. Alexander

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
University of Utah
PhD, Art History and Visual Culture, Duke University

Andy Alfonso

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Princeton University
Un/exceptional Shadowlands: Space, Memory, and Archives in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution

Zaina Alsous

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
Third World Feminist School (Host Institution: University of Miami)

Alex Alston

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Columbia University
Animal Ambivalence: Black Literature and the Discourse of Species

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

Christian David Alvarado

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Storm in Kenya: Mau Mau in Systems of Thought

Jaquelina Alvarez

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Speaking into Silences: Building Community Archives across the Puerto Rican Archipelago

Farhad Ameen

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
State University of New York, Westchester Community College
Equitable Human Development: The Path-Breaking Contributions of BRAC and Grameen Bank to Bangladesh and Beyond

Bench Ansfield

Year:
  • 2020
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Harvard University
Born in Flames: Racial Finance and the Underwriting of Incendiary Cities

Chandana Anusha

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowships
Northwestern University
PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University

Monica V. Arellano

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
Sustaining Collaborative Approaches to the Public Interpretation of Indigenous History at Mission Santa Clara, California (Host Institution: Santa Clara University)

Lucha Arévalo

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
  • ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
Río Hondo College
Sustaining Public Engagement through the Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project of Rio Hondo College and its Partners in Community (Host Institution: Rio Hondo College)

Ligia A. Arguilez

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
University of Texas at El Paso
Making the Desert Place: An Environmental History of a Desert Shrub from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
University of California, Irvine
PrisonPandemic: Building an Infrastructure for Engaging Incarcerated Voices (Host Institution: University of California, Irvine)

Shetay Ashford-Hanserd

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants
Texas State University
Engaged Humanities Research Accelerator (EHRA) (Host Institution: Texas State University)

Jennifer Ashley

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants
George Mason University
The Afterlife of the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite (Chile 88)

Allen Asiimwe

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
Makerere University
Activation states in Rukiga: An alternative approach to the analysis of definiteness in Bantu languages

Maria Atuesta

Year:
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Namati
Appointed as Data Storytelling and Public Narrative Officer, Namati