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.

Mal Ahern

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University of Washington
Factory Forms: Making Copies in the Age of Automation

Bimbola Akinbola

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
Northwestern University
Transatlantic Disbelongings: Anti-Respectability, Queer Kinships, and Diasporic Homemaking in Nigerian Women’s Art

Sergio Alarcón Robledo

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
Harvard University
From Archives to Soundscape analysis: Architectural change and power display in Early Dynastic Egypt

Keitlyn Alcantara

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Indiana University Bloomington
Recipes of Resistance: An Archaeology of the Past and Present

Kevin Salvador Alejandrez

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Center for Cultural Power
Appointed as Learning and Impact Manager, Center for Cultural Power

Gokh Amin Alshaif

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
University of California, Santa Barbara
Native Outsiders: The Black Muhamasheen of Yemen

Petya Andreeva

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
Parsons School of Design
Visualizing the Early Soviet East: Posters, Politics and Pioneers in Central Asia (1917-1939)

Elaine Kathryn Andres

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Destiny Arts Center
Appointed as Manager of Learning and Evaluation, Destiny Arts Center

Aja J. Antoine-Jones

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
University of California, Berkeley
Policing, Pollution, Plague: Breath and Death in an Unequal Society

Cruz A. Arroyo

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Movement Advancement Project
Appointed as Movement Building and Capacity Strategist, Movement Advancement Project

Jessica E. Auer

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Appointed as Tribal Broadband Policy Analyst, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Musa K. Azimli

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
University of Virginia
The Imperial Slave Market in Istanbul

Corinne Bayerl

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University of Oregon
The Stage on Trial: Transnational Opposition Against the Theatre in Early Modern Europe

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Year:
  • 2019
  • 2023
Program:
  • The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University of Southern California
Returning the Temple: Recovering and Repatriating Sikkimese Buddhism from Colonial Structures

Roya Biggie

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Knox College
Sympathetic Ecologies in Early Modern English Tragedies

Brian E. Bond

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University of California, Berkeley
Singing Islam: Sufi Music and Socio-religious Change on India’s Western Border

Dusti Cheyenne Bridges

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
Cornell University
(Re)lating Archaeological Collections: Hodinöhsö:ni' Art, Colonialist Histories, and Indigenous Futurities in Archaeological Research

Irene Brisson

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
Louisiana State University
Kreyòl Architectures: Design in Dialogue in Haitian House Building

Edward Brudney

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Project Development Grants
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Changing the Rules of the Game: Labor, Law, and Citizenship in Argentina, 1973-1983

Hilary Buxton

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Kenyon College
Disabled Empire: Decolonizing Care and the First World War in Imperial Britain

Kendra Calhoun

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University of California, Los Angeles
#BlackPeopleBeLike: Discursive constructions of contemporary race, culture, and African American identity on TikTok

Tristan Call

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Independent Scholar
Migration and Captive Labor in the Pandemic South

Zachary Caple

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Aarhus University
The Human Asteroid Strikes Florida: The Mining Landscapes and Anthrobiogeochemistry of Phosphorus

Kelly Marie Carlton

Year:
  • 2023
Program:
  • The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
Princeton University
Children in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Discourses on Ethics and Practice