ACLS Awardee Bookshelf: 2026 Highlights

ACLS is pleased to share a select list of books published in the first half of 2026 by ACLS fellows and grantees, many of which developed from ACLS-supported research. These titles offer a small sample of the many notable works published by our fellows and grantees. They reflect a wide array of topics, from the politicized history of American media to the economics of the global opioid trade.

• Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press by A. J. Bauer, 2016 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow (Columbia University Press)
• I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo by Andrew G. Britt, 2022 ACLS Project Development Grantee (Duke University Pres)
• Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain by Hilary R. Buxton, 2023 ACLS Fellow
• Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela, 2023 ACLS Fellow (University of Texas Books)
• A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South by Melvin Patrick Ely, 2007 ACLS Fellow (Macmillan)
• Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History by Allyson Nadia Field, 2020 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow for Recently Tenured Scholars (University of California Press)
• Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery by William A. Morgan, 2020 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow (University of Georgia Press)
• Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It by Samuel Moyn, 2008 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow for Recently Tenured Scholars (Macmillan)
• Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art by Christopher J. Nygren, 2017 ACLS Fellow
• Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture by Benjamin A. Saltzman, 2017 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow (University of Chicago Press)
• Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves by Stuart Schrader, 2014 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow (Basic Books)
• Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers by Benjamin Robert Siegel, 2017 ACLS Fellow (Oxford University Press)
• El Monte’s New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean by Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, 2022 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow (Rutgers University Press)
• Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China by Yanshuo Zhang, 2024 Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grantee in China Studies (University of Michigan Press)