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ACLS Community in the News: April 2026
- Several ACLS awardees have recently been featured in the news for their research and public scholarship on birthright citizenship:
- 2019 ACLS Fellow Amanda Frost was featured on NPR in the article “Supreme Court considers a historic case about who is — and isn’t — born a citizen.”
- Carly Goodman, 2019 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, was a guest on WHYY radio on March 31, 2026, “SCOTUS weighs birthright citizenship.”
- Martha S. Jones, 2013 ACLS Fellow, and Kate Masur, 2020 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow, published an essay in the New York Times about the history of the the 14th Amendment. They also submitted an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court.
- Samuel Moyn, 2008 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow, and Keith Whittington, 1999 ACLS Fellow, are highlighted in Yale Law School News for their public scholarship and articles on the subject, including an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court by Whittington.
- 2025 ACLS Fellow Eric Godoy is highlighted by the Illinois State University College of Arts and Sciences, and shares his work on energy democracy.
- ACLS Board Member Theodore S. Gonzalves is curator of the National Museum of American History’s Semiquincentennial exhibition. This major exhibition, “In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness,” spans the entire museum.
- On March 24, Melani McAlister, Treasurer of the ACLS Board of Directors, spoke with India Today about the war in Iran.
- MIT featured Amy Moran-Thomas, 2011 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow and 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grantee, for her work bridging medical realities in the study of technology and health.
- Margaret Nettesheim Hoffmann has been named director of Marquette’s Center for Humanities. Nettesheim Hoffmann serves on the Doctoral Futures Post-Degree Pathways committee and represents Marquette on the Wisconsin Humanities board of directors.
- Dorothy Roberts, 2015 ACLS Fellow, discusses One Battle After Another and her new book FeedbackThe Mixed Marriage Project in People.
- 2024 ACLS Fellow Christofer Rodelo shares his new research exploring nineteenth century performance culture’s role in Latinx identity formation with the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences.
- The forthcoming book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian, 2017 Burkhardt Fellow, and Ben Tarnoff is featured in the Guardian, The Irish Times, and the New York Times.
