ACLS Fellows Named Pulitzer Prize Finalists

ACLS warmly congratulates past fellows Rachel Nolan F’17, F’21 and Seth E. Rockman F’08 on being named finalists for the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes.

Nolan’s book Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala (Harvard University Press) was a finalist in the general nonfiction category. The book tells the story of Guatemala’s adoption industry: “an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.” Nolan is an Assistant Professor of International History at Boston University. She received a 2017 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and a 2021 ACLS Fellowship, both of which funded research for this monograph.

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (University of Chicago Press) by Seth Rockman was a finalist in the history category. The book is a rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. Rockman is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brown University. He received a 2008 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from ACLS for research that contributed to the book.