ACLS Shares 2021 Book Publications by Our Fellows

As the year wraps up, ACLS is pleased to share a select list of books released in 2021 by ACLS fellows and grantees, many of which developed from ACLS supported research. These publications, which represent just a sample of the distinguished works authored by past and current fellows in 2021, represent an incredible range of humanistic scholarship, from photography and modernism in Mexico to the professionalization of video activism.

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire F’10, F’09 (Princeton University Press)
Greater American Camera: Making Modernism in Mexico by Monica Bravo F’21 (Yale University Press)
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler F’18 (The University of North Carolina Press)
In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler F’21, G’14 (Columbia Global Reports)
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico by A. S. Dillingham F’11 (Stanford University Press)
On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith F’15 (Graywolf Press)
Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador by Carmen Martinez Novo F’17 (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Counter-terrorism and Civil Society: Post-9/11 Progress and Challenges by Emeka T. Njoku F’20 (Manchester University Press)
Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession by Sandra Ristovska F’21 (MIT Press)
At the Limits of Cure by Bharat Venkat F’17 (Duke University Press)

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Lucas Bessire F’10, F’09 Named Finalist for 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

In October 2021, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire F’10, F’09 was named a top five finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Bessire traveled to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to write the book, which “addresses the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer, a source of water and life in the American Great Plains across millennia, and demands we all take responsibility for a more sustainable future.”