ACLS congratulates Nicole Fleetwood F’16, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, on being named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow.

Fleetwood was awarded an ACLS Fellowship in 2016 for her project “Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture.” She is the author of Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and the curator of the traveling exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration, which debuted at MoMA PS1 in 2020.

Read more about Nicole Fleetwood and the 2021 MacArthur Fellows here.

Fleetwood joins a group of 43 distinguished ACLS fellows and grantees who have also received MacArthur awards, listed by year below. ACLS funding often represents an early investment in the careers of scholars whose path-breaking work will go on to win other prestigious awards.

2021:
Nicole Fleetwood F’16

2019:
Elizabeth Anderson F’13
Emily Wilson F’05

2017:
Viet T. Nguyen F’11
Derek Peterson F’16

2016:
Kellie Jones F’94

2015:
Marina A. Rustow F’09, F’14

2014:
Tara Zahra F’09, F’13

2007: 
Jay Rubenstein F’02, F’06

2003:
Guillermo Algaze G’89

2000:
Laura Otis F’97

1999:
David Levering Lewis G’72
Jacqueline Jones G’77, F’95

1998:
Bernadette Brooten G’92
Edward Hirsch F’81

1996:
Rebecca Goldstein F’82
Peter Galison F’08

1995:
Patricia Nelson Limerick F’89
Joel Rogers F’86 

1992:
Suzanne Lebsock G’78
Ann Ellis Hanson F’82

1991:
Lewis Hyde F’03
Harlan Lane G’74
Arnold Rampersad G’80, F’02

1988:
Ruth Behar F’97
Susan Irene Rotroff G’80, ’84

1987:
Irving Howe G’73

1986:
Caroline Bynum F’78
William A. Christian G’75, F’80
Nancy Farriss G’71
David Keightley F’72,’75,’83,’84
George Perle G’69

1985:
John F. Benton G’64
Thomas G. Palaima F’83

1984:
John E. Toews G’83
Bret Wallach G’81

1983:
A.K. Ramanujan G’73 

1982:
Peter Brown F’80
Robert Darnton G’82

1981:
Lawrence Rosen F’77
Elaine H. Pagels G’77
Richard Rorty F’69
Carl Schorske F’63