Professor Frankfurt, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, will deliver the lecture on May 12, during the 2017 ACLS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
The grants support existing projects as they seek to add diversity to the digital record, create new forms for scholarly engagement, and make digital resources available to diverse audiences and institutions.
The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows, who are from 32 different universities, are completing dissertations in a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines.
On this twenty-fifth anniversary of the Luce/ACLS program, fellows are pursuing promising research in object- and image-based US art history, funded by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Fellows include independent scholars as well as tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty of all ranks, from more than 50 colleges and universities, working on projects that span the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
"Stephen Greenblatt well deserves this prize for his rigorous scholarship that speaks to a multitude of audiences," said Pauline Yu, president of ACLS. "Congratulations to our good friend and former Board member!"
Burkhardt Fellowships support recently tenured faculty as they pursue long-term, unusually ambitious research while in residence at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities are ideally suited to facilitate the proposed research project.
The projects cross disciplinary, methodological, and geographic boundaries, and stretch team members beyond current practice to produce knowledge together they could not produce alone.
HEB is one of 10 institutions selected to convert out-of-print books of enduring value into free e-books available to the public.
Heads of nine organizations met at the ACLS offices.
