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Luce/ACLS Working Group on Public Knowledge

Exploring Public Knowledge Creation, Within and Beyond the Academy
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In 2022, the Henry Luce Foundation made a grant to ACLS to support a working group focused on exploring the conditions for the creation and circulation of public knowledge.

Working Group Members:

Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion and Dean’s Leadership Fellow, Northeastern University (co-chair)
Simran Jeet Singh, Executive Director, Religion & Society Program, the Aspen Institute (co-chair)
Sylvester Johnson, Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Humanities, Virginia Tech
Rosalyn R. LaPier, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Brie Loskota, Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, University of Notre Dame
Harold Morales, Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City, Morgan State University

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Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and  social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good.

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