ACLS Project Development Grants
Jordi Alonso
Year:
- 2026
Louisiana State University
Defining Italian Poets before Italy: Ubertino Carrara’s Unpublished Rhetorica
Judith Anderson
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Searching for Blackness in Buenos Aires: The Resurgence of Black Identity in Argentina
Sarah C. Bishop
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, Baruch College
Recovering the Visibility of Post-Deportation Experiences in El Salvador: A Family Communication Approach
Stephanie Bonnes
Year:
- 2025
University of New Haven
Beyond Policy: Institutional Response to Sexual Harassment, Bureaucratic Harassment, and Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military
Dorothea Browder
Year:
- 2025
Western Kentucky University
Labor Education and Anti-Racist Transnational Labor Solidarity in the YWCA Industrial Program, 1907-1950
James Cantres
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, Hunter College
Going Home: Michael X, Belongings, and Black Worldmaking 1957-1975
Sohini Chattopadhyay
Year:
- 2026
Union College (NY)
The Science of Mass Deaths: Regional Histories of the Crematorium, Calcutta, and Bombay, 1850–1950
Olivia Chilcote
Year:
- 2025
San Diego State University
Cháam Qéchyam: Reclaiming the San Luis Rey Indian Village in California History
Andrew Chittick
Year:
- 2025
Eckerd College
Sino-Southeast Asian Maritime Exchange in the First Millennium CE
Jeremy D. Coltman
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Riverside
Brilliance and Sacrality in Classic Maya Religion
Amy Cooper
Year:
- 2025
United States Air Force Academy
"Speaking Pictures": From Aesthesis to Aesthetics
Esther Liberman Cuenca
Year:
- 2025
University of Houston-Victoria
Tattooing Customs and Ethnographies of Skin in the Premodern World (c. 250–1750)
Monica DeHart
Year:
- 2025
University of Puget Sound
Localizing Transpacific Politics: Ethnographic Insights into the Next Phase of China-Central America Relations
Mark Dike DeLancey
Year:
- 2025
DePaul University
The Tomb of Askia Muhammad: Pilgrimage, Politics, and Colonial Myth
Cynthia C. Delgado
Year:
- 2025
Pace University
Staging the Interstice: The Space of Transfeminist Performance
Chad Duffy
Year:
- 2026
Pepperdine University
Inventing Access and the Future of Critical Transcription Studies
Eve Eure
Year:
- 2024
City University of New York, Lehman College
Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging
Carles Ferrando Valero
Year:
- 2024
Bowling Green State University
The Poetics of Infrastructure: Literature and the Politics of Large Technological Systems in Modern Spain
Jessica Friedman
Year:
- 2026
San Diego State University
Modern Dance in Crisis: Women Remaking Modern Dance in the 1940s
Shehnaz Haqqani
Year:
- 2025
Mercer University
Exploring Religious Authority and Agency through Muslim Women’s Interfaith Marriages
Sara Hassani
Year:
- 2020
- 2026
Providence College
In the Wake of Woman: The Politics of the Morality Police
Andrey V. Ivanov
Year:
- 2025
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Apostle of Empire: Faith, Science and Enlightenment of Archbishop Feofan Prokopovych
Amr Kamal
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, City College
Iconography of Displacement: Deconstructing Imagery of Rootlessness in Contemporary Mediterranean Cinema
Hye Won Kim
Year:
- 2025
Kennesaw State University
Performing Transnational Encounters: The Development of South Korean Musical Theater 1962-2024
Dasol Kim
Year:
- 2025
State University of New York at New Paltz
K-Beauty Project: From Post-War Ashes to Global Desire
Deanna Koretsky
Year:
- 2026
Spelman College
Bad Blood and Monstrous Minds: The Racial Logics of the War on Autism
Adele Kudish
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Women, Fashion, and Money in Early 20th Century Fiction
Crystal B. Lake
Year:
- 2025
Wright State University
Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
Matthew Lamb
Year:
- 2024
Washington and Lee University
On Ignorance, Moral Responsibility, and Blame: The Significance of Our Non-Ideal Circumstances in the Digital Age
Alex Lewis
Year:
- 2026
Independent Scholar
This Forked Plague: Cuckoldry, Allegory, and Subjectivity in English Early Modern Literature
Ryan Low
Year:
- 2026
University of North Dakota
Information Overload: Notarial Experiments in Late Medieval Information Technology
Jacqueline Lyon
Year:
- 2025
California State University, Long Beach
Engendering ‘Illegality’: Race, Reproduction, and the Fight for Birthright Citizenship in the Dominican Republic
Nathan E. Marvin
Year:
- 2024
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bodies for the Care of Souls: Slavery and the Colonial Clergy in the French Empire, 1764-1848
Laura Menchaca
Year:
- 2025
- 2026
Al Quds-Bard College
Hay Betl7em هاي بيت لحم: A Visual Archive of Palestinian Survivance
Mitchell R. Murray
Year:
- 2026
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Universe Makers: Utopianism, Fascism, and American Science Fiction after 1938
Oksana Nesterenko
Year:
- 2024
- 2025
Union County College
A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred music in the Soviet Union Before its Fall
Thuy Linh Nguyen
Year:
- 2019
- 2025
Mount Saint Mary College, NY
Coastal sand dunes and exotic timber species: An Environmental History of the French Colonial Empire
Saugher Nojan
Year:
- 2024
San José State University
Racialized Hauntings: Afghan Americans Navigating Racialized Religion and Belonging amidst the Forever War
Kirsten Paige
Year:
- 2025
North Carolina State University
Keyboard Botany: Climate, Empire, and the Tropical Piano in Southeast Asia
José Miguel Palacios
Year:
- 2025
California State University, Long Beach
The Cinema to Come: The Archives, Writings, and Films of Raúl Ruiz
Alison Perchuk
Year:
- 2026
California State University, Channel Islands
Medieval Los Angeles: Art, Architecture, and the Quest for Identity in Prewar Southland
Elizabeth M. Perego
Year:
- 2025
Appalachian State University
Icons and Agents of Liberty: Algerian Women and Global South-South Feminist Solidarity in the Fight for Decolonization, 1954 to 1990
Carolina Prado
Year:
- 2024
San Francisco State University
Organizing for Environmental Justice in the Borderlands: The Colectivo Salud y Justicia Ambiental in Tijuana-San Diego
Nicole R. Rice
Year:
- 2011
- 2025
Saint John's University (NY)
A Literary History of Care: English Texts, Practices, and Reformations, 1350-1600
Sharmin Sadequee
Year:
- 2024
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
For Land and Justice: Ethnonationalism and the Role of a Regenerative Mosque for Sustainable American Future
Kara Murphy Schlichting
Year:
- 2026
City University of New York, Queens College
Hot Town: How New York City Built Its Climate Crisis
Noa T. Shaindlinger
Year:
- 2025
Worcester State College
Experimental Occupation: Israel’s 125 Days in Gaza, 1956-1957
Julia R. Shatz
Year:
- 2024
California State University, Fresno
Global Welfare and the Politics of Childhood in Palestine, 1914-1950
A. K. M. Skarpelis
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, Queens College
Anxious Order: Race, Reason, and the Violence of Classification
Kaitlin Staudt
Year:
- 2024
Union College (NY)
The Empire that Can't Write Back: Ottoman-Turkish Literature and the Question of Postcoloniality
Tyler S. Talbott
Year:
- 2025
Creighton University
Plotting Ethnonationalism: Race and Novel Theories of the Nation Since the Victorians
Maite Urcaregui
Year:
- 2026
San José State University
Seeing Citizenship: Picturing Political Belonging in Multiethnic Graphic Narratives of the U.S.
Yosa Lucia Vidal
Year:
- 2024
University of Oregon
Graphic Violence: The Creation of a Visual Archive in the Southern Cone
Johnathon K. Vsetecka
Year:
- 2025
Nova Southeastern University
"In Order to Expand the World's Knowledge": Investigative Famine Commissions, Ukraine, and Transitional Justice during the Late Cold War
Y. L. Lucy Wang
Year:
- 2026
Pratt Institute
Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease and Architecture in Modern China, 1894–1949
Rebecca Wolff
Year:
- 2026
Christopher Newport University
Experience and Memory: Artists’ Engagement with the Nigerian Civil War
Wei Si Nic Yiu
Year:
- 2026
Loyola Marymount University
Traveling Up North: Deservingness, Self-Deportation, and Chinese Women’s Resistance
Louise Zamparutti
Year:
- 2025
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Monument in Motu: The Positionality of Place