ACLS Fellowship Program

Nina Amstutz

Year:
  • 2025
University of Oregon
A Multispecies Framework for Art: The Bowerbird Across Disciplines, Cultures, and Time

Maile Arvin

Year:
  • 2024
  • 2025
University of Utah
Nā Lei Poina ‘Ole (Beloved Children Not Forgotten): Institutionalized Children in the Hawaiian Kingdom and U.S. Territory of Hawaiʻi

Lloyd D. Barba

Year:
  • 2025
Amherst College
A Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement

Tria Blu Wakpa

Year:
  • 2025
University of California, Los Angeles
Choreographies in Confinement: Native Education, Incarceration, and Performance

Simone Browne

Year:
  • 2025
University of Texas at Austin
Art on Surveillance

Yannick Coenders

Year:
  • 2025
Washington University in St. Louis
Dispersal: Governing Against the Ghetto in Post-World War II Europe

Gabrielle Cornish

Year:
  • 2019
  • 2023
  • 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Socialist Noise: Sound and Soviet Identity after Stalin

Maurice Crandall

Year:
  • 2025
Arizona State University
Tiger of the Human Species: Yavapai-Apache Scouts and the Worlds They Made

Nushelle de Silva

Year:
  • 2025
Fordham University
Conveying Culture: The Control and Care of Art in Transit

Scott Doebler

Year:
  • 2025
Pomona College
The Lure of the Lowlands: An Early Modern Environmental History of Yucatán and Guatemala’s Maya Forest, 1517-1817

Theodora Dragostinova

Year:
  • 2004
  • 2008
  • 2025
The Ohio State University
Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the Post-1918 Balkans

Natalie Ghassan El-Eid

Year:
  • 2025
Georgetown University
Transnational Druze and Reincarnation: Remembering, Recording, and Reconnecting
ACLS/Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America

Ruth Madeline Ezra

Year:
  • 2025
University of St. Andrews, UK
Leaves of Glass: Mica between Art and Science in Early Modernity

Stephen C. Ferguson

Year:
  • 2025
North Carolina State University
On the Black Side of Philosophy: Black Philosophers Confront Black Power and Communism

Tamara Surani Fernando

Year:
  • 2025
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Shallow Blue Empire: Pearl Diving in the Indian Ocean 1850-1925

Zoltán Glück

Year:
  • 2018
  • 2025
American University
The Long War on Terror: Decolonization and Recolonization in Kenya

Eric Godoy

Year:
  • 2025
Illinois State University
Public Power: Ethical Energy and Democracy's Role in a Just Transition

april l. graham-jackson

Year:
  • 2025
University of Chicago
Black Life Beyond The City: Black Suburbanization Across Chicago Southland

Anne Gray Fischer

Year:
  • 2017
  • 2025
University of Texas at Dallas
Going Ballistic: A Concealed History of Feminism and Guns

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen

Year:
  • 2025
Yale University
Bordering Blackness: Migration and Dispossession in the Afro-Mediterranean

Lauren Jae Gutterman

Year:
  • 2025
University of Texas at Austin
Queer Survival: Gender, Sexuality and the History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Tyrell Haberkorn

Year:
  • 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Carceral Kingdom: Political Prisoners, Monarchy and History in Thailand

Amanda Joyce Hall

Year:
  • 2025
University of California, Santa Barbara
Struggle for Another World: Black Consciousness and Global Anti-Apartheid

Nadine Hubbs

Year:
  • 2025
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Border Country: Mexico, America, and Country Music

Stacy Kamehiro

Year:
  • 2025
University of California, Santa Cruz
Objects of the Nation: Hawaiʻi at the World Fairs, 1855-1899

Naiima Khahaifa

Year:
  • 2025
Duke University
Making Prisons Work: Black Correctional Officers and Carceral Geographies of Western New York

Nataliia Laas

Year:
  • 2025
Yale University
A Soviet Consumer Republic: Environmental Citizenship and the Economy of Waste in the Post-WWII Soviet Union

Patricia Lagarde

Year:
  • 2025
The Walters Art Museum
(Un)tethered: The Lives of Chavín’s Tenon Heads
ACLS H. and T. King Fellow in Ancient American Art and Culture

Tonhi Lee

Year:
  • 2025
Tufts University
Migration and Mimesis in the English Renaissance, 1492-1668
ACLS Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Fellow

Julia Lewandoski

Year:
  • 2018
  • 2025
University of California, San Diego
Land Tenure Survival: Imperial Law and Indigenous Creativity in the Treaty Era, 1763-1891

Erika T. Lin

Year:
  • 2025
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Festive Performance and the Birth of Theatre: Holiday Playing on Shakespeare’s Stage

Alexandra Maria Lossada

Year:
  • 2025
Berry College
The Interpreter of Crimmigration and Detention

Brian McCammack

Year:
  • 2025
Lake Forest College
Black, Brown, and Green: The Origins of Environmental Justice in the 1970s

Robin Bo Eun McDowell

Year:
  • 2025
Wesleyan University
Black Bayou: Race, Ecology, and the Transformation of Louisiana Wetlands

Suhaila Meera

Year:
  • 2025
Lewis & Clark College
The Child at the Border: How Children Perform Displacement

Sarah M. Miller

Year:
  • 2006
  • 2025
Photography Now: Materiality, Materialism, Experience

Kathryn R. Morgan

Year:
  • 2025
Duke University
Beyond Midas: An Archaeological History of Phrygia

Anna Muenchrath

Year:
  • 2022
  • 2025
Florida Institute of Technology
Amazon Crossing: Translation Publishing, Algorithmic Data, and the Future of the Literary Marketplace

Debashree Mukherjee

Year:
  • 2025
Columbia University
Tropical Machines: A Decolonial History of Media & Modernity

Laura Nasrallah

Year:
  • 2025
Yale University
Divination Machines in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Randomness, Meaning, and the Sublunar Condition

Yasser A. Nasser

Year:
  • 2025
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Opening the Door: The People’s Republic of China in the Era of Global Economic Reform
ACLS Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellow

Rebecca Nedostup

Year:
  • 1996
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2025
Brown University
War Being: Lost and Found in Mid Twentieth Century China and Taiwan

Udodiri R. Okwandu

Year:
  • 2025
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Mad Mothers: A Racial History of Maternal Mental Illness in the United States

Katrina B. Olds

Year:
  • 2025
University of San Francisco
The Picaresque Enlightenment: Irreverence, Fraud, and Magic in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic

Marc D. Perry

Year:
  • 2025
University of Texas at San Antonio
Black Trades: Cultural Performance & Economies of Race in New Orleans

Anya Plutynski

Year:
  • 2025
Washington University in St. Louis
Making Mental Health

Jason Protass

Year:
  • 2014
  • 2025
Brown University
Heart of the River: A Buddhist History of the Lower Yangtze and Coastal Fujian

Jessie B. Ramey

Year:
  • 2011
  • 2025
Chatham University
The Struggle is the Victory: Kipp Dawson and Women’s Radical Collaboration in U.S. Social Movements Since the 1950s

China Sajadian

Year:
  • 2021
  • 2025
Vassar College
Debt and Refuge: Syrian Farmworkers and the Politics of Displacement in Lebanon

Michael A. Schoeppner

Year:
  • 2011
  • 2025
University of Maine Farmington
Living Illegally: Free Black Migrants, Border Controls, and Belonging in the Early United States