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Improving the Human Experience
The American Council of Learned Societies encourages and enables scholarship to help us understand the human experience — and improve it.
Helping to find new perspectives in history and culture
ACLS supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors in the past, present, and future, with a view toward improving human experience.
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Adam Cilli
University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
Arathi Menon
Hamilton College
Aruna Gamage
SOAS, University of London
Benedicta Lomotey
University of Ghana
Brandon Scott
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian Bond
University of California, Berkeley
Corey Johnson
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Daniel Wojahn
University of Oxford
An Jiang
Dendup Chophel
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Ebenezer Concepcion
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Ehlimana Memisevic
University of Sarajevo
Yidong Gong
New College of Florida
Emil Kerenji
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Eric Harvey
Independent Scholar
Guadalupe Escobar
University of Nevada, Reno
Jerome Clark
Arizona State University West
Jacqueline Stewart
University of Chicago
Magdalena Grabowska
The Polish Academy of Sciences
Jakeya Caruthers
Drexel University
Jane Landers
Vanderbilt University
Jesse Drian
University of Southern California
Jorge Marcone
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Jose J. Morales Benitez
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Godwin Onuoha
Mercer County Community College
Joshua Reason
University of Pennsylvania
Katrina Powell
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Kelly Carlton
Princeton University
Khadeeja Majoka
Columbia University
Yun-chen Lu
DePaul University
Kiara Childs
Data & Society
Guttorm Gundersen
Harvard University
Margaret Jacobs
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Margie Tang-Oxley
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mark Letteney
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mira Xenia Schwerda
University of Edinburgh
Osama Siddiqui
Providence College
Matthew West
George Mason University
Melanie Chambliss
Columbia College Chicago
Meshell Sturgis
University of Washington
Monica Styles
Howard University
Nicole Navarro
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Rachel Quist
University of Kansas
Rachelle Saruya
University of Toronto, Mississauga
Rae Kuruhara
University of California, Los Angeles
Sandy Chang
University of Florida
Sharon Kunde
Duke University
Sonja Gandert
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Terrance Wooten
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tina Grandinetti
PolicyLink
Toyin Ajose
University of Ibadan
Nils Martin
École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
Roya Biggie
Knox College
Airlee Ringgold Johnson
Washington College
Alfredo Escudero
Florida International University
Anthony Landers
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Ashley Duffey
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Aynur Kadir
University of British Columbia
Bebel Ibarra
Tulane University
Benjamin Nutor
Texas A&M University
Bianba Deji
University of Hong Kong
Danielle Davis
Florida State University
Francisco Chen-López
Spelman College
Gabrielle Cornish
University of Miami
Gokh Alshaif
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ha’åni San Nicolas
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hillary Langberg
Bard College
Irene Brisson
Louisiana State University
Ja Won Lee
California State University, East Bay
Kalzang Bhutia
University of Southern California
Karma Frierson
Washington University in St. Louis
Kristina Hook
Kennesaw State University
Larissa Juip
Michigan Technological University
Peter Szanto
Eötvös Loránd University
Petya Andreeva
Parsons School of Design
Phillippa Pitts
Boston University
Sam Holley-Kline
University of Maryland, College Park
Zachary Caple
Aarhus University
Keitlyn Alcantara
Indiana University Bloomington
Kim Williams-Pulfer
Independent Scholar
Rosa Ficek
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
Micah Mizukami
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Amber Reid
The Afiya Center
Gabriel Regalado
Brown University
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