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ACLS Fellows and Grantees in the News: January 2024
- In a Chicago Tribune op-ed, Antoinette Burton F’93 writes “The humanities is not at a crossroads, but is flourishing beyond traditional classrooms.”
- Anthea Butler F’18 is featured in the trailer for Rob Reiner’s upcoming documentary God & Country.
- Joy Castro G’19 was interviewed for a recent episode of the Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast on Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes.
- ACLS Leading Edge Fellow Yotala Oszkay Febres-Cordero F’22 co-authored a new Los Angeles Times opinion article.
- In a new Vanderbilt University video series produced by Jad Abumrad, ACLS Digital Justice Grantees Daniel Genkins G’22 and Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13 share how they use AI and computer science techniques to scan through thousands of historical documents to form the Slave Societies Digital Archive.
- Washington and Lee University has appointed Melissa R. Kerin F’14, F’08, F’07 as the next Roger Mudd Professor of Ethics and director of the university’s Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.
- Joseph Masco F’07 has been named the Samuel N. Harper Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the College at the University of Chicago.
- Santa Clara University unveiled a new interactive memorial at the de Saisset Museum honoring the Indigenous people who died at Mission Santa Clara. The project was awarded a 2022 ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grant, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Alison Turner F’22, ACLS Leading Edge Fellow with Operation Shoestring, coordinated a mini oral history project about community elders in Jackson, MS and their families’ unique holiday traditions.
- Congratulations to Preetha Mani F’15, Kelly Mee Rich F’15, Ndiaye Noemie F’16, Akshya Saxena F’15, and Susan Zieger F’06 on being awarded 2023 Modern Language Association (MLA) Publication Prizes.
