ACLS News

• ACLS Welcomes Jovonne Bickerstaff as Program Officer for Higher Education Initiatives

  09/18/2020

  New Role Will Focus on Strengthening the Learned Societies and the Academy of the Future,
  Including Strategies to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

  
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• ACLS Seeking Project Descriptions for the North American World Humanities Report

  09/16/2020

  ACLS is responsible for the North American chapter of the World Humanities Report (WHR), which is being coordinated by The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the International Council of Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH) in collaboration with UNESCO. Learn more on how you can participate.

  
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• National Hispanic Heritage Month Resource List

  09/14/2020

  ACLS asked its global community of fellows to share scholarly work being produced on Hispanic/Latino experiences and the diaspora.

  
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• ACLS Names 2020 Leading Edge Fellows to Advance COVID-19 Community Initiatives

  09/09/2020

  Luce Foundation-funded program partners early-career art history and visual culture scholars with nonprofit organizations for year-long public programs

  
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• A Discussion on Race and Racism

  09/09/2020

  Please join us for an afternoon discussion moderated by Joy Connolly, President of the American Council of Learned Societies, and Alondra Nelson, President of Social Science Research Council, featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, and Bianca Williams, Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

  
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• ACLS Announces the 2020 African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellows

  09/09/2020

  $880,000 Awarded to Outstanding Early Career Scholars at Universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda for Research and Writing
   

  
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• Fellows Reflect On Their Experiences as First-Generation Scholars

  09/07/2020

  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion fellows reflect on their current work and their unique journeys as first-generation students.

  
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• The King Family Supports ACLS Fellowship to Focus on Ancient American Art and Culture

  09/02/2020

  With the support of the King family, the ACLS H. and T. King Fellowship in Ancient American Art and Culture was established to advance research in the art and architecture of pre-contact societies in the Americas.

  
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• Linda K. Kerber to Deliver the 2020 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture

  09/02/2020

  Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History Emerita, Lecturer in Law at The University of Iowa.
   

  
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• A Time to Listen and a Time to Speak Out

  09/01/2020

  If the turbulence of 2020 has proven anything, it is the vital importance of humanistic study. Whether we are deciding whom to honor in our public spaces, considering how to recompense for human suffering, or weighing facts against conspiracy theory, we need humanistic skills and perspectives.  
  
  This year is a time for reflection and action. While we are proud of so much ACLS has achieved over the past century, we like other institutions are also heeding the call for healthy self-examination. We are committed to ensuring that our fellowship programs, advocacy, and policy work grow out of principles of equity and inclusive excellence as well as our belief in the essential value of humanistic scholarship. 

  
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