ACLS News

• 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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• DEI and Anti-Racism Resources from ACLS Member Societies

  09/01/2020

  ACLS Member Societies offer suggestions of key articles, books, or blogs that they recommend highly about diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial/social justice as they pertain to their particular fields in the humanities or social sciences.

  
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• The American Council of Learned Societies Awards 45 Emerging Voices Fellowships

  08/21/2020

  New fellowship program supports new and recent PhDs in challenging academic job market

  
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• Joint Statement: COVID-19 and the Key Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States

  08/13/2020

  I am pleased to share an important statement on behalf of the humanities and social sciences in institutions of American higher education that I am glad to have helped develop.

   

  
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• Joy Connolly on What’s Needed to Support Black People and Other Marginalized Groups at Research Universities Now

  08/05/2020

  ACLS President Joy Connolly offers six concrete actions that can be taken at the departmental level right now to improve the experience of Black people and other marginalized groups in academia.

  
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• ACLS Celebrates the Latest Book Releases by Our Fellows

  08/05/2020

  ACLS is pleased to share news of the following list represents books released in 2020 by ACLS fellows, all of which developed from ACLS supported research. These publications reflect an incredible range of topics and areas of study that comprise humanistic scholarship, from art and mass incarceration to Chinese internet culture and much more. 

  
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• A Message from ACLS President Joy Connolly

  08/04/2020

  I am very much a strategic optimist. This phrase may be well-worn these days, but to me it speaks to making bold, creative moves to tackle urgent needs, with an eye toward building a better future.

  This is exactly what ACLS is being called to do in this moment. 

  
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