ACLS Fellowship Program

Zamira Abman

Year:
  • 2024
San Diego State University
The Inevitable Conflict: The Soviet Delimitation of Central Asia, a Case Study of Northern Tajikistan

Mal Ahern

Year:
  • 2023
University of Washington
Factory Forms: Making Copies in the Age of Automation

Keitlyn Alcantara

Year:
  • 2023
Indiana University Bloomington
Recipes of Resistance: An Archaeology of the Past and Present

Adey Almohsen

Year:
  • 2024
Georgetown University
Minds in Exile: An Intellectual History of Palestinians 1945–70

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

Corinne Bayerl

Year:
  • 2023
University of Oregon
The Stage on Trial: Transnational Opposition Against the Theatre in Early Modern Europe

Tagimamao Melanie Puka Bean

Year:
  • 2024
University of Utah
Home beyond the Reef: Mapping Tokelau Imaginaries through Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Oahu, Hawai'i

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Year:
  • 2019
  • 2023
University of Southern California
Returning the Temple: Recovering and Repatriating Sikkimese Buddhism from Colonial Structures

Alisa Bierria

Year:
  • 2022
  • 2024
University of California, Los Angeles
Inconceivable Agency: Race, Gender Violence, and the Carceral Imagination

Roya Biggie

Year:
  • 2023
Knox College
Sympathetic Ecologies in Early Modern English Tragedies
ACLS Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Fellow

Tria Blu Wakpa

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

Brian E. Bond

Year:
  • 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Singing Islam: Sufi Music and Socio-religious Change on India’s Western Border
ACLS Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellow

Simone Browne

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

Hilary Buxton

Year:
  • 2023
Kenyon College
Disabled Empire: Decolonizing Care and the First World War in Imperial Britain

Kendra Calhoun

Year:
  • 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
#BlackPeopleBeLike: Discursive constructions of contemporary race, culture, and African American identity on TikTok

Tristan Call

Year:
  • 2023
Independent Scholar
Migration and Captive Labor in the Pandemic South

Zachary Caple

Year:
  • 2023
Aarhus University
The Human Asteroid Strikes Florida: The Mining Landscapes and Anthrobiogeochemistry of Phosphorus

Sarah Aurelia Carson

Year:
  • 2023
Dartmouth College
Weathering Prediction: Forecasts, Nature, and Political Power in Modern India

Bobby Cervantes

Year:
  • 2021
  • 2024
Harvard University
Las Colonias: An American History
ACLS Oscar Handlin Fellow

Melanie Chambliss

Year:
  • 2023
  • 2024
University of Rochester
Remaking the World of Arturo Schomburg

Sandy F. Chang

Year:
  • 2019
  • 2023
University of Florida
Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration to British Malaya, 1877-1940
ACLS Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellow

Jerome Clark

Year:
  • 2023
Arizona State University West
Bundling: A Diné Theory and Practice of Storying and Future-Making

Yannick Coenders

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

Mali Collins

Year:
  • 2023
American University
Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Contemporary Black Feminist Imagination

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

José A. de la Garza Valenzuela

Year:
  • 2023
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Nushelle de Silva

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

Douglas de Toledo Piza

Year:
  • 2024
Lafayette College
Beyond Informality: How Chinese Migrants Transformed a Border Economy

Nicholas Carby Denning

Year:
  • 2023
Bryn Mawr College
Ecuadorian Visions of Post-Oil Futurity

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

Yuri W. Doolan

Year:
  • 2023
Brandeis University
America’s Comfort Women: Legacies of Military Prostitution in Cold War Asia and the Pacific

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

Nisrin Elamin

Year:
  • 2024
University of Toronto
Stratified Enclosures: Land, Capital and Empire-making in Central Sudan

Guadalupe Escobar

Year:
  • 2023
University of Nevada, Reno
Decolonial Witnessing: The Post-Cold War Testimonio of Human Rights

Ariel C. Evans

Year:
  • 2024
University of Texas at Austin
Pussy Porn and Other Arguments: Feminist Photographies in American Art, 1979-1987

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

Robert Franco

Year:
  • 2024
Kenyon College
Revolution in the Sheets: Sexuality and Tolerance in the Mexican Left

Carrie R. Freshour

Year:
  • 2024
Georgia State University
Making Life Work: Racial Capitalism, Black Families, and the Poultry Capital of the World

Gabriella Friedman

Year:
  • 2024
Skidmore College
Speculative Historical Radicalism: Black and Indigenous Practices of Refusal

Karma Frierson

Year:
  • 2023
Washington University in St. Louis
Yes, in Part: Expectations of Blackness in Multicultural Mexico
ACLS/Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America

Hannah Clare Frydman

Year:
  • 2023
University of Washington
Between the Sheets: Classified Advertising, Sexuality, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France
ACLS Morton N. Cohen and Richard N. Swift Fellowship Fund

Christine Garnier

Year:
  • 2024
University of Southern California
The American Silverscape: Art, Land, and Extraction, 1848-1905

Zoltán Glück

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

Katherine A. Godfrey

Year:
  • 2024
Pennsylvania State University
Matrilineal Routes: Indigenous Kinship Networks, Gender, and Mobility in Early Modern Colombia