Fellows and Grantees
Over the past century, more than 12,000 scholars have been awarded ACLS fellowships and grants, which recognize excellence in research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The peer-review process used to select awardees enables distinguished scholars to reach a broad consensus on standards of excellence in humanistic research.
Search for current and past fellows and grantees below.

Jennifer L. Anderson
Year:
- 2020
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Jupiter Hammon’s Long Island: Freedom, Community, and the Roots of Inequality

Zara Anishanslin
Year:
- 2021
University of Delaware
London Patriots: Transatlantic Politics, Material Culture, and the American Revolution

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Year:
- 2007
- 2008
- 2019
Brandeis University
Designing Sustainable and Equitable Streets: A Scholarly and Governmental Collaboration

David S. Barnes
Year:
- 2019
University of Pennsylvania
“Our Misery Was Great”: Narratives of Suffering and Resilience as Windows on Immigrant Health in the United States, Past and Present

Rachel Bloom-Pojar
Year:
- 2020
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Navigating Rhetorics of Reproductive Justice and Language Access with Promotores de Salud

Deborah A. Boehm
Year:
- 2013
- 2019
University of Nevada, Reno
A Study of Unseen Spaces: US Immigration Detention in the Twenty-first Century

David Sterling Brown
Year:
- 2021
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Minding Whiteness: The Racial Imaginaries of Our Time

Sherwin Keith Bryant
Year:
- 2021
Northwestern University
Just Beyond the River: The African American Heritage Foundation of Southeastern North Carolina and the Cedar Hill Heritage Park, A Black Public Humanities Initiative

Elizabeth Alice Clement
Year:
- 2019
University of Utah
HIV/AIDS in Utah: Oral History, Archives, and Stigma

Eric Corbett
Year:
- 2021
New York University
Democratizing AI: Towards Robust Engagement in Public Sector AI Use

Leigh Anne Duck
Year:
- 2020
University of Mississippi
On Location in Hollywood South: An Aspirational State in Uncertain Times

Kevin A. Escudero
Year:
- 2020
Brown University
Education for Community Empowerment: Curriculum Development for the Guam Commission on Decolonization’s Three Status Options

Alexander L. Fattal
Year:
- 2021
University of California, San Diego
Image, Code, Context: The AjA Project and Countersurveillance Activism in City Heights, San Diego

Mary C. Foltz
Year:
- 2021
Lehigh University
Expanding and Activating LGBTQ Community Archives in Small Urban Centers

Kimberly A. Gauderman
Year:
- 2019
University of New Mexico
Practicing Asylum: History and Civic Engagement (A Handbook for Academic Expert Witnesses on Latin American Gender, Sexual, and Gang-based Violence, LGBTQ Status, and Mother/Child Asylum Cases)

Catherine Gudis
Year:
- 2019
University of California, Riverside
Skid Row, By Design: History, Community, and Activism in Downtown Los Angeles

Donal Harris
Year:
- 2020
University of Memphis
Citizens of Cossitt: The Legacies and Futures of Public Libraries in Memphis, Tenn.

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Year:
- 2020
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Immigrant Justice Lab and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center

Matthew Johnson
Year:
- 2020
Texas Tech University
Incarceration U: The Rise, Consequences, and Future of University Police Forces in Philadelphia

Roshanak Kheshti
Year:
- 2020
University of California, San Diego
The Harlem Resonance: Sound, Blackness and Ethnography at the William Grant Still Arts Center