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
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Jupiter Hammon’s Long Island: Freedom, Community, and the Roots of Inequality

Zara Anishanslin

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Delaware
London Patriots: Transatlantic Politics, Material Culture, and the American Revolution

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
Brandeis University

David S. Barnes

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
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
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Navigating Rhetorics of Reproductive Justice and Language Access with Promotores de Salud

Deborah A. Boehm

Year:
  • 2013
  • 2019
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Nevada, Reno

David Sterling Brown

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
Trinity College
Minding Whiteness: The Racial Imaginaries of Our Time

Sherwin Keith Bryant

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
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
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Utah
HIV/AIDS in Utah: Oral History, Archives, and Stigma

Ashley Coleman Taylor

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Texas at Austin
Atlanta As Black Queer Place

Eric Corbett

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
New York University
Democratizing AI: Towards Robust Engagement in Public Sector AI Use

Leigh Anne Duck

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Mississippi
On Location in Hollywood South: An Aspirational State in Uncertain Times

Kevin A. Escudero

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
Brown University
Education for Community Empowerment: Curriculum Development for the Guam Commission on Decolonization’s Three Status Options

Alexander L. Fattal

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of California, San Diego
Image, Code, Context: The AjA Project and Countersurveillance Activism in City Heights, San Diego

Helena Feder

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
East Carolina University
Apprehensions: Six Senses of the World

Mary C. Foltz

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
Lehigh University
Expanding and Activating LGBTQ Community Archives in Small Urban Centers

Kimberly A. Gauderman

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
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
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of California, Riverside
Skid Row, By Design: History, Community, and Activism in Downtown Los Angeles

Donal Harris

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Memphis
Citizens of Cossitt: The Legacies and Futures of Public Libraries in Memphis, Tenn.

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
Harvard University
Immigrant Justice Lab and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center

Matthew Johnson

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
Texas Tech University
Incarceration U: The Rise, Consequences, and Future of University Police Forces in Philadelphia

Ralina L. Joseph

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of Washington
Interrupting Privilege

Roshanak Kheshti

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of California, San Diego
The Harlem Resonance: Sound, Blackness and Ethnography at the William Grant Still Arts Center

Elisabeth Gabrielle Kuenzli

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowships
University of South Carolina
Jockeying Into Position: Race, Ethnicity, and the Rise of the Latino Jockey in the American South, XX-XXI Centuries