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

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

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

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

Mali Collins

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

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

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

Yuri W. Doolan

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

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

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

Katherine A. Godfrey

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

Linda R. Gosner

Year:
  • 2015
  • 2023
Texas Tech University
Mining Matters: Industry, Community, and Empire in Roman Iberia
ACLS Barrington Foundation Centennial Fellow

Justin Lee Haruyama

Year:
  • 2024
University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
Reconfiguring Chinese-Zambian Encounters: Language, Religion, and the Limits of “Soft Power”
ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Fellow

Eric J. Harvey

Year:
  • 2021
  • 2023
Independent Scholar
Blindness Lived and Imagined in the Ancient Middle East

Rebecca H. Hogue

Year:
  • 2019
  • 2023
Harvard University
Nuclear Archipelagos: Radiation Empires and Indigenous Resistance in the Pacific

Sam Holley-Kline

Year:
  • 2023
University of Maryland, College Park
A Labor History of Mexican Archaeology

Mai-Linh K. Hong

Year:
  • 2023
University of California, Merced
Perilous Telling: Story in the Shadow of the Refugee Regime

Junting Huang

Year:
  • 2020
  • 2024
Harvard University
The Noise Decade: Acoustic Entanglement across the Taiwan Strait
ACLS Pauline Yu Fellow

Jang Wook Huh

Year:
  • 2013
  • 2023
University of Washington
"Afro-Korean" Encounters: The Literary Intersections of Black Liberation Struggles in the US and Anticolonial Movements in Korea, 1910-1953

Bebel R. Ibarra

Year:
  • 2023
Tulane University
Empowering Voices of the Dead: The Role of Descendant Communities Decolonizing the Interpretation of Archaeological Data on Mortuary Practices in Peru

Tory Jeffay

Year:
  • 2024
Dartmouth College
Contested Vision: Race and the Limits of Visual Evidence

Jovonna Jones

Year:
  • 2024
Boston College
The Last Thanksgiving at West Rutland Square

Hyeok Hweon Kang

Year:
  • 2019
  • 2023
Washington University in St. Louis
Artisanal Heart: The Vernacular Engineers of Early Modern Korea

Mary Kate Kelly

Year:
  • 2024
Mount Royal University
Maya History in 3D

Mary Kate Kelly

Year:
  • 2024
Mount Royal University
Maya History in 3D

Charlotte Kiechel

Year:
  • 2024
Williams College
The Politics of Comparison: Holocaust Memory, the European Left, and Visions of Third World Solidarity

Jinsook Kim

Year:
  • 2024
Emory University
Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Activism in South Korea