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.

Padma 'tsho

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Program in China Studies Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants
Southwest University for Nationalities
Lotsawa Workshop: Celebrating Buddhist Women’s Voices in the Tibetan Tradition

Daniel Aaron

Year:
  • 1941
  • 1968
Program:
  • Scholar’s Award
  • ACLS Grants-In-Aid
Smith College
The Impact of the Civil War on American Writers

Hans Aarsleff

Year:
  • 1964
  • 1972
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Princeton University
An edition of Leibniz' "Epistolaris de historia etymologica dissertatio"

Albert Abarbarel

Year:
  • 1943
Program:
  • Intensive Language Program

Arash Abazari

Year:
  • 2015
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Johns Hopkins University
Hegel’s Logic of Essence as the Ontology of Power in Capitalism

Abba Andrew Abba

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
Federal University Lokoja
Biafra’s Self-Canonization: Subverting Postcolonial Myths in Selected Nigeria-Biafra War Novels and Memoirs

Carolyn Abbate

Year:
  • 1987
Program:
  • ACLS Grants-In-Aid
Princeton University
The Genesis of Wagner's narratives

Franky Abbott

Year:
  • 2013
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows
Digital Public Library of America
Appointed as Project Manager, Digital Public Library of America

Kenneth M. Abbott

Year:
  • 1962
Program:
  • ACLS Grants-In-Aid
The Ohio State University
Critical Text of St. Jerome's Vitae Patrum

Arthur Abbott

Year:
  • 1943
Program:
  • Intensive Language Program

Rawi Eugene Abdelal

Year:
  • 1997
Program:
  • Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies
Cornell University
Economic nationalism after empire: the reconstitution of political economy in post-Habsburg East Europe and post-Soviet Eurasia

Rafatu Abdulhamid

Year:
  • 2012
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of Abuja
Impacts of Shari'ah on the Life of Muslim Women of Sokoto and Zamfara States, Nigeria

Ralia Maijama'a Abdullahi

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
Feminism, Female Sexuality and Personal Choice: Subverting Patriarchy in Northern Nigerian Women's Writing

Mariam Adepeju Abdulraheem-Mustapha

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Dissertation Fellowships
University of Ilorin
Juvenile Justice Administration in Nigeria and the Regulatory Framework on the Rights of the Child

Richard O. Abel

Year:
  • 1985
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Drake University
Alternative practices: French Cinema, 1908-1929

Celia Abele

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Columbia University
Collecting Knowledge, Writing the World: An Enlightenment Project?

Natalie Abell

Year:
  • 2018
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Makers, Maritime Networks, and Markets in the Bronze Age Cyclades, Greece

Anna Maria Abernathy

Year:
  • 1953
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
Radcliffe College

Dima Abi Saab

Year:
  • 2024
Program:
  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
Appointed as Research and Organizing Manager, Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network

Eliza K. Ablovatski

Year:
  • 1995
  • 1999
Program:
  • East European Studies Program Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study
  • Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies
Columbia University
Cleansing the "Red Nest": urban counterrevolution and White Terror in Munich and Budapest, 1919-1921

Rachel Ablow

Year:
  • 2012
Program:
  • ACLS Fellowship Program
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Speaking Pain in Victorian Literature and Culture

Zamira Abman

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

Romanus Agianpuye Aboh

Year:
  • 2014
Program:
  • African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of Uyo
Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity Construction in Selected Nigerian Novels

William E. Abraham

Year:
  • 1979
Program:
  • ACLS Grants-In-Aid
University of California, Santa Cruz
Leibnez' philosophy of being