Advocacy
ACLS Board Member Michèle Lamont Shares Responses to the Administration’s Attacks on the Humanities
In an April 21, 2025 article in Salon, ACLS Board Member Michèle Lamont and Daniel B. Cornfield write about action and advocacy efforts across the country in response to the administration’s attacks on the humanities and arts, including cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). They highlight the joint statement on cuts to the NEH by ACLS, the Council of Graduate Schools, and The Phi Beta Kappa Society, as well as ACLS President Joy Connolly’s April 9 Advocacy in Action post.
The administration’s attack on the federally funded humanities and arts infrastructure has galvanized a resistance movement in local communities throughout the nation, in that swath of land running from deep red rural America to deep blue urban America.
Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. Cornfield is Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.
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