ACLS Celebrates 2023 Book Publications by Our Fellows

As the year wraps up, ACLS is pleased to share a select list of books released in 2023 by ACLS fellows. These publications, which represent just a sample of the distinguished works authored by past and current awardees, represent an incredible range of humanistic scholarship and fields, including an intellectual history of the Haitian revolution; the untold story of Julia Chin, the enslaved wife of US Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson; and a National Book Award-winning book of poetry about the culture of Guåhan (Guam) and the Indigenous Chamoru people.

• A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924 by Kaylee Alexander F’22 (Routledge)
• Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margot Canaday F’16 (Princeton University Press)
• Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene L. Daut F’19 (University of North Carolina Press)
• Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’ by Elizabeth H. DeYoung F’19 (Oxford University Press)
• The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Wanda Little Fenimore F’19 (University Press of Mississippi)
• The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations by Mark Letteney F’22 (Cambridge University Press)
• The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers F’17 (The University of North Carolina Press)
• Bettering their foods: Peasant production, nutrition and the state in Malawi, 1859–2005 by Bryson Gwiyani Nkhoma F’21 (NISC African Humanities Series)
• from unincorporated territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez F’20 (Omnidawn Publishing)
• suddenly we by Evie Shockley F’07 (Wesleyan University Press)
• Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra F’13, F’19 (W.W. Norton)