ACLS Fellows in the News: March 2024

Career Moves

• Mariam Banahi F’20 has joined the University of Minnesota Graduate School as Assistant Director (AD) for Postdoctoral Initiatives, a newly created position. Banahi will focus on creating a postdoctoral training environment by providing advocacy and professional development opportunities for postdoctoral scholars at the university. 
• The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College has appointed ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow Solveig C. Nelson F’22 as its new Curator of Photography and New Media.

Grants and Awards

• Haverford College received a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to activate the humanities across the curriculum, led by principal investigator Brook Danielle Lillehaugen G’19, F’15.
• Ife Williams F’22, Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow, received a $150,000 National Endowment of the Humanities grant to create curricular materials on the resistance of Africans and African descendants to segregation & colonialism in the late 20th century.
• Several ACLS fellows were recognized at the 2024 College Art Association (CAA) Conference. S. Hollis Clayson F’90 was recognized as the Distinguished Scholar, Daniel Michael Zolli F’19 was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, and  Zoe Weldon-Yochim F’22 was named a Professional Development Fellow.

Interviews and Op-Eds

• Christine Adams F’20 is featured on the Royal Studies Podcast in a roundtable discussion on royal mistresses and the important part they played in the French and English monarchies.
• Emily Baum F’15 is featured in the China File article, “New Security Measures Curtailing the Study of China Alarm Educators.” The article also references the ACLS report China Studies in an Uncertain Age, co-written by Baum and Yingyi Ma.
• In a Best Colleges article, Corinne Kentor F’23, ACLS Leading Edge Fellow with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, explains how recent FAFSA issues have impacted immigrant and mixed-status families.
• In American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History, Sara Kozameh F’22 and Celso Thomas Castilho ask “Are Academic Job Ads Conflating Latino and Latin American History?”
• In an interview with The Nation Nigeria, Olarotimi Daniel Ogungbemi F’18 explains why environmental literacy and ecological stewardship are globally relevant.