The sixth annual Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows seminar, held September 5-7, 2019, in Philadelphia, brought more fellows and alumni together than ever before!
ACLS congratulates University of Michigan, Ann Arbor philosopher Elizabeth Anderson and University of Pennsylvania classicist Emily Wilson on being named two of this year’s MacArthur Fellows.
The event brought together leaders in the public humanities with ACLS’s first cohort of Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellows for dynamic conversations on the evolving landscape of public humanities research.
Director of Fellowship Programs Matthew Goldfeder will depart ACLS September 30 to pursue new endeavors.
Deadlines vary by program, with the first falling on September 25, 2019.
The awards provide two-year postdoctoral fellowships designed to support departmental efforts to evolve with today’s students and curricular needs.
Now in its sixth year, the program awarded over $1.5 million to scholars based in North America, Asia, Europe, and Eurasia.
The 15 Project Development Grant recipients each receive $5,000 in seed funding to help advance their research projects.
The fellowships place recent humanities PhDs in two-year, full-time positions with top nonprofits and government agencies.
Thirty-Nine scholars embark on work in China Studies supported by over $750,000 in awards from ACLS
