ACLS News

• Lizabeth A. Cohen F'93 in NY Times “Opinion”

  05/07/2020

  American Studies professor on what she sees as the breakdown of New Deal Federalism in the wake of COVID-19.

  
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• Joy Connolly’s essay for Spring 2020 edition of Academe

  05/07/2020

  ACLS President Joy Connolly contributed an essay to the Spring 2020 edition of Academe on the important historical contributions and continuing need for the humanities in higher education and in sustaining a healthy societal culture.

  
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• ACLS President Joy Connolly On Rethinking the Tenure Clock

  05/07/2020

  ACLS President Joy Connolly On Rethinking the Tenure Clock and Requirements in Inside Higher Ed

  
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• ACLS Announces Strategic Priorities for 2020-2024

  05/07/2020

  Though the fog of global pandemic has made speculation more dicult than ever, we are peering into the future and considering how best to strengthen the fields whose contributions to human knowledge and communication are needed as never before.

  
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• A Message from ACLS President Joy Connolly

  05/06/2020

  Spring has always been a time of renewal, symbolic and real, with colorful flowers in bloom and birdsong swelling from every branch, even in Manhattan. While the COVID-19 pandemic has limited our ability to spend time outside and with friends, the changes it has mandated have meant opportunities to explore new ideas and directions for the future.

  
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• An Update from ACLS President Joy Connolly

  04/29/2020

  I hope this message finds you all well and continuing to manage all the changes imposed by the pandemic. This week ACLS has been focused on our Annual Meeting, which will take place Friday, May 1. Like many of you, we are adapting long held practices to make this important event run smoothly in its new virtual incarnation.

  
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• The American Council of Learned Societies Announces the 2020 Scholars and Society Fellows

  04/23/2020

  Awards honor humanities faculty and community-based organizations collaborating on innovative research projects

  
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• An Update from ACLS President Joy Connolly

  04/22/2020

  Let me thank you for the warm messages of encouragement we’ve received in recent weeks. Our team has had to learn new ways to do our work, which hasn’t always been easy. But we’ve discovered a few tricks to lift our spirits – using Zoom backgrounds representing the places we’d most like to be, for instance (revealing a surprising number of New Zealand fans) – and your notes help enormously. 

  
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• The American Council of Learned Societies Announces Recipients of the 2020 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

  04/16/2020

  Awards support the next generation of historians in American art with fellowships for doctoral students.

  
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• An Update from ACLS President Joy Connolly

  04/16/2020

  So much of the news coverage surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic rightly highlights the plights of the sick and those most vulnerable to falling ill, as well as those on the front lines – small business owners, grocery store and delivery workers, and, of course, our courageous first responders in the health field. Our vision at ACLS must encompass these experiences and go deeper, as we act on our obligations to serve our community, recognizing that the actions we take now can significantly shape the future of our work and humanistic scholarship more broadly.

  
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