Fellows and Grantees

Over the past century, more than 12,000 scholars have been awarded ACLS fellowships and grants, which recognize excellence in research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The peer-review process used to select awardees enables distinguished scholars to reach a broad consensus on standards of excellence in humanistic research.

Search for current and past fellows and grantees below.

Judith Berman

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Victoria
Designing Tools for the Boas/Hunt 1897 Digital Edition: Extending the RavenSpace/Scalar Collaborative Publishing Platform to Support Critical Editions in Indigenous Studies

Stephen Berry

Year:
  • 2013
  • 2017
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Georgia
Big, Bad Data and the Birth of Death As We Know It: How Our Mortality Became Disciplined to Science, the State, and Actuarial Tables

Samantha Blickhan

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Adler Planetarium
Optimizing Crowdsourced Transcription using Handwritten Text Recognition

Alex Borucki

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of California, Irvine
Expansion of the Intra-American Slave Trade Database

Sheila A. Brennan

Year:
  • 2017
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
George Mason University
Sustaining and Extending the US Papers of the War Department Digital Edition

Bryan Carter

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Arizona
EthniCITY: Mapping Places of Belonging

Aaron Carter-Enyi

Year:
  • 2017
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Morehouse College
The Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt) with Video-EASE Toolbox (Encoding and Analysis of Sound and Embodiment)

Jesse Casana

Year:
  • 2008
  • 2016
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Dartmouth College
The CORONA Atlas Project: Expanding Access to Historic Satellite Imagery on Global Scale

Joy Castro

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
New Storytellers: The Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies, Developing Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity in the Next Generation of Digital Scholars

Pramit Chaudhuri

Year:
  • 2015
  • 2018
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Texas at Austin
Linking Literature, Bioinformatics, and Machine Learning through the Quantitative Criticism Lab

Kimberly Christen

Year:
  • 2009
  • 2017
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
  • PPI
Washington State University

Tanya Clement

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Texas at Austin
The AudiAnnotate Project

Matthew Connelly

Year:
  • 2018
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Columbia University
The Freedom of Information Archive

Kelley Conway

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Globalizing and Enhancing the Media History Digital Library

Constance Cortez

Year:
  • 2020
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
  • ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
La cultura cura: Digital Equity and Justice for Mexican American Art Since 1848

Richard Cox

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Expanding the Digital Library on American Slavery through Local, Community-Engaged Digital Humanities Research

Jonathan Crisman

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
University of Arizona
EthniCITY: Mapping Places of Belonging

Karen Mary Davalos

Year:
  • 2020
  • 2022
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
  • ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
La cultura cura: Digital Equity and Justice for Mexican American Art Since 1848

Bradley Dilger

Year:
  • 2019
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Purdue University
Expanding the Corpus and Repository of Writing: An Archive of Multilingual Writing in English

Daniel Domingues de Silva

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Rice University
Expansion of the Intra-American Slave Trade Database

Dan Edelstein

Year:
  • 2016
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Stanford University
Fibra: Toward a Humanistic Analysis of Social Networks

Candice Edrington

Year:
  • 2021
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
High Point University
Expanding a Necessary Space: Extending the Virtual Martin Luther King Project's Digital Scholarship, Pedagogy and Community Collaboration

Andy Everson

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Designing Tools for the Boas/Hunt 1897 Digital Edition: Extending the RavenSpace/Scalar Collaborative Publishing Platform to Support Critical Editions in Indigenous Studies

David Fiala

Year:
  • 2020
Program:
  • ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Université de Tours, France
Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass