American Council of Learned Societies awards research fellowships

Faculty and graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have won 2014 fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support their research.

ACLS, based in New York City, is a private, nonprofit federation of 72 national scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences.

ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences. In 2013-14, ACLS made awards totaling over $15 million to nearly 300 scholars selected from more than 3,000 applications.

College faculty and their projects include:

  • Michelle T. King/ ACLS Programs in China Studies, Assistant Professor, History. “The Pei Mei Project: History, Gender and Memory Through the Pages of a Chinese Cookbook.”
  • Anne MacNeil / ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship, Associate Professor, Music. “Mapping Secrets.”
  • Cynthia Radding/ ACLS Fellowship Program, Distinguished Professor, History. “Bountiful Deserts and Imperial Shadows. Seeds of Knowledge and Corridors of Migration in Northern New Spain.”

College graduate students and their projects include:

  • Jeffrey A. Erbig Jr. / Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Doctoral Candidate, History. “Where Nomads and Mapmakers Meet: Rethinking Borderlands from the Río de la Plata, 1700-1805.”
  • Craig D. Warmke/ Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy. “Numbers and Necessity.”

For more on all the 2014 ACLS fellowship recipients, visit http://www.acls.org/fellows/new.