ACLS News

ACLS has opened a search to fill one of the five program positions at the Council. The newly appointed Program Officer will work from the Council’s New York offices on a variety of projects.

The Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) joins ACLS as its 70th member society. The RSA was admitted at the 2008 ACLS Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh.

The Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies announced today the reappointment of Dr. Pauline Yu as President of the Council for another five years beginning July 1, 2008.

Charles B. Lowry to succeed Duane Webster as Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries, an ACLS Affiliate.

Susan Westerberg Prager, former dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will succeed Carl Monk as Executive Director of Association of American Law Schools.

Elizabeth Helsinger F’97 is spending 2007-08 as the first Meyer H. Abrams Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

The March 2008 issue of the Journal of American History features an award-winning article by Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow Andrew Kahrl F’07.

The 2007 Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History was awarded to The Transformation of a Religious Landscape: Medieval Southern Italy, 850-1150 by Valerie Ramseyer F'06.

Shadi Bartsch F'99 is spending 2007-08 studying “Philosophy and the Figural in Antiquity" with support from the Guggenheim Foundation.

ACLS announces the receipt of nearly $5.1 million in a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide more fellowships and increase stipends for junior faculty awardees in the ACLS Fellowship Program.

On February 21, 2008, ACLS President Pauline Yu was named Vice Chair of Harvard University's Board of Overseers.

We are pleased to present the new website of the American Council of Learned Societies. We hope you will explore the site's expanded content, functionality, and finding aids.

The Modern Language Association of America awarded the forty-fourth annual William Riley Parker Prize for an Outstanding Article Published in PMLA to ACLS President Pauline Yu.

In January 2008, PBS debuted "The Jewish Americans," a six-hour documentary following 350 years of Jewish-American history. Beth S. Wenger F'06 wrote the companion volume to this series.

The 2007 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture was delivered by Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, on May 11 during the ACLS Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Society for Ethnomusicology has announced the appointment of Stephen Stuempfle as the first full-time Executive Director for SEM.

The American Council of Learned Societies mourns the passing of Professor John A. Garraty, who died in Sag Harbor, New York on December 20th at the age of 87.

In 2007, the American Musicological Society, an ACLS constituent society, presented the Lewis Lockwood Award to Susan Boynton F’07 for her work Shaping a Monastic Identity Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (Cornell University Press, 2006).

In December 2007, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art Dorothy Moss F'06, Jennifer Greenhill F'06, and Jason LaFountain F'07 organized a two-day colloquium titled “Practicing American Art History” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

In 2006, the Social Science History Association presented its President’s Book Award to The Averaged American Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Harvard University Press, 2007) by Sarah E. Igo F’04.

In 2006, the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture awarded Hilaire Kallendorf F’04 the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, which recognizes an individual scholar “who has not yet reached his or her full potential, but whose work in the humanities shows extraordinary...

Kristen Ghodsee F’05 continues research and publication on gender issues in the Muslim world, the subject of her 2005 ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in East European Studies.

The American Council of Learned Societies mourns the passing of its president emeritus Frederick Henry Burkhardt, who died in Bennington, Vermont on September 23rd at the age of 95.