Grants Support Faculty in Teaching-Intensive Roles to Advance
Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
NEW
YORK, May 10, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased
to announce the 2024 ACLS Project Development Grant recipients. The
$5,000 grants are designed to support
scholars in teaching-intensive faculty roles whose research is
poised to make important contributions to knowledge in the
humanities and interpretive social sciences.
"ACLS is committed to expanding
opportunities for faculty with significant teaching
responsibilities to pursue their research agendas."
"ACLS is committed to expanding opportunities for faculty with
significant teaching responsibilities to pursue their research
agendas," said John Paul Christy,
ACLS Senior Director of US Programs. "Project Development Grants
recognize exceptional scholarship while offering flexible support
to meet the specific needs of each awardee's project."
This year's 15 awardees represent a range of institutions and
fields of humanistic inquiry, including anthropology, ethnic
studies, history, languages and literature, musicology, philosophy,
religious studies, and sociology. This year's awardees are:
- Daniel Collette, Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Marquette
University, "Pascalian Metaphysics"
- Eve Eure, Assistant Professor,
English, City University of New York, Lehman
College, "Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of
Black Cherokee Belonging"
- Carles Ferrando Valero,
Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures, Bowling Green State University, "The Poetics of
Infrastructure: Literature and the Politics of Large Technological
Systems in Modern Spain"
- Matthew Lamb, Visiting
Professor, Philosophy, Washington and Lee
University, "On Ignorance, Moral Responsibility, and Blame:
The Significance of Our Non-Ideal Circumstances in The Digital
Age"
- Nathan E. Marvin, Assistant
Professor, History, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock, "Bodies for the Care of Souls: Slavery and the
Colonial Clergy in the French Empire, 1764-1848"
- Alexander McKinley, Adjunct
Faculty, Religious Studies, Lake Forest
College, "The Origin of Things"
- Oksana Nesterenko, Adjunct
Faculty, Humanities, Union County
College, "A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred Music in the Soviet
Union Before Its Fall"
- Saugher Nojan, Assistant Professor, Sociology &
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, San José State University,
"Racialized Hauntings: Afghan Americans Navigating Racialized
Religion and Belonging amidst the Forever War"
- Carolina Prado, Assistant
Professor, Latina/Latino Studies, San
Francisco State University, "Organizing for Environmental
Justice in the Borderlands: The Colectivo Salud y Justicia
Ambiental in Tijuana-San Diego"
- Sharmin Sadequee, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Social Sciences,
City University of New York,
Borough of Manhattan Community
College, "For Land and Justice: Ethnonationalism and the Role of
Regenerative Mosque for a Sustainable Future"
- Akshay Sarathi, Lecturer,
Anthropology, Texas A&M University,
"The African Silk Roads"
- Joshua Savala, Assistant
Professor, History, Rollins College,
"Callao, Peru, and the Black
Pacific"
- Julia R. Shatz, Assistant
Professor, History, California State
University, Fresno, "Global Welfare and the Politics of
Childhood in Palestine,
1914-1950"
- Kaitlin Staudt, Visiting
Assistant Professor, English, Union College
(NY), "The Empire that Can't Write Back: Ottoman-Turkish
Literature and the Question of Postcoloniality"
- Yosa Lucia Vidal, Instructor, Romance Languages, University of Oregon, "Graphic Violence: the
Creation of a Visual Archive in the Southern Cone"
Learn more about this year's grantees and their projects.
Each grantee receives $5,000,
which can cover the costs of any activity that can advance their
research, including travel to the field or collections, learned
society membership and conference attendance, course buyout or
summer salary, child- or eldercare, or editorial or research
assistance.
Project Development Grants are competitive and awarded as a
component of the ACLS Fellowship Program. The program is funded by
the ACLS endowment, to which many individuals and institutions have
contributed, including the Mellon Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Arcadia Charitable Trust, the
ACLS Research University Consortium, the ACLS Associate member
network, former fellows, and friends.
Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies
(ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As
the leading representative of American scholarship in the
humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core
principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member
organizations, ACLS utilizes its endowment and $37 million annual operating budget to expand the
forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our
commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS
collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to
strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all
aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices
in support of racial and social justice.
Media Contact
Anna Polovick Waggy, American
Council of Learned Societies, 6468307661, awaggy@acls.org,
https://www.acls.org/
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