The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the ACLS Fellowships.
The ACLS Fellowship Program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond the awardees’ fields. For 2023, the program will award more than $3.8 million in research support to 60 scholars selected through a multi-stage peer review from a pool of nearly 1,200 applicants.
The 2023 fellows represent a range of higher education institutions, including research universities, liberal arts colleges, regional comprehensive universities, and a tribal community college. Their projects investigate diverse aspects of human culture and society from around the world: a sociological investigation of water and biodiversity crises in California; an exploration of the political connections between Black liberation struggles in the United States and anticolonial movements in Korea; a study of the Quechua Huarochiri manuscript that illuminates the complex dynamics of translating Indigenous language texts; and a nuanced history of local responses to the Atlantic slave trade and European colonization in the West African community of Peki that draws on collaborative archaeology, archival sources, and oral traditions.