American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

Tracy Fessenden G'20 writes about how Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" remains a searing testament to injustice—and of faithful solidarity with suffering: https://lnkd.in/eqDfG-kU

ACLS is now accepting nominations from publishers for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award! In this competition, the $50,000 prizes will be awarded to one open access monograph in each of four categories: environmental humanities, history, literary studies, and multimodal (in any humanistic discipline). Learn more and submit by September 10, 2024: https://bit.ly/3WoD0y5

Watch David Sterling Brown F’21 discuss his fellowship experience and his book "Shakespeare’s White Others" (Cambridge University Press ) in a new video interview: https://bit.ly/46bVDsj Brown is an associate professor of English at Trinity College-Hartford and a 2021 Mellon Foundation / ACLS Scholars and Society Fellow who partnered with The Racial Imaginary Institute.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe! In partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, ACLS will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria June 5-20, 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ej4i9XDd

ACLS celebrates books published by fellows and grantees in 2024 on a wide variety of topics in the humanities and interpretive social sciences: https://bit.ly/4cVS1x0

ACLS Fellowships of up to $60K are open to all career stages in all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Apply by Sept. 25, 9PM EDT. https://bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

In our Community Message for July, ACLS Program Officer Alison Chang shares updates on our research project with Getty on the evolving needs of the field of art history. https://bit.ly/4bFk2aK

Looking for resources, events, and programs related to PhD career diversity? Check out resources from ACLS scholarly societies: https://bit.ly/45qHwPp

Congratulations to Leading Edge Fellow Ashley Cheyemi McNeil F’21 on being awarded the 2024 Kaplan Public Humanities Award from Northwestern University! Ashley is the Director of Education and Research at Full Spectrum Features, an arts non-profit that works to uplift the work of women, BIPOC, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ filmmakers. Learn more about the award: https://bit.ly/4eRAffO

Florida historian Marvin Dunn and his “Teach the Truth” tours are featured in the Miami Herald. He has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the tours, which focus on sites of racial violence, from Florida to other Southern states. https://bit.ly/3L82Ksj