American Council of Learned Societies

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit scholarly organization that advances scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. This award to ACLS is for general operating support.

The American Council of Learned Societies “supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors in the past, present, and future, with a view toward improving human experience.”  ACLS has a membership of 79 scholarly associations and a network of more than 200 associate institutional members. 

This public panel, “The Reward Structures of Yesteryear,” is to feature public historian Monica Muñoz Martinez (2021), historian Natalia Molina (2020), archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis (2015), art historian Kellie Jones (2016), and the interdisciplinarian Peter Miller (1998), the dean of the Bard Graduate Center.  Each speaker is to talk about their career paths and how their practices fell outside of institutional norms and expectations.   

This $5,000 grant is to ensure this project conforms with our position on participant compensation.  

The American Council of Learned Societies “supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors in the past, present, and future, with a view toward improving human experience.”  ACLS has a membership of 79 scholarly associations and a network of more than 200 associate institutional members. 

 This public panel, “The Reward Structures of Yesteryear,” is to feature public historian Monica Muñoz Martinez (2021), historian Natalia Molina (2020), archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis (2015), art historian Kellie Jones (2016), and the interdisciplinarian Peter Miller (1998), the dean of the Bard Graduate Center.  Each speaker is to talk about their career paths and how their practices fell outside of institutional norms and expectations.   

 The exchange of ideas should offer illuminating evidence for the ways that current and future scholars are stymied by outdated expectations and offer direction for adaptations of academic reward structures

To support a fellowship program in the humanities (over three years).

To support the Working Group on Cuba, a joint project with the Social Sciences Research Council.