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The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

Award Details

  • $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, plus up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, development, and travel costs.
  • The award also includes a $2,000 stipend for external mentorship.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

  • Be a PhD student in a humanities or social science department in the United States. 1
  • Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
  • Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
  • As of September 2023 require at least two years remaining with their programs to complete the PhD degree.
  • have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

(1) The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program does not accept applications from students receiving professional or applied PhDs, terminal degrees that are not a PhD (such as an EdD or MFA), or PhDs outside of humanities and social science departments, including the following disciplines: business, clinical or counseling psychology, creative or performing arts, education, engineering, filmmaking, law, library and information sciences, life/physical sciences, public administration, public health or medicine, public policy, social work, or social welfare. If you are unsure whether your department or interdisciplinary program qualifies you for this fellowship program, please email  [email protected]  with a brief summary of your affiliation.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the PhD and is open to scholars pursuing humanistic research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or methodology. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2022.

Upper  $43,000 USD

Applicant must:

– be PhD candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States .

– have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation (i.e., obtained ABD status) by the application deadline.

– be no more than six years into the degree program at the time of application. This includes time spent earning an MA within that program. In special circumstances, an applicant who is in their seventh year may petition to have this eligibility requirement extended by one year.

– not currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship.

– have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

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American Council of Learned Societies Announces Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship Program

New Program Will Support Early Career Scholars Pursuing Innovative Approaches to Dissertation Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the launch of the  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships , a new program designed to support emerging scholars as they advance bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

“The energy, curiosity, and creativity of emerging scholars can make a dissertation project into scholarship that refreshes and helps transform our fields and disciplines,” said Joy Connolly, president of ACLS. “ACLS has long supported innovation in the scholarly humanities, including work that crosses traditional boundaries and opens new directions of inquiry. We are thrilled to partner with the Mellon Foundation to support graduate students and their advisors with this new initiative.” The program will seek projects that push the traditional approaches to dissertation research in new directions. The strongest applications will show evidence of thoughtful plans for engaging the sources, resources, scholars, and communities necessary to advance their projects. Fellows might design a year that incorporates intensive digital methods training, a short-term practicum with a think-tank or social justice organization to develop experience with applied methods, and/or site-based research involving community-engaged or collaborative approaches. Each awardee will receive a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, as well as access to funding for research, travel, training, and other professional development activities. The award also supports additional mentorship for fellows, offering a stipend for external mentors who can bring critical perspectives to fellows’ projects. ACLS will also facilitate cross-cohort networking among fellows and advisors. ACLS is launching the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship as it winds down its long-running  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) program , which supported doctoral students in the final year of dissertation research and writing. Over the course of 16 competitions, the program provided funding to more than 1,000 promising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and interpretive social sciences and drew on the expertise of over 1,500 doctoral faculty as peer reviewers. ACLS looks forward to announcing a final cohort of 50 Dissertation Completion Fellows in the coming days. ACLS will build on the relationships established through the DCF program, as well as work on the future of doctoral education among our member societies, to support our ongoing advocacy for salutary systems change in higher education. ACLS will begin accepting applications for the new Dissertation Innovation Fellowship in July 2022, with an application deadline in late October 2022. ACLS will host a series of webinars over the coming months and through September of this year.

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Formed a century ago, the  American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)  is a nonprofit federation of 78 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 $179 million endowment and $34 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. The  Mellon Foundation  is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Mellon believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, Mellon seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; and Public Knowledge.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

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About the Program

Supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.  The program encourages timely completion of the PhD and is open to scholars pursuing humanistic research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or methodology. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2022. 

Eligibility

Applicants must be PhD candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States; have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation (i.e., obtained ABD status) by the application deadline; be no more than six years into the degree program at the time of application (this includes time spent earning an MA within that program); not currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship; have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

Award Amount/Award Period

$35,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000 for 1 year.

Application Deadline

October 27, 2021.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. The award includes a $30,000 stipend, funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and funds for university fees of up to $5,000.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in finishing the final year of work on their Ph.D. dissertations. This highly competitive program is funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and recognizes only 65 scholars annually.

2020 Sarah E.K. Fong

2019 April Hovav

2016 Thomas Sapsford

2015 Nady Bair

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Ph.D. Candidates Cho, Espinosa Receive 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Cho and Espinosa

Duke Ph.D. candidates Jieun Cho (Cultural Anthropology) and Martha L. Espinosa (History) have received the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The ACLS awarded 50 fellowships from a pool of more than 800 applicants. The prestigious award, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a $35,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to exceptional graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing. Fellows will also participate in a professional development workshop to help prepare them for postdoctoral career opportunities within and beyond the academy.

Here’s a look at this year’s Duke recipients:

Cho

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Dissertation: “Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan”

This project investigates what conceptions of “life” are re/produced in a risky environment after the 2011 Fukushima meltdown in Japan. Despite the striking visibility of “Fukushima children” as the signature victims of the disaster in risk politics, there is little research on actual families who are raising children amidst post-Fukushima radiation. By studying the strivings of families who seek to raise healthy children in differentially exposed towns of Fukushima, this project examines how livability is created despite and through radioactive uncertainty. What constitutes “life” when it continues amidst chronic exposure to radiation? How can such life be made livable and in what sense? What are the implications of new forms of care and relations around a child imperiled by radiation? Exploring these questions ethnographically, this project argues that notions of life are undergoing a moment of reconfiguration in post-nuclear Japan both by real-life families and the family form.

Espinosa

Martha L. Espinosa

Dissertation: “The Science of Family Planning. Mexico’s ‘Demographic Explosion,’ Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge”

This project studies the joint efforts of Mexican doctors, chemists, and demographers who tried to curb Mexico’s “demographic explosion” in the mid-20th century. These experts formed alliances with international foundations and pharmaceutical companies to produce knowledge about the consequences of population growth and develop contraceptives in Mexico between 1950-1970, a period in which the government maintained a pronatalist and antiimperialist stance. This research demonstrates that such Mexican experts dodged the opposition of the government and the Catholic Church to family planning, and they became key actors in testing the birth control pill with local women, a forgotten episode in the history of contraceptive technologies.

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PhD Candidate Salma Shash Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

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Salma Shash has been awarded a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship, in its second year, is awarded to a cohort of graduate scholars for their “bold and innovative approaches” to dissertation research in the humanities and social sciences. The award will support Shash’s project, “Villagers, Criminals, and Policemen: Policing and Justice in Rural Egypt, 1854-1914,” which received accolades in The Current . Read more about Shash’s award-winning work here .

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

ACLS invites applications for  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships , which provide a year of support for doctoral students preparing to embark on innovative dissertation research projects. This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before research and writing are advanced. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

ACLS believes that humanistic scholarship benefits from inclusivity of voices, narratives, and subjects that have historically been underrepresented or under-studied in academe. We especially welcome applications from PhD candidates whose perspectives and/or research projects cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge, innovation in scholarly communication, and, above all, responsiveness to the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities from around the world; people with disabilities; queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people; and people of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. We also believe that institutional diversity enhances the scholarly enterprise, and we encourage applications from doctoral students from all accredited institutions of higher education in the United States.

The program supports projects that push the traditional approaches and forms of dissertation research in new directions. 

Deadline: Oct. 25, 2023

Applicants must:

  • Be a PhD student in a humanities or social science department in the United States.1
  • Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
  • Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
  • Have not advanced to PhD candidacy/ABD status prior to January 1, 2023.
  • have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

The total award includes a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, as well as up to $3,000 for research and travel, and up to $5,000 in professional development funds to support skills acquisition or additional research to support innovative/expansive directions. An additional $2,000 is available as a stipend for the external mentor.

Four UW–Madison students receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

Four UW–Madison students have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Mellon Foundation to support their innovative and creative dissertation research.

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences with up to $50,000 including funds for research, training, professional development, and mentorship. The four fellows at UW–Madison are among 45 overall, selected from a pool of more than 700 applicants. They are:

  • Kuhelika Ghosh , doctoral candidate in English with a minor in Culture, History, and Environment
  • Fauzi Moro , doctoral student in History with a minor in African Cultural Studies
  • Anika M. Rice , doctoral student in Geography with a minor in Community-Engaged Scholarship
  • Vignesh Ramachandran , doctoral student in Geography

Read more about each Mellon/ACLS Fellow below.

Kuhelika Ghosh

Kuhelika Ghosh

Ghosh’s dissertation explores multispecies gardens in Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture from the 1960s to the present, bringing together postcolonial studies and ecocritical approaches.

“I am interested in the ways that Afro-diasporic women’s gardening practices in the Caribbean region often engage with nonhuman rhythms relating to seasonal time, harvest and fallow, and the lives of insects, birds, and other species,” she said.

Through this work, Ghosh demonstrates how human gardening practices and the rhythms of many different species found in gardens of various types relate to postcolonial food politics and responses to empire. Ghosh explained that the original kitchen and market gardens began during plantation slavery as provisions grounds, which were plots of land set apart from plantations for enslaved people to grow their own food.

The project uses literary texts, visual culture, little-studied archival materials, and physical gardens to create new theories about key problems in cultural study, including voice, rhythm, and spatiality. Ghosh takes an interdisciplinary approach that crosses through literary studies, environmental studies, history, and visual cultures, which gives her dissertation the boundary-pushing trait the Mellon/ACLS fellowship seeks to encourage.

“By focusing on small-scale cultivation, women’s care work, and ‘inconsequential’ multispecies creatures, my project sheds light on the many minor figures in the postcolonial Caribbean that have the power to create change in food justice movements,” Ghosh said.

She also said agricultural scholarship tends to be biased toward men’s labor, while women make up a significant portion of the agricultural labor force in the Caribbean – especially through domestic spaces like backyard gardens. She seeks to highlight Caribbean women’s perspectives and voices around the topics of food justice and postcolonial politics.

“I hope my research brings to light the importance of gardens as a feminist practice, postcolonial agricultural strategy, as well as a form of art in itself,” Ghosh said. “Gardens are often seen as ‘minor’ in the field of the environmental humanities, but my dissertation attempts to demonstrate that although a garden may be minor in terms of area, it has political, ecological, and social significances for marginalized populations in the Caribbean as well as in other postcolonial spaces around the globe.”

Fauziyatu Moro (Fauzi)

Fauzi Moro

Three miles north of Accra’s central business district, the city’s largest migrant enclave, Nima, houses migrants from various African countries. Moro explained that in the nine decades of Nima’s existence, its residents have embodied a distinct Afro-cosmopolitan identity that has thus far gone unnoticed by scholars of African urban history, migration, and the African diaspora.

Moro’s dissertation and an open-access digital archive emerging from her work theorizes Nima as an internal African diaspora and an unprecedented site of pan-African consciousness. This is facilitated by migrants’ urban leisure which speaks to an ethos of global Black solidarity, Moro said.

“By centering intra-Africa migrants’ social imaginations and amusements in the making of Accra’s pan-African and transnational history, my dissertation offers a glimpse into the possibilities of researching migration and urbanization in Africa through the category of leisure as opposed to migrant labor,” Moro said. This challenges scholars to reassess assumptions about working-class intra-Africa migrants, while introducing ideas about migrants’ roles as key historical actors in creating and socially transforming African urban spaces, she added.

Moro’s project centers on migrants’ narratives, social imaginations, and visual and material culture, creating a retelling of the history of Accra. This is underscored by multi-disciplinary methods including oral sources, state and migrants’ personal archives, print media, and literary and visual analysis.

“Migrants’ oral histories and personal archives are particularly crucial to my methodology because they anchor the counter-narrative I seek to provide about Accra’s intra-Africa migrants whose lives and experiences often come to us through the skewed lens of crime, poverty and/or chaos. My research is, thus, undergirded by a quest to make visible the histories of Africa’s urban migrants as told in their own voices,” Moro said.

Anika M. Rice

Anika M. Rice

“In this context, how families leverage landholdings for migration is central to livelihoods, agrarian change, debt, and situated meanings of land,” Rice said.

Land access is often left out of discussions about the root causes of migration in Central America, Rice explained. Her research provides a grounding point that takes seriously the role of land access and how land is used in the decisions that families make about migration.

Rice will collaborate with groups of predominantly Maya K’iche’ women with migrant family members who seek to understand possibilities for collective resistance against the structural and institutional impacts of migration. These groups are part of the Jesuit Migration Network‘s programming in Guatemala.

“I intend for my research to center the agency of K’iche’ women and other marginalized folks in communities of origin, and affirm the right to migrate with dignity,” she said.

Rice said that while there has been important work on transnational migration in host and transit countries, as well as on the intersections of migration and agrarian change, there is limited attention to the gendered impacts of migration in communities of origin and how migration is tied to land access. Her dissertation will use community-based research approaches to engage with the experiences of women with migrant family members, showing their strategies for survival and persistence.

Previous scholarship has often focused on the head of household and on remittances sent home from migrants. Rice’s methods will integrate household surveys with ethnographic work that engages with how multiple family members in different social positions relate to and may leverage specific parcels of land for migration.

“Elevating voices from communities of origin, with a focus on how women are organizing, is central to the co-production of knowledge on social relations, mobility and the environment,” Rice said.

Vignesh Ramachandran

Vignesh Ramachandran

Scientific management, also known as Taylorism, focuses on economic efficiency and labor productivity. Ramachandran’s research focuses on how digital Taylorism – such as automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithm-based management practices – affects delivery workers. Ramachandran uses a worker’s inquiry methodology that emphasizes collaborative, action-oriented research conducted alongside workers to document the effects of digital Taylorism.

“Through this methodology, this project outlines the racializing and disciplining effects of algorithms in shaping the lives of immigrant delivery workers,” Ramachandran said. “In doing so, it also hopes to discover how digital Taylorism produces residual after-effects, like solidarity and care, that propose other modes of social life under the managerial control of algorithms and digital technology.”

Innovations in automation and AI are constantly changing the terrain of labor and work, Ramachandran said. Many of those innovations are implemented in the gig economy and push workers to work harder and faster, while corporations increase their profits, he said. His dissertation challenges “disembodied” descriptions of technological innovation by centering perspectives of immigrant delivery workers.

“Many working class immigrants in New York City have been doubly subjected to the effects of imperialism—faced with austerity, militarism, and climate crisis in their home countries, and border violence, policing, and structural poverty in the U.S.,” Ramachandran said. “In this context, my research challenges race-neutral accounts of the gig economy by situating exploitation in the gig economy within the long [duration] of racial capitalism and imperialism, and by documenting stories of immigrant worker resistance amidst this violence.”

Ramachandran said his approach to dissertation research “re-introduces the workers’ inquiry as an innovative form of collaborative research that academics can undertake with workers.”

“Whereas companies like Uber, Grubhub, and Doordash spend millions on research and development to maximize profit in the gig economy, the workers’ inquiry turns to the experiences and situated knowledge of workers to document and contest exploitation in their workplace,” he explained. “In this case, this project builds on over two years of community-engaged research with undocumented South Asian delivery workers and community organizations to understand how resistance to exploitation in the gig economy takes place at the intersection of digital technology, labor, and everyday immigrant life. Moreover, the project develops the importance of collaborative, community engaged methodologies in the broader humanities and social sciences.”

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Recognized for their “bold and innovative approaches” to research, three UC Santa Barbara graduate students have been awarded the 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Doctoral students Yuri Fraccaroli , Salma Shash and Tinghao Zhou are among 45 awardees selected from a nationwide pool of more than 700 Ph.D. students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

“We are extremely proud of these three international students for winning such a prestigious and competitive fellowship,” said Interim Graduate Dean Leila J. Rupp. “It is notable that all are involved in research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and allows them to bring their personal experiences into their projects. Together, they show the global reach, interdisciplinarity and emphasis on social justice that is a hallmark of our campus.”

Fraccaroli, a first-generation doctoral student from Brazil, is pursuing research in the feminist studies department based on their work as an educator, artist and researcher with Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in São Paulo. They will use the funding and support from the award to expand the scope of their winning dissertation, “Archivo vivo! An Ethnography of the Archive: Latin American Sex and Gender Community Archives.” 

“I have an outline of chapters, I know the sites I'm working at, I know the communities I'm going to be talking to,” Fraccaroli said. “It’s also research that is a result of five years around this life commitment that I have with community archives in Latin America, especially in South America, and in Brazil with Acervo Bajubá , where my work comes from. Instead of seeing these archives as objects, I consider them as epistemological projects. That’s the key intervention of my project.” 

Salma Shash

Part of the support and resources provided by the fellowship include an external advisor. “The first stage of my research is going to be probably at the University of Leeds with Patricio Simonetto, who is a queer historian who has a very outstanding career,” they said. “At this moment, I want to expand my theoretical knowledge from Brazil to the region. The idea of the project is to get a regional and global perspective on this phenomenon, this rise of community archives that has been happening in the last decade.”

A Ph.D. candidate in film and media studies, Zhou won the award for his dissertation, “At the Ends of Media: E-Waste Pollution, Secondhand Extraction, and Environmental Politics in Guiyu, China,” “I'm looking at a specific e-waste processing site in China, which has been perceived as one of the largest e-waste recycling hubs in the world for the past 20 or 30 years,” he said. “I think this award is instrumental for my research because it allows graduate students like myself to go to the places that I want to visit and to talk to the people I want to reach outside of America. I think this funding gives me an opportunity to gain access to those trainings and spaces, which I think is really important for my project.”

Zhou’s personal experiences also fueled his dissertation goals. He grew up in South China, in an area known for its manufacturing, industry and international trade, not far from a town with many recycling workshops and centers.  “It was famous for collecting old TV sets, air conditioners and refrigerators – all of these old consumer electronics,” he recalled. “When I was in my childhood home, I always got that smell of recycling. I had to close my door or close my windows sometimes. The smell is a memory I associate with these old recycling industries, and that actually became a kind of central methodology of my project — to use this sensory ethnography to understand how the local people live and work in and around e-waste recycling sites.”

He hopes his research and the funding provided for interviews with local officials, environmental scientists and activists will shed light on the impact of e-waste recycling processes on the local communities. “I was thinking of how the chemical and physical components of those devices could even impact the metabolism of the workers’  bodies,” Zhou said. “Looking at this site pushes me to think about how the global media economy and output of e-waste tangibly shape the local ecologies, politics and people. The other part of the project is also looking at how the central government negotiates or reacts to this global media economy in its development of environmental science and technology.”

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The award arrived at a crucial time in Shash’s graduate research career. “I had no guaranteed funding for next year, and this fellowship will allow me to focus on research and writing without teaching duties or other work responsibilities,” she said. “It also gives you some motivation to know that other people think your research is important or worth funding.”

Shash’s winning research project, “Villagers, Criminals, and Policemen: Policing and Justice in Rural Egypt, 1854-1914,”  stems from political changes in her home country of Egypt. “I have been interested in understanding police brutality, coercion and criminal justice since the 2011 revolution in Egypt,” she said. “I wrote my master's thesis in 2015 at SOAS, the University of London, on police brutality after the revolution. I have since been convinced that unpacking the genealogy and history of the Egyptian police is essential to `reforming’ (or transforming) it today. When I started my archival work in 2022, I shifted to a more complex understanding of policing in Egypt through rural experiences, where political economy and, specifically, land are intimately linked to police power. At the core of my research is a commitment to seeking and understanding justice.”

A doctoral candidate in the history department, Shash’s research goals have been enhanced by her mentors, the presence of the Center for Middle East Studies, and the interdisciplinary nature of research at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to Professor Sherene Seikaly as her graduate advisor, Shash has received key mentorship from other Middle East historians like Professor Adam Sabra as well historians outside her field, including Professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya, who teaches South Asian history, and Professor Dwight Reynolds from the religious studies department. “I would ideally like to continue pursuing a career in academia, teaching and doing research, while remaining active with and grounded in my local community,” said Shash, who continues to build on her “commitment to justice and faith that knowledge production and teaching are spaces for activism and vehicles for change.”

The ACLS launched the fellowship program in 2023, with the support of the Mellon Foundation, to advance a vision for doctoral education that prioritizes openness to new methods and sources, underrepresented voices and perspectives and scholarly experimentation. The awards are designed to accelerate change in the norms of humanistic scholarship by recognizing those who take risks in the modes, methods and subjects of their research.

Each fellow receives an award of up to $50,000, consisting of a $40,000 stipend for the

fellowship year; up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, professional development and travel expenses; and a $2,000 stipend to support external mentorship that offers new perspectives on the fellow’s project and expands their advising network. With fellows pursuing their research across the country and beyond, the ACLS will also provide opportunities for virtual networking and scholarly programming throughout the fellows’ award terms.

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Title:  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Funding Agency:  American Council of Learned Studies/Mellon Foundation

External Deadline(s):

10/25/2023 06:00 PM PDT (Full Proposal)

Cognizant Office:  Office of Foundation Relations

Description:

ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, which provide a year of support for doctoral students preparing to embark on innovative dissertation research projects. This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before research and writing are advanced. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy. The fellowship may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution or at any other appropriate site for the research.

Frequency:  Typically annual

Total Award:  $50,000

  • The total award includes a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, as well as up to $3,000 for research and travel, and up to $5,000 in professional development funds to support skills acquisition or additional research to support innovative/expansive directions.
  • An additional $2,000 is available as a stipend for the external mentor.

Indirect Costs:

  • The award requires that the host institution will allow the fellow to remain enrolled during the fellowship year and will waive tuition and fees.
  • A Tuition Remission Exemption must be requested from the Graduate Dean.

Duration:  1 year

  • Tenure: one year beginning between July 1 and September 1, 2024.

Discipline(s):  Humanities and Social Sciences

Eligibility:  Grad Student

  • Given the variation in graduate student trajectories, and the variation of curricular requirements across departments and schools, this program gives only broad parameters for the eligible period of tenure of the fellowship. Some applicants may be applying in the year immediately before candidacy to support the first year of work as a PhD candidate; others may seek to expand their field/methodological horizons at an earlier stage of their graduate studies.
  • The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program does not accept applications from students receiving professional or applied PhDs, terminal degrees that are not a PhD (such as an EdD or MFA), or PhDs outside of humanities and social science departments.
  • Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
  • Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
  • Have not advanced to PhD candidacy/ABD status prior to January 1, 2023.
  • Have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.
  • ACLS requires all applicants to have an ORCID iD.

Research Areas of Interest:

  • Humanities and social sciences.
  • Directed interdisciplinary research and methodological training that pushes beyond the scope of their field's norms with faculty within and/or outside their home institutions;
  • exploration of new modes of scholarly communication and dissertation design;
  • intensive digital methods training and research;
  • collaboration with community partners;
  • a short-term practicum with a non-academic organization (such as a think-tank or social justice organization) to develop experience with applied methods, site-based research involving community-engaged or collaborative approaches.
  • The list above is by no means exhaustive. ACLS seeks to support a range of innovation in doctoral research — practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, digital, collaborative, critical, or methodological — as well as innovative forms and modes of publication.

Research Exclusions:

  • Business, clinical or counseling psychology, creative or performing arts, education, engineering, filmmaking, law, library and information sciences, life/physical sciences, public administration, public health or medicine, public policy, social work, or social welfare.

Post-Award Obligations:

Recent Caltech Recipients:

Guidelines & Other Information:

Guidelines: https://www.acls.org/competitions/mellon-acls-dissertation-innovation-fellowship/

FAQ: https://www.acls.org/faqs/faq-mellon-acls-dissertation-innovation-fellowship/

Prior Awardees: https://www.acls.org/recent-fellows/

Please note that the application requires the following: A statement from the applicant’s institution (preferably from the applicant’s department chair, director of graduate studies, or dean). The provided form will ask the institutional representative to attest that (1) if the applicant holds a multi-year financial award from the institution and a fellowship is awarded, this support would be paused for the duration of the fellowship and the applicant would be allowed to retain and resume the remainder of that support in subsequent years; (2) the institution will allow the fellow to remain enrolled during the fellowship year and will waive tuition and fees; and (3) the intention of the fellowship is to promote non-traditional direction setting for the sake of valuing innovations in scholarly methods and subject, and the institution believes that its graduate curriculum and progress-charting for students can respect and accommodate this exploration of non-traditional approaches to scholarship.

Please notify the Foundation Relations team if you anticipate making a submission or if you have any questions regarding this opportunity. We are here to help ensure that Caltech’s proposals are competitive. We can assist with proposal development and advise you on the routing of your paperwork. Interested researchers should work with their division grant manager to prepare the budget, the MORA form, and the Division Approval Form (DAF). Submissions and awards for this grant program will be processed through the Office of Foundation Relations.

Opportunity ID: 1664

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American council of learned societies releases new report on career pathways for humanities phds.

"Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows" Provides Insights on Career Opportunities Outside the Academy

NEW YORK , May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- There is a persistent false perception that the humanities PhD is primarily a training program for future university faculty researchers. In reality, PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences have meaningful careers in a variety of sectors, from academia to industry, government and nonprofits. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to release "Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows," a new report that provides insights into some of those career paths. The report reflects outcomes of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program, including illustrative examples of alumni career pathways, as well as career development resources and advice specific to humanities PhDs seeking to explore careers beyond the academy.

From 2011-2022, the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program placed nearly 200 humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs in two-year positions in government and nonprofit organizations across the United States . Through fellows' work and accomplishments, the program demonstrated the broad applicability of advanced humanistic training to work and careers beyond the academy. Fellows built capacity at hosting organizations while demonstrating the dynamic potential of humanities PhDs.

"The Public Pathways report is a glimpse into the significant impact of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program and into some of the lessons we can learn from the fellowship about graduate education and career pathways," said ACLS President Joy Connolly . "We hope it can be useful to current PhD students who seek to understand the range of possible futures before them and to those who support every element of doctoral education—faculty, administrators, and beyond."

From program data and interviews with program alumni, the report explores the shared experiences of PhDs translating their advanced training in the humanities to diverse portfolios of work while also highlighting the unique perspectives of individual fellows. These insights led the development of online resources created specifically for graduate students and recent PhDs seeking information and inspiration for envisioning their careers. These resources, which will evolve over time, currently include information about career initiatives from ACLS member scholarly societies and an array of job postings from the program, which are meant to demonstrate the range of venues and roles across employment sectors in which PhDs can not only add value, but thrive.

This report reflects the longstanding commitment of ACLS to advanced training in the humanities by demonstrating its value and impact in communities beyond the academy. Similarly, the "Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars" report , released earlier this spring, provides examples of how doctoral humanities training can be designed and leveraged for community-based research that is ethical, impactful for communities, and productive for student's professional development. Current ACLS programs and initiatives continuing this work include the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars. Information about these related programs, initiatives, and reports can be found on the Public Pathways page .

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.

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American Council of Learned Societies Releases New Report on Career Pathways for Humanities PhDs

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"Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows" Provides Insights on Career Opportunities Outside the Academy

NEW YORK , May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- There is a persistent false perception that the humanities PhD is primarily a training program for future university faculty researchers. In reality, PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences have meaningful careers in a variety of sectors, from academia to industry, government and nonprofits. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to release "Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows," a new report that provides insights into some of those career paths. The report reflects outcomes of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program, including illustrative examples of alumni career pathways, as well as career development resources and advice specific to humanities PhDs seeking to explore careers beyond the academy.

From 2011-2022, the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program placed nearly 200 humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs in two-year positions in government and nonprofit organizations across the United States . Through fellows' work and accomplishments, the program demonstrated the broad applicability of advanced humanistic training to work and careers beyond the academy. Fellows built capacity at hosting organizations while demonstrating the dynamic potential of humanities PhDs.

"The Public Pathways report is a glimpse into the significant impact of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program and into some of the lessons we can learn from the fellowship about graduate education and career pathways," said ACLS President Joy Connolly . "We hope it can be useful to current PhD students who seek to understand the range of possible futures before them and to those who support every element of doctoral education—faculty, administrators, and beyond."

From program data and interviews with program alumni, the report explores the shared experiences of PhDs translating their advanced training in the humanities to diverse portfolios of work while also highlighting the unique perspectives of individual fellows. These insights led the development of online resources created specifically for graduate students and recent PhDs seeking information and inspiration for envisioning their careers. These resources, which will evolve over time, currently include information about career initiatives from ACLS member scholarly societies and an array of job postings from the program, which are meant to demonstrate the range of venues and roles across employment sectors in which PhDs can not only add value, but thrive.

This report reflects the longstanding commitment of ACLS to advanced training in the humanities by demonstrating its value and impact in communities beyond the academy. Similarly, the "Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars" report , released earlier this spring, provides examples of how doctoral humanities training can be designed and leveraged for community-based research that is ethical, impactful for communities, and productive for student's professional development. Current ACLS programs and initiatives continuing this work include the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars. Information about these related programs, initiatives, and reports can be found on the Public Pathways page .

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, [email protected] , https://www.acls.org/  

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Full List of Incoming and Returning IRH Fellows 2024-2025

IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the full cohort of incoming and returning IRH Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. Later in the summer, IRH will be sharing fellow profile biographies and project information.

Senior Fellows:

  • Mercedes Alcalá Galán , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2023-2027 (Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison) “Uncovering Black African Female Slavery in Early Modern Spain: Voices from the Archives and Portrayals in Art and Literature”
  • Karen Britland , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2024-2028 (Religious Studies Program, UW–Madison) “Possession: A Story of Gods, Goods and Greed”
  • Jill Casid , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2024-2028 (Department of Art History; Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW–Madison) “Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene”
  • Lisa H. Cooper , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2023-2027 (English Department, UW–Madison) “The Poetics of Practicality in Late Medieval England”
  • Andrea Harris , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2023-2027 (Dance Department, UW–Madison) “The Body is an Instrument: Science, the Therapeutic Worldview, and the Beginning of Modern Dance”
  • Francine Hirsch , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (Department of History, UW–Madison) “Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia and America”
  • B. Venkat Mani , Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison) “No Forwarding Address: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees”
  • Mario Ortiz-Robles , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (English Department, UW–Madison) “Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals”
  • Anne C. Vila , Open-topic Senior Fellow, 2021-2025 (Department of French & Italian, UW–Madison) “Convulsive Enlightenment: Lives and Afterlives of the Convulsionnaires in French Culture and Theory (18th to 21st Centuries)”

Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellows:

  • Ainehi Edoro (English Department; African Cultural Studies Department, UW–Madison) “Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think”
  • Darshana Sreedhar Mini (Department of Communication Arts; Center for South Asia; Center for Visual Cultures; Gender & Women’s Studies, UW–Madison) “Geographies of Migrant Media: Transregional Homemaking in India and Beyond”

Resident Fellows:

  • Margaret R. Butler (Musicology Area, Mead Witter School of Music, UW–Madison) “Operatic Women: Celebrity Culture and the Seria Stage, 1750–1790”
  • Junko Mori (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison) “Cultural Diplomacy, Linguistic Capital, and Raciolinguistic Dynamics: The History of K-12 Japanese Language Education in Wisconsin”
  • Lindsay Palmer (School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW–Madison) “Defending Our Colleagues: The Committee to Protect Journalists and Global Press Freedom (1981-2021)”
  • Allison Prasch (Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison) “‘The Capital of an Extensive Empire’: The Rhetorical Construction of Washington, D.C.”
  • Lucas Richert (Social and Administrative Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW–Madison) “Chain Reaction: The Rise of Big Pharmacy, Corporate Health, and American Capitalism”
  • Liina-Ly Roos (German, Nordic, and Slavic+, UW–Madison) “The Not-Quite Child: Rethinking Whiteness and Colonial Histories in Sweden through Images of Childhood”
  • Daniel Stolz  (History, UW–Madison) “The Long Debt: The Ottoman Loans and Economic Governance in the Twentieth Century”

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture:

  • Sherry Velasco (Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Gender Studies, University of Southern California, Dornsife)

Kingdon Fellows:

  • Isaiah Ellis (Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto) “Apostles of Asphalt: Race, Empire, and the Religious Politics of Infrastructure in the American South”
  • Emma Snowden (History, University of Tennessee) “Narrating Conquest and Colonization in the Medieval Western Mediterranean”

Solmsen Fellows:

  • Elizbeth Athens (Art + Art History, University of Connecticut) “Early Modern Anatomies and the Arboreal Body”
  • Daniel Davies (English, University of Houston) “Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late-Medieval Literature”
  • Simeon David Ehrlich (The Institute of Archaeology, Fulbright Israel/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Time of Death in the Roman Empire: Tombstones, Timekeeping, Astrology, and Afterlife among Pagans and Christians”
  • Jack Stetter (Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans) “Spinoza and the Philosophy of War”

Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Fellowship Resident:

  • Brandon Smith (Instructor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University), “Spinozistic Eudaimonism: The Intellectual and Physical Unity and Plurality of Happiness”

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellows:

  • Esther Fernández (Independent Scholar) “A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater”
  • Viacheslav Zahorodniuk (Ph.D, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv; Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) “Early Childhood in the Early Modern: Locke’s Accounts on Children Perception”

UW System Fellows:

  • Thomas Leek (Department of World Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) “Aligning Vectorized Ancient Language Corpora: Towards a Translingual Search Function”
  • Sarah Schaefer (Art History, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) “Tolkien’s Art Histories”
  • Ying Wang (Art History, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) “LungShar Incident of 1934–a Failed Attempt to Modernize Tibet”

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship Resident:

  • Kuhelika Ghosh (English Department, UW–Madison) “Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature”

Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow:

  • Allyson Gross (Department of Communication Arts, UW–Madison) “Of Even Vaster Promise: Material Preservation and the Rhetoric of the Future”

Biruté Ciplijauskaité Dissertation Fellow:

  • Mark John Radomski (Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison) “Exploring Seville’s Cosmopolitanism: Literary Perspectives and the Guadalquivir River in the Early Modern Era”

Honorary Fellows:

  • Adrian McClure (Ph.D. Medieval Literature, Purdue University) “Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade”
  • Simon P. Newman (History, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Emeritus) “Freedom-Seekers 1776”
  • Barbara Obrist (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris Diderot) “La cosmologie médiévale. Textes et images II: le XIIe siècle”
  • Justine Walden (Department of History, UW–Madison) “What Price Souls: Enslavement, Evangelism, and Profit in the Early Modern Atlantic” and “Naming Race in the Renaissance”

Emeritus Fellow:

  • Max Harris (Independent Scholar), “Battling Demons: The Temptation of Antony in Art, Theater, Fiction, Film, and Fiestas”

The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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College of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to our award-winning College faculty and staff

By Kim Spurr

Beautiful red flowers surround the side of the Old Well with a view across Cameron Avenue of South Building.

The College of Arts and Sciences celebrates the dozens of talented faculty and staff who received awards and honors during the spring semester. The recognitions include election into one of the national scientific academies, two Sloan Research Fellow awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from a research society, a Mellon fellowship, numerous teaching excellence awards, several recognitions for advising excellence and two Massey distinguished service awards for staff, among many other honors and achievements.

HONORS AND AWARDS TO COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY AND STAFF, SPRING 2024

African, African American and Diaspora Studies

  • Petal Samuel , assistant professor, was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship by the American Association of University Women.

Art and Art History

  • Martín Wannam , assistant professor, received the 2024 Schwab Academic Excellence Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

  • Luoyi Cai , teaching associate professor, received the 2024 Tanner Award from the University.
  • Pamela Lothspeich , professor, was awarded the 2024 article prize by the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies for her article “Pandit Radheshyam’s Ramayan: A Sourcebook for Ramlila Scripts in the Orbit of Bareilly,” published in the Journal of Hindu Studies.
  • Morgan Pitelka , department chair and Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor, received an Honorable Mention from the Association of Asian Studies for the 2024 John Whitney Hall Book Prize in Japanese Studies for his book Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan (Cambridge, 2022).
  • Claudia Yaghoobi  was appointed Roshan Distinguished Professor.
  • Gregory Copenhaver , Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Convergent Science, was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors.
  • Jeff Dangl , John N. Couch Professor, received the Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • Mara Evans , teaching associate professor, received a 2024 Undergraduate Student Teaching Award and the Innovation in Biomedical Graduate Teaching Award.
  • Alaina Garland , teaching assistant professor, received a 2024 Undergraduate Student Teaching Award.
  • Eric Hastie , teaching assistant professor, received a 2024 Undergraduate Student Teaching Award.
  • Corey Johnson , teaching professor, received the 23/24 Tri-Beta Biology Faculty Excellence Teaching Award.
  • Summer Montgomery , undergraduate student services manager, received a C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award from the University.
  • Lillian Zwemer , teaching assistant professor, received the 2024 Out in STEM Inclusive Teaching Award.

Biomedical Engineering

  • Rekha Balasubramanyam  received the 2024 EHRA College of Engineering Award for Excellence.
  • Naji Husseini , teaching assistant professor, received a 2024 Johnston Teaching Excellence Award from the University.
  • Derek Kamper , associate professor, was elected to the 2024 Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.
  • Roger Narayan , professor, was elected a 2024 Fellow to the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

Carolina Center for Jewish Studies

  • Gabrielle Berlinger,  associate professor in American studies and Babette S. and Bernard J. Tanenbaum Scholar in Jewish studies, received a Schwab Academic Excellence Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
  • Adi Nester,  assistant professor in Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Levine-Sklut Fellow in Jewish studies, received a Schwab Academic Excellence Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Carolina Public Humanities

  • James Brian Entzminger  has been recognized with the Warren Nord Distinguished Service Award.
  • Joshua Beaver,  teaching associate professor, received a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University.
  • Elizabeth Brunk,  assistant professor, was honored by Morehead-Cain Seniors for Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship.
  • Abigail Knight , assistant professor, received a Sloan Research Fellow award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  • Gary Pielak , Kenan Distinguished Professor, was named a 2024 fellow of the Biophysical Society and honored by Morehead-Cain Seniors for Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship.
  • Sidney Wilkerson-Hill , assistant professor, received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award from the Camile and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the FMC New Investigator Award from the FMC Corp., and a Sloan Research Fellow award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

City and Regional Planning

  • Yan Song , professor and chair, became editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Planning Association beginning Jan. 1.
  • Meenu Tewari , professor, was elected as a member of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee for a three-year term.
  • Timothy Shea , assistant professor and John Wesley and Hodgin Hanes Fellow, was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Communication

  • Sarah Dempsey , assistant professor, received a 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University.
  • Julia Haslett , associate professor, is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leave Award.
  • Joseph Megel , teaching professor, received the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University.
  • Michael Palm , associate professor, received a 2024 J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students.
  • Kumi Silva , associate professor, was named the Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor for Graduate Education.
  • Michael Waltman , associate professor, received the 2024 William C. Friday/Class of 1986 Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Computer Science

  • Roni Sengupta , assistant professor, received the Trailblazer R21 Award from the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
  • Luca Flabbi , professor, was recognized for having the Top Cited Article 2022-2023, International Economics Review, for “Labor Market Search, Informality, and Schooling Investment.”
  • Donna Gilleskie , professor and chair, was appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the Southern Economic Association.

English and Comparative Literature

  • Stephanie DeGooyer , assistant professor and Frank Borden and Barbara Lasater Hanes Fellow, received a Lando grant from the DeGroot Foundation and an IAH Fellowship for Spring 2025.
  • Florence Dore , professor, received the 2024 Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching.
  • Rebecka Rutledge Fisher , professor, was awarded the Spring 2024 Camargo Prize and Residency from the Camargo Foundation.
  • Bradley Hammer , teaching professor, received a J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year students.
  • Courtney Rivard , assistant professor, received a Faculty Award for Global Excellence from the University’s Vice Provost for Global Affairs.

Exercise and Sport Science

  • Shelby Baez , assistant professor, received the Distinguished Young Professional Award from the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Freddie Fu New Investigator Award from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
  • Troy Blackburn , professor and chair, received the Medal for Distinguished Athletic Training Research from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
  • Johna Register-Mihalik , associate professor, received the Established Career Free Communications Award from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
  • Erianne Weight , professor, received the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction from the University
  • Zachary Yukio Kerr , associate professor, received the Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Award.

Geography and Environment

  • Clark Gray , professor, received the 2023 IPUMs Research Award for his work on “Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics.”
  • Danielle Purifoy , assistant professor, was named a fellow of the American Association of Geographers, was named to the Father Royden B Davis, S.J. Chair for spring 2025 at Georgetown University, and was awarded a 2024-2025 Mellon Fellowship in Democracy and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
  • Elizabeth (Betsy) Olson , professor, received the 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Award from the American Association of Geographers.
  • Chérie Rivers , associate professor, received a fellowship from the Warren Center at Harvard University.

Curriculum in Global Studies

  • Erica Johnson , teaching professor, was selected for the 2024-25 IAH Academic Leadership Program.
  • Michael Osterweil , teaching professor, received a 2024 Chapman Family Teaching Award.
  • Jonathan Weiler , teaching professor, was selected for a Provost’s Senior Research Leave.
  • Henry Gruber , assistant professor, was awarded the Harvard University Committee on Medieval Studies Ph.D. Thesis Prize for his dissertation, “Wars and Rumors of War: Archaeology, Violence, and the End of Roman Spain.”
  • Antwain Hunter , assistant professor, received the Engaged Research Award from the UNC Office of the Provost.
  • Klaus Larres , Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor, received a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
  • Michelle King , associate professor, received the 2024 Kleio Award, which recognizes the work of mid-career faculty.
  • Ana Maria Silva Campo , assistant professor, was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
  • Katherine Turk , associate professor, was elected to the membership of the Society of American Historians and received a William C. Friday Arts and Humanities Research Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities; her book The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America, was named one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023.

Mathematics

  • David Rose , professor, and a former student received the 2024 G. De B. Robinson Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society.
  • Mariska Leunissen , professor, received a UNC Chapman Family Teaching Award.

Physics and Astronomy

  • Carl Rodriguez , assistant professor, received 2024 Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society.

Political Science

  • Evelyne Huber , Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor, received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student and Academic Program Support
  • Isaac Unah , associate professor, received a UNC Chapman Family Teaching Award.

Psychology and Neuroscience

  • Kenneth Bollen , Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience and Sociology, received the 2024 Academic Ace Award from Woxsen University in Hyderbad, India, which has established the Kenneth A. Bollen Chair of Structural Equation Models.
  • Kristen Lindquist , professor, was appointed president of the Society for Affective Science.
  • Julian Rucker , assistant professor, was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.
  • Viji Sathy , professor of the practice in psychology and associate dean for evaluation and assessment, received the American Psychological Association’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award.

Public Policy

  • Anna Krome-Lukens , teaching associate professor, received a UNC Chapman Family Teaching Award.

Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense

  • Erinn Whitaker , professor of the practice, received a Faculty Award for Global Excellence from the Vice Provost for Global Affairs.

Romance Studies

  • Lorna Aviles , teaching assistant professor, received a UNC Johnston Teaching Excellence Award.
  • Oswaldo Estrada , professor, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to travel to Spain in fall 2024.
  • Barbara Entwisle , Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, was appointed chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the U.S. Census Bureau.
  • Tania Jenkins , assistant professor, was awarded the 2024 Southern Sociological Society’s Junior Scholar Award.
  • Arne Kalleberg , Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Alexandrea Ravenelle , assistant professor, received the Graduate Center of the City University of New York 2024 Alumni Award.

Office of Undergraduate Education

  • Nicholas Siedentop , director of undergraduate curricula, received a 2024 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award from the University

Academic Advising

  • Madison Cabral , Thrive Advisor, received a Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advising Award.
  • Emma Dove , Thrive Advisor, received a Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advising Award.
  • Lucas Fayard , Center for Student Success, received a Class of 1996 Award for Advising Excellence.
  • Kristin Hondros , teaching associate professor, department of communication, and advisor, received a Class of 1996 Award for Advising Excellence.
  • Hanna Humphrey , Thrive Advisor, received a Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advising Award.
  • Elizabeth Moran , Thrive Advisor, received a Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advising Award.
  • Katheryne Zambrana , academic support program for student athletes, received a Class of 1996 Award for Advising Excellence.

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