The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is very pleased to have announced the 2017 cohort of ACLS fellowship recipients. Below please find a list of those awardees who identified themselves as members of the American Studies Association:

Cohen, Lara Langer - Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars
Associate Professor, English, Swarthmore College
Before Subculture: Nineteenth-Century Genealogies of the Underground

Hanna, Karen B. - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Doctoral Candidate, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Makibaka!: A Feminist Social History of the Transnational Filipina/o American Left, 1969-1992

Manners, Jane C. - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Doctoral Candidate, History, Princeton University
"Infinitely Dangerous to the Revenue of the United States": The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the Law of Disaster Relief in Jacksonian America

McDuffie, Erik S. - ACLS Fellowship Program
Associate Professor, African American Studies and History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Garveyism in the Diasporic Midwest: The American Heartland and Global Black Freedom, 1920-1980

Michelon, Christina - Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
Doctoral Candidate, Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home

Roffman, Karin Sabrina - ACLS Fellowship Program
Senior Lecturer, Humanities, English, and American Studies, Yale University
The Story of Next Week: John Ashbery's Middle and Later Years

Rivera, Michelle M - Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program
PhD, Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Appointed as Public Engagement Manager for Diversity and Inclusion, The Field Museum

Savonick, Danica - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Doctoral Candidate, English, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
The Promise of Aesthetic Education: On Pedagogy, Praxis, and Social Justice

Swenson, Haley - Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program
PhD, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus
Appointed as Editor, New America

For an overview of all ACLS fellowship recipients, please refer to the website.