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On the latest episode of the Drafting the Past podcast, @taramulder.bsky.social shares ancient Roman women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth (and shares info on her next project, funded by a 2026 ACLS Fellowship 👀): https://bit.ly/4uiCNKy
ACLS has released a statement opposing the Office of Management and Budget’s proposal for new criteria and process for federal funding for scientific research.
Read the full statement: bit.ly/4v2lbE0
New book alert! "Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain" by 2023 ACLS Fellow @hbuxton.bsky.social is out now from @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Danielle Burke's 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship is helping her build a digital map of craftspeople from the Handicraft Movement and invite the people who still have or use those handiworks today to contribute to the site: https://bit.ly/4uGPHTC
The ACLS Strategic Framework 2025-2030 focuses on transforming academic culture, speaking out on behalf of humanistic inquiry, promoting excellent scholarship, and preparing for the unexpected.
Explore our progress thus far: https://bit.ly/4dMOZhS
Kate Carpenter interview historian of medicine, sex, and gender in antiquity about her new book A Womb of One's Own: Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome.
Happy #PrideMonth from ACLS!
We asked members of the ACLS community to share resources on LGBTQ+ liberation consisting of existing research, published works, podcasts, and any other mediums. Check out the list here: https://bit.ly/3xb2Cll
Marie Comuzzo @mariecomuzzo.bsky.social, 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow, has a new chapter out in the book "Listening to the Swan Song: More-than-Human Beings and Sounds in Literature and Culture Through the Ages."
Read it open access here: https://bit.ly/3RLzYnJ
The latest edition of Building Blocks for a New Academy is out today!
In it, ACLS Program Manager Treviene Harris shares three innovative humanities undergraduate programs designed to serve students’ intellectual formation and their lives post-graduation: https://bit.ly/4o8hj1E
ICYMI: Last week, we announced the 2026 ACLS Leading Edge Fellows 🎉
The fellowships support outstanding early-career PhDs in the humanities and social sciences as they join the work of mission-driven nonprofit organizations.
Meet the awardees: bit.ly/4v5uqmg
"Let us be clear: research must not be under the thumb of politicians."
We join ACLS in firmly opposing this proposal. Political litmus tests must not replace peer review as certification of research quality.
American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
PhD student Danielle Burke has received a fellowship to help her create a digital map of craftspeople from the Handicraft Movement and invite the people who still have or use those handiworks today to contribute to the site.
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Our goal is to catalyze the re-centering of humanistic knowledge in academia and in society at large as a force for mutual understanding, the enrichment of individual lives, democratic participation, ...
In April 2026, I sat down to speak with Sara Holt, chair of Cal Poly Humboldt’s newly minted Applied Humanities department. In the course of our conversation, she said something that has stayed with m...
ACLS has released a statement opposing the Office of Management and Budget’s proposal for new criteria and process for federal funding for scientific research.
Read the full statement: bit.ly/4v2lbE0
"Let us be clear: research must not be under the thumb of politicians."
