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2016 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel Arlington, VA May 5-7
PARTICIPANTS
ACLS fellows (F) and grantees (G) are designated in italics with their award year(s). ACLS institutional Associates are designated in bold.
Representatives of ACLS Constituent Societies
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CAO: Suzanne Moyer Baazet, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Livingston Campus Delegate: Judith A. Byfield, Cornell University
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Delegate: Elaine Sisman, Columbia University
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION CAO: Jack Fitzmier, Emory University Delegate: David Harrington Watt, Temple University
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CAO: Edward B. Liebow, Arlington, VA Delegate: Leith Mullings, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY CAO: Paul J. Erickson, Worcester, MA Delegate: Scott E. Casper, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Delegate: Caroline Hannaway, Baltimore, MD
AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION CAO: Alexander J. Beecroft F’11, University of South Carolina Delegate: Yopie Prins, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY CAO: Allan Metcalf, MacMurray College Delegate: Luanne von Schneidemesser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION CAO: Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University Delegate: Charlotte V. Kuh, National Academy of Sciences (retired)
AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY CAO: Timothy Lloyd, Indiana University Bloomington Delegate: Lee Haring, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Emeritus
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION CAO: James Grossman, Washington, DC Delegate: George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California
AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY CAO: Robert F. Judd, New York, NY Delegate: Anne Walters Robertson G’88, University of Chicago
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AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY Delegate (Acting): Andrew Reinhard, New York, NY
AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY Delegate: Paul W. Kroll F’96, F’85, F’79, University of Colorado Boulder
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION CAO: Amy Ferrer, University of Delaware Delegate: Henry S. Richardson, Georgetown University
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Delegate: Julia Haig Gaisser F’89, Bryn Mawr College, Emeritus
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CAO: Steven Rathgeb Smith, Washington, DC Delegate: Richard Boyd, Georgetown University
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH CAO: Andrew G. Vaughn, Boston University Delegate: Susan Ackerman, Dartmouth College
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS CAO: Julie C. Van Camp, Denver, CO Delegate: Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY CAO: Lisa Mighetto, University of Washington Delegate: John R. McNeill, Georgetown University
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LEGAL HISTORY CAO: Craig Klafter, Harvard Law School Delegate: Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH Delegate (Acting): Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY CAO: Keith A. Francis, Santa Rosa, CA Delegate: Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW CAO: James A. R. Nafziger G’91, Willamette University Delegate: Vivian Curran, University of Pittsburgh
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW CAO: Mark D. Agrast, Washington, DC Delegate: Gregory C. Shaffer, University of California, Irvine
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CAO: Sally T. Hillsman, Washington, DC Delegate: Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Delegate: Kandice Chuh, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Delegate: J. Theodore Peña, University of California, Berkeley
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES Delegate: Anand A. Yang G’77, University of Washington
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ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES CAO: Rona Sheramy, Center for Jewish History Delegate (Acting): Pamela S. Nadell, American University
ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES CAO: Lynda Park, University of Pittsburgh Delegate: Katherine Verdery F’04, F’97, F’79, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF BALTIC STUDIES CAO: Olavi Arens, Armstrong Atlantic State University Delegate: Mara Lazda, City University of New York, Bronx Community College
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS CAO: Douglas Richardson, Washington, DC Delegate: J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of Notre Dame
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS CAO: Judith Areen, Washington, DC Delegate: Linda S. Greene, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA CAO: Michele E. Randall, New York, NY Delegate: David L. Vander Meulen, University of Virginia
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION Delegate (Acting): DeWitt Godfrey, Colgate University
COLLEGE FORUM OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH CAO: Emily Kirkpatrick, Urbana, IL Delegate: Doug Hesse, University of Denver
DICTIONARY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA CAO: Rebecca Shapiro, City University of New York, New York City College of Technology Delegate: Edward Finegan, University of Southern California, Emeritus
ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION Delegate (Acting): David F. Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CAO: David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College Delegate (Acting): Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park
HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY CAO: Robert (Jay) J. Malone, University of Notre Dame Delegate: Michael M. Sokal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Emeritus
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART Delegate: Lawrence Nees G’84, University of Delaware
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Delegate: Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University
LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION Delegate (Acting): Mithi Mukherjee F’16, University of Colorado Boulder
LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA CAO: Alyson Reed, Washington, DC Delegate: Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA Delegate: Nancy Partner, McGill University
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METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Delegate: Richard Dien Winfield, University of Georgia
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA CAO: Amy Newhall, University of Arizona Delegate: R. Stephen Humphreys F’80, University of California, Santa Barbara
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA CAO: Rosemary G. Feal, New York, NY Delegate: Barbara K. Altmann, Bucknell University
NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CAO: Nancy Kidd, Washington, DC Delegate (Acting): Carole Blair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HISTORY Delegate (Acting): Alexandra Lord, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES CAO: Paul R. Deslandes, University of Vermont Delegate: Susan D. Pennybacker G’88, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION CAO: Kristine Navarro-McElhaney, Arizona State University
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS CAO: Katherine M. Finley, Bloomington, IN
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA CAO: Carla Zecher, City University of New York, The Graduate Center Delegate (Acting): Susan Forscher Weiss, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA CAO: Gerard A. Hauser, Boulder, CO Delegate: Susan Wells, Temple University
SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Delegate (Acting): Ayanna Thompson, The George Washington University
SIXTEENTH CENTURY SOCIETY AND CONFERENCE Delegate: Kathryn Edwards, University of South Carolina
SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSIC Delegate: Carol J. Oja F’16, G’88, Harvard University
SOCIETY FOR CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES CAO: Jill Simpson, Norman, OK Delegate: Pamela Robertson Wojcik, University of Notre Dame
SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES CAO: Adam D. Blistein, Philadelphia, PA Delegate: Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY CAO: Stephen Stuempfle, Indiana University Bloomington Delegate: Anne K. Rasmussen, College of William and Mary
SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES Delegate (Acting): Katrin Schultheiss, The George Washington University
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SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY CAO: Robert H. Berlin, Virginia Military Institute Delegate: Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University
SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY CAO: Victoria L. Long, University of Chicago Delegate (Acting): Severine Neff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emeritus
SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCANDINAVIAN STUDY CAO: Clydette Wantland, Fisher, IL Delegate: Margaret Hayford O’Leary, Saint Olaf College
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Delegate: W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia
SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE CAO: John F. Kutsko, Emory University Delegate: Jacques Berlinerblau, Georgetown University
SOCIETY OF DANCE HISTORY SCHOLARS Delegate: Nadine George-Graves, University of California, San Diego
WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION Delegate: Laura Mitchell F’05, University of California, Irvine
Presidents of ACLS Constituent Societies
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Dorothy L. Hodgson F’05, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION Yopie Prins, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY Robert Bayley, University of California, Davis
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH Susan Ackerman, Dartmouth College
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine
ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES Pamela S. Nadell, American University
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION DeWitt Godfrey, Colgate University
COLLEGE FORUM OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Doug Hesse, University of Denver
DICTIONARY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA Luanne von Schneidemesser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES Susan D. Pennybacker G’88, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Anne K. Rasmussen, College of William and Mary
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Representatives of ACLS Affiliates
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND VOLUNTARY ACTION President: Alan Abramson, George Mason University
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Executive Director: Mary Ellen K. Davis
ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES Executive Director: Elliott Shore
CANADIAN FEDERATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Executive Director: Jean-Marc Mangin
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES President: Bernard F. Reilly
FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS President: Esther Mackintosh
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THIRD-SECTOR RESEARCH Executive Director: Margery Berg Daniels, The Johns Hopkins University
Members of the ACLS Board of Directors
James J. O’Donnell, Chair, Arizona State University
Nicola Courtright F’94, Vice Chair, Amherst College
Jonathan D. Culler, Secretary, Cornell University
Nancy J. Vickers, Treasurer, Bryn Mawr College, Emeritus
Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University
Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nancy Kidd, ex officio, National Communication Association
William C. Kirby F’94, F’84, Harvard University
Richard Leppert F’99, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Leith Mullings, ex officio, American Anthropological Association
Pauline Yu, ex officio, American Council of Learned Societies
Additional Participants
William “Bro” Adams, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
Nicholas Allen, Director of the Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and Franklin Professor of English, University of Georgia
Jean M. Allman F’14, G’90, G’88, Director of the Center for the Humanities, J. H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities, and Professor in the Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
Keith Anthony, Associate Director of The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
Yota Batsaki, Executive Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Peter Berkery, Executive Director, Association of American University Presses
Brett Bobley, Chief Information Officer and Director of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
Loni M. Bordoloi, Program Director, The Teagle Foundation
Eva Caldera, Assistant Chairman for Partnership and Strategic Initiatives, National Endowment for the Humanities
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Jane Greenway Carr F’14, Contributing Editor, New America
Dorothy Chansky, Director of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech and Associate Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University
Monica Clark, Program Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Helen Cullyer, Executive Director Designate, Society for Classical Studies
Adela de la Torre, Communications Director, National Immigration Law Center
Emily Dufton F’14, Engagement Analyst, The Center for Public Integrity
Jonathan E. Elmer F’91, Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute, and Professor in the Department of English, Indiana University Bloomington; and Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival
Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University
Pamela I. Epstein F’11, Assistant Director for Capacity Building, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Francesca Fiorani F’09, F’97, Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, and Professor in the McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
Carolyn Fuqua, Senior Research Associate for Humanities Indicators, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kim T. Gallon F’15, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Purdue University; Visiting Scholar at the Center for Africana Studies, The Johns Hopkins University; and Founder and Director, Black Press Research Collective
Cecily R. Garber F’14, Communications Officer, Council of Independent Colleges
Lindsay N. Green-Barber F’13, Director of Strategic Research, Center for Investigative Reporting
Beatrice Gurwitz, Assistant Director, National Humanities Alliance
Sara Guyer, Director of the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, Professor in the Departments of English and of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Hammer, Project Staff for Humanities Indicators and Senior Program Advisor on Humanities and Cultures, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Caroline Harper F’14, Policy Analyst, United Negro College Fund
Barbara Heritage, Associate Director and Curator of Collections, Rare Book School, University of Virginia; and Secretary, Bibliographical Society of America
Nicole Ivy F’15, Museum Futurist, American Alliance of Museums
Brandon Johnson, Senior Program Officer of Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities
Cristle Collins Judd, Senior Program Officer for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Catherine Lena Kelly F’15, Program Analyst in the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs in the Department of History, The George Washington University; and Director, National History Center
Stephen Kidd, Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance
Philippa J. Levine, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities, Professor in the Department of History, and Co-Director for the Program in British Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen F’15, Assistant Professor in the Tri-College Department of Linguistics, Haverford College with joint appointments at Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College
Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
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Michael Magoulias, Director of Journals, University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Mansfield, Senior Program Officer, The Getty Foundation
Kevin McLaughlin, Dean of the Faculty, and George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies, Brown University
Rikk Mulligan F’14, Program Officer for Scholarly Publishing, Association of Research Libraries
Timothy Murray, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of English, and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Cornell Library, Cornell University
Jessica H. Neptune F’14, Policy Analyst in the Division of Economic Support for Families, US Department of Health and Human Services
Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
Patrick O’Shea F’15, Content and Research Manager for Communications and Development, National Immigration Law Center
Michael Penn F’11, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religion, Mount Holyoke College
Margaret Plympton, Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
Sally (Sarah) Pratt G’79, Vice Provost for Graduate Programs and Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California
Daniel Reid, Executive Director, Whiting Foundation
Amy Richter, Director of the Higgins School of Humanities and Associate Professor in the Department of History, Clark University
David M. Robinson F’83, Director of the OSU Center for the Humanities, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, and Professor of English in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, Oregon State University
Matthew B. Roller F’00, Vice Dean for Graduate Education, and Centers & Programs in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Classics, The Johns Hopkins University
Peter Roudik, Director of the Global Legal Research Center, Library of Congress
Karen Shanton F’12, Staff Writer for Verbatim, Ballotpedia
Colleen Shogan, Deputy Director of National and International Outreach, Library of Congress
James Shulman, President, ARTstor
Emily Swafford, Manager of Academic Affairs, American Historical Association
James Swenson, Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor in the Department of French, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Donna Sy, Mellon Fellowship Program Director, Rare Book School, University of Virginia; and Webmaster, Bibliographical Society of America
Kathryn D. Temple F’03, F’97, Associate Professor in the Department of English, Georgetown University; and Founder, The National Center for Student Success
Robert Townsend, Project Staff for Humanities Indicators and Director of Washington DC Office, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Joan Fragaszy Troyano F’14, Public Outreach Manager of “Our American Journey: Smithsonian’s Immigration and Migration Initiative” for the Grand Challenges Consortia, Smithsonian Institution
Matthew Van Hoose, Project Director and Whiting Fellow for the Humanities, National Humanities Alliance
Judith E. Vichniac, Associate Dean of the Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Jennifer A. Vogt F’15, Innovation Manager for Social Financial Services, Ashoka
Laurel Seely Voloder F’11, F’08, Management and Policy Analyst, US Department of State
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Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
Jesse S. Watson, Associate Dean for Graduate Academic Affairs, University of Southern California
Scott L. Waugh, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California, Los Angeles
Heidi Wiederkehr, Deputy Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Adam Wolfson, Assistant Chairman for Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
Marian Zelazny, Administrative Officer in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
Katja Zelljadt, Director of Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities
Zoe L. Ziliak Michel F’15, Policy Analyst for Job Quality, Center for Law and Social Policy
Jan Ziolkowski F’86, Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin and Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Classics, Harvard University
ACLS Staff
Pauline Yu, President
Steven C. Wheatley, Vice President
Rachel Bernard, Program Officer, Fellowship and Grant Programs
Sandra Bradley, Director of Member Relations
John Paul Christy, Director of Public Programs
Candace Frede, Director of Web and Information Systems
Matthew Goldfeder, Director of Fellowship Programs
Simon Guzman, Director of Finance
Cindy Mueller, Manager, Office of Fellowships and Grants
Sarah Peters, Administrative Assistant to the President
Katie Smith, Program Associate, International Programs
May 2016
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