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Annual Report 2004–2005 ISSN 0065-7972
Annual Report 2004-2005 (October 1, 2004-September 30, 2005)
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Contents Constituent Societies 1 Board of Directors 2 Investment Committee 2 Executive Committee of the Board 2 Associates of the ACLS 3 President’s Report 5 Current & Emerging Priorities 13 Liberal Arts Colleges & the Humanities 13 Report on Development 14 Individual Giving, 2004-2005 16 Fellowship Programs 21 ACLS Fellowship Program 21 ACLS/Social Science Research Council/ National Endowment for the Humanities International & Area Studies Fellowships 22 ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships 22 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships 22 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars 23 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships 24 Henry Luce Foundation /ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art 24 Contemplative Practice Fellowship Program 25
International Programs 26 ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, & Ukraine 26 ACLS Committees on East European Studies & Language Training 27 New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society 28 Committee on Scholarly Communication with China 28 ACLS/Social Science Research Council International Program 29 Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam 31 United States-Vietnam Liberal Arts Faculty Exchange Program 32 ACLS/SSRC Programs Administered by SSRC 33 Abe Fellowships 33 International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships 35 Working Group on Cuba 35
(continued) Scholarly Communication 36 Contents ACLS History E-Book Project 36 (continued) Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences 40 American National Biography 41 The Correspondence of Charles Darwin 42 ACLS Publications 43 ACLS Member Activities 44 2005 Annual Meeting 44 Society Representatives: Delegates & Conference of Administrative Officers 47 Member Activities 51 Executive Committee of the Delegates/ Committee on Admissions 51 Conference of Administrative Officers 52 Associate Membership 56 Affiliate Membership 57 ACLS Relations with Other Organizations 58 Union Académique Internationale 58 Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 59 Graves Awards in the Humanities 60 International Council for Philosophy & Humanistic Studies 60 International Social Sciences Council 60 National Humanities Alliance 61 National Endowment for the Humanities 61 Other Agencies of the U.S. Government 61 ACLS Fellowship & Grant Awardees 62 ACLS Fellows, 2004-2005 62 ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellow 65 ACLS/Social Science Research Council/ National Endowment for the Humanities International & Area Studies Fellows 65 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellows 66 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows 67 Other Fellowship & Grant Awardees 68 Financial Statements 82 Independent Auditors’ Report 82 ACLS Staff 95
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Constituent Societies (year founded • year admitted to ACLS)
African Studies Association, 1957 • 1990 Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780 • 1919 1968 • 1991 American Academy of Religion, 1909 • 1979 Association of American Geographers, 1904 • 1941 American Anthropological Association, 1902 • 1930 Association of American Law Schools, 1900 • 1958 American Antiquarian Society, 1812 • 1919 Bibliographical Society of America, 1904 • 1929 American Association for the Advancement of College Art Association, 1912 • 1942 Slavic Studies, 1948 • 1984 College Forum of the National Council of American Association for the History of Medicine, Teachers of English, 1911 • 1996 1925 • 2002 Dictionary Society of North America, 1975 • 1994 American Comparative Literature Association, Economic History Association, 1940 • 1967 1960 • 1974 German Studies Association, 1976 • 1995 American Dialect Society, 1889 • 1962 Hispanic Society of America, 1904 • 1973 American Economic Association, 1885 • 1919 History of Science Society, 1924 • 1927 American Folklore Society, 1888 • 1945 International Center of Medieval Art, 1956 • 2000 American Historical Association, 1884 • 1919 Latin American Studies Association, 1966 • 1990 American Musicological Society, 1934 • 1951 Law and Society Association, 1964 • 1997 American Numismatic Society, 1858 • 1937 Linguistic Society of America, 1924 • 1927 American Oriental Society, 1842 • 1920 Medieval Academy of America, 1925 • 1927 American Philological Association, 1869 • 1919 Metaphysical Society of America, 1950 • 1958 American Philosophical Association, 1900 • 1920 Middle East Studies Association of North America, American Philosophical Society, 1743 • 1919 1966 • 1988 American Political Science Association, 1903 • 1920 Modern Language Association of America, 1883 • 1920 American Psychological Association, 1892 • 1973 National Communication Association, 1914 • 1997 American Schools of Oriental Research, 1900 • 1998 National Council on Public History, 1980 • 2002 American Society for Aesthetics, 1942 • 1950 Organization of American Historians, 1907 • 1971 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Renaissance Society of America, 1954 • 1958 1969 • 1976 Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, American Society for Environmental History, 1970 • 1990 1976 • 2004 Society for American Music, 1975 • 1995 American Society for Legal History, 1956 • 1973 Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 1959 • 1990 American Society for Theatre Research, 1956 • 1975 Society for Ethnomusicology, 1955 • 1966 American Society of Church History, 1888 • 2001 Society for French Historical Studies, 1956 • 1993 American Society of Comparative Law, 1951 • 1995 Society for Music Theory, 1977 • 2000 American Society of International Law, 1906 • 1971 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, American Sociological Association, 1905 • 1919 1911 • 2003 American Studies Association, 1950 • 1958 Society for the History of Technology, 1958 • 1973 Archaeological Institute of America, 1879 • 1919 Society of Architectural Historians, 1940 • 1958 Association for Asian Studies, 1941 • 1954 Society of Biblical Literature, 1880 • 1929 Association for Jewish Studies, 1969 • 1985 Society of Dance History Scholars, 1978 • 1996
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The Council, Board of Directors consists of a 15-member Board of Directors Susan McClary, Chair, Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles (2006) and one Delegate John R. Clarke, Vice Chair, Ancient Art and Architecture, University of Texas at Austin (2007) from each member Charlotte Kuh, Treasurer, National Research Council, National Academies (2008) society. The board Sandra T. Barnes, Secretary, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (2008) meets three times Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy, PrincetonUniversity (2008) a year. Susan Ball, College Art Association (2006) (ex officio) Frederick M. Bohen, Finance and Administration, Rockefeller University (2007) Rebecca Chopp, President (Religion and American Culture), Colgate University (2006) A list of Delegates Jonathan Culler, Comparative Literature, Cornell University (2009) begins on page 47. Marjorie Garber, English, Harvard University (2007) Lynn Hunt, History, University of California, Los Angeles (2009) Earl Lewis, History, Emory University (2008) James O’Donnell, American Philological Association, Georgetown University (2006) (ex officio) Anand A. Yang, History, University of Washington (2006) Pauline Yu, President, ACLS (ex officio)
(Terms expire at the close of the Annual Meeting of the year indicated.)
Investment Committee
Herbert Mann, Chair, TIAA-CREF (retired) Frederick M. Bohen, Rockefeller University John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin Charlotte Kuh, National Research Council, National Academies Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles Heidi Pearlson, Adamas Partners, LLC Carla Skodinski, Van Beuren Management, Inc. Pauline Yu, ACLS
Executive Committee of the Board
Susan McClary, Chair, University of California, Los Angeles John R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin Charlotte Kuh, National Research Council, National Academies Sandra T. Barnes, University of Pennsylvania Frederick M. Bohen, Rockefeller University Earl Lewis, Emory University Pauline Yu, ACLS
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The ACLS receives Associates of the ACLS valued assistance from its Associate members, a group Albright College Emory University* consisting primarily American University Evergreen State College of colleges and Amherst College Florida State University universities but Auburn University Folger Shakespeare Library also including Bard College Franklin and Marshall College research libraries Barnard College Furman University and other scholarly Bates College George Mason University institutions. Each Baylor University George Washington University year they signal Bennington College Georgetown University their commitment Boston Athenaeum Georgia State University to the mission Boston College Getty Research Institute Boston University Gettysburg College of the ACLS Bowdoin College Grinnell College through their Brandeis University Hamilton College financial Brown University* Hampshire College contributions. Bryn Mawr College Harvard University* Bucknell University Haverford College During 2004–2005 California State University, Huntington Library there were 195 Fullerton Illinois Wesleyan University Associates. The California State University, Indiana University, Bloomington* ACLS invites Long Beach Institute for Advanced Study (NJ) new Associate Carleton College Johns Hopkins University* members Carnegie Mellon University Kansas State University throughout Case Western Reserve University Kent State University the year. (See Catholic University of America Kenyon College Associate Member- Center for Advanced Study in the Lewis & Clark College ship, page 56.) Behavioral Sciences Louisiana State University, Center for Advanced Study in the Baton Rouge Visual Arts Macalester College City University of New York, Massachusetts Institute Hunter College of Technology* City University of New York, McGill University Lehman College Miami University Clark University Michigan State University Clemson University Middlebury College Colby College Mount Holyoke College Colby-Sawyer College National Humanities Center Colgate University New Mexico State University *Participants in the College of the Holy Cross New School University special initiative to College of William and Mary New York Public Library
increase the fellowship College of Wooster New York University*
endowment (see Columbia University* Newberry Library
page 14). Cornell University* Northeastern University Dartmouth College* Northern Illinois University Denison University Northwestern University* Dickinson College Oberlin College Duke University* Ohio State University* Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Ohio University For current information, and Collection Pace University see the ACLS Web site East Carolina University Pennsylvania State University at
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Pomona College University of California, University of Rochester Princeton University* San Diego University of South Carolina Purchase College, State University of California, University of Southern University of New York Santa Barbara California* Purdue University University of California, University of Tennessee, Radcliffe Institute for Santa Cruz Knoxville Advanced Study University of Chicago* University of Texas at Austin* Reed College University of Colorado, University of the South Rhodes College Boulder University of Toronto Rice University University of Connecticut University of Tulsa Rutgers University* University of Denver University of Virginia* Saint John’s University (MN) University of Florida University of Washington* Saint Olaf College University of Georgia University of Wisconsin, Santa Clara University University of Houston Madison* Sarah Lawrence College University of Illinois Vanderbilt University Scripps College at Chicago Vassar College Skidmore College University of Illinois Villanova University Smith College at Urbana-Champaign* Virginia Commonwealth Southern Illinois University University of Iowa University Southern Methodist University University of Kansas Virginia Polytechnic Institute Spelman College University of Maryland and State University Stanford University* University of Maryland, Wake Forest University State University of New York Baltimore County Washington and Lee University at Albany University of Massachusetts Washington College State University of New York at Amherst Washington University in at Buffalo University of Miami St. Louis State University of New York University of Michigan, Wayne State University at Stony Brook Ann Arbor* Wellesley College Sterling and Francine Clark University of Michigan, Wesleyan University Art Institute Dearborn Wheaton College (MA) Susquehanna University University of Minnesota, Willamette University Swarthmore College Twin Cities* Williams College Syracuse University University of Missouri System Yale University* Texas A&M University University of Montana Texas Tech University University of Nebraska, Lincoln Trinity College (CT) University of New Hampshire Trinity University University of New Mexico Tufts University University of North Carolina Tulane University at Chapel Hill* University of Arizona University of North Carolina University of California, at Greensboro Berkeley* University of North Texas University of California, Davis University of Notre Dame University of California, University of Oklahoma Irvine University of Oregon University of California, University of Pennsylvania* Los Angeles* University of Pittsburgh* University of California, University of Puget Sound Riverside University of Richmond
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President’s Report
Approaching the end of my second year as ACLS President, I was reminded in a timely way of one of Emily Dickinson’s poems: I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way The Stars about my Head I felt About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch— This gave me that Precarious Gait Some call Experience. While I do not claim even to have mastered that “Precarious Gait” yet, I would like to thank all of you who have helped to keep me relatively upright Pauline Yu, as I have stepped from “Plank to Plank” since my arrival—the superb staff President at ACLS, my colleagues on the Board of Directors, the Administrative Officers and Delegates of our 68 learned societies, our college and university Associates, Affiliates, and friends both near and far. I would also like to note that my memory jog occurred in a New York City subway train, reading the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Poetry in Motion. This suggests, at the least, that the humanities do in fact have a public, a topic engaged by the afternoon forum of our 2005 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. That session had been preceded by an earlier panel in which four of our recent young Fellowship awardees discussed the research projects we have funded and reflected on more general scholarly trends within their respective disciplines. I cannot imagine a more compelling argument for the value of what ACLS is doing and why we are doing it. “Advancing humanistic studies in all fields of learning” is the first mandate of our mission, and we should never lose sight of the fact that it is individual scholars who advance scholarship. ACLS does so by supporting individuals. But, as we so often stress, the value of our support cannot be measured in terms of cash outlays alone, but also in relation to the community of judgment we convene in our many review committees, the debates they conduct, and the choices they make in allocating those dollars. The question of “community” lay at the junction between the Annual Meeting’s morning and afternoon special sessions: the intersection between the work of advancing humanistic scholarship and the challenge of connecting that work with the wider communities of different publics. ACLS stands for peer review. If there are “peers,” there must be an assumed community, one whose autonomy and self-governance we as scholars fiercely defend. Our community is broad, diverse, and constantly changing, but it
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is in one sense a gated community; we argue that we must define who our President’s peers are. This is the issue at the core of the debates about the “academic Report bill of rights” proposed by David Horowitz. That proposal aside (which I (continued) hope is where it stays), the public has thus far, by and large, agreed to, or at least accepted, the sphere of scholarly self-government to which we have laid claim. Is that the end of the transaction? What return does the public receive on its “investment”—both financial and moral—in the autonomy of the scholarly community? Before reflecting on what I see as the public value of scholarly self- governance I would like to report on some current ACLS activities that concern the health of our academic communities and their relation to their publics. Over the past year we have been examining the world of the academic humanities in different institutional manifestations: as learned societies, in our colleges and universities, and on the digital frontier of cyberspace. Our concern in each of these areas is to understand better and strengthen where possible the communities that exist on these planes, as well as their ability to communicate the public value of their work. “Learned Societies” is, of course, the ACLS’ “last name,” as it were. ACLS is a community, to be sure, but also, as Garrison Keillor jokes, “an association of associations.” Our very existence is premised on the existence of a strong stratum of learned societies, which play a distinctive role in the complex ecology of American academia. The system of higher education and research in the U.S. is characterized by a high degree of institutional diversity but also a commonality of values and ideals. Our societies, most of which combine democratic governance with the application of rigorous standards in their journals and selection of leadership, neatly balance these forces. It is worth noting in passing that the phenomenon of learned societies has not received the amount of formal academic study that their importance to the academic community suggests they deserve. The modest but creditable efforts of the ACLS Conference of Administrative Officers to develop some baseline data on the collective health and dynamics of societies in the twenty-first century—work begun for their 2001 Retreat in Boise that will continue for their 2007 Retreat in Salt Lake City—are important beginnings, but more should be done. And more will be done, but at the moment our focus is on the institutional health of our societies. The leadership seminars for new presidents of learned societies we have conducted have focused on the relations of elected academic leadership to appointed administrative leadership and to the broad interests of society members. But these very concerns are conditioned by the public role of learned societies and how that is defined. Three ongoing ACLS initiatives concern the different institutional communities of the academic humanities. Funded by a grant from the Teagle Foundation, a Working Group on Liberal Education is examining the longstanding assumption of an integral connection between faculty research and student learning that is especially prominent in liberal arts colleges. This model—so deeply assumed that it is often left implicit—posits that teacher-scholars whose intellectual horizons are broadened by research can best educate undergraduate students of the liberal arts, broadening their
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intellectual horizons and inculcating in them the same habits of lifelong President’s critical inquiry they themselves have practiced. Seeking to test this ideal, the Report group has organized its discussion around three questions: First, what is it (continued) that faculty research and other forms of professional engagement contribute to the teaching mission of liberal arts colleges? Second, does faculty research activity actually affect students in ways that they understand, and that we can measure? And third, are there societal, institutional, or disciplinary shifts underway that are advancing or undermining the value and viability of the teacher-scholar model? A planning grant from the Rockefeller Foundation has enabled us to convene a second ACLS task force focusing on a different institutional sector, that of public comprehensive universities, which educate fully one-third of the undergraduates pursuing bachelor’s degrees in the country. While scholars from these universities are already present in the ACLS network as both fellowship recipients and leaders of learned societies, we thought it important to explore a possible expansion beyond the level of individual links to create partnerships at the institutional level. We have asked the task force to draft a concept paper that will suggest how the Council can best support these institutions in their efforts to embed the humanities in their larger missions and will propose mechanisms that integrate the value of the individual research support we provide into the dynamics of the broader institutional framework in which these faculty teach. The research university sector has long been well represented within the ACLS universe of fellowship awardees and learned society presidents, and the 31-member research university consortium that has made an extraordinary commitment to enhance our ability to support individual scholarship is glorious testimony to the strength of our partnership. A third institutional initiative has linked ACLS with the organization to which the consortium members belong, the 62-member Association of American Universities (AAU). Together we have organized campus-based roundtable discussions of the 2004 AAU report entitled Reinvigorating the Humanities: Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond, culminating in a national convocation at the 2006 Annual Meeting. University, foundation, and government leaders and distinguished faculty will come together to discuss the important roles of the humanities both on campus and in the public sphere, and to suggest how best to advance their mission. Each of these projects aims to make a case for the importance of what we do as scholars and as teachers. We are moved to do this because of the very real pressures on all of these institutions, pressures that may originate in budgetary issues but soon come to rest on questions of mission and role. Some of that discussion must take place within these institutions themselves: the ACLS-AAU Steering Committee, for example, was particularly concerned about the relationship of the humanities to other disciplines on our campuses. But the larger and ever present question is how to align the sense of our mission that is so alive in our epistemic communities—in our learned societies, in the scholarly community across the disciplines—with the very real expectations of students, tuition-paying parents, and the public that ultimately supports higher education.
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The same questions echo in cyberspace. The ACLS Commission on President’s Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences has held public Report sessions around the country to hear from the scholarly community on the (continued) needs, potential rewards, and priorities for developing a more robust presence of humanistic learning in the digital world. There can be no question, I think, that technology empowers humanities and social science scholars to do what they already do: gather, examine, interpret, and analyze data, texts, and images. The scholarly community has always been a virtual community, a “communications gemeinschaft,” and digitization has expanded the intensity and breadth of our communication exponentially. More important, as all our colleagues in media studies know, new ways of seeing bring new ways of knowing, and we have only begun to explore how digital technologies can transform as well as transmit knowledge. The ACLS Cyberinfrastructure Commission’s report will aim to outline what can be done to exploit this potential more systematically than we now do. Aspiring digital scholars are often in the equivalent of a pre-Gutenberg situation: if you want to get your work out, you must build your own printing press. “Cyberinfrastructure”—a term of art coming from computer sciences—can be a commonly available platform that allows scholars to focus on scholarship and, critically, present that scholarship to a much wider public. But, as with the institutionally-focused initiatives mentioned above, the critical question is how and to whom to make the case for investment in this promising venture. James O’Donnell, provost of Georgetown University and a Commission member, wisely remarked that the group believes that the intellectual and cultural payoff from this investment is large and that the headline for the report cannot be “English Professors Want Better Computers.” The Commission must convince both the public and the scholarly community that digital scholarship carries public value, and that, as the Commission’s Senior Editor Abby Smith writes: “We can see the possibility of placing much of the world’s cultural heritage—its historical record, its literary and artistic achievements, its languages, beliefs and practices—within the reach of nearly every citizen.” But, unfortunately, the case for the public value of humanities scholarship, or of scholarship in general, is often crowded out by more attention-grabbing dramas. We find ourselves at a moment when the most newsworthy happenings in academia are not discoveries, publications, or student achievements, but controversy, invective, and tumult. Because so many of these crises reveal a widespread misunderstanding of the principles of academic freedom, not only outside the academy but within it as well, I think it is worth returning to the underlying premises of this scholarly prerogative. We should all be mindful of why the stipulation of a self-governing academic community—the underpinning of academic freedom—is a public good and not a mere charter of special privileges for scholars, and why it requires a certain autonomy from public pressures. In 2002, reacting to campus tensions echoing conflicts in the Middle East, University of Chicago President Don Michael Randel issued a statement on that university’s stance regarding civil discourse and debate, debate being an essential element of civil discourse. As he put it:
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We are a community, and this entails a decent respect for one President’s another and even a degree of trust. No set of rules or codes of Report behavior can ever fully capture everything that respect and trust (continued) require. Maintaining this community is hard work, and each of us must assume some personal responsibility for it. In a world of increasing tensions and heated differences, we will sometimes be accused of bias or even rank prejudice for tolerating a wide spectrum of views. But the response to views that one finds distasteful is not in the first instance to attempt to suppress them but instead to answer them with the force of argument.1 Specifying civility as the acknowledgement of and requirement for participation in a community of inquiry suggests how it ought to work. Civil discourse implies respect for our interlocutors as fellows in our own community. The respect we pay to our fellows’ arguments is in their contestation. We respect our fellows’ arguments not just for their content but also for the opportunity to contest them and the mutual belief that that contestation is a value. The practice of academic civil discourse, then, acknowledges and instantiates a community with a common purpose. And the existence of that community is the basic premise of academic freedom. We would deceive ourselves if we did not recognize the vulnerability of this principle. As a formal doctrine, academic freedom is only a little more than a century old, articulated in the 1915 “Report on Academic Freedom and Tenure” of the then-fledgling American Association of University Professors (AAUP). That foundational statement reads in part: The distinctive and important function [of professors . . .] is to deal at first hand, after prolonged and specialized technical training, with the sources of knowledge; and to impart the results of their own and of their fellow-specialists’ investigations and reflection, both to students and the general public, without fear or favor [. . .] The proper fulfillment of the work of the professoriate requires that our universities shall be so free that no fair-minded person shall find any excuse for even a suspicion that the utterances of university teachers are shaped or restricted by the judgment, not of professional scholars, but of inexpert and possibly not wholly disinterested persons outside their ranks.2 This statement doesn’t delineate an ambit for academic freedom that is larger than the freedom of speech compassed by the First Amendment, and, indeed, its orbit is a smaller one. If all citizens have First Amendment rights, only faculty (in the AAUP’s argument) possess academic freedom, which derives from values that attach to the distinct professional role of the scholar. Academic freedom doesn’t grant professors the right to make libelous statements or to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater. What the statement does seek to secure is something else, the limitation of who can sit in judgment of the “utterances of university teachers,” and that role is limited to the community of university teachers itself. The freedom it provides is only a freedom from the judgment and sanctions of the professor’s employers: the administration, the trustees, and, ultimately, the public that supports
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the academic enterprise through either tax dollars or tax exemption. And President’s it is, as Robert Post has argued, less a defense of individual rights than a Report safeguarding of the interests constituted by the corporate body of the faculty (continued) and its commitment to professional self-regulation according to the standards of the disciplines.3 Columbia University’s president, Lee C. Bollinger, has articulated the logic of academic freedom in no uncertain terms.4 He begins his 2005 Cardozo lecture, sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, by noting that this is “a time of enormous stress for colleges and universities across the country[, . . .] a time of contentious debate on campuses [. . . that] concern[s] matters of national or global importance. Many are joined—even incited—by outside forces, from political pressure groups to the mainstream media to increasingly strident voices on the Web.” Bollinger asserts that “universities . . . must stand firm in insisting that, when there are lines to be drawn, we must and will be the ones to do it. Not outside actors, not pressure groups, not the media. Ours is and must remain a system of self- government.” And self-governance carries a corollary obligation: “There is review, it does have consequences, and it does consider content.”5 It is on the basis of that review—the peer review processes that we know so well—that scholars determine who is admitted to their community of judgment. What does the public gain in this deal? What is its interest in the intellectual autonomy of professors? Where is the public value in academic freedom? The 1915 statement of the AAUP provides at least one answer: scholarly inquiry is best pursued in a nonproprietary environment, independent of outside interests. The best knowledge is that which is freely developed and freely judged by disciplinary authorities. And as long as the public believes in the need for freely created knowledge, it has a reason to continue to support academic freedom. There is also, as President Bollinger argues, a political value—political in the highest sense—of insulating academic discourse from quotidian partisan politics: “There is far more at work within a university than simply the search for truth,” he notes, continuing: [There is a] significant additional function [. . .] of nurturing a very distinctive intellectual character [. . . O]f all the qualities of mind valued in the academic community I would say the most valued is that of having the imaginative range and the mental courage to take in, to explore, the full complexity of the subject. To set aside one’s pre-existing beliefs, to hold simultaneously in one’s mind multiple angles of seeing things, to actually allow yourself seemingly to believe another view as you consider it—these are the kinds of intellectual qualities that [. . .] suffuse the academic atmosphere at its best. Here President Bollinger is echoing none other than John Cardinal Newman, who saw in the university “[t]he power of viewing many things at once as a whole, of referring them severally to their true place in the universal system, of understanding their respective values, and determining their mutual dependence.”6 Bollinger draws, however, an additional connection, one between the intellectual culture nurtured in the university
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and the “particular intellectual and emotional attributes [that] are needed to President’s make a successful democracy,” which include “the intellectual flexibility of Report the give-and-take of perpetual conflict over multiple desires and beliefs that (continued) characterize life in a democratic system of government.” That is, knowing “[w]hen to share and embrace other views, when to insist on your own; when to compromise and when to resist.”7 I think that the public value of the university as a community that embraces, at least in principle, the practice of intellectual wholeness, and the ability to think beyond the interests and boundaries of the individual, can only increase. It may be that we are entering a stage of our cultural development where we can customize our cultural consumption to reinforce—and never to challenge—our established intellectual commitments and political views. The proliferation and ideological segmentation of the news media accelerate each day. Technologies exist to refine our ideological preferences infinitely as the common public square shrinks to the vanishing point. Hence the importance of maintaining the university as a dynamic community of debate and judgment whose commitment to civility and scholarly self-regulation is the premise of its academic freedom. Civil discourse in the university—the practice of reasoned argument—can provide an important model for the wider civic discourse, and this is a central aspect of the public value of academic freedom. At the same time, we in the academy must not stand aloof from that wider public sphere. Speaking at an ACLS Annual Meeting, New York University historian Thomas Bender stated that: To the extent that we follow a pattern of withdrawal from the public culture, we become vulnerable to those simple questions that often enrage us: What do you do? What good is it? We err if we respond that “it is none of your business” or that “you would not understand,” which amounts to the same thing. These are fair questions, and if we cannot answer them for our neighbors in everyday language, we should be concerned.8 What we do, in very great part, is debate our naturally quite different views on the subjects to which we have dedicated our professional lives. Sustaining both the independence of that professional debate from outside forces and the value of what it has to say to that outside world is the difficult dance the scholarly community must constantly perform. In April 2005, the ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine convened an international symposium at the New York Public Library to consider strategies for strengthening humanities scholarship in that region. Among the speakers was Tatsiana Shchyttsova of the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus. Or, to be more accurate, formerly in Minsk, since it has been closed by the dictator Lukashenko and is going into exile in Vilnius, Lithuania. She described compellingly a “so-called scholarly community [that] has yet to become a community,” where academics “reproduce certain obligatory forms of scholarly activity which are considered boring and unfruitful by their own participants.” Genuine scholarly debate is a novelty, and critical review of colleagues is not accepted by many. In this situation
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many have been forced to hew to what she called “the golden rule of post- soviet intellectuals: ‘everyone survives [by] being alone.’” No one is alone within the ACLS, which brings together the broad set of overlapping, and sometimes contesting, communities we represent. Our communities, it is true, would be alone if we failed to reflect on their connections with each other and their common role in the public sphere. But I am confident that that is a commitment we share, and that we are all in this together.
1. “Provost, President make clear University’s stance on civil discourse, debate,” The University of Chicago Chronicle 21 Nov. 2002
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Current & Emerging Priorities Liberal Arts Colleges & the Humanities
Over the last several years, the ACLS has held a number of conversations focused on select groups from within the broader ACLS constituency, leading to a number of new initiatives. Building on the success of a 2002 meeting of senior faculty members from liberal arts colleges, ACLS hosted a November 2003 conference on “Liberal Arts Colleges in American Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities.” The conference was organized under the guidance of then ACLS Interim President Francis Oakley and held in Williamstown, Massachusetts with the support of the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College and the collaboration of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. It was developed in the belief that liberal arts colleges are a critical component of the national infrastructure for higher education, helping to anchor the commitment of American higher education to the arts and sciences at a time when the current of professional and technical training runs ever stronger. At the conference, 18 speakers on 5 panels focused on historical perspectives, fiscal pressures, professional life, student achievement, and the future of liberal arts colleges. The conference proceedings are forthcoming in the ACLS Occasional Paper series.
In a current program, awarded funding by the Teagle Foundation in September 2004, a small group of faculty and administrative leaders, education researchers, and learned society past presidents are investigating changing enrollment demographics and increased institutional pressures, two concerns addressed at the Williamstown conference. The Teagle Working Group in Liberal Education will convene 3 times in 18 months, ultimately producing a white paper intended to provide new empirical data and grounding for institutional practices. Teagle Working Group Alison Byerly, Middlebury College; Michael J. Chang, University of California, Los Angeles; Rebecca Chopp, Colgate University; Stephen E. Fix, Williams College; Jane S. Jacquette, Occidental College; George D. Kuh, Indiana University, Bloomington; Kenneth Ruscio, Washington and Lee University; Ruth Solie, Smith College; David Spadafora, Newberry Library.
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Also see Individual Report on Development Giving (page 16).
The capacity of the ACLS to assist scholars and scholarship in the humanities continues to expand, thanks to the ACLS Fellowship Development Campaign. The campaign, begun in 1997, aims to double the value of the fund supporting ACLS fellowships; 2004–05 was its eighth year. Individual giving is a critical component of that effort. Gifts received from individuals in 2004–05 totaled nearly $175,000. Donations from former ACLS grant and fellowship awardees are a noteworthy component of the campaign. Professors Susan Mann, Arnold Rampersad, and Stuart Sherman chaired a Development Committee of 16 distinguished ACLS Fellows. Giving from past recipients of ACLS support totaled almost $85,000. Contributions from individual donors are reported in the annual Individual Giving Report, including contributions to the John H. D’Arms Fund and to the Oscar Handlin Fellowships in American History. The ACLS remains singular among national academic organizations for the strengthening of humanistic scholarship is at the very center of our mission. Recognizing that the stipends of ACLS peer-reviewed and portable fellowships needed to reach levels commensurate with faculty salaries, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation laid the groundwork for this initiative with grants to the ACLS fellowship program. Significant grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, built on that groundwork. ACLS’ college and university Associates are special partners with the ACLS in support of the humanities; their annual contributions, at increased levels, are also helping to advance the Fellowship Development Campaign. The result is that stipends in 2004-05 ranged from up to $30,000 for assistant professors to up to $50,000 for full professors (up from $20,000 for all ranks) and the total number of fellowships has increased. A beneficial “ripple effect” has resulted both from the general effort to increase stipends and the specific focus on different stages of the academic career. John H. D’Arms began an additional initiative in 2000–01 to strengthen the infrastructure of scholarship in the humanities in the United States. The leaders of 31 leading research universities (see pages 3–4) agreed to make special annual contributions of $50,000 a year to the ACLS fellowship fund for a period of 10 years. This commitment of $15.5 million, when added to the results of the larger campaign, will permit ACLS to increase fellowship stipends for full professors to $75,000 by the end of the 10-year period and to increase the annual number of senior fellowships.
Staff: Barbara Martinez Henning.
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Development (continued)
CumulativeCumulative Individual Individual Giving Giving to ACLS to ACLS, 1997-20051997-2005
$1,500,000 $1,391,416
$1,300,000 $1,230,350
$1,100,000 $1,083,730
$936,167 $900,000
$700,000 $725,230
$500,000 $444,864
$300,000
$191,582 $100,000 $38,162 $0 FY97 FY98 FY99 FY00 FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 -$100,000
Source: Audited Financial Statements
ACLS Fellows’ Development Committee Co-Chairs: Susan Mann, University of California, Davis; Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University; and Stuart Sherman, Fordham University. Roger Bagnall, Columbia University; Stephen F. Cohen, New York University; Dolores Warwick Frese, University of Notre Dame; Daniel Javitch, New York University; David Kyvig, Northern Illinois University; Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University, Bloomington; Donald J. Munro, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Francis Oakley, President Emeritus, Williams College, and President Emeritus, ACLS; Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of Virginia; E-Tu Zen Sun, Pennsylvania State University; Margaret Switten, Mount Holyoke College; Arnold Thackray, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Elizabeth Traugott, Stanford University.
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Individual Giving, 2004-2005
The ACLS gratefully acknowledges the following donations received from October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005. These contributions, along with those of foundations and the institutional Associates of the ACLS are helping to make possible the reinvigoration of the ACLS Fellowship Program. This listing includes contributions to the John H. D’Arms Fund, restricted to support for the ACLS Fellowship Program and initiatives identified with John H. D’Arms’ leadership of the humanities, and to the ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowships in American History.
$25,000 and above $500–$999 $250–$499 Charlotte Kuh and Kwame Anthony Appiah Hans Aarsleff Roy Radner Roger S. Bagnall Paula R. Backscheider Carl and Lily Peter A. Benoliel and Sandra T. Barnes Pforzheimer Willo Carey Mary Elizabeth Berry Foundation, Inc.^ Caroline Walker Bynum Sheila Biddle Mark C. Carnes Joseph Bosco Richard W. Couper David F. Bright $5,000–$14,999 Patrick J. Geary Rebecca Bushnell Stuart Sherman* Paul Gehl John B. Clayton IV Pauline Yu Christina M. Gillis John Clendenning David M. Kennedy Marshall Cohen 1,000–$4,999 Philip S. Khoury and W. Robert Connor John P. Birkelund Mary C. Wilson Joseph Connors Frederick M. Bohen William C. Kirby Jonathan D. Culler William M. Calder III Earl Lewis Dennis C. Dickerson Stephen F. Cohen and Herbert Mann Richard S. and Katrina vanden Susan McClary Mary Maples Dunn Heuvel Donald J. Munro Edward L. Farmer D. Ronald Daniel David S. Nivison Shelley Fisher Fishkin Dolores Warwick Frese Rhoda Rappaport Helene P. Foley William T. Golden Carla H. Skodinski Paul Freedman Paul J. Korshin Patricia Meyer Spacks Madeline Einhorn Glick Janet Lumiansky Margaret Switten Ruth and Thomas A. Susan Mann Scott Waugh Green Henry A. Millon Herbert S. Winokur Vartan Gregorian Francis Oakley Wen-hsin Yeh Geoffrey G. Harpham Arnold Rampersad Paula M. Higgins Carl W. Schafer Norman Holland Arnold Thackray Martha Howell Elizabeth Traugott Samuel L. Hynes Steven C. Wheatley* Lynn A. Hunt and Margaret C. Jacob Daniel Javitch William C. Jordan Thomas F. Kelly
* Contributors to the Fellowship Fund and the John H. D’Arms Fund u Contributors to the John H. D’Arms Fund ^ Contributors to the ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowships in American History
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Individual Giving
Effect of the Endowment Campaign on ACLS’ Ability to Offer Fellowships
FY1997 FY2005 Number of Fellowships Offered 56 66 Average Award $ 19,432 $ 38,150 Total Amount Awarded $ 1,088,205 $ 2,289,000
$250–$499 (continued) $100–$249 Peter Brooks Wm. Theodore de Bary David E. Kyvig Percy G. Adams Cynthia J. Brown Norma Diamond Nicholas R. Lardy Craig E. Adcock Elizabeth A. R. Brown Mabel C. Donnelly Eleanor Winsor Leach Janet Adelman Virginia Brown Thomas Doulis David W. Lightfoot Richard Philip Adelstein Ann Blair Brownlee Shanshan Du Lester K. Little Joan Afferica David B. Brownlee Jon Michael Dunn Sabine MacCormack Paul Alpers Ronald E. Buckalew Stephen L. Dyson Laurence B. McCullough Bruce J. Altshuler Susan H. Bush Connie C. Eble John G. Medlin, Jr. Albert Jay Ammerman Colin Calloway Dale F. Eickelman Victor G. Nee Margaret Anderson and Mary J. Carruthers Richard Ekman Nancy D. Netzer James Sheehan Charles D. Cashdollar Catherine Z. Elgin Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. Margo Anderson Peter Caws Jean Bethke Elshtain Helen F. North Virginia DeJohn Anderson Hao Chang Harry B. Evans, Jr. James J. O’Donnell Jonathan Arac Kang-I Sun Chang Lubov Fajfer Jacob M. Price Walter L. Arnstein Xiaomei Chen Albert and Yi-tsi M. Michael C. J. Putnam James Axtell Frederic L. Cheyette Feuerwerker Evelyn Sakakida Rawski Bernard Bailyn Stanley Chodorow Carole Fink Timothy John Raylor Gordon Bakken Rebecca Chopp Stephen E. Fix Lawrence Richardson, Jr. Anastasius C. Bandy Eva Shan Chou Reginald A. Foakes Sally Dalton Robinson James M. Banner, Jr. Jennifer Church Eckart Forster David and Ellen Rosand William Barcham and Bathia Churgin John Burt Foster, Jr. Michael S. Roth Catherine Puglisi Anna M. Cienciala Stephen W. Foster Jeffrey L. Sammons Marcia W. Baron Lawrence M. Clopper Yakira Frank Mark Sanders Robert C. Baron Lizabeth Cohen Herman Freudenberger Lucy Freeman Sandler Martin Battestin Miriam Cohen Bernard Frischer and Russell and Ann Scott* Herbert W. Benario Susan Guettel Cole Jane Crawford Barbara A. Shailor and Thomas Bender Judith Colton Charlotte Furth Harry W. Blair II Jerry H. Bentley Tom C. Conley Julia Haig Gaisser Frederick Stoutland Karol Berger Giles Constable Ziva Galili Thomas N. Trautmann Gabriele Bernhard-Jackson Brian Cooney G. Karl Galinsky A. Richard Turner Judy B. Bernstein William J. Courtenay Bernard Gallin Helen H. Vendler Michael A. Bernstein Kathryn J. Crecelius John A. Gallucci Ute Wartenberg Joseph Blotner Thomas Cripps Laura Garces Robert Weisbuch Mary T. Boatwrightu David Damrosch Peter Gay Christoph Wolff Alan Boegehold Beth Darlington Elaine K. Gazda Yunxiang Yan Patricia U. Bonomi Cathy N. Davidson Daniel J. Geagan Anonymous Donoru Gail M. Bossenga Allen F. Davis Helen A. Geagan Anonymous Donor Michael Brintnall Deborah Davis Nina Rattner Gelbart
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Individual Giving
$100-$249 (continued) Linda K. Kerber Robert Morstein-Marx Robert H. Rodgers Deborah B. Gewertz Tamara S. Ketabgian Wilson J. Moses Matthew B. Roller Donald B. Gibson David R. Knechtges Susan Naquin Margaret Cool Root Neal C. Gillespie Dorothy Ko Dana A. Nelson Gilbert F. Rozman Dorothy F. Glass Helmut Koester Robert S. Nelson Catherine E. Rudder Bertrand A. Goldgar Richard H. Kohn Catherine Nesci Edward G. Ruestow Jan E. Goldstein Audrey Lumsden Kouvel Evelyn S. Newlyn David Harris Sacks Malcolm Goldstein Carol H. Krinsky Barbara J. Newman Donna Sadler Bruce M. Grant Amy Bridges Kronick James W. Nickel Thomas P. Saine Samuel Greengus H. Peter Krosby Deborah Epstein Nord Remy G. Saisselin Monika Greenleaf Philip A. Kuhn Chon Noriega and Stephanie Sandler Anil K. Gupta Bruce R. Kuklick and Kathleen McHugh Jonathan D. Sarna Malachi H. Hacohen Elizabeth Block John F. Oates Richard Schechner J. R. Hall Patrick D. Hanan Donald R. Laing, Jr. Josiah Ober Harry N. Scheiber Edward Handler Jonathan Lamb George Dennis O’Brien Wayne Schlepp Kathryn G. Hansen Naomi R. Lamoreaux Laura B. O’Connor W. Ronald Schuchard Valerie Hansen Sarah B. Landau Thomas A. O’Connor Albert J. Schutz Joseph C. Harris George M. Landes David M. Olster John Searle Neil Harris Berel Lang Martin Ostwald Mark Selden Sally A. Haslanger John A. Larkin Jessie Ann Owens Qin Shao Constance W. Hassett Richard Leppert Thomas G. Palaima Judith R. Shapiro Katrina Hazzard-Donald Glenn Lesses Dennis M. Patterson Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. Elizabeth K. Helsinger Lillian M. Li Robert O. Paxton H. Colin Slim Standish Henning Francoise Lionnet Peter C. Perdue Daniel S. Smith Robert L. Herbert Carla Lord Mark A. Peterson Dorothy J. Solinger Gail Hershatter Michael J. Loux Carla Petievich Otto Sonntag Sally Hillsman Danielle M. Macbeth Carla Rahn Phillips and Peter Stansky Donald Hoffmann Lynn Mally William D. Phillips Randolph Starn Michael Holquist John E. Malmstad Martin Picker Ann R. Steiner Margaret Humphreys Fedwa Malti-Douglas Thomas Pinney Robert R. Stieglitz R. Stephen Humphreys Susan Manning Burton R. Pollin Gale Stokes Constance Cain Sharon Marcus David H. Porter Susan Strasser Hungerford Irving Leonard Markovitz William H. Pritchard Susan M. Stuard James J. John Charles E. Marks Sally M. Promey Richard J. A. Talbert Herbert A. Johnson John F. Marszalek Ernst Pulgram Helen Hornbeck Tanner Larry E. Jones Donald J. Mastronarde Ruth Anna Putnam Andrea W. Tarnowski Robert B. Jones Thomas J. Mathiesen Kurt Raaflaub Donald Stewart Taylor Alyce A. Jordan Katharine E. Maus Eric S. Rabkin Romeyn Taylor Lawrence A. Joseph Woodford McClellan Jill Raitt Nancy Troy Robert Judd and Sarah Blake McHam Sherry Reames Herbert F. Tucker Cristle Collins Judd Elizabeth McKinsey Erica Reiner Paul H. Tucker Joan Judge Martin Meisel John J. Richetti James C. Turner Temma Kaplan Ronald Mellor Velma Richmond Peter L. Vallentyne Carolyn Karcher Raymond A. Mentzer Robert C. Ritchie Jeffrey G. Veidlinger Peter J. Katzenstein Arnold Miller Albert J. Rivero Katherine Verdery George R. Keiser Mark Morford Geoffrey Robinson Sophie Volpp
* Contributors to the Fellowship Fund and the John H. D’Arms Fund u Contributors to the John H. D’Arms Fund ^ Contributors to the ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowships in American History
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Individual Giving
Patricia Waddy George F. Bass James Cruise Ann Garry Ann Waltner and Eleni Bastea Stephen Cushman Margaret P. Gilbert Robert Anholt William H. Beik Robert Joe Cutter Paula Gillett Morimichi Watanabe Janis C. Bell John Dardess Christina K. Gilmartin Lindsay E. Waters Ann L.T. Bergren George Dargo Jean A. Givens L. Vance Watrous Avis Berman Katherine O. David-Fox Jack A. Goldstone Margaret M. Weir Constance Berman Judith F. Davidov Cristina Gonzalez Luke Wenger Robert E. Blobaum Natalie Z. Davis Joanne L. Goodwin Stephen West Susan R. Boettcher Carl Dawson Carma R. Gorman Winthrop Wetherbee Theodore Bogdanos Margreta de Grazia Judith V. Grabiner Peter White Beverly Bossler Andrew P. Debicki Harvey J. Graff Robert and Marina Daniel J. Boucher Devin A. DeWeese Cheryl Greenberg Whitmanu Philip P. Boucher Hanns-Bertold Dietz James Grossman Ellen Bradford Widmer Betsy Bowden Wai Chee Dimock Atina Grossmann Matthew H. Wikander Carolyn P. Boyd Linda J. Docherty Margaret Morganroth Paul R. Williams Charles M. Brand Joseph Donohue Gullette Joy D. Wiltenburg Edward Branigan Susan B. Downey Madelyn and Marcel M. James R. Wiseman Michael E. Bratman Alexis Dudden Gutwirth Richard J. Wolfe Marilyn Ruth Brown Carol G. Duncan Joan H. Hall Kathleen Woodward Matilda Bruckner Charles W. Eagles William W. Hallo C. Conrad Wright Sara A. Butler William C. Edinger Elaine Tuttle Hansen Pei-yi Wu Rebecca A. Butterfield Evelyn Edson Roger Hart Marilyn Yalom Ingrid B. Byerly Margaret J. Ehrhart Erica Harth Ehsan Yarshater Alexander X. Byrd Emory Elliott Geoffrey Hartman Anthony C. Yu Joseph Cady Maria DeJ. Ellis and Susan Ashbrook Harvey Froma Zeitlin Walter Cahn Richard S. Ellis John M. Headley T.C. Price Zimmermann William A. Camfield Nan C. Enstad John B. Hench Vera L. Zolberg Mary Baine Campbell Hyman A. Enzer Judy C. Ho Alex Zwerdling Dominic Capeci, Jr. Gloria C. Erlich R. Ross Holloway Sharon M. Carnicke Gabrielle M. Esperdy Robert C. Howell Up to $99 Inta Gale Carpenter Beatrice Farwell Douglas R. Howland Arthur S. Abramson Annemarie Weyl Carr Seth Fein Brian Hyer Richard J. Agee John S. Carson Mary Lowenthal Felstiner Charles Stephen Jaeger William R. H. Alexander Ruth E. Chang Paula E. Findlen Frederic Jaher+ James S. Amelang Herrick Chapman Stanley E. Fish Benjamin H. Johnson Nancy T. Ammerman Stuart Charme Samuel W. Fleischacker Constance Jordan Clifford C. Ando G. Wallace Chessman+ Thomas R. Flynn Amy Kaminsky Richard Arndt David Chisholm Jaroslav Folda Benjamin J. Kaplan Albert Russell Ascoli Michael Clapper Lee W. Formwalt Lawrence S. Kaplan James O. Bailey Sally H. Clarke Danielle M. Fosler-Lussier Peter Karavites James M. Baker S. Hollis Clayson Perkins Foss David M. Katzman Keith M. Baker Frank Clover Stephen Foster Suzanne K. Kaufman Julia C. Ballerini Albert Cohen Mary E. Frandsen Norman Kelvin Isabel Balseiro Christopher L. Connery Ursula Franklin Edward Donald Kennedy Warner Barnes Wanda Corn Russell A. Fraser Robert Emmet Kennedy Stephen A. Barney Carol Anne Costabile- Karen Freeze Daniel J. Kevles C. Alwyn Barr Heming John D. French Dina R. Khoury M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet David T. Courtwright Norman Friedman Hillel J. Kieval Beatrice S. Bartlett Dario A. Covi Margery A. Ganz Anne S. Kimball Shahzad Bashir Georgia J. Cowart Mary D. Garrard Gail Kligman
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Individual Giving
Up to $99 (continued) Richard P. Meier Leonard Rosenband Maria Tymoczko Thomas Klingler James H. Merrell Charles M. Rosenberg Karen N. Umemoto Christian J. W. Kloesel Gretchen Mieszkowski Winifred B. Rothenberg Luanne von Paul A. C. Koistinen Randall M. Miller David T. Roy Schneidemesser David Konstan Nelson H. Minnich Joel A. Sachs Andrew Kingsley Claudia Koonz Regina Morantz-Sanchez Konrad Sadkowski Weatherhead Enno E. Kraehe Anne McGee Morganstern Steven E. Saunders Rudolph Weingartner Robert A. Kraft Wesley T. Mott Geoffrey D. Sayre-McCord Robert M. Weir John W. Kronik Ross C. Murfin William R. Schmalstieg Marilyn J. Westerkamp Candace D. Lang Brenda Murphy Vera Schwarcz In memory of Edward Wheatley Margaret M. Larkin Kristen Olson Murtaugh Mary Wright Robert C. Williams Brooke Larson James A. R. Nafziger Glenn M. Schwartz Douglas L. Wilson Traugott Lawler Larry Nesper Michael Seidman Jean C. Wilson Ellen S. Lazarus Fallou Ngom Ihor Sevcenko Isser Woloch Herbert Lederer Martha K. Norkunas Helen M. Shannon Robert L. Woods Hugh M. Lee Laurie Nussdorfer Claire Richter Sherman James C. Wright Yoon Sun Lee John H. Oakley Daniel J. Sherman Gideon D. Yaffe Rebecca Lemon Jeannine E. Olson Jonah S. Siegel Daqing Yang Victoria L. Levine Alexander Orbach Lewis H. Siegelbaum Galina Yermolenko Guenter Lewy Sherry B. Ortner Robert L. Simon Robert L. Zangrando Michael Lieb Donna T. Orwin Arthur J. Slavin Madeleine H. Zelin Ilene D. Lieberman Frederick Paxton Jocelyn Penny Small Eleonore M. Harry B. Lincoln Alison Pearlman Edna Southard Zimmermann Charles Lippy Leslie P. Peirce Sally J. Southwick Anonymous Donor (2) Kathlyn Liscomb Susan Lee Pentlin Jack J. Spector Heping Liu Mary Elizabeth Perry Jeffrey S. Sposato Matching Gifts James C. Livingston Alice Hall Petry Raymond J. Starr Henry Luce Foundation Rose-Carol Long Stanley Pierson Anne Fausto Sterling Samuel H. Kress Robert B. Louden Hans Pohlsander David M. Stern Foundation Mason I. Lowance, Jr. Janet Polasky Fritz Stern Teagle Foundation Michèle Lowrie Carol Poore Josef Stern Michael R. Maas Jeffrey Prager Damie Stillman Individual listings include Leslie S. B. MacCoull Sarah Pratt John C. Street matching gifts. Claudia MacDonald Michael Predmore Sharon T. Strocchia Jodi Magness Julia Przybos Sherrill L. Stroschein Mary B. Mahowald Louis Putterman Philippa Strum Victor H. Mair Mary Quinlan Mihoko Suzuki Peter J. Manning Eloise Quinones Keber Nathan Tarcov Jo Burr Margadant Olga Ragusa Thad W. Tate Arthur F. Marotti Amy Randall Rabun Taylor Ralph W. Mathisen Luciano Rebay Timothy D. Taylor E. Ann Matter Wayne A. Rebhorn Lynn M. Thomas Elaine Tyler May Theodore Reff Robert Tomlinson Sean J. McCann Virginia Reinburg Stephen Joel Trachtenberg+ Robert N. McCauley Amy G. Remensnyder Maja Trochimczyk Richard C. McCoy Melvin Richter Peter D. Trooboff, Esq. James W. McGuire Thomas Riggio Katherine Trumpener Samuel T. McSeveney Robert J. Rodini Aileen D. Tsui Michael R. McVaugh Richard Rorty Jeffrey Tulis Dorothy M. Medlin Henry Rosemont, Jr. Carole-Anne Tyler
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Fellowship Programs
See page 62 ACLS Fellowship Program for awardees.
The ACLS Fellowship Program provides awards to individual scholars at the post- doctoral level, allowing them to pursue research in the humanities and related social sciences. Scholars at all stages of their careers, institutionally affiliated and independent, are eligible to apply. Continuing efforts to strengthen the ACLS endowment for fellowships have allowed 2004-05 stipends of up to $50,000 for full professors (and equivalents), up to $40,000 for associate professors (and equivalents), and up to $30,000 for assistant professors (and equivalents). The applicant pool decreased slightly, from 1,027 in 2003–04 to 926 in 2004- 05. In the 2004-05 competition, as in recent years, there was a nearly even distribution of applicants from full, associate, and assistant professors. Of the 60 awards made, 50 were funded wholly or in part by the ACLS endowment for fellowships. The Fellows selected represent 49 institutions and approximately 20 disciplines. The program and its endowment have benefited from the ongoing support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the institutional Associates of ACLS, former recipients of ACLS support, and other friends of ACLS. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews, and Ruth Waters. Members of Selection Panels, ACLS Fellowship Program Jean M. Allman, History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Thomas Bauman, Music, Northwestern University; Kathleen M. Blee, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; David Brink, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego; Jonathan C. Brown, History, University of Texas at Austin; Richard W. Bulliet, Middle East Institute, Columbia University; Terry Castle, English, Stanford University; Thomas E. Cogswell, History, University of California, Riverside; Timothy Corrigan, English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Art History, Princeton University; Stephen Darwall, Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Lori Anne Ferrell, Religion, Claremont Graduate University; Jennifer Fleischner, English, Adelphi University; Paula Girshick, Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington; Justina Gregory, Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College; Ann Grodzins Gold, Anthropology and Religion, Syracuse University; Amy Hollywood, Religion, University of Chicago; Natalie Kampen, Art History, Barnard College; Lawrence Kramer, Music and English, Fordham University; Michael H. Levenson, English, University of Virginia; David W. Lightfoot, Linguistics, Georgetown University; A. James McAdams, Government, University of Notre Dame; Michele Moody-Adams, Philosophy, Cornell University; Daniel T. Orlovsky, History, Southern Methodist University; Mark A. Peterson, History, University of Iowa; Jochen Schulte-Sasse, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Shu-mei Shih, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles; Laura Slatkin, Classics, New York University; Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Sociology, Swarthmore College; Kathleen Woodward, English, University of Washington.
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See page 65 ACLS/Social Science Research Council/ for awardees. National Endowment for the Humanities International & Area Studies Fellowships The ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships encourage and support humanistic research in area studies. The competition is open to scholars whose projects focus on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. The selection process for these fellowships is part of the ACLS Fellowship Program, which includes area specialists as peer reviewers. Special funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the ACLS supported nine fellowships this year. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews and Ruth Waters.
ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships The ACLS and the New York Public Library (NYPL) cooperate in offering up to five residential fellowships at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. The fellowships provide a stipend of $50,000 and are intended for scholars whose research will be significantly enhanced by access to the collections of the NYPL Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Fellows participate actively in Center activities and programs. The ACLS and the NYPL together fund as well as administer these fellowships, which have the same schedule and eligibility requirements as ACLS Fellowships. No joint fellowships were awarded this year. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews and Ruth Waters.
See page 66 Charles A. Ryskamp Research for awardees. Fellowships
In 2004–05 the ACLS ran the fourth competition for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these fellowships support established assistant professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and whose plans for new research are well designed and carefully developed. They are named for Charles A. Ryskamp, literary scholar, distinguished library and museum director, and long-serving trustee of the Mellon Foundation. From a pool of 161 applications submitted by scholars at 116 different institutions, the Selection Committee named 12 Fellows. Each Fellow receives a stipend of $64,000, the possibility of an additional $14,222 in summer support, and $2,500 to support research and travel expenses. Fellows have three years in which to use their awards, which may be taken over one continuous period, or over two or three discrete periods.
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Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, Ryskamp assisted by Karen Mathews and Ruth Waters. Fellowships (continued) Selection Committee, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships Thomas Christensen, Music, University of Chicago; Kathy Eden, English, Columbia University; Michael Grossberg, History/School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington; Jennifer Whiting, Philosophy, University of Toronto; Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Art History, Yale University.
See page 67 for awardees. Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
During the crucial period following the achievement of tenure, the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars provide an opportunity for future leaders in the humanities and related social sciences to break new ground and to test new approaches that will have lasting effects on scholarship and teaching. The specific aims of the program are four: (1) to encourage more adventurous, more wide-ranging, and longer-term patterns of research than are current in many of these fields; (2) to link outstanding scholars and projects to residential study centers with established records of advancing multidisciplinary scholarship; (3) to sustain the scholarly momentum of emerging intellectual leaders; and (4) to increase modestly the numbers of significant research opportunities available to scholars in the humanities. The fellowships are named for Frederick Burkhardt, President Emeritus of the ACLS, whose decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constitute a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. In the 2004-05 competition, there were 120 applicants from 91 different institutions; the Selection Committee named 11 fellows. Each fellow receives a stipend of $75,000. Fellows have three years in which to use their awards. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews, and Ruth Waters.
Selection Committee, Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars C. Tyler Burge, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles; Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University; Constantin Fasolt, History, University of Chicago; Michael Ann Holly, Art History, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Myra Jehlen, English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; James T. Kloppenberg, History, Harvard University; Pauline Yu, East Asian Languages and Cultures, ACLS.
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The ACLS has created a new Digital Innovation Fellowship Program with the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Projects supported by these fellowships should help advance digital humanistic scholarship, broaden understanding of its nature, and exemplify the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. Projects might include but are not limited to: digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, innovative databases, and digital tools that further humanistic research. While demonstration of scholarly excellence will be the primary criterion for selection, such excellence should be manifest in the digital context. Fellows are encouraged to work with centers for humanities computing or with disciplinary and interdisciplinary research centers (such as campus and national humanities centers). The ACLS announced the program in 2004-05, and will award up to five ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships in 2005-06. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $55,000 towards an academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. Staff: Saul Fisher and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews.
Selection Committee, ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships Joshua E. Brown, History, City University of New York, Graduate Center; Marsha Kinder, Cinema-Television, University of Southern California; Dana Leibsohn, Art History, Smith College; Thomas J. Mathiesen, Music, Indiana University, Bloomington; James J. O’Donnell, Classics, Georgetown University; David G. Stern, Philosophy, University of Iowa.
See page 68 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS for awardees. Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
This was the fourteenth year of competition for the Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Program in American Art, which provides year- long fellowships to doctoral candidates writing dissertations on topics dealing with the art history of the United States. The fellowship affords invaluable time for research and writing, and travel opportunities to visit archives, museums, and personal resources such as artists and their descendents. Applicants must be enrolled in departments of art history or, if not, must have a principal dissertation advisor in a department of art history and a dissertation topic deemed to be eligible. In 2004–05, 69 applications were received from 30 universities across the United States. The Selection Committee awarded 10 fellowships of $20,000 each for dissertation work during the 2005–06 academic year.
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The Henry Luce Foundation funds this program. In addition, a special grant from the Terra Foundation for the Arts made possible two additional fellowships. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews and Ruth Waters.
Selection Committee, Luce /ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art Meredith L. Clausen, University of Washington; Erika Doss, University of Colorado, Boulder; Charles Eldredge, University of Kansas; Camara Dia Holloway, University of Southern California; David Joselit, Yale University; Emily Neff, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Andrew J. Walker, Saint Louis Art Museum.
Contemplative Practice Fellowship See page 69 for awardees. Program
The Contemplative Practice Fellowship Program is sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and is made possible by funding from the Fetzer Institute. The 2004-05 competition marked the seventh year of this program, which supports the development of courses and teaching materials exploring contemplative practice from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Fifty-three applications were received from scholars at 48 institutions. Nine applications were funded at levels ranging from $6,000 to $20,000, and for periods ranging from one summer through one semester. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley, Saul Fisher, Suzy Beemer, and Cynthia Mueller, assisted by Karen Mathews and Ruth Waters.
Selection Committee, Contemplative Practice Fellowship Program SunHee Kim Gertz, English, Clark University; Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Institute for Art History, University of Vienna; Sharon Daloz Parks, Theology, Whidbey Institute; Stephen Prothero, Religious Studies, Boston University; Arthur Zajonc, Physics, Amherst College.
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International Programs
See page 70 for awardees. ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, & Ukraine
Visit the program With funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the ACLS site at
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See page 73 ACLS Committees on East European for awardees. Studies & Language Training
The ACLS Committees on East European Studies and Language Training, national committees composed of eminent scholars, were established to promote the development of research and training on Eastern Europe in the United States at the graduate and post-doctoral level. The multidisciplinary Committee on East European Studies (CEES) awards fellowships for dissertation and post- doctoral research and writing. The Committee on East European Language Training (CEELT), comprised of specialists in languages and literature, awards grants to institutions for intensive summer programs and to individuals for intensive language study. The CEES sponsors a quarterly journal, East European Politics and Societies. Ilya Prizel, UCIS Research Professor of East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, is its editor. Funding for these programs is administered by the U.S. Department of State under authority of the Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Research and Training Act of 1983, as amended (Title VIII). The CEES met on March 11, 2005 and awarded 11 fellowships for dissertation writing and 3 fellowships for post-doctoral research. The CEELT met on February 19, 2005 and made 12 awards to individuals for study in 2005 and 14 awards to 5 institutions for language programs to be con- ducted in 2006. Staff: Andrzej W. Tymowski and Olga Bukhina. Committee on East European Studies Valere Philip Gagnon, Political Science, Ithaca College; John R. Lampe, History, University of Maryland; Madeline G. Levine, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; David Ost, Eastern European Politics and Labor Relations, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Anthony Polonsky, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University; Ilya Prizel, East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Committee on East European Language Training Ronelle Alexander, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley; Victor A. Friedman, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago; Michael Heim, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles; Robert A. Rothstein, Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Steven Young, Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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See page 76 New Perspectives on Chinese for awardees. Culture and Society
The first of three annual competitions for the New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society program was held on December 18, 2004. Awards were made to five individuals for events in the 2004-05 academic year in support of planning meetings, workshops, and/or conferences leading to publication of scholarly volumes. This program is intended to support projects in the humani- ties and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundar- ies, engage new kinds of information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. The program aims to provide opportunities for interchange among scholars who may not otherwise have chances to work with one another. This program is funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange. Staff: Andrzej W. Tymowski, Steven C. Wheatley, and Sandra Bradley. Selection Committee Chair: Pauline Yu, East Asian Languages and Cultures, ACLS. Cho-yun Hsu, Chinese Folklore, Ritual Theater and Bibliography, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation; David Johnson, History of Pre-Modern China, University of California, Berkeley; John Lagerwey, History of Taoism and Chinese Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes; Susan Naquin, Modern Chinese and East Asian History, Princeton University; Rudolf Wagner, Chinese Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg; David Wang, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film, Columbia University.
See page 76 for awardees. Committee on Scholarly Communication with China
The Committee on Scholarly Communication with China (CSCC), adminis- tered by ACLS and jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Science Research Council, and the ACLS, supports research on China and promotes scholarly collaboration between the Chinese and American aca- demic communities. Although the Committee did not formally meet during the year, the following activities were carried out with its support.
Fellowship Programs The ACLS administers two CSCC fellowship programs: the American Research in the Humanities in the People’s Republic of China Program, which sends U.S. scholars to China, and Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development,
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which brings Chinese scholars to the United States. The Selection Committee met CSCC in April 2005 and made awards to four American post-doctoral scholars and four (continued) Chinese scholars. Support for the American Research in the Humanities fellowship competition for U.S. scholars is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sup- port for the Chinese Fellowships competition is provided by the Li Foundation.
CSCC Beijing Office The CSCC Beijing Office, which opened in 1985, maintains a presence under the direction of Arthur Tai, of Oxford Associates. It provides unique opportunities to build relationships with Chinese scholars and institutions that are fundamental to the CSCC’s mission. The CSCC Beijing Office provides a variety of services; it offers logistical support for projects in China, helps to enhance communication between collaborating parties, fosters links between Chinese and American institu- tions, and seeks Chinese input on new project development, among other things. For further information, contact the Committee on Scholarly Communica- tion with China, City Plaza Office Tower, Suite 16H, Shilipu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100025, China; telephone (86-10) 6556-6322; fax: (86-10) 6556-2497; e-mail:
ACLS/Social Science Research Council International Program
The ACLS has long supported the multidisciplinary study of different areas of the world. For many years, much of this activity was administered through area studies committees appointed jointly with the Social Science Research Council. In 1996 the two Councils completed a comprehensive redesign of their joint International Program, reconceptualizing it in order to respond to a new set of challenges, assure a strong role for place-based knowledge, and ensure long-term flexibility. The key elements in this redesign are: 1) Regional Advisory Panels (RAPs), international, interdisciplinary groups of scholars who understand given regions and provided the Councils with advice on the circumstances, needs, thinking, and perspectives of the regions in relation to the development of the International Program, and 2) Collaborative Research Networks (CRNs), intended as one of the key mechanisms through which the research planning responsibilities of the International Program were met.
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ACLS/SSRC Regional Advisory Panels (RAPs) While the broad internationalization of both Councils’ programs has been a International central project over recent years and has resulted in various new, internationally Program oriented programs funded by foundations and governmental agencies, a number (continued) of structural and procedural changes have necessarily taken place, due to the fact that core foundation support for Regional Programs and their Advisory Panels (and CRNs) ended in 2004-05. While some Regional Advisory Panels have continued to meet, such as the panels on the Middle East and North Africa, Eurasia and South Asia, these meetings now take place as circumstances allow rather than on a regular schedule. This means that consultation through elec- tronic communication and through sub-groups of committees and networks has intensified in order to maintain the levels of consultation and feedback needed for the international organization of projects. Collaborative Research Networks (CRNs) Several CRNs brought their work successfully to a close or became new groups that took on related projects in 2004–05. The CRN on Transnational Politics and Immigrant Citizenship has become an ongoing working group on Islam in the West, which organizes an annual summer institute for journalists on the subject of Islam and Muslims in America, as well as a new CRN on Inequality and Citizenship, which works on issues of the reproduction and transforma- tion of hierarchies and the ways in which these translate into inclusion and exclusion at local, national and transnational levels. The CRN on The Political Economy of Peace-Building Assistance is now an SSRC initiative on Emergen- cies and Humanitarian Action, which in 2004 began a monthly seminar series on “The Transformations of Humanitarian Action” and in 2005 began work on an edited volume and a policy brief related to the range of ways in which humanitarian action has radically changed in the past decades. The CRN on Beyond Borders: Global Illicit Flows has concluded its work with the publication in 2005 of a volume of essays with Indiana University Press entitled Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization. The CRN on Youth and Globalization in the Twenty-first Centurycontinued its work in 2004–05 by planning a research agenda on youth, transnationalism, and activism and by launching a web forum dedicated to related topics. The CRN staffed at the ACLS, Official and Vernacular Identifications in the Making of the Modern World, came to a close in 2004-05. Papers written under auspices of this project are being edited for posting on the ACLS Web site. Fellowships ACLS administers the ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fel- lowships as part of the Fellowship Program (page 22). SSRC administers the pre-doctoral International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships (page 34), as well as other fellowship and grant programs relating to international and area studies. (See
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Since 1988, the Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN) has Visit the CEEVN site assisted Vietnamese institutions and individuals obtain access to educational at
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CEEVN For more than five years, CEEVN has actively recruited candidates from (continued) social groups and communities that lack systematic access to higher educa- tion for the Ford Foundation’s International Fellowship Program (IFP). The program aims to provide opportunities for advanced study to exceptional in- dividuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. To date, 109 Vietnamese have received fellowships for master’s and Ph.D. training. Recently, CEEVN extended its IFP involvement to include support during the post-fellowship period, developing model programs to assist alumni in re-entry and community-building efforts. CEEVN continues in its third year as the Vietnam partner institution for the Asian Scholarships Foundation (ASF) program, which supports post-doctoral scholars in conducting Asian Studies research in Asia. CEEVN distributes an- nouncements and application materials for the program, handles recruitment, assists ASF in identifying host institutions in Vietnam, and provides logistical support for fellows who will pursue their research in Vietnam. In 2005 CEEVN launched the Folk Arts and Culture Fund, which supports efforts in Vietnam to preserve intangible cultural heritages. In its first year, the Fund awarded 15 small grants to community-based groups for research, preser- vation and revitalization of Vietnam’s ethnically diverse folk culture traditions. Also in 2005, CEEVN partnered with ACLS and ASIANetwork to launch a liberal arts faculty exchange program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The program has the dual aim of strengthening undergraduate teaching in Viet- nam and in Asian Studies programs at liberal arts colleges in the U.S. The first four Vietnamese faculty were selected in June 2005. CEEVN carries out its operations from offices in Hanoi and Philadelphia. For more information, contact the Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam, in Philadelphia at 816 South 48th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19143; telephone: (215) 727-9819; fax: (215) 727-5798; e-mail:
See page 77 United States-Vietnam Liberal Arts for awardees. Faculty Exchange Program
The United States-Vietnam Liberal Arts Faculty Exchange Program is an experi- mental program designed to promote educational exchanges between U.S. lib- eral arts colleges and selected Vietnamese institutions. This program has been undertaken in close cooperation with ASIANetwork, a federation of liberal arts colleges distinguished by their commitment to teaching Asian studies to undergraduates, and with the Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN).
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This program allows Vietnamese faculty to spend a semester in residence at U.S-Vietnam one of ASIANetwork’s member institutions, laying the basis for reciprocal visits Exchange to Vietnam by faculty from the host institution. This program both supports (continued) the development of individual faculty at U.S. liberal arts colleges and provides Vietnamese faculty and their institutions with new models of educational prac- tice. American faculty visiting Vietnam will pursue focused research leading to scholarly and curricular innovation, thus enhancing teaching about East Asia in U.S. liberal arts colleges. This program is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. In the inaugural year four ASIANetwork colleges hosted Vietnamese faculty. The host institutions were chosen in April 2005; the Vietnamese participants were chosen in June 2005. Staff: Steven C. Wheatley and Sandra Bradley, ACLS; Minh Kauffman, CEEVN- Philadelphia; Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh, CEEVN-Hanoi; Paul Nietupski, ASIANetwork.
ACLS/SSRC Programs Administered by SSRC
See page 78 for awardees. Abe Fellowship Program
The Abe Fellowship Program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in collaboration with the ACLS and supported by the Center for Global Visit the program site at
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See page 79 International Dissertation Field for awardees. Research Fellowship Program
This is the seventh year of the International Dissertation Field Research Fellow- Visit the program ship Program (IDRF), which provides support for social scientists and human- site at
Working Group on Cuba
In collaboration with the Christopher Reynolds and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundations, in 1997 the ACLS and the SSRC established an Visit the program academic working group devoted to extending and broadening scholarly relations site at
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ties that facilitate the flow of information between scholars in Cuba and their Cuba Working North American counterparts. Group The Working Group on Cuba has provided funds to enable Cuban (continued) researchers to take part in international conferences and research networks; to facilitate travel to Cuba by North American educators; to enable the translation or publication of scholarly works by Cuban researchers; and to assist Cuban libraries, archives, and museums to develop and maintain resources that facilitate the conduct of scholarly research. It has sponsored eight grant com- petitions to encourage North American and Cuban academic collaboration. The primary focus of the Working Group at present is its Initiative on Cuban Libraries and Archives, funded by the Ford Foundation and overseen by a Stand- ing Committee including specialists from Mexico, Venezuela, and France, as well as Cuba and the U.S. The committee has met annually since 2002. Projects focus on maps and blueprints conservation, archival standards, digital preservation, and the cataloguing and preservation of institutional collections. The Working Group is also undertaking a project, in collaboration with the National Council of the Cuban Culural Patrimony and other institutions, to preserve, conserve, and reformat the papers, books, and photographs of Ernest Hemingway housed at his former residence outside Havana. The collection in- cludes 3,000 personal photographs, 2,000 letters, and draft fragments of his novels and stories. The project is supported by the Hemingway Preservation Foundation, the Rockefeller, Bay, and Peck Stacpoole Foundations, as well as private donors. Staff: Sarah Doty, SSRC, and Sergio Pastrana, Academy of Sciences of Cuba. ACLS/SSRC Working Group on Cuba Chair: Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University, and President Emeritus, ACLS. Michele Barry, Yale University School of Medicine; Luisa Campuzano, Literature, Casa de las Amèricas and Revolucion y Cultura Magazine; Laura Enriquez, University of California, Berkeley; Miguel Limia David, Instituto de Filosofía, Havana; Alina Llop, Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kouri,” Cuba; Luis Rubio, Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, Mexico City.
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Scholarly Communication ACLS History E-Book Project
The ACLS History E-Book Project (HEB) was funded in June 1999 with a $3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, plus a smaller grant Visit the project site at from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The goals of the project are to
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History E-Book Standards and Documentation Project HEB’s development strategy has been markedly different from those of other (continued) projects. Rather than build a series of discreet Web sites that depend on the talents and resources of individual historians—and that have little promise of interactivity with one another, or of sustainability and scalability—HEB emphasizes the creation of infrastructure: deep and robust search capabilities, common tools, formatting, interface, and citation standards. A fitting anal- ogy from the early age of print would be the obvious advantages of moveable- type over block-book production. The project continues to encourage presses and societies to develop such capabilities to allow historians to concentrate on their professional research and writing while using the HEB sets of tools and features their work requires. University Presses HEB works with nearly 75 university presses on its general collection and with a select group of publishers on new XML-encoded titles. The presses contribute the unquestioned quality of their titles and their long and deep knowledge of the cultures of scholarly communication. ACLS also extends invitations to other university presses and publishing arms of libraries and scholarly societies to work on such development. HEB has completed six cycles of royalty payments to participating presses and to over 300 individual scholars or their estates. Cambridge University Press is expected to join the Project as its tenth publisher for XML titles by the year’s end. Print-on-Demand One of the project’s essential goals has been to investigate and implement technologies that allow publishers to harness multiple revenue streams from the same files. Its print-on-demand (POD) program uses the same online files to print over 300 titles in all fields covered by the project and reissues many important but hard-to-find titles for both research and classroom use. Libraries Relations and Subscriptions By September 30, 2005 HEB had 401 subscribing institutions, and nearly 30 consortial arrangements, more than doubling the originally stated goal of 200 institutions. Subscriptions are expected to reach over 475 during the next fiscal year. It currently reaches a combined FTE of over million readers. Page-views on the site have been doubling every six months and currently total over 1.25 million annually. Subscribing institutions are divided among major research universities, smaller universities, liberal arts colleges, commu- nity colleges, and secondary schools. Institutions in Asia, Europe, and Latin America are also subscribing, and non-U.S. schools now constitute 13.5% of the list. Subscriptions are expected to grow by nearly 50% for the next fiscal year and have been growing at an annualized average rate of 28%. One of the more significant developments has been rapid growth among the small (17.6%) and very small (35.6%) categories. Schools as diverse as University of California, Merced; members of the Appalachian College Association; the Central European University; the Hotchkiss School; and Saline High School have subscribed either for collection-development or ped- agogical reasons. Schools increasingly adopt the HEB collection to instruct students in the proper use of the Internet, of search methods, and to intro- duce the depth and complexity of historical narrative and interpretation.
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History E-Book Participating Learned Societies Project Participating learned societies include the African Studies Association, the (continued) Association for Asian Studies, the American Historical Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Middle East Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Society for the History of Technology. HEB welcomes collaborations with all ACLS societies. A frequently cited reason given by librarians and publishers for the success of the project has been the active participation of the learned societies in select- ing titles and in encouraging usage. The ACLS is viewed as a fair and neutral broker, whose support of innovation in scholarly communication brings value far greater than that achieved by a single organization or by the commercial sector. Another important development over the past year has been the successful implementation of individual subscription arrangements with the American Historical Association and the Renaissance Society of America. Individual subscriptions to HEB constitute an additional benefit of membership at high- ly affordable rates, thus spreading access, use, and recognition of the project among professional historians and students. HEB has over 600 individual subscribers; the project is pursuing similar arrangements with Middle East Studies Association and Organization of American Historians and is open to plans with any ACLS affiliated society. New Findings: The Digital Monograph Originally conceived as a library of discreet titles, accessible individually like print books, the collection now also acts as an in-depth database. The im- pact of such aggregation on scholarship is only now being realized as search results and research topics derived from its content begin to break down the traditional boundaries among subject specialties, providing the advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary, deeply diachronic, and global perspectives. HEB finds that the traditional categories that so closely defined the print monograph have been transformed in the electronic realm: the balance between evidence and narrative, theory and analysis in electronic work has become increasingly fluid, and the consequences of this realignment are only now beginning to be understood. Further, just as the collection of footnotes in the print article or mono- graph once acted as a pointer to other scholarship in the print domain, so now the hyperlink, the pop-up image, and the database serve the same purpose of scholarly focus and referral. In a certain sense, then, each new digital mono- graph acts like the print footnote or bibliography: as a portal to the best and most useful scholarship available on any given topic. But like its print analog, the digital monograph remains the work of the individual or of individuals in collaboration, with limited access and subjective approaches to primary sources and their interpretation. Thus no one e-book—or single Web site, no matter how comprehensive for a given subject—can possibly incorporate all the necessary referents to the quantity of material now available online in any one discipline, area, or research agenda. HEB has begun to demonstrate that only well constructed
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History E-Book digital collections that pay special attention to the quality, interoperability, Project depth—and diversity—of their content can hope to achieve this goal. (continued) Future Directions As the project has reached maturity and self-sustainability, ACLS has begun investigating the possibility of replicating its successes in History with other disciplines and has begun discussions with other disciplinary representatives. The types of scholarly communication appropriate to a discipline, pre- existing publishing programs, the long-term development plans and goals of disciplinary societies, their resources, and specific issues (such as digital rights management, outreach, and audience) will all be topics of discussion and fruitful exploration over the months and years ahead. Contact Information The ACLS History E-Book Project is located at the ACLS offices. Telephone: (212) 697-1505, ext. 152; fax: 212-949-8058; e-mail: [email protected]. Staff: Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto, Project Directors; Nina Gielen, Editor for Digital Content and Production; and Linda Zerella, Title Develop- ment Editor. ACLS History E-Book Project Review Board Colin Day, Hong Kong University Press; Billy E. Frye, Emory University; David M. Kennedy, Stanford University; Carol Mandel, New York University; Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress; James Neal, Columbia University; Ann Okerson, Yale University; Steven C. Wheatley and Pauline Yu, ACLS.
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With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ACLS appointed a Visit the project national commission on cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences site at
Commission Members Chair: John Unsworth, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Paul Courant, Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Sarah Fraser, Art History, Northwestern University; Mike Goodchild, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara; Margaret Hedstrom, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Charles Henry, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Rice University; Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television; Jerome McGann, English, University of Virginia; Roy Rosenzweig, History, George Mason University; Bruce Zuckerman, Religion, University of Southern California. Senior Editor (through May 2005): Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources. Advisors to the Commission: Dan Atkins, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Henry E. Brady, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; James Herbert, National Science Foundation; Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress; Harold Short, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London; Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources; Donald J. Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Steven C. Wheatley, ACLS.
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In 1999 the ACLS and Oxford University Press published the American National Visit the ANB Online Biography (ANB), a 24-volume, 20-million word reference work that provides a at
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The Darwin Correspondence Project, inaugurated in 1974, is making avail- Visit the project site at
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Darwin British Advisory Committee (continued) Dame Gillian Beer, Clare Hall, Cambridge; W.F. Bynum, University College, London; Owen Chadwick, Selwyn College, Cambridge; Peter J. Gautery, Cambridge University Library; Richard D. Keynes, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge; Desmond King-Hele, Royal Society, London; Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge.
ACLS Publications & Web Site
See the selection of The publications program of the ACLS includes its Annual Report, the online ACLS titles annual Haskins Lecture on “A Life of Learning,” other titles in the ACLS at
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ACLS Member Activities 2005 Annual Meeting
The eighty-eighth meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, its eighty-sixth annual meeting and the eighty-fourth meeting of the Corporation, was held at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, PA on May 5–7, 2005.
ACLS Board members; Pauline Yu, President (ex officio); John R. Clarke, Vice Chair; Susan McClary, Chair; and Fedwa Malti-Douglas, outgoing Secretary (at podium).
Evening sessions on May 5 included a meeting of the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, a new member orientation, and three informal sessions: 1) “The Role of Translation in International and Area Studies,” led by Andrzej Tymowski, Director of International Programs, ACLS; 2) “Constructing Electronic Resources: The Experience of the American Society of International Law (ASIL),” a demon- stration of the Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) led by Marci Hoffman, Foreign and International Law Librarian, University of California, Berkeley and EISIL prototype developer; Charlotte Ku, Executive Vice President and Executive Director, ASIL; and Jill Watson, Project Manager, EISIL; and 3) “Issues in Learned Society Leadership and Governance” led by Susan Ball, College Art Association, and William Davis, American Anthropological Association.
The Meeting of the Council was held on May 6. (A report on those proceedings appears on page 46.) President Pauline Yu delivered a report on current ACLS activities and offered comments on the public value of scholarly self-governance (see pages 5-12).)
Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment A program session entitled “Renewing Humanities for the Humanities, gave Scholarship: Reports from ACLS Fellows” featured the luncheon address. both current and former recipients. The panelists were Christopher S. Celenza (Professor of History, Michigan State University), 2003–04 Frederick Burkhardt Fellow “Renewing Humanities Scholarship” panelists (from left): for Recently Tenured Scholars; Nicholas J. Dames ACLS Fellows Nicholas J. Dames, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Charlotte E. Witt, and Christopher S. Celenza. (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), 2004–05 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow; Dorothy L. Hodgson (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick), 2005–06 ACLS Fellow; and Charlotte E. Witt (Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire), 2003–04 ACLS Fellow. David B. Brownlee, (Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor and Chair, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, and Delegate, Society of Architectural Historians), 1983–84 Recent Recipient of the Ph.D. Fellow, served as moderator.
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Annual Meeting (continued) The second program session was entitled “The Humanities and Its Publics.” Panelists were Ivo Banac, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University; Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, University of Chicago; and Robert Weisbuch, “The Humanities and Its Publics” panelists (from left): President, Drew Uni- David Marshall (moderator), Ivo Banac, Jean Bethke versity (then President, Elshtain, and Robert Weisbuch Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation). David Marshall, professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, served as moderator. Lively discussion followed the presentations, which will be published in the ACLS Occasional Paper series.
The 2005 Charles Homer Haskins lecturer was Gerda Lerner, Robinson- Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Madison, a scholar of and pioneer in the field of women’s history. Professor Lerner’s lecture offered a vivid picture of a lifetime of political and intellectual engagement. Always an activist, she resisted the fascists in her native Austria; survived the blacklist in 1950s California; and organized grassroots efforts in the struggle for civil rights and ACLS President Pauline Yu with Gerda Lerner, women’s equality. As she explained, “My 2005 Charles Homer Haskins lecturer. passionate commitment to Women’s History was grounded in my life.” Professor Jessica Jones Irons, Lerner’s lecture is forthcoming in the ACLS Executive Director of the Occasional Paper series. National Humanities Allliance.
Held in conjunction with the ACLS Annual Meeting, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) Annual Meeting this year formally introduced Jessica Jones Irons as NHA Executive Director, succeeding John Hammer.
Exhibitors at the meeting included the ACLS History E-Book Project, JSTOR (Journal Storage), the National Humanities Alliance, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.
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Annual Proceedings of the Meeting of the Council Meeting Two officers were elected to the ACLS Board of Directors: Charlotte Kuh, Policy and (continued) Global Affairs, National Research Council, The National Academies, was re-elected for a second term as Treasurer, and Sandra T. Barnes, Anthropology, University of Penn- sylvania was elected as Secretary, both with terms expiring in 2008. Jonathan Culler, Comparative Literature, Cornell University, and Lynn Hunt, History, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles were elected to the Board of Directors, both for four-year terms. (See page 2 for a complete list of officers and members of the Board of Directors.) The Treasurer, Ms. Kuh, described the three objectives that guide ACLS financial management: 1) paying fellowship stipends in line with plans developed in 1997 and revised in 2000; 2) controlling administrative expenditures; and 3) rebuilding the asset base after the market reversals of fiscal years 2001 and 2002. The six-month financial statements and proposed FY2006 budget showed that ACLS is achieving the first objective and making progress on the second and third. ACLS ended FY2004 with revenue of $24 million and $12 million of expense, for an 18% increase in net assets ($12 million). This helped to reverse the decline in net assets experienced in the fiscal years 2001 and 2002. Most of the increase was due to $12 million of foundation grants and $8 million of net investment income. The investment return for fiscal year 2004 was 14.4%, as compared to a budgeted 7.0%. The proposed FY2006 budget reflects an effort to control administrative costs, with proposed gross administrative expenses decreasing by 2.2% and anticipates that net ACLS administrative costs will remain relatively low, at 16% of total expenses. The proposed ACLS fiscal year 2006 budget consists of $12.2 million of receipts and $13.5 million of expense, with a decrease in net assets of $1.3 million, or 2% of total net assets. Projected receipts were $12.2 million, 29% higher than 2005’s budgeted amount. Program grants managed by ACLS account for $5 million of receipts and ACLS’ own endowment income accounts for $4.5 million. Of the $4.5 million of endowment income, $2.3 million is budgeted for fellowship stipends and peer review and $1.6 million is budgeted for general administrative expenses. The remaining $0.6 million of anticipated endowment income will be reinvested. In 1991 the Board of Directors divided the total of all ACLS endowment and reserve funds into a fellowship fund (investment earnings pay fellowship stipends and closely related costs of peer-review) and a general fund (investment earnings pay for those activities not supported by external program grants and other income). In October 1997, the Board of Directors approved an investment policy that maintains these designations. It also set a goal of a 5% payout rate for the fellowship fund and a 6% payout rate for the general fund, with the expectation that the general fund payout rate would be lowered to 5% as soon as practical without disrupting the normal operations of the Council. The proposed budget for FY2006 provides for a payout rate of 5.1% for the fellowship fund and 9.6% for the general fund, well above the desired rate. The Board of Directors continues to ask staff members to reduce the general administrative fund payout rate. The ACLS Statement of Investment Policy is designed to yield an investment portfolio that is diversified, has a long-term orientation, and includes a conservative array of investment types and managers. The current asset allocation includes about 70.9% in equities divided among four managers with excellent track records and differing styles, with about one-sixth of the equity portfolio invested internationally. The fixed-income investments represent about 21% of the portfolio, and about 8% of the portfolio is invested in alternative assets. The Council approved the FY2006 Proposed Budget. Staff: Barbara Martinez Henning and Steven C. Wheatley.
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The Delegates meet annually. Society Representatives: Their Executive Delegates & Conference of Administrative Officers Committee nominates the Haskins lecturer African Studies Association and suggests the Delegate: Iris Berger, State University of New York at Albany (2005) CAO: Carol L. Martin, Executive Director theme for each Annual Meeting; American Academy of Arts and Sciences it also serves as Delegate: Bruce Redford, Boston University (2007) the Committee CAO: Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, Senior Executive Officer on Admissions. American Academy of Religion Delegates serve Delegate: Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University (2005) a four-year term. CAO: Barbara DeConcini, Executive Director/Treasurer (Emory University) American Anthropological Association The principal Delegate: Deborah L. Nichols, Dartmouth College (2008) administrative CAO: William E. Davis III, Executive Director officers of American Antiquarian Society the constituent Delegate: Carol F. Karlsen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005) societies compose CAO: John B. Hench, Vice President for Collections and Programs the Conference of Administrative American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Officers (CAO). Delegate: Brian Silver, Michigan State University (2007) CAO: Dmitry P. Gorenburg, Executive Director The CAO meets twice yearly. American Association for the History of Medicine Delegate: Judith Leavitt, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2006) See pages 51-57 CAO: Todd L. Savitt, Secretary-Treasurer (East Carolina University) for reports on American Comparative Literature Association member activities. Delegate: Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut (2005)
CAO: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Secretary-Treasurer (University of Texas at Austin) American Dialect Society Delegate: Anne Curzan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007) CAO: Allan A. Metcalf, Executive Secretary (MacMurray College) American Economic Association Delegate: Charlotte Kuh, National Research Council (2006) CAO: John J. Siegfried, Secretary-Treasurer (Vanderbilt University) American Folklore Society Delegate: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University (2005) CAO: Timothy Lloyd, Executive Director (Ohio State University) American Historical Association Delegate: Charles Maier, Harvard University (2008) CAO: Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director American Musicological Society Delegate: Jessie Ann Owens, Brandeis University (2008) CAO: Robert Judd, Executive Director
Information shown is as of Sep- American Numismatic Society tember 30, 2005. Delegate: John H. Kroll, University of Texas at Austin (2008) For current information, CAO: Ute Wartenberg, Executive Director see the ACLS Web site at
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Society American Oriental Society Representatives Delegate: Michael Drompp, Rhodes College (2008) (continued) CAO: Jonathan Rodgers, Secretary-Treasurer (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) American Philological Association Delegate: James O’Donnell, Georgetown University (2007) CAO: Adam Blistein, Executive Director American Philosophical Association Delegate: Patricia Kitcher, Columbia University (2005) CAO: William E. Mann, Interim Executive Director (University of Vermont) American Philosophical Society Delegate: Henry A. Millon, CASVA, National Gallery of Art (2007) CAO: Mary Maples and Richard S. Dunn, Executive Officers American Political Science Association Delegate: Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania (2006) CAO: Michael Brintnall, Executive Director American Psychological Association Delegate: Charles Brewer, Furman University (2006) CAO: Cynthia Belar, Executive Director, Education Directorate American Schools of Oriental Research Delegate: Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Brown University (2006) CAO: Douglas Clark, Executive Director American Society for Aesthetics Delegate: Philip Alperson, Temple University (2006) CAO: Curtis Carter, Secretary-Treasurer (Marquette University) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Delegate: Toni Bowers, University of Pennsylvania (2006) CAO: Byron Wells, Executive Secretary (Wake Forest University) American Society for Environmental History Delegate: Douglas Weiner, University of Arizona (2008) CAO: Lisa Mighetto, Executive Director American Society for Legal History Delegate: Harry N. Scheiber, University of California, Berkeley (2008) CAO: Walter F. Pratt, Secretary-Treasurer (University of Notre Dame) American Society for Theatre Research Delegate: Joseph Donohue, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2006) CAO: Gay Gibson Cima, Secretary (Georgetown University) American Society of Church History Delegate: Charles Lippy, University of Tennessee (2005) CAO: Ken Minkema, Executive Secretary (Yale University ) American Society of Comparative Law Delegate: David S. Clark, Willamette University (2007) CAO: James A.R. Nafziger, Treasurer (Willamette University) American Society of International Law Delegate: Peter Trooboff, Covington & Burling (2005) CAO: Charlotte Ku, Executive Director
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Society American Sociological Association Representatives Delegate: Karen S. Cook, Stanford University (2005) (continued) CAO: Sally Hillsman, Executive Officer American Studies Association Delegate: Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University (2006) CAO: John F. Stephens, Executive Director Archaeological Institute of America Delegate: Nancy Wilkie, Carleton College (2005) CAO: Bonnie Clendenning, Executive Director Association for Asian Studies Delegate: Charles Keyes, University of Washington (2008) CAO: Michael Paschal, Executive Director Association for Jewish Studies Delegate: Ephraim Kanarfogel, Yeshiva University (2005) CAO: Rona Sheramy, Executive Director Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Delegate: Saulius Suziedelis, Millersville University (2007) CAO: Olavi Arens, Executive Director (Armstrong Atlantic State University) Association of American Geographers Delegate: Stephen E. White, Kansas State University (2006) CAO: Douglas Richardson, Executive Director Association of American Law Schools Delegate: Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University (2006) CAO: Carl C. Monk, Executive Vice President Bibliographical Society of America Delegate: David Vander Meulen, University of Virginia (2006) CAO: Michelle Randall, Executive Secretary College Art Association Delegate: Nicola Courtright, Amherst College (2008) CAO: Susan Ball, Executive Director College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English Delegate: Patricia Lambert Stock, Michigan State University (2009) CAO: Paul Bodmer, Associate Executive Director Dictionary Society of North America Delegate: Michael P. Adams, North Carolina State University (2006) CAO: Luanne von Schneidemesser, Secretary-Treasurer Economic History Association Delegate: Gail D. Triner, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2006) CAO: Alexander Field, Executive Director (Santa Clara University) German Studies Association Delegate: Jennifer Michaels, Grinnell College (2007) CAO: Gerald R. Kleinfeld, Executive Director Hispanic Society of America Delegate: Richard Tudisco, Columbia University (2007) Information shown is as CAO: Mitchell A. Codding, Director of September 30, 2005. For current information, see the ACLS Web site at
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Society History of Science Society Representatives Delegate: Arnold Thackray, Chemical Heritage Foundation (2006) (continued) CAO: Robert J. Malone, Executive Director (University of Florida) International Center of Medieval Art Delegate: Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University (2008) CAO: Mary Shepard, President Latin American Studies Association Delegate: Marysa Navarro, Dartmouth College (2005) CAO: Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, Executive Director Law and Society Association Delegate: Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University (2005) CAO: Ronald Pipkin, Executive Officer (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Linguistic Society of America Delegate: Mark Aronoff, State University of New York at Stony Brook (2005) CAO: Margaret W. Reynolds, Executive Director Medieval Academy of America Delegate: Susan M. Stuard, Haverford College (2005) CAO: Richard Emmerson, Executive Director Metaphysical Society of America Delegate: George Allan, Dickinson College (2005) CAO: Brian J. Martine, Secretary-Treasurer (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Middle East Studies Association of North America Delegate: R. Stephen Humphreys, University of California, Santa Barbara (2008) CAO: Amy Newhall, Executive Director (University of Arizona) Modern Language Association of America Delegate: Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles (2006) CAO: Rosemary G. Feal, Executive Director National Communication Association Delegate: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University (2005) CAO: Roger Smitter, Executive Director National Council on Public History Delegate: Noel Stowe, Arizona State University (2006) CAO: David Vanderstel, Executive Director (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) Organization of American Historians Delegate: Sarah Deutsch, Duke University (2007) CAO: Lee Formwalt, Executive Director Renaissance Society of America Delegate: Ronald Witt, Duke University (2008) CAO: John Monfasani, Executive Director (State University of New York at Albany) Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Delegate: Allyson Poska, Mary Washington College (2008) CAO: Megan Armstrong, Executive Director (McMaster University, Canada)
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Society Society for American Music Representatives Delegate: Dale Cockrell, Vanderbilt University (2006) (continued) CAO: Mariana Whitmer, Executive Director Society for Cinema and Media Studies Delegate: Stephen Prince, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2006) CAO: Patrice Petro, President-Elect (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Society for Ethnomusicology Delegate: Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University (2008) CAO: Alan Burdette, Executive Director (Indiana University, Bloomington) Society for French Historical Studies Delegate: B. Robert Kreiser, American Association of University Professors (2005) CAO: Jeremy Popkin, Executive Director (University of Kentucky) Society for Music Theory Delegate: Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago (2008) CAO: Victoria Long, Executive Director Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Delegate: Mary Kay Norseng, University of California, Los Angeles (2007) CAO: Richard Jensen, Secretary-Treasurer Society for the History of Technology Delegate: Daryl Hafter, Eastern Michigan University (2008) CAO: Amy Bix, Executive Secretary (Iowa State University) Society of Architectural Historians Delegate: David Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania (2007) CAO: Pauline Saliga, Executive Director Society of Biblical Literature Delegate: Vincent Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University (2007) CAO: Kent Harold Richards, Executive Director (Iliff School of Theology) Society of Dance History Scholars Delegate: Susan Manning, Northwestern University (2008) CAO: Gininne Cocuzza, Treasurer
Member Activities
Executive Committee of the Delegates/ Committee on Admissions The members of the 2004–05 Executive Committee of the Delegates were Hans Hillerbrand, American Academy of Religion, Chair; David Brown- lee, Society of Architectural Historians; Dale Cockrell, Society for American Music; James O’Donnell, American Philological Association; Anne Norton, American Political Science Association; Gary Okihiro, American Studies Association; and Nancy Wilkie, Archaeological Institute of America. At their fall 2004 meeting, the committee considered nominations for the 2006 Charles Homer Haskins lecturer and the theme for the 2005 Annual Meeting. The Executive Committee of the Delegates also serves as the Committee on Admissions. The Executive Committee considered an 51 American Council of Learned Societies
Delegates application for Affiliate membership from the Association of Art Museum Executive Curators (AAMC). The Board of Directors approved the recommendation and accepted the AAMC as an Affiliate member in October 2004. There Committee were no applications for constituent membership during 2004-05. (continued) In addition, the committee reviewed the findings of a board-appointed ad hoc committee charged with assessing the ACLS Annual Meeting to ensure that its program reflects the ACLS’s mission and current priorities in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Serving on the committee were Dale Cockrell, CAO member Susan Ball, and board members John R. Clarke and Marjorie Garber. The findings of the committee emphasized three areas: meeting length, meeting content, and meeting costs. Suggested options include condensing the Annual Meeting (each year or every other year), collaborating with other organizations on the program, and seeking sponsorship of the meeting from localities or properties. The 2005 Annual Meeting reflected a condensed format, which proved successful At their May 2005 meeting, the Executive Committee discussed the 2006 Annual Meeting, an ACLS/Assocation of American Universities (AAU) national convocation on the humanities. The convocation is prompted by the AAU report “Reinvigorating the Humanities: Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond” and the ideas and recommendations generated by subsequent campus roundtables. In accordance with the Guidelines and Nominating Procedures of the Executive Committee of the Delegates, Hans Hillerbrand and Nancy Wilkie, outgoing members of the committee, served with President Yu as the Nominating Committee to select candidates to fill the positions they were vacating. At the Delegates meeting in May, Nicola Courtright, College Art Association, and Daryl Hafter, Society for the History of Technology, were elected to three–year terms on the Executive Committee. James O’Donnell will serve as chair of the Executive Committee of the Delegates during 2005–06.
Staff: Barbara Martinez Henning and Steven C. Wheatley.
Conference of Administrative Officers
The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) continues to pursue Visit the CAO online activities in a variety of areas: electronic scholarly communication; at
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CAO The opening session was the Business Meeting of the CAO led by Susan (continued) Ball, College Art Association, Chair of the CAO Executive Committee. John Hammer, then Director of the National Humanities Alliance, followed with an update on the probable impact of the recent election on the state of the Humanities. Lee Formwalt (Organization of American Historians), NHA Board member and member of the NHA Search Committee, reported on “Future Directions for the National Humanities Alliance” in light of John Hammer’s retirement on December 31, 2004. Raymond E. Wanner, Senior Vice President, Americans for Unesco and Senior Advisor on Unesco issues to the United Nations Foundation, and James A.R. Nafziger, American Society of Comparative Law, addressed the topic “UNESCO: The Public Role of the Learned Society”(a follow-up to a 2003 CAO fall meeting session). Pauline Yu spoke to the group in the afternoon. Afterwards, Timothy K. Beal, Director, Baker-Nord Center, and Harkness Professor of Biblical Literature, CWRU, moderated a session entitled “Pop Goes the Academy: Possibilities and Risks in the Study of Popular Culture.” Panelists were Mieke Bal, Visiting Fellow, Baker-Nord Center, Professor of Theory of Literature, and a Founding Director of the University of Amsterdam’s School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA), University of Amsterdam and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University; Mary E. Davis, Robson Junior Professor of Musicology, CWRU; Ted Steinberg, Professor of History and Law, CWRU; and Warren Zanes, Vice President of Education, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and former member of the Del Fuegos. Conferon Global Services conducted Association and Society Executive Training sessions the following morning on issues related to meeting management. The two afternoon sessions were devoted to “Ethics and Professional Conduct: the Role of the Learned Society” moderated by Michael Brintnall of the American Political Science Association (a follow-up to a 2003 CAO fall meeting session) and “Capital Campaigns” by Bonnie Clendenning of the Archaeological Institute of America. The meeting, which was hosted by the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland, included visits to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Hilarities Comedy Club, and a City Tour. CAO Executive Committee The CAO Executive Committee met three times during the year to plan the 2005 fall meeting and to begin planning a retreat to be held in 2007. The Executive Committee of the CAO is composed of seven members elected from among the membership. The 2004–05 members were Susan Ball, College Art Association, Chair; Adam Blistein, American Philological Association; Arnita Jones, American Historical Association; Robert Judd, American Musicological Society; Carol L. Martin, African Studies Associa-tion; James A. R. Nafziger, American Society of Comparative Law; and Mariana Whitmer, Society for American Music. At the 2005 Annual Meeting, Carl Monk,
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CAO (continued)
The CAO in Cleveland, Fall 2004.
Association of American Law Schools, and Allan Metcalf, American Dialect Society, were elected to the CAO Executive Committee, replacing outgoing members Arnita Jones and James A.R. Nafziger. Arnita Jones, James A.R. Nafziger, and Margaret W. Reynolds, Linguistic Society of America, have joined with the Executive Committee to form the 2007 retreat planning committee. For the fall 2005 meeting, CAO members prepard a short paper on the proposed retreat topic “ACLS, the Learned Societies and the Shaping of Humanities Scholarship: Proactive, Reactive or Both?” Ongoing CAO Activities Data Collection The CAO collects data on practical and technical aspects of society manage- ment, an effort begun with FY1999 and FY2002. Data will be collected again for FY2005 and every three years thereafter. In 2005, data collection expanded to include information technology resources; the IT census also introduced an online census. Learned Society Leadership Seminar, September 2005 Following up on discussion in Cleveland about the positive response to the orientation session for learned society presidents held in June 2004, a second Learned Society Leadership Seminar was held in September. (Participants covered their own travel and lodging costs.) The seminar was developed at the request of CAO members and in recognition of the nature of society leadership: an extremely demanding and usually short-term tenure with a very steep learning curve. The consultant who led the workshop spoke with the group about the dynamics of voluntary associations, member-leader and staff-leader relationships and responsibilities, and knowledge-based governance. Attendees were member society administrative officers and presidents-elect who were scheduled to take office in late 2005 or early 2006.
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CAO (continued) Participants in Learned Society Leadership Seminar September 2005
African Studies Association: Joseph C. Miller, Vice President/President- Elect; T. Cary Johnson, Jr., Professor of History, University of Virginia; Carol L. Martin, Executive Director American Academy of Religion: Diana L. Eck, President-Elect, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard University; Barbara DeConcini, Executive Director and Treasurer American Musicological Society: Charles M. Atkinson, President-Elect, Professor and Area Head of Musicology, Ohio State University; Robert Judd, Executive Director American Society of International Law: José E. Alvarez, President-Elect, Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law & Diplomacy, Columbia Uni- versity; Charlotte Ku, Executive Vice President and Executive Director Dictionary Society of North America: David K. Barnhart, President, Lexik House Publishers; Luanne von Schneidemesser, Executive Secretary History of Science Society: Joan Cadden, President-elect, Professor of History and of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis; Robert J. Malone, Executive Director Society for Music Theory: William Caplin, President-Elect, James McGill Professor of Music Theory, McGill University; Victoria Long, Executive Director Society of Architectural Historians: Barry Bergdoll, First Vice President/ President-Elect, Professor of Art History, Columbia University
Future Meetings The San José (CA) Convention & Visitors Bureau will host the 2005 fall meeting, providing complimentary airfare. The CAO is fortunate to have secured commitments from four city convention bureaus for upcoming fall meetings, all of which include complimentary or subsidized airfare: 2006: Kansas City (MO) Convention & Visitors Association, November 9–12 2007: RETREAT, Salt Lake (UT) Convention & Visitors Bureau, November 1–4 2008: DetroitMetro (MI) Convention & Visitors Bureau, November 6–9 2009: Portland Oregon Visitors Association, November 5-8 CAO Electronic Communications The CAO home page at
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See pages 3-4 for list of Associate Membership Associates. The ACLS receives valued assistance from its Associate members, a group consisting primarily of colleges and universities but also including research libraries and other scholarly institutions. Each year Associates signal their commitment to the work of the ACLS through a modest fi- nancial contribution. Associate fees are $6,000 for institutions that grant Ph.D.s in the humanities and social sciences, $2,500 for institutions that grant M.A.s, and $1,500 for all other Associates. During 2004–05 there were 195 Associates of the ACLS. The ACLS invites new Associate mem- bers throughout the year.
In 2000–01 John H. D’Arms began a major strategic initiative to strengthen the infrastructure of scholarship in the humanities in the United States. Thirty-one leading research universities—indicated in the list of Associates, pages 3-4—are providing $50,000 per year for 10 years to the ACLS, or a total of $15.5 million in new endowment funds. Assuming reasonable endowment growth, these funds will allow ACLS to award more senior fellowships at higher stipend levels, reaching $75,000 by decade’s end, and to increased stipends to associate and assis- tant professor fellowship receipients as well. The ACLS has held two meetings with university consortium members to review fellowship policies and opportunities, the first in November 2002 and the second, in November 2004. Both meetings were produc- tive and informative. This initiative represents an unusual and farsighted act of leadership by the leadership of these universities. Staff: Barbara Martinez Henning.
56 Annual Report 2004–2005 Member Affiliate Membership Activities (continued) Affiliates are organizations and institutions whose goals and purposes are so closely linked to those of ACLS that a formal connection is desirable for both parties. Affiliate members also serve to increase the community and the effectiveness of those actively working for the humanities under the ACLS umbrella. The Association of Art Museum Curators was accepted as an Affiliate this year. As of September 30, 2005 the following 12 organizations were ACLS Affiliates:
ARNOVA, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Association of Art Museum Curators Association of Research Libraries Camargo Foundation Center for Research Libraries Community College Humanities Association Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Federation of State Humanities Councils International Society for Third-Sector Research National Coalition of Independent Scholars Phi Beta Kappa Research Libraries Group
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ACLS Relations with Other Organizations Union Académique Internationale
Visit the UAI Web site The ACLS was created in 1919 to represent the United States within the Union Aca- at
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UAI Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Sciences; and Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig (continued) Burchard, catalogue raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens. The issue of the relationship between the UAI, UNESCO, and the International Coun- cil for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH) was discussed, as was UNESCO’s general decline in support for the humanities as reflected in a reduction of CIPSH funding. In plenary session the UAI approved the following motion: The International Union of Academies (UAI) is aware of the efforts being made by UNESCO, the council of Europe and the European Commission towards the protection, conservation and rehabilitation of monuments in some Balkan countries. Since it is concerned with all material and immaterial monuments of the past (written sources, works of art or buildings), it wishes to add its voice to insist that all such carriers of historical memory must be preserved in their original and authentic form. It urges the active involvement and collaboration of all countries that might supply expertise or material assistance. Among the projects reported on and discussed with approbation at these meetings were the contributions of the NEH toward the Sumerian and Assyrian Dictionary and the involvement of Cornell University, the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA; the Corpus of Greek and Latin Philosophical Papyri involving Ann Ellis Hanson, Michael Haslam, Anthony Long, Glenn Most, and Dirk Obbink of the United States; the comparative language and literature section of the UAI under the direction of Mihaly- Szegady-Maszak of Indiana University, also involving Marshall Brown of the University of Washington, Marcel Cornis-Pope of Virginia Commonwealth University, Margaret Higgonet of the University of Connecticut, and Randolph Pope of the University of Virginia; and the Corpus of Mexican Mural Painting which has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation as well as the Mexican government. The eightieth meeting of the UAI will take place in Brussels from May 30-June 4, 2006. The eighty-first meeting will be held in Oslo from June 1-6, 2007.
Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
The Current Digest of the Soviet Press was founded by the ACLS and the SSRC in 1949. The journal is published weekly as a self-supporting nonprofit corporation affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), the ACLS, and Ohio State University. The ACLS appoints one member to the journal’s board of directors. In 1992 the name of the journal was changed to the Current Digest of the Post- Soviet Press. Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Board of Trustees Jeffrey W. Hahn, Villanova University and Joel C. Moses, Iowa State University (for AAASS); Fred Schulze, ex officio, and Gordon Livermore (for Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press); and Brian D. Silver, Michigan State University (for ACLS).
59 American Council of Learned Societies Organizations Graves Awards in the Humanities (continued) The Graves Awards in the Humanities were established by Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves to encourage and reward “outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities by younger faculty members.” Pomona College administers the program under the auspices of the ACLS. By the terms of the bequest, the awards are limited to faculty members of “fully accredited, privately endowed liberal arts colleges in California, Oregon, and Washington which are free from control by any religious or political body or organization.” In a biennial competition, nomina- tions are accepted from the presidents of eligible institutions and decided upon by an awards committee composed of four humanists from research universities in the region and chaired by a member of the Pomona College faculty. Eleven awards were made in the 2003-04 competition. The 2005-06 competition was announced in the fall of 2005; selections will be made in January 2006. Graves Awards in the Humanities Selection Committee Chair: Stephen Erickson, Pomona College. Richard Crouter, Carleton College; Barbara Herman, University of California, Los Angeles; Karl Hutterer, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; Helene Moglen, University of California, Santa Cruz.
International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies
Through its membership in the Union Académique Internationale (UAI), the ACLS participates in the work of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH).
International Social Sciences Council
Throught its membership in the UAI, the ACLS participates in the work of the International Social Sciences Council, which the UAI joined in 2002.
60 Annual Report 2004–2005 Organizations National Endowment for the (continued) Humanities
The ACLS is grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for its generous support of major ACLS projects and programs, notably the Challenge Grant in support of the ACLS Fellowship Program and continu- ing support of the ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fel- lowships, and the program of American Research in the Humanities in the People’s Republic of China.
National Humanities Alliance
The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) was created in 1981 to ad- Visit the NHA vance the cause of the humanities by promoting the common interests of site at its members with regard to national policy, programs, and legislation that
Other Agencies of the U.S. Government
Under Title VIII, the Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Research and Training Act of 1983, the Department of State pro- vided support for specific programs of the Committees on East European Studies and Language Training (formerly the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe) for the nineteenth year. The ACLS is indebted to the National Science Foundation for its continued support for the editing of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
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ACLS Fellowship & Grant Awardees ACLS Fellows, 2004-2005 See page 21 for program description. Leonard Barkan, Professor, Comparative Literature, Princeton University. Mute poetry speaking pictures.
Judith M. Bennett, Professor, History, University of Southern California. (Dr. Bennett was Professor, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the time of the award.) Singlewomen and the history of late medieval England, c. 1300–1550.
Susan Bernofsky, Research Scholar in the Humanities, Bard College. An intro- duction to the work of Robert Walser.
Thomas Bishop, Associate Professor, English, Case Western Reserve University. Shakespeare’s scriptures: reading, writing, and the sacred in Shakespearean poetry.
Philippe Buc, Professor, Medieval History, Stanford University. Genealogies of medieval violence: martyrdom, holy war, purification, and terror in the European West, c. 1 CE–c. 2001.
Richard Cleary, Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. The art, science, and craft of organic architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and building technology.
Matt Cohen, Assistant Professor, English, Duke University. Positioning the word in early New England.
Frederick K. Errington, Professor, Anthropology, Trinity College (CT). Trade made flesh: the flow of fatty meats in the Pacific.
Karen Ford, Associate Professor, English, University of Oregon. Race and form in American poetry.
Paul Franks, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. Post-Kantian approaches to the problem of other minds: the second person and human science, beyond simulation and theory.
Paul Friedland, Associate Professor, History, Bowdoin College. Seeing justice done: the logic of spectacular punishment in premodern France and its disappearance in the eighteenth century.
Alain Frogley, Professor, Music History, University of Connecticut. Vaughan Williams’s “A London Symphony”: music, the metropolis, and the “condition of England” 1900–1926.
Rhonda Garelick, Associate Professor, French Literature, Connecticut College. Antigone in Vogue: the theatrical work of Coco Chanel.
Leah Garrett, Assistant Professor, English and Jewish Studies, University of Denver. The illusionists: how Jewish writers transformed European literature.
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ACLS Fellows Michael Grossberg, Professor, History and Law, Indiana University, Bloomington. (continued) Saving our kids: child protection in America. William V. Harris, Professor, History, Columbia University. Dreams in the Greek and Roman world: representation and interpretation.
Jane Hathaway, Associate Professor, Islamic and World History, Ohio State University. The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman imperial harem.
Christopher Herbert, Professor, English Literature, Northwestern University. The Indian mutiny and the Victorian soul.
Dorothy L. Hodgson, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Being Maasai, becoming indigenous: the cultural politics of represen- tation, recognition, resources, and rights.
Dan Hunter, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Person- to-person: information policy for democratic communication.
Peter Hylton, Professor, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago. The philosophy of W. V. Quine.
Karl Jacoby, Associate Professor, History, Brown University. Shadows at dawn: the Camp Grant Massacre and the borderlands of history.
Heather James, Associate Professor, English Literature, University of Southern Califor- nia. Taking liberties: Ovid in Renaissance poetry and political thought.
David Johnson, Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley. The great temple festivals of southeastern Shanxi in late Imperial times.
James H. Johnson, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of History, Boston University. Masks and the making of modern consciousness: a cultural history about masking in modern and early-modern Europe.
Adeeb Khalid, Associate Professor, History, Carleton College. The making of Soviet Central Asia, 1917–1929.
Kathryn King, Professor, English, University of Montevallo. Critical biography of Eliza Haywood (1693?–1756).
Jay Ladin, Assistant Professor, English, Yeshiva University. Democracy, diction, and the birth of modernist American poetry. Tobie S. Meyer-Fong, Assistant Professor, History, Johns Hopkins University. Rebel- lion remembered: violence, community, and commemoration in nineteenth-century China. Andrea Most, Assistant Professor, English Literature, University of Toronto. Acting Jewish: Jews, self-representation, and the American dream.
Philip Nord, Professor, History, Princeton University. The modern French state: institutional and cultural reform, 1930–1950. Gunther Peck, Associate Professor, U.S. History, Duke University. White slavery, national freedoms: race, labor, and sex in the United States and Great Britain, 1800–1930.
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ACLS Fellows Bianca Premo, Assistant Professor, History, Emory University. Taking tyrants to (continued) court: civil litigation in Spain and Spanish America during the Age of Enlighten- ment.
Alex Purves, Assistant Professor, Classics, University of California, Los Angeles. Bodies of Gods: corporeality and divinity in archaic Greek epic.
Lara Putnam, Assistant Professor, History, University of Pittsburgh. Divergent destinies: state racism, civil society, and policies toward British Caribbean youth at home and abroad, 1900–1970.
Michael Ragussis, Professor, English, Georgetown University. Jews and other “outlandish Englishmen”: ethnic performance and national identity in Georgian England.
Marcus Rediker, Professor, History, University of Pittsburgh. The slave ship: a human history.
William Saturno, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of New Hampshire. The origins of divine kingship in Mesoamerica: contextualizing early mythological narratives at San Bartolo, Guatemala.
Carl Smith, Professor, American Studies, English, and History, Northwestern Uni- versity. City water, city life: a cultural history of cities and water in nineteenth- century America.
J. Douglas Smith, Adjunct Assistant Professor, History, Occidental College. An unfinished revolution: reapportionment and the quest for democracy in twentieth- century America.
Juliana Spahr, Assistant Professor, English, Mills College. The crisis of language in twentieth-century literature.
Matthew W. Stolper, Professor, Assyriology, University of Chicago. Publication of the Persepolis Fortification Archive.
Nancy Troy, Professor, Art History, University of Southern California. (Re:)Making Mondrian: a study of how the artist’s stature was secured in elite and popular venues after he died in 1944.
Mary Trull, Assistant Professor, English Literature, Saint Olaf College. Gendering privacy: overheard laments in early modern English literature.
James Vernon, Associate Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley. Modernity’s hunger: how imperial Britain created and tried to solve the problem of hunger in the modern world.
Matthew Waters, Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient History, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. A historical commentary on the “Persika” of Ctesias of Cnidus. Susan Webster, Associate Professor, Art History, St. Thomas University. Building colonial Quito: architects, patrons, and the profession, 1650–1750. Emily Wilson, Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania. The death of Socrates: reflections and constructions after Plato.
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ACLS Fellows Steven Yao, Assistant Professor, English Literature, Hamilton College. Foreign (continued) accents: Chinese American poetry and the language of ethnicity.
Sarah Zimmerman, Associate Professor, English Literature, Fordham University. Staging instruction: the Romantic public lecture on literature.
ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellow Natalie Fousekis, Assistant Professor, History, California State University, Fullerton. Fighting for our children: women’s activism, the battle over child care, and the politics of welfare, 1940–1971.
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International & Area Studies Fellows See page 22 Robert Chi, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, State University of for program New York at Stony Brook. Movies in motion: non-standard film exhibition description. and spectatorship in China, 1940s–1980s. JaHyun Kim Haboush, Professor, Korean and East Asian History, Columbia University. Writing and constructing the nation in Korea: wars and memory since 1592. Arthur Joyce, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. A social history of ancient Oaxaca.
Padriac Kenney, Professor, History, University of Colorado, Boulder. The polit- ical prisoner in the twentieth century: honor and resistance across seven Polish regimes. Melissa McCormick, Associate Professor, Art History, Harvard University. (Dr. McCormick was Assistant Professor, Art History, Columbia University at the time of the award.) White lines: female authorship and the Hakubyô painting tradition in Japan c. 1200–1600. Laura Mitchell, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Irvine. Contested terrains: property, family, and identity on the Cedarberg Frontier (Western Cape), South Africa, 1725–c. 1830. Paul J. Smith, Professor, History, Haverford College. Peasants, landlords, warriors, and the state: war and the military culture of North China, 1040–1140. Maura Velazquez-Castillo, Associate Professor, Spanish Linguistics, Colorado State University. Paraguayan Spanish: the role of language contact in morpho- syntactic change. Brook A. Ziporyn, Associate Professor, Philosophy/Religion, Northwestern Univer- sity. Tiantai Buddhist “pessimism” and Chinese modernities.
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See page 22 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellows for program description. Nicholas J. Dames, Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. The physiology of the novel: reading and cognition in Victorian fiction.
Elizabeth Fenn, Assistant Professor, History, Duke University. Mandan Mecca: the rise and fall of an American people, 1738–1838.
William Jones, Associate Professor, History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Dr. Jones was Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee at the time of the award.) Remaking the working-class: urban service workers and the American federation of state, county and municipal employees.
Eric Klinenberg, Assistant Professor, Sociology, New York University. Local media in a digital age.
Krista Lawlor, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Stanford University. Inner voices: language’s impact on human moral psychology.
Bryan D. McCann, Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Georgetown Uni- versity. Patching the broken city: community and inequality in Rio de Janeiro from the 1960s–1980s.
Eugene McCarraher, Assistant Professor, Humanities/History, Villanova Uni- versity. The enchantments of mammon: corporate capitalism and the American moral imagination.
Sanna Pederson, Associate Professor, Music History, University of Oklahoma. Musical romanticism and cultural pessimism: the impact of the Revolutions of 1848 on German musical life.
Philippe Schlenker, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles. Ontological symmetry in language.
Kieran Setiya, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh. Hume’s sen- timental realism: the British Rationalists and the “Treatise of Human Nature.”
Silvia Tomaskova, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Traveling spirits: the history of shamans and the gender of prehistory.
Eugene Wang, Associate Professor, Art History, Harvard University. Thinking out- side the nesting boxes: the ninth-century Chinese mandalas and reliquaries from the underground.
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See page 23 Frederick Burkhardt Residential for program description. Fellows
Robert Bork, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Iowa. The geometry of creation: architectural drawing and the dynamics of Gothic design.
Mark Bradley, Associate Professor, History, Northwestern University. The human rights revolution of the twentieth century: a global history.
Kristen Brustad, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, Emory University. Arabic from empire to nation-state: a study in language ideology.
Paul Halliday, Associate Professor, History, University of Virginia. Liberty of the subject: habeas corpus and English society, 1500–1800.
Julie Hochstrasser, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Iowa. The Dutch in the world: signs of the other.
Burglind Jungmann, Associate Professor, Korean Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. Korean paintings of the Choson Period (1392–1910): pathways to culture, society, and politics.
Stacy S. Klein, Associate Professor, English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. The militancy of gender and the making of sexual difference in Anglo-Saxon literature (c. 700–1100 AD).
Thomas Klubock, Associate Professor, History, State University of New York at Stony Brook. La Frontera: land, labor, and ecological change in Chile, 1873–1993.
Emilio Kouri, Associate Professor, Latin American History, University of Chicago. The “Indian community” in Mexican social thought.
Sheryl Kroen, Associate Professor, History, University of Florida. Capitalism and democracy: the lessons of the Marshall Plan.
Zoe Strother, Associate Professor, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. Iconoclasm in Africa.
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See page 24 Other Fellowship & Grant Recipients for program description. Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellows in American Art
Ross Barrett, Doctoral Student, Department of Art History, Boston University. Rendering violence: riots, strikes, and upheaval in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture.
Emily Bills, Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The telephone shapes Los Angeles: communications and urban form, 1880–1950.
John Curley, Doctoral Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale Univer- sity. Blurred ideologies: Cold War visuality and the art of Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter, 1950–1968.
Ethan Lasser, Doctoral Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale Univer- sity. The figure in the grain: furniture, merchants, and the imagination in Boston, 1660–1800.
Hayes Mauro, Doctoral Candidate, Ph.D. Program in Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center. Made in the U.S.A.: Americanizing aesthetics at Carlisle.
Andrea Nelson, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Reading American photographic history: narrative montage and the photography books of Walker Evans and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
Katherine Rieder, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of American Civilization, Harvard University. “The remainder of our effects we must leave behind”: American loyalists and the meaning of things, 1765–1800.
Meredith Tegrotenhuis, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University. Stabilizing the city: Berenice Abbott’s photographs and urban representation in the 1930s.
Terra Foundation Fellows in American Art Wendy Ikemoto, Doctoral Student, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Double vision: pendant painting in antebellum America.
Leisa Rundquist, Doctoral Candidate, Art Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Firestorms and conflagrations: the inflamed cosmology of Henry Darger.
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See page 25 for program Contemplative Practice Fellows description. Amy Cheng, Associate Professor, Studio Art, State University of New York, College at New Paltz. Excavating the creative process. Mitchell Green, Professor, Philosophy, University of Virginia. Subtle self-knowledge. David Haskell, Associate Professor, Biology, University of the South. Food and hunger: contemplation and action. David Levy, Professor, Information Science, University of Washington. Information and contemplation. Shauna Lin Shapiro, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara Uni- versity. On the use of meditation in psychotherapy, focusing on theory, research, and practice.
Contemplative Practice Program Development Fellowships Geraldine Deluca, Professor, English, City University of New York, Brooklyn Col- lege. (Professor Deluca is collaborating on this project with David J. Forbes.) A lotus grows in Brooklyn: nurturing a contemplative educators’ network on an urban campus of higher education. David Forbes, Assistant Professor, Education, City University oOf New York, Brooklyn College. (Professor Forbes is collaborating on this project with Geraldine Deluca.) A lotus grows in Brooklyn: nurturing a contemplative educators’ net- work on an urban campus of higher education. Harold Roth, Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, Brown Univer- sity. Developing contemplative studies at Brown University. Joseph Weiss, Professor, Management, Bentley College. Introducing contemplative practices into the Bentley College curriculum
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See page 26 Humanities Program in Belarus, for program description. Russia, and Ukraine
Short-term Grants for Projects in the Humanities Mikhail Boytsov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Political symbolism in Medieval Europe: representations of power in Occident, Byzantium, and Rus’. Nina Braguinskaia, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. “Joseph and Aseneth: apocrypha, novel, midrash”: first Russian edition of the text, translation, detailed commentary, and study. Viktor Brekhunenko, Hrushevskyi Institute of Ukranian Archaeography and Source Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine. Typology of Christian Cossack communities in Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. Chimiza Dagyn-ool, Institute for Humanitarian Research, Moscow, Russia. Transformation of ethno-cultural traditions in the representatives of ethnic diasporas in a present day megapolis, based on the example of the Tuvan diaspora in Moscow. Aleh Dziarnovich, Institute of History, Minsk, Belarus. “The Vitebsk–Riga acts”: documents on the history of relations of Vitebsk with the Hanseatic city Riga (fourteenth–seventeenth centuries) in the Latvia State Historical Archive. Marsil Farkhshatov, Institute of History, St. Petersburg, Russia. Polemics across the borders: A.Z. Validi’s and A.P. Kovalevsky’s research on Ibn Fadlan’s “traveling notes” (921–922). Olena Haleta, I. Franko Lviv National University, Lviv, Ukraine. Elaboration on the archives and preparation for publication of Yuriy Mezhenko’s research works in literature studies. Tatiana Iakovleva, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. Ivan Mazepa and Russian authorities. Vitaly Kiryushchenko, State University-Higher School of Economics, St. Peters- burg, Russia. Charles Peirce’s system of signs and classical rationalism: American pragmatism on the problem of objective motivation. Valentyna Konobrodska, Zhytomyr State University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Vocabulary research of the phenomena of traditional folk spiritual culture in Middle Polissya, ethno-linguistic aspect. Mikhail Koroussenko, Institute of History, Philology, and Philosophy, Omsk, Russia. Cultural outlook of Siberian Tatars: a dictionary “Mythology of Siberian Tatars.” Galina Kosmolinskaya, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Italian “popular” novel on Bertoldo and its perceptions in Russian culture of the age of Enlightenment: research and publication of the illustrated manuscript of the 1740s. Youri Kostyashov, Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Policy of Moscow towards the Kaliningrad Region, 1945–1956.
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Humanities Olga Kouznetsova, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), St. Peters- Program burg, Russia. The publication of the correspondence between Viacheslav Ivanov and his wife, L. D. Zinovieva-Annibal, 1893–1900. (continued) Olga Kovalevska, Institute of Ukrainian History, Kyiv, Ukraine. “Mazepiana” in museum collections of Ukraine. Tatyana Leontyeva, Tver State University, Tver, Russia. Authorities, church, and nation as perceived by the provincial clergyman (1830–1890). Marina Loskutova, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. The politics of memory and regional identities in late Imperial Russia: the making of the “Rus- sian North,” 1870s–1914. Liudmila Lutsevich, Private Design Studio, Minsk, Belarus. The basic historical tendencies of the development and compositional peculiarities of country-estate parks of Belarus of the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Tatiana Oparina, Novosibirsk Teachers Training University, Novosibirsk, Russia. Attitudes of the Russian Orthodox Church towards the Kyiv (Ukrainian) Orthodox tradition: from the end of the Smuta, 1613 to Pereiaslav, 1654. Iryna Orlevych, I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Lviv, Ukraine. The Ukrainian national-cultural institutions in Galicia from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Valery Petroff, Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia. The synthesis of philo- sophical and theological traditions of Byzantium and the Latin West in John Scotus Erigena’s teaching of the universe and man. Arkadiy Petrov, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia. The culture of Russian epistolary: a correspondence between V.A. Zukovsky and two brothers, A. Ja. Bulgakov and C. Ja. Bulgakov. Olga Popova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Eleventh- century Byzantine and medieval Russian illuminated manuscripts. Olga Pyrozhenko, Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Constructing the subject in animated film: cross-cultural study. Iryna Shauliakova-Barzenka, Institute of Parliamentarism and Entrepreneurship, Minsk, Belarus. Contemporary Belarusian literature at the fracture of the cultural paradigm: characteristics and consequences of the formation of a new type of art consciousness. Irina Silina, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia. Migration on the south of western Siberia in the first third of the twentieth century: historical-demographic and ethnic aspects. Svetlana Smirnova, Publishing House Atlant, St. Petersburg, Russia. Social and demographical thesaurus of the Russian empire in the nineteenth to early twen- tieth centuries, bureaucratic terminology at the central and local level. Olga Smolyak, Perm State Technical University, Perm, Russia. Reconstruction of the Soviet large city dweller’s cultural world on the basis of archive sources analysis, films, and periodicals. Vita Susak, Lviv Gallery of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine. Ukrainian branch of the Paris School, 1900–1939.
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Humanities Sergey Tochenov, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia. Anti-Soviet Program actions and manifestations of dissatisfactions with administration policy in the rear during the Great Patriotic War. (continued) Anastasia Tumanova, Tambov State University, Tambov, Russia. The public (obshchestvennost) and traditions of civil self-activity in a Russian provincial town at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Vladyslav Verstyuk, Institute of Ukrainian History, Kyiv, Ukraine. Serhiy Yefremov, political essays, 1917–1920. Lia Yangulova, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. Imposture (samozvanstvo): madness or treason? The traditional concepts of insanity in imperial Russia and scientific psychiatric classifications. Vitalii Yaremchuk, National University of Osroh Academy, Ostroh, Ukraine. National history in the post-Stalin period: the example of Ukraine, 1954–1973. Anatoliy Yermolenko, H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, Kyiv, Ukraine. Ecological ethics: the problems of justification. Irina Zavadskaya, Institute of Oriental Studies, Crimean Branch, Simferopol, Ukraine. Systematization and catalogization of Crimean churches of the fourth to fifteenth centuries according to publications and archival materials. Yuriy Zazulyak, Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Lviv, Ukraine. Feud, violence, and noble community in the late medieval kingdom of Poland: the evidence from the Rus’ palatinate, fifteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Grants in Support of Publications Zoya Dmitrieva, Institute of Russian History, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Russian province in Pavel Bolotov’s eye: 1787 desk calendar. Aliaksandr Huzhalouski, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus. “We beg your mercy,” or Belarusian modern history in letters and complaints of people to the communist party: a collection of documents. Boris Kaganovich, Institute of Russian History, St. Petersburg, Russia. Sergei Fedorovich Oldenburg and the Russian Academy of Science. Margarita Korzo, Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia. Ukrainian-Belarusian catechetical tradition, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: formation, evolution, and problem of borrowings. Nazar Kozak, I. Franko Lviv National University, Lviv, Ukraine. Image and authority: the representation of political elite in the art of Kyivan Rus’. Svetlana Morozova, Yanka Kupala Grodno State University, Grodno, Belarus. The resistance to the de-unization in Belarus (1780–1839). Marian Mudryi, I. Franko Lviv National University, Lviv, Ukraine. Gente Ruthenus natione Polonus: the problem of choice between Polish and Ukrainian national idea in the public discourse of Galicia from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Olga Nesterova, Institute of World Literature, Moscow, Russia. Origen, Biblical exegesis, methods of interpretation of Scripture, allegory, typology, hermeneutics.
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Humanities Margarita Pavlova, Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg, Russia. Feodor Program Sologub from the 1890s to the early 1900s: life and literary career. (continued) Galina Petrova, Russian Institute of Art History, St. Petersburg, Russia. The court orchestra and the development of instrumental practice in St. Petersburg during the first half of the nineteenth century: institutions, persons, traditions. Ekaterina Pravilova, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. Finances of an empire: essays on Russian economic politics in the Borderlands (nineteenth to early twentieth centuries). Larisa Savitska, Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian art in the context of artistic life at the turn of the centuries: 1890–1910. Andrey Skorobogatov, Institute of Economics, Management, and Law, Kazan, Russia. The political ideas and the symbols in the discourse of power of Emperor Paul. Maksym Strikha, Ukrainian Center of Cultural Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian literary translation: between literature and nation-building. Siarhej Tokc, Yanka Kupala Grodno State University, Grodno, Belarus. Social- cultural development of the Belarusian village in the ethno-confessional boundary regions. Dilyara Usmanova, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. Muslim sectarianism in late imperial Russia: the Viasov movement, 1870–1917. Efim Vodonos, A.N. Radischev Saratov State Art Museum, Saratov, Russia. Artistic life in Saratov in the period of “cultural burst” (1918–1932). Iryna Voronchuk, Institute of Ukrainian Archeography, Kyiv, Ukraine. The popu- lation of Volhinia in the sixteenth to the first half of the seventeenth centuries: family, household, and demographic factors. Elena Yukhimenko, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia. Creative heritage of the Old Believers’ writers of Vyg literary school: scholarly edition.
See page 27 ACLS Committees on East European for program description. Studies & Language Training
Postdoctoral Research in Southeast European Studies Kristen Ghodsee, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College. The miniskirt or the veil: moderate Muslim women resisting Islamic fundamentalism in post-communist Bulgaria.
Patrick Patterson, Lecturer, History, University of California, San Diego. Socialist societies consumed: the culture of the market and everyday life in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Roger Schoenman, Lecturer, Political Science, University of California, Santa Cruz. Captains or pirates? Economic networks, political process and corruption in Romania, Buglaria, and Poland.
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East European Dissertation Research in East European Studies Studies Karl W. Brown, Doctoral Student, History, University of Texas at Austin. Regulat- (continued) ing bodies and everyday crimes: criminality, subculture, and deviance in com- munist Hungary, 1948–1956. Brian Grodsky, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Politics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Exploring determinants of transitional justice: human rights account- ability in post-communist states.
Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Doctoral Candidate, East Central European History, Columbia University. Among the nationalities: Jewish refugees, Jewish nationality, and Czechoslovak state-building.
James Krapfl, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley. Velvet Czechs, gentle Slovaks: the geography of political culture in revolutionary Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992.
Naomi Levy, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Learning national identity: formal and informal education in Bosnia- Herzegovina and Croatia.
Paul Milliman, Doctoral Candidate, History, Cornell University. Disputing identity, territoriality, and sovereignty: constructing historical memory in Poland and the Ordensstaat.
Elizabeth Nazarian, Doctoral Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. Between east and west: Karol Irzykowski’s The Tenth Muse (1924) and the cultural politics of early Polish film theory.
Jill Owczarzak, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of Kentucky. Mapping HIV prevention in Poland: contested citizenship and the struggles for health after socialism.
Daniel Ryan, Doctoral Candidate, Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles. Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy, social unrest, and political change in the Baltic province of Livland, 1840s–1870s.
Mehmet Saracoglu, Doctoral Candidate, Islamic History, Ohio State University. An attempt at understanding the interaction between Vidin County [present-day Bulgaria] and the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century.
Cristofer Scarboro, Doctoral Candidate, Southeastern European History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ordering hegemony: the Bulgarian socialist humanist project.
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East European East European Language Training Studies Institutions (continued) Arizona State University for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian and Polish. Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) for Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian. Beloit College for Czech. Indiana University for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Romanian, and Slovene. University of Pittsburgh for Polish and Slovak.
Individual Scholars Katherine A. Bowers, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University. To study Croatian in the Kansas University Summer Institute for Croatian Language, Zagreb and Dubrovnik, Croatia. Britton Staples Buckner, Graduate Student, Religion and Society, Harvard Uni- versity, Divinity School. To study Bosnian with the Soros Foreign Language School, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Irena Budimova, Graduate Student, Public Policy, New York University, Wagner Graduate School. To study Croatian at the University of Zagreb-University School of Croatian Languages and Culture, Croatia. Ashby B. Crowder, Graduate, Bowdoin College. To study Romanian at the International Summer School of Romanian Language and Civilization at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Bethany Griffin Deeds, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Maryland, Medical School. To study Croatian with the Diplomatic Language Services, LLC, United States. Adam M. Federman, Graduate, Columbia University. To study Serbian at Indiana University. Jeffry R. Halverson, Graduate Student, Religious Studies, Arizona State University. To study Albanian at Arizona State University. Amelia B. Kahlavdic, Doctoral Student, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland. To study Croatian at the University of Pittsburgh. Michelle L. Nebergall, Doctoral Student, Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University. To study Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian at Indiana University. Bruce T. O’Neill, Graduate Student, Human and Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science. To study Romanian at Indiana. Laurel Elizabeth Reed, Doctoral Student, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. To study Croatian at the Lingua Croatica, Zadar, Croatia. Karen E. Young, Doctoral Student, Political Science, City University of New York, Graduate Center. To study Bulgarian at Sofia University’s International School of Bulgarian Language and Culture, Bulgaria.
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See page 28 New Perspectives on Chinese Culture for program description. and Society
Kenneth Dean, Professor, East Asian Studies, McGill University, and Zhuang Yingzhang, Institute for Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. “Epigraphical Sources of Local Chinese History of the Minnan Region” Workshop, Museum of Over- seas Transportation and Communications, Quanzhou, Fujian, China, January– February 2005. Grace S. Fong, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, McGill University, and Wei Hua, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Nankan. “Ming-Qing Women’s Writings: Exploring New Technologies and New Research Potentials” Planning Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 2005. David A. Palmer, Visiting Professor, Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Fongmao Lee, Institute of Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. “From Eternity to Modernity: An International Symposium on Daoist Tradition and Transformation in Modern China” Planning Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2005. John Radke, Associate Professor, Geographic Information Science Center, Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, and Ching-Chun Hsieh, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. “New Perspectives on Ancient Connections: Remapping Historic Trade Routes in Southeast Asia and China” Planning Meeting, Hoi An, Vietnam, January 2005. Timothy B. Weston, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado, and Lucie Cheng, College of Journalism and Communications, Shih-hsin University. “Studying the Daily Medium: Newspapers as Subject and Source in Republican-era China, 1911–1949” Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
See page 28 Committee on Scholarly Communication for program description. with China
American Research in the Humanities in China David A. Bello, Assistant Professor, History, Washington and Lee University. Ecological space and ethnic administration in Manchuria, seventeenth to nine- teenth centuries.
Stephen R. MacKinnon, Professor, History, Arizona State University. The last romantic: life and times of Chen Hanseng (1897–2004).
Lisa A. Raphals, Professor, Chinese Studies, University of California, Riverside. Comparative perspectives on early Chinese divination.
Giovanni Vitiello, Associate Professor, Chinese Literature, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Male love and masculinity in Late Imperial Chinese fiction, 1600–1850.
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CSCC CSCC Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development (continued) Azhi Ergu, Liangshan Prefecture Human Resources Development Office. For work withStevan Harrell Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington. Translation, conservation, and interpretation of Nuosu religious texts. Hua Sun, Professor, Archaeology, Peking University. For work with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. The salt industry of ancient Sichuan: archaeological and comparative perspectives. Ping Qian, Associate Professor, Institute of Accounting, Tsinghua University. For work with Graciela Chichilnisky, UNESCO Professor, Economics, Columbia University. Information disclosure and investor protection in Chinese capital market. Chongxin Yao, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Sun Yat-Sen University. For work with Chun-fang Yu, Professor, Religion, Columbia University. Evolutions in Guanyin iconography and the changes in the cult.
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Lam Thi My Dzung, Director, Museum of Anthropology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. For work with Seth Harter, Professor, Asian Studies, Marlboro College, starting September 2006. Nguyen Quy Tanh, Lecturer, Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. For work with Karl Fields, Director, Asia Studies, University of Puget Sound, starting January 2006. Tran Thi Phuong Phuong, Lecturer, Literature, Linguistics and Journalism, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. For work with Jack Harris, Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Hobart and William Smith College, starting January 2006. Pham Quang Minh, Deputy Dean, International Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. For work with Kyoko Kurita, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, Pomona College, starting January 2006.
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See page 33 Abe Fellows for program description. Kent Calder, Professor of East Asian Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Base politics: the comparative host-nation politics of forward deployment in Japan and South Korea. Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien, Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Globalization and university governance reforms: a comparative study of Japan and France. Aya Ezawa, Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, Swarthmore College. From welfare to work: lone mothers and welfare reform in Japan and the United States. Masahiro Hirose, Director and Instructor, Patient Safety Division, Kyoto University Hospital. A comparison between Japan and U.S. of factors asso- ciated with medical accidents. Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Assistant Professor, Political Science, DePaul University. The local political economy of innovation in Japan and the United States: a new policy model? Douglas Joines, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California. Aging, Social Security, fiscal policy, and saving in Japan and the United States. Yoshiko Kojo, Professor, Advanced Social and International Science, University of Tokyo. In search of governance in new issue-linkage problem: the relation- ship between intellectual property rights regime and international public health. Jens Meierhenrich, Lecturer, International Studies, Harvard University. The responsibility of individuals for international crimes. Isao Miyaoka, Associate Professor, International Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. Collective identity formation in the U.S.-Japan alliance in the post-Cold War period: from the perspective of American elites. Chiaki Moriguchi, Assistant Professor, Economics, Northwestern University. Historical origins of employment systems in the United States and Japan: a comparative institutional analysis, 1900–2000. Yohei Nakayama, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. The impact of social movements on the policy process: a comparative study of the new immigration politics in the U.S.A., France, and Japan. Mireya Solis, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University. Trading preferences? Japan’s new regionalism and East Asia. Akio Takahara, Professor, Faculty of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University. Japan-U.S.-China relations since the late 1970s.
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See page 34 International Dissertation Field for program description. Research Fellows
Nikolay Antov, History, University of Chicago. Formation of Muslim communities in the Ottoman Balkans: the case of Deliorman, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. James Barsimantov, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Testing the role of community forestry in conserving Mexico’s pine-oak forests. Elisabetta Bini, History, New York University. Cold War domesticity: consuming women in postwar Italy. Lale Can, History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. Subjects of the Tsar, brothers of the Sultan: the Ferghana Valley between Russian colonialism and Ottoman Pan-Islamism. Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez, History, Georgetown University. Of Moors and Men: the construction of masculinities on the Spanish-Moroccan frontier, Ceuta 1640–1799. D’Maris Coffman, History, University of Pennsylvania. The “devil’s remedy”: excise taxation in the British Isles, 1650–1700. Roseann Cohen, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Migrating ecologies: homegarden practice among displaced persons from rural Chocó, Colombia, resettled in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. Jason Cons, Sociology, Cornell University. The fragments and their nations: marginality, citizenship, and territory in the India-Bangladesh enclaves. Robyn Cutright, Archaeology, University of Pittsburgh. Cuisine and empire: a domestic view of Chimú expansion from the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru. Bianca Dahl, Human Development, University of Chicago. Left behind? The socialization of orphaned children in contemporary Botswana. Naomi Davidson, History, University of Chicago. Un espoir en devenir: the Mosquée de Paris and the creation of French Islams. Jennifer Derr, History, Stanford University. The development of the Egyptian sugar industry, 1850–1950: geography, authority and community in southern Egypt. Madhuri Desai, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. Resurrecting Banaras: urban space, architecture and religious boundaries. Nadia Ellis Russell, Literature, Princeton University. The Caribbean and the making of modern British culture, 1935–2005. Tasha Fairfield, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. The distrib- utional politics of tax reform in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Jane Ferguson, Anthropology, Cornell University. The national politics of local digital media in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. Claudio Ferraz, Economics, University of California, Berkeley. The impact of globalization on environmental choices: evidence from Brazilian manufacturing firms.
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International Denise Geraci, Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center. Dissertation Field Inequality and childcare in the global economy: the children of Mexican domestic workers. Research (continued) Camilo Gómez-Rivas, History, Yale University. Muslim jurists under the Almoravids. Azra Hromadzic, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Emerging citizens: youth, education, and democratization in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina. Rusaslina Idrus, Anthropology, Harvard University. The native state and trans- national indigenes: the legal arena and Orang Asli land claims in Malaysia. Beatrice Jauregui, Anthropology, University of Chicago. The force of law: state actors and legal orders in contemporary India. Charles Keith, History, Yale University. Catholic Vietnam: the politics of religion in French Indochina, 1920–1945. Abby Kinchy, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Transgenic crops and transnational activism: controversies over Mexican maize and Canadian canola. Lili Lai, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Beyond the economic peasant: embodiment and healthcare in rural Henan. Erez Levon, Linguistics, New York University. Language, ideology and gay identity in Israel. Fabiana Li, Anthropology, University of California, Davis. Reconfiguring networks, politics, and nature: the emergence of movements against mining in Peru. Lilith Mahmud, Anthropology, Harvard University. Seeking sisterhood: elite constructions of gender in the Italian Freemasonry. Oana Maria Mateescu, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Memory, proof and persuasion: re-creating communal ownership in post- socialist Romania. Tomas Matza, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University. Economies of despair: gender, psychologies and social assistance in post-socialist Russia. Natalia Milanesio, History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Perónism, mass consumption, and working-class culture, Argentina, 1946–1955. Manjusha Nair, Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Intimate contentions: class, community and nationhood in Chhattisgarh in Central India (1947–2005). Shunsuke Nozawa, Anthropology, University of Chicago. The advent of inter- preters: redemption and prolepsis in Japanese grassroots historiography. Jessica O’Reilly, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Policy and practice in Antarctic specially managed areas. Itohan Osayimwese, Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “Onwards with God”: utopianism, colonialism, and modernism in a pan-German world. Jonathan Padwe, Environmental Studies and Anthropology, Yale University, Garden variety histories of genocide: development and agriculture among the Jarai of northeast Cambodia. Elizabeth Perrill, Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Potters in the marketplace: South African ceramic urbanization, 1910s–present. Pascale Rihouet, Art History, Brown University. Rituals and images: the unifying power of confraternity banners in late medieval and Renaissance Umbria.
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International Gregory Robinson, Ethnomusicology, University of Pennsylvania. “Where night Dissertation Field finds him, he lives”: music, regional identity, and the border among the Gauchos of Chilean Patagonia. Research (continued) Ana Schaller de la Cova, Anthropology, Emory University. Senegalese “making do”: Islamic knowledge, national schooling, and opportunity in Dakar. Ann Schneider, History, University of Chicago. Political amnesty in Brazil, 1889–1979. Ibra Sene, History, Michigan State University. Crime, punishment, and colonization: a history of the prison of Saint-Louis and the development of the penitentiary system in Senegal, c. 1860–c. 1940. Andrey Shlyakhter, History, University of Chicago. Smuggling across the Soviet borders: contraband trade and the struggle against it, 1918–1933. Sara Shneiderman, Anthropology, Cornell University. Rituals of ethnicity: mixing and making Thangmi identity across Himalayan borders. Bhrigupati Singh, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Affect and temporality in human rights: death by starvation in Rajasthan, India. Mariela Szwarcberg, Political Science, University of Chicago. Machine politics in Latin America: lessons from the Argentine case. Henry Trotter, History, Yale University. Port culture: a modern history of South African sailors, stevedores and “sugar-girls.” Eric Usner, Ethnomusicology, New York University. The cultural practice of West- ern European art music in Vienna: an historical and ethnographic study of “classical music” and the Viennese racial imagination. Adriana Valencia, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. Migration and the city: early seventeenth-century urban history in Granada, Valencia, Rabat, and Tetouan. Emily Van Buskirk, Literature, Harvard University. Boundary literature: personal, aesthetic, and historical dimensions. Lindsay Weiss, Archaeology, Columbia University. Toward an archaeology of apartheid: the origins of segregation in South Africa’s first industrial mining community. Max Weiss, History, Stanford University. The making of sectarian Shi`i Lebanon, 1926–1948. Jin Zeng, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. Privatization of small and medium state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. Xiaowei Zheng, History, University of California, San Diego. Political culture, protest repertoires, and mass nationalism in the 1911 Revolution in Sichuan, China. Cesar Zucco, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Still “politics as usual”?
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Financial Statements
Independent Auditors’ Report
Board of Directors American Council of Learned Societies New York, New York
We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of the American Council of Learned Societies (the “Council”) as of September 30, 2005 and 2004, and the related statements of activities, functional expenses, and cash flows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Council’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements enumerated above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the American Council of Learned Societies as of September 30, 2005 and 2004, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
New York, New York November 21, 2005
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American Council of Learned Societies Statements of Financial Position
September 30, 2005 2004
ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,224,022 $ 1,491,637 Grants and accounts receivable 369,654 302,176 Accrued interest and dividends receivable 44,600 164,781 Investments 87,279,563 80,011,792 Property and equipment 4,580,774 4,797,635 Deferred debt issuance costs, net 255,917 267,594 Other assets 6,900 11,680
$ 94,761,430 $ 87,047,295
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 648,355 $ 637,904 Fellowships payable 4,103,373 4,269,176 Deferred dues 598,280 585,938 Other liabilities 19,888 7,337 New York City Industrial Development Agency Bonds 4,671,250 4,782,500
10,041,146 10,282,855
Contingency (Note K)
Net assets: Unrestricted: Board designated: Central fellowship program 32,850,634 26,996,451 Program administration 10,507,478 9,055,220 Undesignated 4,836,691 5,065,226
Total unrestricted 48,194,803 41,116,897
Temporarily restricted 16,008,522 15,155,584 Permanently restricted - endowment 20,516,959 20,491,959
84,720,284 76,764,440
$ 94,761,430 $ 87,047,295
See Notes to Financial Statements
83 American Council of Learned Societies 43,748 466,157 146,620 962,958 Total 1,550,000 8,158,807 1,530,035 12,082,129 10,431,664
$ 76,764,440 15,118,301 13,825 8,682,537 23,800,838 45,000 12,006,699 64,970,301 $ 376,594 11,794,139 Restricted Permanently $ 20,491,959 $ 20,491,959 2004 )
See to StatementsFinancial Notes 962,958 12,082,129 Restricted Temporarily $ $ 15,155,584 (8,442,330 4,655,257 4,655,257 10,500,327 4,655,257 52,500 43,748 146,620 466,157 1,550,000 8,158,807 1,530,035 10,431,664 Unrestricted $ 324,094 7,138,882 8,442,330 10,463,044 13,825 8,682,537 19,145,581 45,000 12,006,699 33,978,015 $ 41,116,897 Total Year Ended September 30, $ 84,720,284 10,873,191 5,610 8,947,563 19,820,754 47,000 11,864,910 76,764,440 82,461 161,066 484,676 1,550,000 8,374,816 $ 958,908 1,442,731 10,375,179 7,809,785 393,432 7,955,844 Restricted Permanently
$ 20,516,959 25,000 25,000 20,491,959
$ 25,000 25,000 Statements of Statements Activities 2005
) American American Council of Learned Societies Restricted Temporarily 852,938 $ 16,008,522 7,784,785 $ 958,908 (8,082,755 852,938 852,938 15,155,584 192,000 Unrestricted $ 48,194,803 7,077,906 $ 201,432 161,066 1,550,000 8,082,755 9,995,253 8,374,816 484,676 82,461 5,610 8,947,563 18,942,816 47,000 11,864,910 41,116,897 10,375,179 1,442,731 Total support Support: U.S. government agencies Foundations and corporations Contributions: Associates Individuals consortium University Net assets released from program restrictions Revenue and investment income: Net investment income Dues Royalties Other Total revenue and investment income Total support, revenue, and Expenses: investment income Fellowships and other direct Increase in net assets Total expenses Net assets, beginning of year program costs Program administration Fund-raising Net assets, end of year
84 Annual Report 2004–2005 2,079 77,770 65,230 37,420 261,512 546,932 167,026 253,909 256,371 120,273 945,525 Total 1,727,656 4,834,035 2,710,961 12,006,699 $
$ 7,864 36,498 45,000 638 $ $ Fund-raising )
2004 See Notes to Financial Statements to Financial SeeNotes 2,079 49,295 37,162 253,909 256,371 107,632 100,435 121,432 247,047 544,687 (190,014 1,530,035 Program $ $ Administration 258 77,770 15,935 19,838 167,026 153,242 190,014 698,478 417,636 Costs 1,727,656 2,129,776 4,834,035 10,431,664 and and Other Fellowships $
$ Direct Program 1,475 260,406 249,870 Total Year Ended September 30, $ 11,864,910 243,246 50,607 241,638 140,917 61,487 4,150,147 2,757,250 $ 2,036,423 299,265 944,956 427,223 25,279 47,000
$ 5,724 $ 14,869 1,128 Fund-raising 2005 )
1,475
Statements of Statements Expenses Functional American American Council of Learned Societies 260,406 249,870 Program 561,286 1,442,731 50,007 $ (280,514 92,135 32,723 72,316 142,459 260,568 $ Administration Costs and and Other 10,375,179 2,036,423 Fellowships 243,246 48,782 28,764 600 221,225 241,638 269,895 2,170,685 683,260 $ $ 4,150,147 280,514 Direct Program Depreciation and amortization Interest expense Beijing support Rent and maintenance Printing, publishing and reports Dues Miscellaneous Consultants, honoraria and professional fees Authors' fees and royalties Office expense Salaries and employee benefits Meetings, conferences and travel Central fellowships (endowed) Other fellowships and stipends Overhead allocation
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American Council of Learned Societies Statements of Cash Flows
Year Ended September 30, 2005 2004
Cash flows from operating activities: Increase in net assets $ 7,955,844 $ 11,794,139 Adjustments to reconcile increase in net assets to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 260,406 253,909 Net unrealized gains in market value of investments (4,532,995) (5,081,544) Net realized gains on sales of investments (2,600,531) (2,001,115) Donated securities (30,315) (64,546) Permanently restricted contributions 25,000 Changes in: Grants and accounts receivable (67,479) 53,193 Accrued interest and dividends receivable 120,181 (44,016) Other assets 4,780 31,265 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 10,452 110,155 Fellowships payable (165,803) 19,417 Deferred dues 12,342 (7,687) Other liabilities 12,551 2,831
Net cash provided by operating activities 1,004,433 5,066,001
Cash flows from investing activities: Proceeds from sales of investments 38,124,116 98,735,504 Purchases of investments (38,228,046) (102,955,749) Purchases of property and equipment (31,868) (102,145)
Net cash used in investing activities (135,798) (4,322,390)
Cash flows from financing activities: Permanently restricted contributions (25,000) Bond principal repayment (111,250) (106,250)
Net cash used in financing activities (136,250) (106,250)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 732,385 637,361 Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year 1,491,637 854,276
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year $ 2,224,022 $ 1,491,637
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: Interest paid during the year $ 249,870 $ 256,371
See Notes to Financial Statements
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Notes to Financial Statements September 30, 2005 and 2004
NOTE A - ORGANIZATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
[1] Organization:
The American Council of Learned Societies (the "Council") is a private, not-for-profit federation of national scholarly organizations, funded largely by grants from private foundations and corporations and by federal grants (principally from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of State). The purpose of the Council is the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. The Council is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, and from state and local taxes under comparable laws.
[2] Basis of accounting:
The accompanying financial statements of the Council have been prepared using the accrual basis of accounting and conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, as applicable to not-for-profit entities.
[3] Use of estimates:
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, as well as the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
[4] Functional allocation of expenses:
The cost of providing the various programs and supporting services has been summarized on a functional basis in the accompanying statements of activities. Accordingly, expenses have been allocated among the programs and supporting services using appropriate measurement methodologies developed by management.
[5] Cash and cash equivalents:
For financial-reporting purposes, the Council considers short-term investments with a remaining maturity at the date of purchase of three months or less to be cash equivalents, except for that portion of cash held as part of the investment portfolio.
[6] Grants and accounts receivable:
Grants and accounts receivable are due within one year and are expected to be fully collectible based on management's past experience.
[7] Investments:
Investments in equity securities with readily determinable fair values and all investments in debt securities are reported at their fair values, with realized and unrealized gains and losses included in the accompanying statements of activities. Mutual funds and limited partnerships, consisting of bond and equity funds, are reported at their fair values, as determined by the related investment manager or advisor. The private equity investment consists of an investment in a limited partnership and is reported at its fair value, as determined by the related investment manager or advisor. Contributions of marketable securities are recorded at their fair values at the dates of donation. Investment income is shown net of investment expenses.
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NOTE A - ORGANIZATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)
[8] Property and equipment:
Property and equipment are stated at their costs at the dates of acquisition. Building improvements are also capitalized, whereas costs of repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets, which range from 5 to 30 years.
[9] Deferred debt issuance costs:
The cost associated with the issuance of New York City Industrial Development Agency Bonds has been capitalized and is being amortized over the life of the bonds on a straight-line basis. Amortization of deferred debt issuance costs for each year ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 was $11,677.
[10] Accrued vacation:
Employees accrue vacation based on tenure. Accrued vacation is included as an expense and liability in the accompanying financial statements and represents the Council's liability for the cost of unused employee vacation time payable in the event of employee terminations. At September 30, 2005 and 2004, accrued vacation obligations were approximately $112,000 and $104,200, respectively.
[11] Net assets:
The accompanying statements of activities present the changes in the various classifications of net assets for the respective fiscal years. The Council's net assets and the changes therein are classified based on donor-imposed restrictions and are reported as follows:
(i) Unrestricted:
Unrestricted net assets represent those resources not subject to donor-imposed restrictions. Substantially all of the Council's unrestricted net assets, exclusive of the amounts representing the property and equipment, have been allocated by formal resolution of the Board of Directors to board- designated endowment, the unrestricted earnings of which will be applied to future support of its central fellowship program and to program administrative expenses. Annually, any amount up to, but not greater than, the excess of its unrestricted revenue over expenses, including unrealized gains or losses on its entire investment portfolio, may be so designated.
(ii) Temporarily restricted:
Temporarily restricted net assets represent those resources that have been restricted by donors to specific purposes. They consist mostly of grants, primarily from governmental and private-sector sources, that are available for the support of specific program activities as stipulated in the grantor agreements. Net assets released from restrictions represent the satisfaction of the restricted purposes specified.
(iii) Permanently restricted:
Permanently restricted net assets represent the corpus of gifts and grants accepted with the stipulation that the principal be maintained in perpetuity, but that earnings from investments and net investment gains thereof be available for the Council's general purposes.
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NOTE B - INVESTMENTS NOTE B - INVESTMENTS At each fiscal year-end, investments in marketable securities consisted of the following: At each fiscal year-end, investments in marketable securities consisted of the following: September 30, September 30, 2005 2004 2005 2004 Market Market MarketValue Cost MarketValue Cost Value Cost Value Cost Money-market funds $ 401,703 $ 401,703 $ 951,826 $ 951,826 Money-marketU.S. Treasury issuesfunds $ 401,703491,829 $ 401,703492,012 $ 951,826497,364 $ 497,475951,826 EquityU.S. Treasury securities issues 33,532,993 491,829 27,638,120 492,012 32,293,940497,364 27,267,616497,475 MutualEquity securitiesfunds 41,726,11133,532,993 37,785,48427,638,120 38,986,90832,293,940 37,015,62627,267,616 PrivateMutual fundsequity investment 41,726,111 2,116,745 37,785,484 1,500,000 38,986,908 1,502,156 37,015,6261,500,000 PrivateLimited equitypartnerships investment 2,116,7459,010,182 1,500,0007,150,000 1,502,1565,779,598 1,500,000 5,000,000 Limited partnerships 9,010,182 7,150,000 5,779,598 5,000,000 $ 87,279,563 $ 74,967,319 $ 80,011,792 $ 72,232,543 $ 82,279,563 $ 74,967,319 $ 80,011,792 $ 72,232,543 The Council owns shares of a privately held offshore company, the sole purpose of which is to be a limited partnerThe Council in a limited-partnership owns shares of a investment privately held vehicle. offshore The company, investment the is solevalued purpose at $2,116,745 of which and is to $1,502,156 be a limited at Septemberpartner in a 30, limited-partnership 2005 and 2004, respectively.investment vehicle. The Council's The investment percentage is valuedof ownership at $2,116,745 of this investment and $1,502,156 does not at warrantSeptember consolidation 30, 2005 and of the 2004, financial respectively. statements The of Council'sthe privately percentage held company. of ownership of this investment does not warrant consolidation of the financial statements of the privately held company. The Council has a capital commitment of $850,000 at September 30, 2005 relating to its limited-partnership investments.The Council has a capital commitment of $850,000 at September 30, 2005 relating to its limited-partnership investments. 89 American Council of Learned Societies
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NOTE B - INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
For each fiscal year, investment income consisted of the following:
Year Ended September 30, 2005 2004
Interest and dividend income $ 1,482,336 $ 1,284,588 Net realized gains 2,600,531 2,001,115 Net change in unrealized gains 4,532,995 5,081,544 Investment expenses (241,046) (208,440) $ 8,374,816 $ 8,158,807
NOTE C - PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
At each fiscal year-end, property and equipment consisted of the following:
September 30, 2005 2004
Building and improvements $ 4,716,861 $ 4,716,861 Equipment 493,776 461,908 Furniture and fixtures 232,382 232,382 5,443,019 5,411,151 Less: accumulated depreciation (862,245) (613,516) $ 4,580,774 $ 4,797,635
Depreciation expense for fiscal-years 2005 and 2004 were $248,729 and $242,232, respectively.
NOTE D - FELLOWSHIPS PAYABLE
Fellowships and stipends are awarded to institutions and individuals for the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning. It is the Council's policy, in conjunction with grant agreements, to allow recipients to choose when payments of awards are to be received. Fellowships and stipends are usually paid over a period of one to three years.
The Council records the expense and commitment of these fellowships and stipends when the awards are approved by the Council and accepted by the recipient. Fellowships and stipends are estimated to be paid as follows:
Year Ending September 30, Amount
2006 $ 3,089,598 2007 400,501 2008 613,274 $ 4,103,373
During fiscal-years 2005 and 2004, the Council awarded fellowships and stipends of $6,186,570 and $6,561,691, respectively.
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NOTE E - NEW YORK CITY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BONDS
To finance the acquisition of office space to be used as the Council's place of operations, in August 2002, the Council borrowed $5,000,000 through the issuance by the New York City Industrial Development Agency ("IDA") of Civic Facility Revenue Bonds, Series 2002 (the "Bonds"). The Series 2002 bonds, in an aggregate original face amount of $5,000,000, mature on July 1, 2027 and bear interest at 5.250%. The bonds may be redeemed by IDA or the Council at any time after July 1, 2012. The bond indenture requires the Council to make annual sinking fund payments in amounts sufficient to permit the redemption of principal upon maturity. Sinking fund payments began on July 1, 2003 and are required every July 1 thereafter until July 1, 2027, as summarized below:
Year Ending September 30, Amount
2006 $ 116,250 2007 122,500 2008 131,250 2009 137,500 2010 146,250 Thereafter 4,017,500
$ 4,671,250
In connection with the issuance of the Bonds, the Council leased its properties to the IDA for the duration of the debt, for a nominal rental, and concurrently leased the property back from IDA for the same period at a rental equal to annual debt service. The Council guarantees payment of rent under the lease agreement. Pursuant to the lease, the Council is required to maintain a Debt Service Reserve Fund. As of September 30, 2005, $328,750 had been paid to the Debt Service Reserve Fund.
NOTE F - TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS
During each fiscal year, the changes in temporarily restricted net assets were as follows:
Year Ended September 30, 2005 Balance Balance October 1, Program Release of September 30, 2004 Support Restrictions 2005
Vietnam Program $ 5,889,030 $ 3,197,025 $ (1,979,017) $ 7,107,038 ACLS Fellowship Program 4,875,351 1,887,565 (2,505,050) 4,257,866 Electronic Publishing 2,114,557 276,034 (672,293) 1,718,298 China/Eastern Europe Programs 464,071 1,038,888 (848,958) 654,001 Humanities in the FSU 302,218 406,394 (473,758) 234,854 Other Programs 1,510,357 2,129,787 (1,603,679) 2,036,465
$ 15,155,584 $ 8,935,693 $ (8,082,755) $ 16,008,522
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NOTE F - TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS (CONTINUED)
Year Ended September 30, 2004 Balance Balance October 1, Program Release of September 30, 2003 Support Restrictions 2004
Vietnam Program $ 5,532,560 $ 1,962,005 $ (1,605,535) $ 5,889,030 ACLS Fellowship Program 8,381,732 (3,506,381) 4,875,351 Electronic Publishing 2,719,001 196,236 (800,680) 2,114,557 China/Eastern Europe Programs 211,126 920,441 (667,496) 464,071 Humanities in the FSU 70,401 724,006 (492,189) 302,218 Education and Constitutionalism 13,744 (13,744) Other Programs 1,953,495 913,167 (1,356,305) 1,510,357
$ 10,500,327 $ 13,097,587 $ (8,442,330) $ 15,155,584
NOTE G - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS - ENDOWMENT
At each fiscal year-end, endowment consisted of the following:
September 30, 2005 2004
Central Fellowship Program: Mellon Foundation $ 7,750,000 $ 7,750,000 Ford Foundation 7,068,400 7,068,400 National Endowment for the Humanities 2,750,000 2,750,000 Rockefeller Foundation 1,000,000 1,000,000 William & Flora Hewlett Foundation 500,000 500,000 Carnegie Corporation 100,000 100,000 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation 65,000 40,000 Other 2,395 2,395
19,235,795 19,210,795 Program Administration: Mellon Foundation 1,000,000 1,000,000
Other: Lumiansky Fund 281,164 281,164
$ 20,516,959 $ 20,491,959
NOTE H - RETIREMENT PLAN
For its eligible employees, the Council provides retirement benefits under a defined-contribution pension plan with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. The Council contributes a minimum of 5% of each eligible employee's salary, as well as matches employee contributions up to a maximum of 5% of each eligible employee's salary. Contributions for fiscal-years 2005 and 2004 were $171,130 and $177,497, respectively.
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NOTE I - POSTRETIREMENT MEDICAL BENEFIT PLAN
The Council sponsors an unfunded, non-contributory defined-benefit postretirement medical plan (the "Plan") that covers employees hired prior to February 1, 1995. The following sets forth the Plan's funded status as of each fiscal year-end, reconciled with amounts reported in the Council's financial statements:
September 30, 2005 2004
Actuarial present value of benefit obligations: Expected benefit obligation $ 936,914 $ 939,158
Accumulated postretirement benefit obligation $ 855,959 $ 875,974 Plan assets - -
Accumulated benefit obligation in excess of plan assets 855,959 875,974 Unrecognized transition amount (251,426) (276,568) Unrecognized net loss (189,760) (199,330)
Accrued postretirement benefit cost recognized in the statement of financial position $ 414,773 $ 400,076
Net periodic postretirement medical-benefit costs included the following components:
Service cost $ 9,207 $ 10,118 Interest cost 49,121 50,937 Transition obligation amortization 25,142 25,142 Net loss amortization 9,709 12,293
Net periodic postretirement benefit cost $ 93,179 $ 98,490
The discount rate used to measure the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation was 5.75% and 6.0% for fiscal-years 2005 and 2004, respectively. The medical cost-trend rate was approximately 6.0% and 6.5% for fiscal-years 2005 and 2004, respectively, which will decrease to a rate in 2012 of approximately 5.0%.
A one percentage-point increase in the assumed health-care cost-trend rates for each year would have resulted in an increase in the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation as of September 30, 2005 of $51,926 and an increase in the aggregate cost components of net period postretirement benefit cost of $4,260.
Employer contributions and benefits paid were $78,482 for fiscal-year 2005. The estimated amount of the Council's contributions for fiscal-year 2005 is $70,436.
The transition obligation is being amortized over a period of 20 years.
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Notes to to Financial Financial Statements Statements SeptemberError! Unknown 30, document 2005 andproperty 2004 name.
NOTE I - POSTRETIREMENT MEDICAL BENEFIT PLAN (CONTINUED)
The following table illustrates the benefit distributions that would be paid over the next 10 fiscal years:
Year Ended Expected Benefit September 30, Distributions
2006 $ 70,436 2007 73,958 2008 73,027 2009 76,679 2010 75,410 2010-2015 319,193
NOTE J - CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISK
The Council places its temporary cash investments with high-credit-quality financial institutions. At times, such investments may exceed federally insured limits. Management believes that the Council is not subject to a significant risk of loss related to these cash balances.
NOTE K - CONTINGENCY
U.S. government grants are subject to audit in the future by governmental authorities. Accordingly, the Council could be required to fund any disallowed costs for its own federally supported programs, as well as for the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars during the period of the Council's stewardship.
The Council is subject to litigation in the routine course of conducting business. In management's opinion, however, there is no current litigation the outcome of which would have a material adverse impact on the Council's financial position.
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ACLS Staff
Office of the President Fellowship & Grant Programs Pauline Yu Saul Fisher President Director of Fellowship Programs Barbara Martinez Henning Cynthia Mueller Director of Member Relations & Manager, Office of Fellowships & Grants Executive Assistant to the President Karen Watt Mathews Kelly Buttermore Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant to the President Ruth Waters Consultant for Fellowships & Grants Office of the Vice President Steven C. Wheatley International Programs Vice President Andrzej W. Tymowski Sandra Bradley Director of International Programs Program Assistant & Grants Coordinator Olga Bukhina Coordinator of International Programs Office of the Director of Finance Lawrence R. Wirth History E-Book Project Director of Finance Eileen Gardiner Michael J. Cortez Ronald G. Musto Senior Accountant Project Directors Maged Sadek Nina Gielen Accountant Editor for Digital Content & Production Eileen Dettmer Linda Zerella Office Manager Title Development Editor Servio Moreno Office Assistant
ACLS Publications & Information Technology Candace Frede Director of Publications & Information Technology
Presidents Emeriti Counsel Frederick Burkhardt Debevoise & Plimpton Stanley N. Katz Francis Oakley
Information shown is as of September 30, 2005. For current information, see the ACLS Web site at
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