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American Council of Learned Societies Annual Report 2004-2005 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Annual Report 2004–2005 ISSN 0065-7972 Annual Report 2004-2005 (October 1, 2004-September 30, 2005) copyright © 2006 American Council of Learned Societies American Council of Learned Societies Annual Report, 2004-2005 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 Annual Report 2004–2005 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 American Council of Learned Societies The Council, Board of Directors consists of a 15-member Board of Directors Susan McClary, Chair, Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles (006) and one Delegate John R. Clarke, Vice Chair, Ancient Art and Architecture, University of Texas at Austin (007) from each member Charlotte Kuh, Treasurer, National Research Council, National Academies (008) society. The board Sandra T. Barnes, Secretary, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (008) meets three times Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy, PrincetonUniversity (008) a year. Susan Ball, College Art Association (006) (ex officio) Frederick M. Bohen, Finance and Administration, Rockefeller University (007) Rebecca Chopp, President (Religion and American Culture), Colgate University (006) A list of Delegates Jonathan Culler, Comparative Literature, Cornell University (009) begins on page 47. Marjorie Garber, English, Harvard University (007) Lynn Hunt, History, University of California, Los Angeles (009) Earl Lewis, History, Emory University (008) James O’Donnell, American Philological Association, Georgetown University (006) (ex officio) Anand A. Yang, History, University of Washington (006) 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 For current information, see the ACLS Web site at <www.acls.org>. Annual Report 2004–2005 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
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