2014 ACLS Annual Meeting May 8-10, Philadelphia, PA
2014 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Sheraton Society Hill Hotel One Dock Street, Philadelphia, PA May 8-10 Thursday, May 8 12:00 noon-1:30 pm ACLS Board of Directors, Executive Committee (members only) – Boardroom 2:00-5:00 pm ACLS Board of Directors Meeting (members only) – Cook 5:45-6:30 pm Welcome Reception – )BNJMUPO 6:30-8:30 pm Buffet Supper – )BNJMUPO 8:00-10:00 pm Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers – Ballroom C Friday, May 9 7:45-8:45 am Executive Committee of the Delegates Breakfast Meeting (members only) – Boardroom 7:45-9:00 am Continental Breakfast – Ballroom Foyer 9:00-10:15 am Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows – Ballroom CD&E Stephen Berry, 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellow Professor, Department of History, University of Georgia Lori Khatchadourian, 2013 ACLS Fellow Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University Laura Turner Igoe, 2013 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art, Doctoral Candidate, Temple University, Tyler School of Art Elaine Sisman, Moderator ACLS Board of Directors, Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University 10:15-10:30 am Coffee Break 10:30-11:15 am Report of the President 11:15 am-12:00 noon Meeting of the Council 12:00 noon-12:30 pm Reception – Ballroom Foyer 12:30-2:00 pm Luncheon and Speaker – Ballroom A&B Earl Lewis President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2:15-4:00 pm The Public Face of the Humanities – Ballroom CD&E Kwame Anthony Appiah, Moderator ACLS Board of Directors, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University Michael Bérubé Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Chair of the History and Literature Program, Harvard University Alexander Nemerov Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University
4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break – Ballroom Foyer 4:00-4:30 pm ACLS Board of Directors Annual Meeting Review (members only) – Boardroom 4:00-6:00 pm Optional activity Exhibit at the American Philosophical Society Museum (free admission for ACLS meeting attendees) http://www.apsmuseum.org/ Jefferson’s Legacy: Philadelphia and the Founding of a Nation 6:00-7:00 pm The Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture – Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society Bruno Nettl Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 7:00-9:30 pm Reception and Buffet Supper – Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Ballroom AB&C Saturday, May 10 7:30-9:30 am Breakfast – Ballroom A&B 8:30-11:30 am Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) Spring Meeting (members only) – Bromley/Claypoole 11:30-12:00 noon Optional CAO Session
2014 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Philadelphia, PA, May 8-10 Sheraton Society Hill Hotel
AGENDA MATERIALS
Thursday, May 8 8:00-9:30 pm Tab 1 Ballroom C Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers
Friday, May 9 9:00 am – 12:00 noon Ballroom CD&E Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Tab 2 Discussion with ACLS Fellows (9:00-10:15 am) Report of the President (10:30-11:15 am) Tab 3 Meeting of the Council (11:15 am-12:00 noon) Tab 4 12:30-2:00 pm Ballroom A&B Luncheon and Speaker Tab 5 Earl Lewis, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2:15-4:00 pm Ballroom CD&E The Public Face of the Humanities Tab 6
Additional Information Tab 7 Overview of ACLS Activities Biographies of ACLS Board of Directors ACLS Staff Report on Program Activities
Back Pocket Biography of Haskins Prize Lecturer Bruno Nettl Directions to Haskins Prize Lecture at the American Philosophical Society Meeting Schedule Participants List
2014 ACLS Annual Meeting Philadelphia May 8, 8:00-9:30 pm
Ballroom C Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers
The following charts are drawn from data yielded by the new census of ACLS societies. Fifty- six member societies completed a questionnaire regarding indicators of organizational health. The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) plans to continue this census each year to detect trends among our member societies.
Jack Fitzmier, moderator Chair, Executive Committee of the CAO Executive Director American Academy of Religion
Beverly Diamond President, Society for Ethnomusicology Memorial University of Newfoundland
Thomas DuBois Member, Executive Committee of the Delegates Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ed Liebow Executive Director American Anthropological Association
Alyson Reed Executive Director Linguistic Society of America
Money, Members, Mission: Learned Societies by the Numbers
Panel
Beverley Diamond (B.Mus, M.A. Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a Canadian ethnomusicologist who assumed the Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music at Memorial University in 2002. Before arriving in St. John’s she held full-time teaching positions at McGill, Queen's, and York Universities, as well as visiting professorships at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. At Memorial University, she established the Research Centre for Music, Media and Place (MMaP) to serve as a liaison between university and communities on research projects of mutual interest. MMaP publishes in a variety of print and audio-visual media, including an archival CD series “Back on Track.”
Since the early 1970s, she has worked extensively in Inuit and First Nations communities in the Northwest Territories, Labrador, Quebec, and Ontario. Since 1999, she has done research in Sami communities in Norway and Finland. Her work has explored the relationship of music to issues of cultural identity, indigenous modernity issues, and the role of the arts in reconciliation. Her most recent research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), has concerned the transnational circulation of indigenous music, cultural property, and the social construction of meaning in relation to changing technologies. She is finishing a book on the social history of audio recording in Newfoundland and Labrador. Diamond was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), considered to be the highest academic honor in Canada. The society credits her for developing cross-cultural perspectives on gendered musical practices. She received a Trudeau Fellowship (2009-12) and was the first recipient of the SOCAN Foundation/CUMS Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music. A Festschrift was published in her honor in 2010. Tom DuBois received his Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His research focuses on folklore and identity in the Nordic region, particularly in connection with Finnish, Sámi, and Swedish cultures. He also has strong interests in the Baltic region and the broader cultural context of Northern Europe. His books include: Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age, Finnish Folklore (co-edited with Leea Virtanen), Lyric, Meaning and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe, and An Introduction to Shamanism. He has also edited or co-edited two volumes: Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia, and The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen (co-edited with Susan Brantly). Together with Jim Leary, he is currently coeditor of the Journal of American Folklore. His teaching includes elementary and continuing Finnish, as well as courses on Kalevala, Sámi culture, Celtic-Scandinavian cultural relations, and shamanism. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies and is currently director of the Religious Studies Program. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Delegates for the American Council of Learned Societies and is president of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Jack Fitzmier serves as executive director of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). His duties include coordination of the work of the AAR executive staff at the Luce Center in Atlanta, strategic planning, fundraising, programming, and public affairs. Prior to his work at the AAR, he served as professor of American religious history, vice president for academic affairs, and dean at the Claremont School of Theology (1999-2005) and associate dean at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School (1989-1998). He attended the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1973), Gordon Conwell Seminary (M.Div., summa cum laude, 1981) and Princeton University (M.A., 1983; Ph.D., 1986). His scholarly interests are in the history of American religious thought from the Puritans through the mid- nineteenth century. He is the author of The Presbyterians (Greenwood, 1993, 1994, and 2004), with Professor Randall Balmer, and New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817 (Indiana UP 1999). Ed Liebow is executive director of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Liebow is an accomplished administrator and researcher. In addition, he has been very active in AAA, serving as treasurer as well as an executive board member. He comes to the executive director’s position after a long career with the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world’s largest not-for-profit research and development organization. He joined Battelle in 1986, the year he received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Arizona State University. Liebow also has a B.A. in sociology/anthropology from Carleton College. He has conducted research and public policy analysis on a variety of energy, public health and social policy issues concerning disadvantaged communities. While at Battelle, he rose from the rank of research scientist to project leader to director of research operations in the Seattle office. Liebow maintains a position as affiliate associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Washington. He has also been a visiting professor of applied anthropology and comparative economics at Università Carlo Cattaneo (Castellanza, VA, Italy), a Senior Fellow of the Fulbright Commission, and has served on the faculty of the CDC-sponsored Summer Evaluation Institute. Alyson Reed is executive director of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). She was previously executive director of the National Postdoctoral Association, a professional society representing postdoctoral scholars. Reed is an experienced non-profit manager and executive, having previously served as executive director of the Maryland Commission for Women and of the National Committee on Pay Equity. She has also worked in senior management and policy posts at the National Kidney Foundation and the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Early in her career, Reed worked as a radio news reporter for an NPR affiliate in upstate New York and also as a project manager for the League of Women Voters. In addition to her professional experience, Reed earned her master’s degree in public policy and women’s studies from The George Washington University and her B.A. in English literature from Binghamton University, State University of New York. She resides in University Park, MD.
Median
American Society of Comparative Law
Metaphysical Society of America
Society of Dance History Scholars
International Center of Medieval Art Under 999 American Society for Legal History
American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
World History Association
American Oriental Society
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
The American Society for Aesthetics
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Response = 11/15 Dues Meetings Publication Contracts & Grants Investment Charity & Bequests Other sources Median
Rhetoric Society of America
German Studies Association
History of Science Society
Society for Ethnomusicology
National Council on Public History
American Comparative Literature Association 1,000-2,499
Association for Jewish Studies
American Schools of Oriental Research
Law and Society Association
American Folklore Society
American Numismatic Society
American Antiquarian Society
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Response = 12/16 Dues Meetings Publication Contracts & Grants Investment Charity & Bequests Other sources Median
Middle East Studies Association of North America
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Linguistic Society of America
Society of Architectural Historians
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2,500-5,999 The Renaissance Society of America
Society for Military History
American Studies Association
American Musicological Society
American Philological Association
American Society of International Law
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Response = 11/11 Dues Meetings Publication Contracts & Grants Investment Charity & Bequests Other sources
Median
College Art Association
American Historical Association
American Philosophical Association
Latin American Studies Association
American Academy of Religion
American Political Science Association
Over 6,000 American Anthropological Association
Organization of American Historians
American Economic Association
National Communication Association
Society of Biblical Literature
College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English
Modern Language Association of America
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Response = 13/14 Dues Meetings Publication Contracts & Grants Investment Charity & Bequests Other sources
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40
35
30
25
20
15 Percentage of Total REvenue of Total Percentage
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5
0 Small Societies Small-Medium Societies Medium-Large Societies Large Societies %from publications 10 9.5 19 16 %from meetings 23 24 27 22 %from Dues 40 31 34 29 45
40 40
35 34
31
30 29
25
20
15 Percentage of Total Revenue ofTotal Percentage
10
5
0 Small Societies Small-Medium Societies Medium-Large Societies Large Societies %from Dues 40 31 34 29 20 19
18
16 16
14
12 Revenue
10 10 9.5
8 Percentage of Total ofTotal Percentage 6
4
2
0 Small Societies Small-Medium Societies Medium-Large Societies Large Societies %from publications 10 9.5 19 16 30
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25 24 23 22
20 Revenue 15
10 Percentage of Total ofTotal Percentage 5
0 Small Societies Small-Medium Societies Medium-Large Societies Large Societies %from meetings 23 24 27 22
Median
World History Association
American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
The American Society for Aesthetics
International Center of Medieval Art
Under999 American Society of Comparative Law
American Oriental Society
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
Society of Dance History Scholars
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
American Society for Legal History
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Compensation Publications Meetings Governance Professional Services Office Administration External Relations Grants Response rate = 10/15 Member Resources Fundraising Other Median
National Council on Public History
American Antiquarian Society
American Numismatic Society
Society for Ethnomusicology
Association for Jewish Studies 1,000-2,499 History of Science Society
American Folklore Society
American Comparative Literature Association
Law and Society Association
German Studies Association
Rhetoric Society of America
American Schools of Oriental Research
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Compensation Publications Meetings Governance Professional Services Office Administration External Relations Grants Response rate = 12/16 Member Resources Fundraising Other
Median
Middle East Studies Association of North America
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Linguistic Society of America
American Society of International Law
Society for Military History 2,500-5,999
American Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society of Architectural Historians
American Musicological Society
The Renaissance Society of America
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Compensation Publications Meetings Governance Professional Services Office Administration External Relations Grants Response rate = 10/11 Member Resources Fundraising Other Median
Modern Language Association of America
American Economic Association
American Philosophical Association
College Art Association
National Communication Association
American Academy of Religion Over 6,000
American Anthropological Association
Society of Biblical Literature
Organization of American Historians
American Political Science Association
College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English
Latin American Studies Association
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Compensation Publications Meetings Governance Professional Services Office Administration External Relations Grants Response rate = 12/14 Member Resources Fundraising Other IV. Additional Information
Q 44. If your society is currently developing new programs, services, benefits or activities, please provide brief description and URL, if applicable
• Joint conferences with Society for the Advancement of • Professional development through a new caucus Scandinavian Studies • Assessment tool for persons who have completed an • Major Data Collection Project undergraduate religion major • Website and communication redesign • Mentoring services • Aca‐Media Podcast • ASEEES Commons • Public engagement events • Ethnomusicology Translations ‐ open‐access online serial • Undergraduate Religion Major Database • New multiday seminars during conference • New magazine with online component • High school curriculum and teacher training program • Mentoring program • Public History Commons "Library" • Newberry Library Short‐term Fellowships • ACLA State of the Discipline Report (mandated once a decade • Early English Books Online access for members by our bylaws) • Collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways • State of Linguistics in Higher Education Report (first annual) • Interdisciplinary networks for members • Webinars • NEH‐funded website for the general public (Bible Odyssey) • “Profession” online • History@Work blog • Expanding development activities • CoLang: Summer School in Linguistic Field Methods • New website with blogging function • ACLA First Book Subvention Program • Diversity programs • National Center for Literacy Education • New online conference planning forums for members • Race 2.0 • International regional delegations • MLA Commons • News Stories Initiative • Administering new dissertation‐writing fellowship • Promoting work of academic authors to general public CAO Census
1.
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2. IDENTIFICATION
1. Society Name
2. Chief Administrative Officer
3. Please enter the period covered by the IRS Form 990 you are using for this census (MM/DD/YYYY).
MM DD YYYY
Start Date / /
End Date / /
3. MEMBERSHIP
4. How many individual members does your society have?
nmlkj Over 6,000
nmlkj 2,5005,999
nmlkj 1,0002,499
nmlkj Under 999
Page 1 CAO Census 5. Over the past 5 years has your membership:
nmlkj Increased (15%)
nmlkj Increased (610%)
nmlkj Increased (more than 10%)
nmlkj Remained steady (within +or 1%) Other
nmlkj Decreased (15%)
nmlkj Decreased (610%)
nmlkj Decreased (more than 10%)
6. Please specify current dues for each category of membership. If you have membership categories not listed, please specify in "other."
Regular
Student
Retired
Joint
Life
Associate
Other
7. If your society has a sliding scale dues structure, please indicate the following:
Lowest dues rate
Highest dues rate
Total number of income categories
8.Other If your society has institutional memberships, please specify the dues for each category of membership.
Libraries
Departments/Centers
Colleges/Universities
Other (please specify)
4. GOVERNANCE
9. How many people are on your society’s board of directors/council?
Page 2 CAO Census 10. If all the members of your board of directors/council (excluding ex officio members) have terms of the same length, what is the length of the term?
nmlkj 2 years
nmlkj 3 years
nmlkj 4 years
Other (please specify)
11. If individual members of your board have variable terms, please describe. 3 years or less 4 years or more
Officer gfedc gfedc
Member gfedc gfedc
Other (please specify)
5. FINANCES
12. Please specify your society’s total annual revenue listed on Part I, line 12 of IRS Form 990.
13. What percentage of your total revenue is derived from each of the following sources? Please make sure that your answers sum to 100%.
Dues
Meetings/Conferences
Publication Fees, Sales, and Advertising
Grants
Contracts
Investment Income
Annual Charitable Contributions
Bequests
Other
Page 3 CAO Census 14. Over the past 5 years has your society's revenue:
nmlkj Increased (15%)
nmlkj Increased (610%)
nmlkj Increased (more than 10%)
nmlkj Remained steady (within +or 1%)
nmlkj Decreased (15%)
nmlkj Decreased (610%)
nmlkj Decreased (more than 10%)
15. Please specify your society’s total annual expenses as listed on Part I, line 18 of IRS Form 990.
16. What percentage of your total expenses were spent on each of the following categories? You may want to refer to the statement of functional expenses in your audited financial statement. Please make sure that your answers sum to 100%.
Compensation and benefits
Publications (e.g., journals, newsletters, books)
Meetings (annual convention and other meetings)
Governance
Professional services (e.g., accounting, legal)
Office administration (e.g., technology, rent, phone, travel)
External relations (e.g., relevant advocacy organizational membership dues, media outreach)
Grants
Academic and professional resources for members (e.g. teaching resources, career services, awards)
Fundraising
Other
17. How much money does your society have in the following types of funds, part X, line 2729 of IRS Form 990.
Unrestricted net assets (line 27)
Temporarily restricted funds (line 28)
Permanently restricted funds (line 29)
18. What are your society’s net assets, Part X, line 33 of IRS Form 990?
Page 4 CAO Census 19. How much investment income did your society report, Part I, line 10, IRS Form 990?
6. ANNUAL MEETING
20. How many people attended your most recent annual convention?
21. Over the past 5 years has your meeting attendance:
nmlkj Increased (15%)
nmlkj Increased (610%)
nmlkj Increased (more than 10%)
nmlkj Remained steady (within +or 1%)
nmlkj Decreased (15%)
nmlkj Decreased (610%)
nmlkj Decreased (more than 10%)
22. What was the net revenue generated by your most recent annual convention?
23. How many of the people who attended your most recent annual convention were paid attendees?
24. Some societies' highest conference rate is for onsite, nonmember registration and their lowest is for preregisitration for student members. Please indicate your highest rate and your lowest rate.
Highest convention registration rate
Lowest convention registration rate
25. How many scholarly sessions were on the program of your last annual convention?
26. Did your society provide any of the components of your last annual convention virtually?
nmlkj Yes
nmlkj No
Page 5 CAO Census 27. Is your society’s annual convention ever held outside of North America?
nmlkj Yes
nmlkj No
7. OTHER MEETINGS
28. Does your society organize regional meetings?
nmlkj Yes
nmlkj No
29. Does your society organize regional meetings outside of North America?
nmlkj Yes
nmlkj No
30. Other than at the annual meeting, does your society offer the following types of virtual meetings? Please check all that apply.
gfedc Webinars
gfedc Live streaming of conferences and meetings
gfedc Teleconferences
gfedc Other (please specify)
31. What was the net revenue generated by meetings other than your annual convention in the last fiscal year?
8. PUBLICATIONS
32. How many scholarly journals does your society publish?
33. How does your society publish their journal(s)? Check all that apply.
gfedc Self publish
gfedc Partner with an external publisher
Other (please specify)
Page 6 CAO Census 34. Do you publish any openaccess journals? By "open access" we mean journals freely and immediately available online to the general public, outside of any paywall.
nmlkj Yes
nmlkj No
Other (please specify)
35. Please specify what other materials your society publishes.
How Many Frequency of Publication
Magazine 6 6
Newsletters 6 6
Books 6 6
Meeting handbook 6 6
Member directory 6 6
Reports, pamphlets, 6 6 brochures, briefing papers, fact sheets, etc.
Indexes, bibliographies, 6 6 databases, departmental directory
Other (please specify)
36. What was the net revenue generated by all of your society’s publications in the last fiscal year?
9. OVERALL PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITY
Page 7 CAO Census 37. Please indicate the activities in which your society engages. Check all that apply.
gfedc Public/media outreach
gfedc Career services
gfedc Gathering and analyzing data about your discipline
gfedc Grant making
gfedc Professional development
gfedc Teaching and learning support resources
gfedc Advocating on academic policies (e.g. promotion and tenure standards, academic freedom)
gfedc Government relations
gfedc Other (please specify)
10. ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
38. Identify any contractual “host” or “management” affiliations used by your society.
nmlkj Educational institution
nmlkj Another nonprofit organization
nmlkj None
Other (please specify)
39. Please list facilities and/or services that are provided by that “host” or “management” institution or organization. Check all that apply.
gfedc Office space
gfedc IT support
gfedc Human resources (benefits management)
gfedc Meeting planning
gfedc Other (please specify)
Page 8 CAO Census 40. Is your society’s office:
nmlkj Owned
nmlkj Rented
nmlkj Contributed
Other (please specify)
41. Is the chief administrative officer paid by your society?
nmlkj Yes
nmlkj No
42. Is the chief administrative officer:
nmlkj Full time
nmlkj Part time
43. Excluding the chief administrative officer, how many fulltime and/or parttime staff members does your society have?
Fulltime
Parttime
11. NEW INITIATIVES
44. If your society is currently developing new programs, services, benefits or activities, please provide brief description and URL, if applicable.
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2.
3.
12.
45. If you wish to include additional information for nonconforming responses, you may do so here. Please indicate the question number with your response. 5
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Page 9 CAO Census 46. This is the end of the CAO Census. Please take a moment to determine if you are ready to submit your responses. If you wish to review your responses before submitting, you may do so by clicking "previous" below.
nmlkj My census is now complete and I will submit it by clicking "done" below
Page 10 2014 ACLS Annual Meeting Philadelphia May 9, 9:00-10:15 am
Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows
Stephen Berry 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellow Professor of History University of Georgia
Laura Turner Igoe 2013 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art Doctoral Candidate Temple University, Tyler School of Art
Lori Khatchadourian 2013 ACLS Fellow Assistant Professor of Archaeology Cornell University
Elaine Sisman (moderator) Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music Columbia University Member, ACLS Board of Directors
Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows
Panel
Stephen Berry is Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, where he teaches courses on the tangled histories of race, gender, slavery, death and dying, and emotions in nineteenth-century America. He is the author or editor of four books, including House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War, which was designated a “We the People” project by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently obsessed with his web project, “CSI Dixie,” which is devoted to the coroner’s office in the nineteenth century South, he is co-director, with Claudio Saunt, of the Center for Virtual History. He is also co-editor, with Amy Murrell Taylor, of the UnCivil Wars series at the University of Georgia Press. A Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, he helps head the Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Georgia. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.
Laura Turner Igoe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, where she is currently completing her dissertation, “The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia.” This project considers how artists and architects used the body as a framework to visualize, comprehend, and reform the city’s rapidly changing urban ecology after the Revolutionary War. A component of her dissertation investigating the environmental context of an unusual self-portrait bust by the sculptor William Rush was recently published in the Spring 2014 issue of American Art. She is also co-editing an anthology, entitled A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia, Ecology, and Material Imagination, which will explore the ways art and literature have imagined, animated, and embodied material interactions between human and nonhuman constituents of Philadelphia from the seventeenth century until the present day. Her research has been supported by the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science.
Lori Khatchadourian is assistant professor of Near Eastern studies at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. (2008) in classical art and archaeology from the University of Michigan and an MS.c. (1998) in government from the London School of Economics. Khatchadourian’s work centers on the archaeological study of imperialism, with a particular interest in the materiality of imperial sovereignty. The historical and geographic areas of her research are the Near East, Caucasus, and Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Satrapal Condition: Archaeology and the Matter of Empire. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in such publications as the American Journal of Archaeology; Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History; A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East; The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, and Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research. Khatchadourian has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is codirector of the joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS), a long-term collaborative research project conducting diachronic investigations of the Tsaghkahovit Plain in central Armenia.
Elaine Sisman (moderator) is the Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music at Columbia University, where she has taught since 1982, and served six years as department chair (1999-2005). The author of Haydn and the Classical Variation, Mozart: The “Jupiter” Symphony, and editor of Haydn and His World, she specializes in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and has written on such topics as memory and invention in late Beethoven, ideas of pathétique and fantasia around 1800, Haydn’s theater symphonies, the sublime in Mozart’s music, and Brahms's slow movements. Her most recent publications, after the monograph-length article on “variations” in New Grove 2, concern biography (Haydn and his multiple audiences), chronology (Mozart’s “Haydn” quartets), history (marriage in Don Giovanni), Enlightenment aesthetics (Haydn’s Creation), and the opus concept (“Six of One”), and she is completing studies of Haydn’s Metastasio opera L’isola disabitata and of music and melancholy. Her most recent work concerns Haydn’s “poetics of solar time.” Sisman studied piano at the Juilliard pre-college division and with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell, received her doctorate in music history at Princeton, and has taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has received the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society for best article by a younger scholar. She previously served as president of the American Musicological Society. She serves on the board of directors of the Joseph Haydn-Institut in Cologne, the Akademie für Mozartforschung in Salzburg, and the Haydn Society of North America, and as associate editor of The Musical Quarterly. Columbia has honored her with its Great Teacher Award and award for Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum. She currently serves as delegate of the American Musicological Association to ACLS, and, for 2012-14, as chair of the Executive Committee of the Delegates and a member, ex officio, of the ACLS Board of Directors.
Report of the President
Pauline Yu became president of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, having served as dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994-2003. Prior to that appointment, she was founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of California, Irvine (1989- 1994) and on the faculty of Columbia University (1985-89) and the University of Minnesota (1976-85). She received her B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. She is the author or editor of five books and dozens of articles on classical Chinese poetry, literary theory, comparative poetics, and issues in the humanities and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was awarded the William Riley Parker Prize for best PMLA article of 2007. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and Committee of 100, she is on the Academy’s national Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences and a member of its board. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, and the Teagle Foundation. In addition, she is a trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, the Asian Cultural Council, and the National Humanities Center. She is a member of the Scholars’ Council of the Library of Congress, the Governing Board of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, and the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong-America Center. Yu holds three honorary degrees and is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University.
ACLS Public Fellows Program Expanding the Reach of Doctoral Education in the Humanities
This year, the ACLS Public Fellows program will place 20 recent humanities Ph.D.s in two- year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Now in its fourth year, this career-building initiative aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.
The 2014 Public Fellows will join the following organizations:
1. American Refugee Committee – Program Manager, Social Enterprise Projects 2. Association of Research Libraries – Program Officer for Scholarly Publishing 3. Center for Public Integrity – Engagement Analyst 4. Council of Independent Colleges – Communications Officer 5. Human Rights Campaign – Senior Content Manager 6. Kiva – Partnerships Evaluation Manager 7. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House – Research and Partnerships Manager 8. Museum of Jewish Heritage – Manager of Strategic Initiatives 9. National Constitution Center – Program Developer 10. New America Foundation – Contributing Editor 11. New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) – Public Policy Officer 12. The Public Theater – Strategy and Planning Manager 13. San Francisco Arts Commission – Program Manager, Policy and Evaluation 14. Smithsonian Institution, Grand Challenges Consortia – Public Outreach Manager 15. Smithsonian Institution, Office of International Relations – Program Officer 16. Trust for Public Land – Program Analyst, Conservation Research 17. United Negro College Fund – Policy Analyst 18. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Policy Analyst 19. Wisconsin Public Radio – Digital Producer, To the Best of Our Knowledge 20. Zócalo Public Square – Program Manager
The 2014 cohort of Public Fellows will be announced in June. For more information about the program, and to view a list of current fellows and their placements, visit www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, a new initiative supporting research and teaching in Buddhist studies funded by a $1.9 million grant from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. Working with the Foundation, ACLS will offer an articulated set of fellowship and grant competitions that will expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought in scholarship and society, strengthen international networks of Buddhist studies, and increase the visibility of innovative currents in those studies. ACLS will organize competitions for Dissertation Fellowships, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Collaborative Research Grants, and Visiting Professorships. These are global competitions. There are no restrictions as to the location of work proposed or the citizenship of applicants. “We are honored to partner with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation,” said ACLS President Pauline Yu. “The humanities study how people create and convey meaning; the study of religions is thus one of the core concerns of the humanities. This new initiative will help bring Buddhist studies to the center of academic inquiry worldwide.” “We are committing substantial resources to strengthening the teaching and study of Buddhism in modern society, supporting outstanding scholars and institutions worldwide. This is an important step towards realizing my family’s vision of developing a Buddhist Learning Network to further the study of Buddhist philosophy and broaden its impact in the twenty-first century,” said Robert Y.C. Ho, chairman of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. Established in Hong Kong in 2005 by Robert Hung Ngai Ho as a private philanthropic organization, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation promotes understanding of Buddhism through Buddhist studies and Buddhist art. Its programs include the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School; a center and an endowed professorship in Buddhist studies at Stanford University; a center for Buddhist art and conservation at The Courtauld Institute of Art; a gallery of Buddhist sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum; and various exhibitions of Buddhist art.
ACLS News, 5/10/2013
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the results of the first annual competitions of the new Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies. The three competitions–for pre-dissertation grants, postdoctoral fellowships, and collaborative reading-workshop grants–received 156 applications in this inaugural year. Pre-dissertation Research Grants were awarded to 14 Ph.D. candidates to enable preliminary investigations of archives and field sites in China, and to secure necessary formal permissions, in preparation for anticipated dissertation research.
Postdoctoral Fellowships were awarded to seven scholars for projects in topics ranging from gossip in seventeenth-century Chinese literature and the study of coroners in modern China, to the Qing court theatre and contemporary Shari’a and sectarianism in Linxia, “China’s little Mecca.” Postdoctoral fellowships support scholars in preparing their Ph.D. dissertations for publication or in embarking on the first major research project after the dissertation.
Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants were awarded to four scholars wishing to convene multi- and interdisciplinary teams for focused examination of texts that constitute essential points of entry to Chinese periods, traditions, communities, or events in either contemporary or historical times. “These fellowships and grants,” noted Andrzej W. Tymowski, director of international programs at ACLS, “will encourage and enable early career scholars to develop new knowledge on China. With the Luce Foundation’s financial support, they will undertake research to extend our understanding of China’s history, culture, and societal dynamics. This is the soundest basis for understanding its future.”
ACLS News, 5/29/2013
The American Council of Learned Societies and the Monuments Men
In January 1943, as the destruction of World War II spread across Europe, North Africa, and Asia, the American Council of Learned Societies established the ACLS Committee on the Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas. The committee marshaled the combined scholarly expertise of ACLS’s membership to guide the Allied Forces in the protection and recovery of art, monuments, and other treasured cultural heritage threatened by the ongoing conflict.
Above: Detail of map key, guide to art- work belonging to St. Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, including its stolen altarpiece, painted by Van Eyck.
Left: Map of Ghent, Belgium, prepared by the ACLS Committee on the Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas
Equipped with ACLS-produced maps, guides, and manuals for the care of cultural artifacts, intrepid teams of armed forces personnel—the now celebrated Monuments Men—tracked down hundreds of pieces of art and other artifacts purloined by Nazi forces, such as the famous Ghent Altarpiece of St. Bavo Cathedral (below).
ACLS reacted quickly to the destructive events of WWII because so much of our cultural heritage is fragile and demands protection, a fact that is just as true now as it was in the 1940s. Today, through our support of rigorous research in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS helps scholars build the knowledge and expertise necessary to understand and preserve the cultures and cultural property endangered by ongoing conflicts around the world. In addition, programs such as ACLS’s Digital Innovation Fellowship allow scholars to build tools that facilitate the mapping and recovery of artifacts in the field; and through the ACLS Public Fellows program, humanities PhDs contribute their time and talents to agencies working in conflict zones around the world, such as the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.
The sites of conflict in the world change from decade to decade, a sad reality that underscores the need for cultural knowledge that is as broad as it is deep. As one of the leading representatives of humanities scholarship in the United States, ACLS continues to advance the types of learning that help us understand and preserve the vibrant histories, languages, and visual cultures that otherwise could fall victim to the destruction of war. www.monumentsmenfoundation.org
American Council of Learned Societies The Committee on the Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas of The American Council of Learned Societies was established at the council’s annual meeting in January 1943, and was aided financially by the Rockefeller Foundation and headquartered at the Frick Art Reference Library. Expert scholars, art historians, collectors, and artists – the most renowned in the world – aided the council in compiling lists and preparing maps of the most important monuments and works of art to be protected. A master index of all works in occupied countries was developed, as well as an extensive photo archive collection.
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Meeting of the Council Agenda 1. Call to Order – James J. O’Donnell, Chair, ACLS Board of Directors 2. In Memoriam
^3. Roll Call: Members of the Council must be in attendance and respond to the roll call to be eligible to vote.
^4. Elections to the ACLS Board of Directors
5. Report to the Delegates – Elaine Sisman, American Musicological Society, Chair, Executive Committee of the Delegates, ACLS Board of Directors
^6. Recommendation of the Board of Directors that the following organization be admitted to constituent membership in the Council: ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION Please bring enclosed pink ballot with you to the meeting.
7. Report on the 2013-14 ACLS Fellowship Competition Year – Matthew Goldfeder, Director of Fellowship Programs
^ 8. Report of the Treasurer/Financial Reports (yellow pages) – Nancy J. Vickers, Treasurer, ACLS Board of Directors Vote on Approval of the Proposed Budget for the Fiscal Year 2014-15 (green pages)
9. Report from the Conference of Administrative Officers – Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Chair, Executive Committee of the CAO, ACLS Board of Directors
10. Report from the National Humanities Alliance – Stephen Kidd, Executive Director
11. Consent Agenda
^ Action required Report of the Board Nominating Committee: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Chair Nominations for Officers and Members of the ACLS Board of Directors
Under the provisions of the By-laws, any additional nominations by members of the Council must be received at the Executive Offices by the following dates:
nominations for officers of the Council: April 19, 2014 nominations for members of the Board of Directors: April 24, 2014.
Nominated for a term as Secretary of the Board. Jonathan D. Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. A 1966 graduate of Harvard, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he took a B. Phil. in comparative literature and a D. Phil. in modern languages. He was fellow in French at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, and university lecturer in French at Brasenose College, Oxford University, before moving to Cornell. Culler’s first book was Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (1974), but otherwise his publications bear principally on contemporary critical theory, French and English: Structuralist Poetics (winner of the MLA’s 1976 Lowell Prize); Ferdinand de Saussure (1976); The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction (1981); On Deconstruction (1982); Roland Barthes (1983); Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions (1988); Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997); and The Literary in Theory (2006). He served as director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell for nine years. Thereafter, he was chair of comparative literature, chair of English, then senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has been active in a number of professional organizations: president of the American Semiotic Society, chair of the Supervising Committee, trustee of the English Institute, twice a member of the MLA’s Executive Council, member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and president of the American Comparative Literature Association. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Nominated for a term as Treasurer of the Board. Nancy J. Vickers is both president emeritus and professor emeritus of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. Before that she was the dean of curriculum and instruction in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Vickers is a scholar in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Her interests range from Dante to Renaissance poetry to the transformations of the lyric genre as a result of changing technologies. She has published numerous articles and was a coeditor of Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Differences in Early Modern Europe and A New History of French Literature, for which she and her colleagues received the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize in 1990. Vickers received her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1967 and her master’s degree and doctorate from Yale University in 1971 and 1976, respectively. She taught French and Italian at Dartmouth College from 1973 until 1987, when she joined the University of Southern California faculty. Dartmouth awarded her its Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement in 1991. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Vickers has received awards for her excellence as a teacher from both Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California. She is currently president of the Dante Society of America.
Nominated for a term as Member of the Board. Lisa Disch is a professor in the departments of political science and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College and doctorate from Rutgers University. Disch’s interests in political thought extend from the thought of the mid-eighteenth century to that of today. She arrived at the University of Michigan in 2008, having begun her career at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in contemporary continental political thought, paying particular attention to feminist theory, political ecology, and theories of democracy in both the U.S. and France. Framing this range of interests is a concern with the power of conventions that are regarded as necessary or natural, and a fascination with how they come to be looked upon that way. This concern accounts for her interest in storytelling, which she explored in her first book and in early articles. It provided the impetus for her second book, an analysis of how twentieth-century U.S. citizens—after a robust century of third-party participation in U.S. politics—not only came to take it for granted that in this first-past-the-post system a vote for a third party is wasted, but to welcome U.S. electoral duopoly as bulwark of their democracy. Her recent writing on the sex/gender difference is similarly inspired by this more general concern. Her publications include The Tyranny of the Two Party System (Columbia UP, 2002) and Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell UP, 1994). Her current research includes a project on political representation that seeks to reconcile the insight that acts of representation neither merely reflect constituencies nor originate with them but, rather, mobilize them with the expectation that representative democratic government must be government “by” the people. She is also at work on a project on the reciprocal influences of contemporary French and American political theory.
Report to the Delegates: Elaine Sisman, Chair Elections to the Executive Committee of the Delegates
The Executive Committee is composed of seven Delegates. Members of the Executive Committee serve terms of three years, beginning and ending at the annual meeting each spring. Members elected in spring 2014 will serve until spring 2017. Each year a nominating committee is composed of the outgoing members of the Executive Committee and the ACLS president.
The members of the 2014 Delegates Nominating Committee are Elaine Sisman, American Musicological Society J. Nicholas Entrikin, Association of American Geographers Pauline Yu, ACLS
The Nominating Committee proposes the following slate for two openings on the Executive Committee:
1. Scott E. Casper, American Antiquarian Society, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2. Henry S. Richardson, American Philosophical Association, Georgetown University
The seven current members of the Executive Committee and their terms are Elaine Sisman, Chair, American Musicological Society, 2014 Thomas DuBois, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 2015 J. Nicholas Entrikin, Association of American Geographers, 2014 Paul W. Kroll, American Oriental Society, 2015 Philippa Levine, North American Conference on British Studies, 2015 Leith Mullings, American Anthropological Association, 2016 Susan Wells, Rhetoric Society of America, 2016
Thomas DuBois will serve as chair for 2014-15.
Your attention is called to the following portion of the By-laws (Article III, Sec. 3): There shall be an Executive Committee of the Delegates. The Executive Committee of the Delegates shall serve as the Committee on Admissions for Constituent Societies.
Report on the 2013-14 ACLS Fellowship Competition Year
Matthew Goldfeder, Director of Fellowship Programs
The 50th anniversary of the Report of the Commission on the Humanities, sponsored by ACLS and that led to the founding of the NEH, provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the continuity and the changes to the Council’s fellowship programs between then and now.
In 1964, ACLS received 424 applications to what we now refer to as our central ACLS Fellowship Program, and awarded 47 scholars an average stipend of $6,246. Thirteen other scholars received “Study Fellowships,” for young scholars seeking to enlarge their range of knowledge outside their present specialization, and six scholars were selected as the inaugural cohort for a program, to quote ACLS’s 1965 annual report, “to support research in the humanities involving the use of electronic computers.” In addition, ACLS awarded 105 grants-in-aid, in amounts ranging from $300 to $2,000, for travel to access research material, to reproduce or purchase research materials, or for research or clerical assistance.
In partnership with SSRC, ACLS sponsored programs with area studies foci; another ACLS program enabled West European scholars’ research in “American studies,” and another focused on language learning, which included fellowships for advanced graduate students with the purpose of trimming the time to degree. All told, ACLS awarded nearly $472,000 in fellowships and grants-in-aid; adjusted for inflation, the figure is a little over $3.5 million.
Fifty years later, ACLS’s portfolio of fellowships has grown into 12 distinctive programs. While some programs, such as Public Fellows, which places Ph.D.s in staff positions at partnering nonprofit and government organizations, are forays into new territory, others represent new ways of funding the same types and forms of scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. ACLS’s Digital Innovation Fellowships, which fund scholarly work that takes a digital form, may be seen as intellectual successors to the computer-based research that we supported in the 1960s.
Another way to look at our evolution is to note that central ACLS Fellowships received over 1,000 applications this year, nearly two-and-a-half times as many as in 1964. And, while one program targeted graduate students then, four programs today focus on, or have components for, supporting the predoctoral stage: Dissertation Completion Fellowships, Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies, and Predissertation Summer Grants in China Studies. Much like then, with the exception of our endowment-supported central program, ACLS fellowship programs are made possible by external grants, including those from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
ACLS today includes many programs that are open to scholars at all career stages, from the U.S. and abroad, and for work in any field of the humanities and interpretive social sciences, and also others that specifically target collaborative research, scholars from sub-Saharan Africa, or research on specific themes or geographic areas. Overall, ACLS will award fellowships with a total value of over $15 million to nearly 300 scholars in the still ongoing 2013-14 competition year, a nearly four-and-a-half-fold increase from the inflation-adjusted value of ACLS fellowships 50 years ago. All fellowships are awarded on the basis of rigorous peer review, a process which requires more than 500 reviewers annually, and the Council owes thanks to these good citizens for the generous contribution of their time and expertise.
While these numbers alone do not convey the full impact of these programs, nor the quality of the scholarship they support, a review of this year’s fellows will reveal at the minimum the vibrancy and broad scope of humanities scholarship today. 2013-14 Fellowship Competition - Panelists
ACLS Fellowship Program – Central Program Alborn, Timothy, History, City University of New York, Lehman College Brenneis, Donald, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz Bronfman, Alejandra, History, University of British Columbia, Canada Brown, Wendy L., Political Science and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley Desai, Gaurav, English, African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University Eyerman, Ronald, Sociology, Yale University Forster, Michael N., Philosophy, University of Bonn Gill, Lesley, Anthropology, Vanderbilt University Higonnet, Anne, Art History and Archaeology, Barnard College Kaisse, Ellen M., Linguistics, University of Washington Kamensky, Jane, History, Brandeis University Kennedy, Dane, History, George Washington University Khalid, Adeeb, History, Carleton College Khanna, Ranjana, Women’s Studies and English, Duke University Lackey, Jennifer, Philosophy, Northwestern University Leppert, Richard, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, Washington University in St. Louis Mitchell, Donald, Geography, Syracuse University Nyhart, Lynn K., History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison Pease, Donald E., English, Dartmouth College Pecora, Vincent P., English, University of Utah Sanders, Mark, Comparative Literature, New York University Stone, Ruth, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington Watson, Timothy P., English, University of Miami
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars Bay, Mia E., History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Christensen, Thomas, Music, University of Chicago Leja, Michael, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania Summit, Jennifer L., English, Stanford University Wallace, R. Jay, Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley Yu, Pauline, President, American Council of Learned Societies
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships Collins, Derek B., Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mochizuki, Mia M., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Nguyen, Viet Thanh, English, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California Povinelli, Elizabeth A., Anthropology, Columbia University Yang, Anand A., History and International Studies, University of Washington
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships Flanagan, Mary, Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College Frank, Zephyr L., History, Stanford University McPherson, Tara, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California Presner, Todd Samuel, Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Price, Kenneth M., English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Rowe, Katherine A., English, Bryn Mawr College
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ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships Brownley, Martine Watson, English, Emory University Davis, John H., Art, Smith College Rofel, Lisa, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz Schaberg, David C., Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles Wihl, Gary S., English, Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Crenner, Christopher W., History, University of Kansas de la Cadena, Marisol, Anthropology, University of California, Davis Ghodsee, Kristen R., Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College Gourgouris, Stathis, Classics, Columbia University Green, Mitchell S., Philosophy, University of Connecticut Greenberg, Amy, History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Hallward, Peter, Philosophy, Kingston University, UK McDaniel, Justin T., Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania McGurl, Mark, English, Stanford University Nakamura, Lisa, Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Oliensis, Ellen S., Classics, University of California, Berkeley Ostrow, Steven F., Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Pfau, Thomas, English & German, Duke University Schroeder, Richard A., Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Schwartz, Vanessa R., History, Art History and Film, University of Southern California Shelemay, Kay Kaufman, Music, Harvard University
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art Bowles, John P., Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Braddock, Alan C., Art History, College of William and Mary Conrads, Margaret C., Art and Research, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Luce Center Curator, Smithsonian Institution Schwain, Kristin A., Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
ACLS Programs in China Studies Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Fellowships Panel Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC, Berkeley Davis, Deborah, Sociology, Yale University Fong, Grace S., East Asian Studies. Chinese Literature, McGill University Hansen, Valerie, History, Yale University Sangren, Steven, Anthropology, Cornell University Wasserstrom, Jeffrey, History, UC, Irvine
Luce/ACLS Collaborative Reading-Workshops and CCK Competitions Panel Farquhar, Judith, Anthropology, University of Chicago Smith, Paul, History and East Asian Studies, Haverford College Tang, Xiaobing, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan Yu, Pauline, Comparative Literature, ACLS
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Benn, James A., Religious Studies, McMaster University Cho, Eun-su, Philosophy, Seoul National University Dolce, Lucia, Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London
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African Humanities Program Agbaje, Adigun, Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Barnes, Sandra T., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Hendricks, Frederick, Sociology, Land Reform Studies, Rhodes University Mapunda, Bertram, History, University of Dar es Salaam Tripp, Aili Mari, Political Science, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Yankah, Kwesi, Linguistics, Central University College
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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Programs
ACLS, a nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations, is the leading private institution funding research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. ACLS fellowship programs support scholars as they create knowledge that benefits our understanding of the world—its peoples, histories, and cultures. More than 11,000 scholars have held ACLS fellowships.
ACLS Fellowship Programs In the 2013-14 fellowship season, ACLS will award over ACLS Fellowships ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships $15 Luce/ACLS Programs in China Studies million Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture to nearly and Society ACLS Public Fellows Program African Humanities Program 300 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for fellows selected by Recently Tenured Scholars Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
550+ Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in scholars serving as peer reviewers American Art Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
For information about ACLS fellowship programs, and to learn more about the work of recent ACLS fellows, visit www.acls.org 2014-15 ACLS Fellowship and Grant Competitions
ACLS Fellowships September 24, 2014
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships September 24, 2014
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars September 24, 2014
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships September 24, 2014
ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships September 24, 2014
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships October 22, 2014
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art October 22, 2014
African Humanities Program October 31, 2014
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies October 1, 2014
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Dissertation Fellowships October 8, 2014 Postdoctoral Fellowships October 8, 2014 Collaborative Research Grants October 8, 2014 Visiting Professorships January 14, 2015
Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society October 1, 2014
ACLS Public Fellows March 2015
Application information will be posted in July 2014 at www.acls.org/programs/comps.
ACLS Fellowship Programs Overview, 2014-15
ACLS Central Fellowships 65 endowment-funded awards of $35,000-$65,000. 25 at the assistant professor rank, 20 at the associate professor rank, 20 at the full professor rank (or equivalents). Awards are $35,000 for assistant professors, $45,000 for associate professors, and $65,000 for full professors. Term is 6-12 months. For scholars working in all fields of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Fellows working in international or area studies may be partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. On occasion, a fellow may be funded jointly by ACLS and the New York Public Library (stipend for all ranks: $70,000).
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars 9 awards of $75,000. For scholars recently tenured (within the past 4 years at the time of application), with long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities or humanities-related social sciences. Term is one academic year plus institutional support for an additional period. For residence at one of the participating residential research centers. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships 12 awards of $64,000, plus $2,500 for research and travel, plus additional summer support of $14,222 (total support: $80,722). For advanced assistant professors in the humanities or humanities-related social sciences whose scholarly work has contributed significantly to their fields. Term is one academic year, plus one summer if appropriate. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships 65 awards of $30,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000 for a one-year term. The fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research but may not be held concurrently with any other major fellowship or grant. Aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure or shortly thereafter. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
ACLS Public Fellows 20 awards of $65,000 plus up to $7,000 for health insurance. For recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences to take up two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in advanced humanities studies have wide application, and assist Ph.D.s aspiring to careers in administration, management, and public service. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art 10 fellowships of $25,000, plus up to an additional $2,000 as a travel allowance for one year. For any stage of Ph.D. dissertation research or writing in the art history of the United States. Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships 6 awards of up to $60,000 towards one academic year’s leave and project costs of up to $25,000. Support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships 8 awards to projects of up to $140,000 per project. Total period of up to 24 months. Supports collaborative research in the humanities and related social sciences. Includes stipends of up to $60,000 for six to twelve continuous months of supported research leave for participants and up to $20,000 in project costs. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
African Humanities Program 29 postdoctoral research fellowships of $18,000 for 10-12 months. 9 dissertation fellowships of $11,000 for 10-12 months. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies 18 predissertation-summer grants of $5,000 for research in China. Up to 9 postdoctoral fellowships of $50,000 to support scholars in preparing their Ph.D. dissertation research for publication or in embarking on new research projects. 3 collaborative reading-workshop awards of up to $15,000 for interdisciplinary investigation of texts that are essential points of entry to Chinese periods, traditions, communities, or events. Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation (with additional funding from NEH for postdoctoral fellowships).
Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society 2 awards for conferences at up to $25,000 2 awards for workshops at up to $10,000 to $15,000; 2 awards for planning meetings at up to $6,000. For conferences that result in a published conference volume, a publication subsidy is also provided. Funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies 10 dissertation fellowships of $30,000 each 3 postdoctoral residential fellowships ($120,000 for two years) to recent recipients of the Ph.D. 2 collaborative research grants (up to $200,000 each for a two-year period) 3 awards for Visiting Professorships (up to $200,000 each) Funded by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
Recommendation of the Board of Directors that the following organization be admitted to constituent membership in the Council:
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Applications from organizations seeking constituent membership are recommended for approval by the Executive Committee of the Delegates (Committee on Admissions) to the Board of Directors which, in turn, recommends approval to the full Council at the Annual Meeting. The members of the Council are the Delegates and the Board of Directors.
An applicant for constituent membership is asked to provide the following documents:
1. a letter stating how the society meets the criteria for admission; 2. the program of the society’s most recent annual meeting; 3. examples of how the society advances and supports scholarship; 4. the society’s principal publication, if applicable; 5. the society’s constitution and by-laws; and 6. the society’s latest audited financial statement.
Item 1 is attached for the Oral History Association.
The Executive Committee of the Delegates met on October 11, 2013. The Committee was unanimous in recommending the Oral History Association for constituent membership. The Board of Directors approved the recommendation for admission at its meeting on October 25, 2013.
Members of the Council (ACLS Board of Directors and Delegates) will be asked to vote on this application at the Meeting of the Council on May 9, 2014.
Policy Statement on Admission of New Constituent Societies
Societies seeking admission should be national or international in membership and preference will be given to societies that are broad in their interests. Typically, their membership and interests will significantly differ from those already represented among the Council's constituent societies. A candidate society should make a substantial, distinctive and distinguished contribution to the Council's ability to advance scholarship in the humanities and humanistically oriented social sciences, to represent that scholarship in the academy and in the wider society, and to strengthen the relations among societies dedicated to these purposes. A society's primary focus must be on the advancement and support of scholarship. A substantial proportion of its individual members will be scholars and the society will normally support continuing scholarly research and publication in a way that is distinguished and recognized. The Council may seek the advice of appropriate scholars in evaluating the scholarly strengths of applicant groups. A society seeking admission should be mature and stable. Normally it will have been in existence for a minimum of five years and will hold an annual scholarly meeting. It should possess a sound constitution and by-laws and should be well-administered and financially secure. Copies of the constitution and by-laws and the latest audited financial statement should accompany an application for membership. Although the number of constituent societies is not fixed, maintaining an effective size for the Council and a reasonable distribution among the scholarly interests represented is an important consideration. Each case is considered on its merits and on the contribution it will make. Application Procedures for Admission of New Constituent Societies
The Committee on Admissions asks that each applicant provide the following materials, in ten copies. If other information is necessary, the ACLS will ask for it as consideration as an applications proceeds. All materials must be received by September 1.
1. a letter stating how the society meets the criteria for admission; 2. the program of the society's most recent annual meeting; 3. examples of how the society advances and supports scholarship; 4. the society's principal publication, if applicable; 5. the society's constitution and by-laws; and 6. the society's latest audited financial statement.
When a learned society applies for admission to the ACLS, its application will be submitted to the Executive Committee of the Delegates of the Constituent Societies of the ACLS. That Committee will review the application, consulting (confidentially) as it sees fit, and will submit its recommendation, if favorable, to the Board of Directors, and the Board will submit its recommendation, if favorable, to the Council for a vote at an Annual Meeting. An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members in attendance at an Annual Meeting is necessary for admission.
May 9, 2008
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
TREASURER’S REPORT
2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Three objectives guide ACLS financial management: 1) paying fellowship stipends in line with plans developed in 1997 and revised in 2000; 2) controlling administrative expenditures while building a sustainable general fund; and 3) building our asset base in order to assure these objectives over the long run.
The year completed. ACLS finished the fiscal year ended 6/30/13 with total support, revenue and investment income of $35,190,514 and total expenses of $21,090,725, for a 13% increase in net assets of $14,305,079. The increase included a net investment income of $15,683,342. The investment return for the fiscal year ended 6/30/13 was 15.4% as compared to the 6% that ACLS had budgeted. The audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013 are available on ACLS’s website.
The current year (yellow sheets). Financial statements for the first nine months of this fiscal year, July 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014, follow this report. We project that ACLS’s net income (change in net assets) for fiscal year 2014 will be $14,026,000 $8,142,000 for the central fellowship fund, $2,601,000 for the general administrative fund and $3,283,000 for the restricted program. The projected surplus represents a 10% increase in net assets. Investment income is projected to be $12,960,000, assuming a 12- month investment return of 12%, equal to the 9-month actual return and versus the 6% return that was budgeted. All other income and expense items are projected to be basically in line with the 2014 budget.
The year ahead (green sheets). The Proposed Budget for fiscal year 2015 also follows. Projected receipts are $19,455,000 with program grants managed by ACLS accounting for $8.2 million of receipts and ACLS’s own endowment income accounting for $6,660,000. The proposed budget projects a return on investments of 6%, as discussed with ACLS’s board and investment committee.
The fiscal year 2015 budget also includes $1.65 million in contributions that a consortium of 33 research universities has pledged to ACLS. These contributions provide the basis for plans to raise our fellowship stipends beyond the levels set as goals in 1997, and thereby assure that our stipends will keep pace with faculty salaries. Subscriptions from the Council’s College and University Associates have been budgeted at $800,000, and dues from Constituent Societies and Affiliates have been budgeted at $150,000. The proposed fiscal year 2014 budget anticipates that net ACLS administrative costs will remain relatively low, at 14% of total expenses. In summary, the proposed ACLS fiscal year 2015 budget consists of $19,455,000 of receipts and $18,431,000 of expense, with an increase in net assets of $1,024,000 or 0.7% of net assets.
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. The proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 provides for a payout rate of 5.4% for the central fellowship fund and 2.4% for the general administrative fund.
On September 30, 2007 ACLS’s endowment was at $85 million, and as of June 30, 2013, the endowment fund balance is projected to be at $115 million. This increase has gotten us back on track toward two strategic financial goals: 1) having an endowment sufficient to support 70 central fellowships a year at ½ the average academic salary; and 2) having an endowment sufficient, along with other revenues, to support our core operations while adhering to a prudent payout rate. In the past, our Board has required downward adjustments in the number of fellowships and in the scale of our administrative operations. For us, the challenge is to assure that ACLS conserves insofar as possible the value of the endowment, while still enhancing our capacity for effective program and building greater visibility that we hope will broaden our base of support. With our current administrative expenses, and the very generous financial support of the Mellon Foundation, the general administrative fund has now achieved long-term sustainability through at least fiscal year 2022, assuming that an average investment return of 6% can be achieved.
Action on this proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 is required at the meeting of the Council.
American Council of Learned Societies Income and Expense for the 9-Months Ended 3/31/14 as Compared to the 12-Months Ending 6/30/14 Fiscal Year 2014 Projection ($000's)
FYTD 2014 FY 2014 9-Months 12-Months Ended 3/31/14 Ending 6/30/14 Income and Expense Actual Projection Income: Grants - program and administration 12,146 17,608 Grants - Mellon sustainability grants 471 622 NEH Challenge Grant 375 375 Investment income, 12% actual for 9-mos., 12% proj. for 12-mos. 12,960 12,960 Research university consortium 1,600 1,650 Associates 913 947 Subscriptions 519 800 Annual giving 165 180 Learned societies and affiliates 79 130 Royalties and miscellaneous 109 165 Total income 29,337 35,437
Expense: Restricted program grants 5,820 15,500 Central fellowship stipends, peer review and develop. (from end.) 346 3,537 General administrative (net of cost recovery) 1,026 2,374 Total expense 7,192 21,411
Change in net assets 22,145 14,026
Net assets, beginning of fiscal year 129,405 129,405
Net assets, end of fiscal period 151,550 143,431
Table 1 American Council of Learned Societies General Administrative Expense for the 9-Months Ended 3/31/14 as Compared to the 12-months Ending 6/30/14 Fiscal Year 2014 Projection ($000's)
FYTD 2014 FY 2014 9-Months 12-Months Ended 3/31/14 Ending 6/30/14 General Administrative Expense Actual Projection
Salaries and employee benefits 1,657 2,594 Meetings, conferences and travel 115 278 Professional and consultant fees 163 246 Depreciation and amortization 161 240 Interest payments (purchase of office condominium) 85 114 Building maintenance 139 144 Office expense 103 124 Dues 65 68 Printing, publishing and reports 12 40 Beijing office 0 0 Development (direct expense / non-payroll) 1 10 Miscellaneous 2 2 Reserve to meet future obligations 0 400
Total general administrative expense before cost recovery 2,503 4,260
Less cost recovery from grants and endowment support for peer review -1,477 -1,886
Total general administrative expense net of cost recovery 1,026 2,374
Table 2 American Council of Learned Societies Proposed Income and Expense Budget, All Program Funds for the Year Ending June 30, 2015 ($000's)
Donor Central General Restricted Proposed Fellowship Admin. Program Total Income and Expense Fund Fund Fund Budget Income: Grants - program 0 0 8,255 8,255 Grants - Mellon sustainability grants 0 450 0 450 Grants - NEH challenge grant 125 0 0 125 Investment income (+6.0% return projected for FY 15) 4,780 1,880 0 6,660 Research university consortium 1,650 0 0 1,650 Associates 0 965 0 965 Subscriptions 0 0 800 800 Annual giving 230 0 0 230 Learned societies and affiliates 0 150 0 150 Royalties 0 170 0 170 Total income 6,785 3,615 9,055 19,455
Expense: Restricted program grants 0 0 12,000 12,000 Fellowship stipends, peer review and develop. (from end.) * 3,866 0 0 3,866 General administrative (net of cost recovery) * 0 2,565 0 2,565 Total expense 3,866 2,565 12,000 18,431
Change in net assets 2,919 1,050 -2,945 1,024
Net assets, beginning of fiscal year 79,099 31,566 32,766 143,431
Net assets, end of fiscal year 82,018 ** 32,616 *** 29,821 144,455
Central General * Endowment payout rate based on the average Fellowship Admin. ending net assets for the prior three fiscal years Fund Fund
Proposed FY 2015 payout rate 5.4% 2.4%
Board appropriation in endowment funds to be $4,200 expended in FY 2015
** Donor and board-designated fellowship endowment
*** Donor and board-designated general endowment
Table 1 American Council of Learned Societies Proposed Income and Expense Budget for the Year Ending June 30, 2015 as Compared to FY 2009 - 2013 Actual and FY 2014 Projection ($000's)
Prop. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 Income and Expense Actual Actual Actual Actual Proj. Budget Income: Grants - program 20,610 19,250 14,132 16,182 17,608 8,255 Grants - Mellon sustainability grants 0 200 0 0 622 450 Grants - Mellon endowment grants 0 6,000 3,000 0 0 0 Grants - NEH challenge grant 0 0 0 0 375 125 Investment inc. (12% proj. for FY 14, 6% prop. for FY 15) 9,558 15,776 -1,106 15,683 12,960 6,660 Research university consortium 1,600 1,600 1,700 1,650 1,650 1,650 Associates 850 885 893 917 947 965 Subscriptions 809 771 891 115 800 800 Annual giving 217 175 264 261 180 230 Learned societies and affiliates 215 140 155 166 130 150 Royalties and miscellaneous 142 309 201 217 165 170 Total income 34,001 45,106 20,130 35,191 35,437 19,455
Expense: Restricted program grants 17,189 18,092 17,439 16,075 15,500 12,000 Fellowship stipends, peer review and development (from end.) 2,568 2,784 3,090 3,277 3,537 3,866 General administrative (net of cost recovery) 2,039 1,827 1,942 1,533 2,374 2,565 Total expense 21,796 22,703 22,471 20,885 21,411 18,431
Change in net assets 12,205 22,403 -2,341 14,306 14,026 1,024
Net assets, beginning of fiscal year 82,833 95,037 117,440 115,099 129,405 143,431
Net assets, end of fiscal year 95,038 117,440 115,099 129,405 143,431 144,455
Prop. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. * Endowment payout rate based on the average ending FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 net assets for the prior three fiscal years Actual Actual Actual Actual Proj. Budget
Central fellowship fund 4.5% 5.2% 5.4% 5.2% 5.2% 5.4%
General administrative fund 4.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.6% 2.4% 2.4%
Table 2 American Council of Learned Societies Proposed General Administrative Expense Budget for the Year Ending June 30, 2015 as Compared to FY 2009 - 2013 Actual and FY 2014 Projection ($000's)
Prop. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 General Administrative Expense Actual Actual Actual Actual Proj. Budget
Salaries and employee benefits 2,208 2,321 2,392 2,442 2,594 2,627 Depreciation and amortization 267 264 260 404 240 215 Meetings, conferences and travel 252 336 271 293 278 280 Professional and consultant fees 229 249 162 262 246 250 Interest payments (purchase of office condominium) 221 213 205 195 114 120 Office expense 172 177 117 115 124 120 Building maintenance 113 141 105 80 144 140 Printing, publishing and reports 68 78 38 30 40 50 Dues 58 52 64 57 68 65 Beijing office 40 28 49 11 0 0 Development (direct expense / non-payroll) 10 5 12 8 10 160 Miscellaneous 2 4 2 2 2 2 Effect of adoption of SFAS No. 158 - Postretirement Medical Plan 13 -86 41 -205 0 0 Reserve to meet future obligations 0 0 0 0 400 400
Total gen. admin. exp. before cost recovery 3,653 3,782 3,718 3,694 4,260 4,429
Less cost recovery from grants and end. support for peer review -1,614 -1,955 -1,776 -2,161 -1,886 -1,864
Total gen. admin. exp. net of cost recovery 2,039 1,827 1,942 1,533 2,374 2,565
Table 3 American Council of Learned Societies Preliminary Investment Performance Monthly Periods Ending March 31, 2014
Latest Quarter FYTD* Latest Three Five Value Month To Date Year Years Years $(mil) Total Global Equity -0.29 0.98 18.03 20.18 $ 60.83 MSCI ACWI 0.44 1.08 17.05 16.55
Total Large Cap -0.57 0.74 16.81 19.20 $ 30.88 Bristol 1.03 2.79 19.63 22.30 14.85 20.57 $ 16.89 S&P 500 0.84 1.81 18.41 21.86 14.65 21.15 Gardner Russo & Gardner 0.88 1.01 16.23 13.10 $ 5.15 S&P 500 0.84 1.81 18.41 Lone Cascade -4.27 -3.10 12.01 16.56 16.62 23.85 $ 8.84 S&P 500 0.84 1.81 18.41 21.86 14.65 21.15
Total Small Cap -2.26 -3.30 20.70 28.02 $ 5.56 Kalmar Investments -2.26 -3.30 20.70 28.02 14.15 26.13 $ 5.56 Russell 2000 -0.68 1.12 21.16 24.90 13.19 24.31
Total International 0.52 2.33 18.81 19.25 $ 24.38 Capital Guardian ETOPS 0.54 0.54 5.05 -1.89 $ 3.00 Blended Index (3) 3.05 1.94 5.59 -2.08 Silchester International 0.52 2.59 21.03 23.60 MSCI EAFE -0.64 0.66 18.72 17.56
Total Hedged Equity 0.43 0.60 10.25 12.80 $ 13.51 Lone Pinon -4.96 -4.28 2.15 2.42 11.64 11.63 $ 2.93 S&P 500 0.84 1.81 18.41 21.86 14.65 21.15 FPA Crescent 2.03 2.03 12.73 16.05 $ 10.58 S&P 500 0.84 1.81 18.41 21.86
Total Absolute Return 0.20 2.04 7.33 9.69 $ 23.91 Davidson Kempner 0.57 2.82 6.91 9.35 5.95 9.93 $ 13.89 T-Bills + 5% 0.41 1.24 3.77 5.07 5.09 5.12 Farallon Capital Institutional Partner -0.30 0.97 7.67 9.94 7.19 13.09 $ 10.03 T-Bills + 5% 0.41 1.24 3.77 5.07 5.09 5.12
Total Real Assets 2.77 2.77 5.04 -1.83 $ 4.08 RS Global Natural Resources Fund 3.24 3.24 5.81 -1.78 $ 3.52 S&P Global Natural Resources 0.72 -0.01 13.87 3.07 Park Street 0.00 0.00 0.79 -2.20 2.59 6.01 $ 0.57 CPI + 5% 1.05 2.63 4.96 6.58 6.67 7.05
Total Fixed Income 0.21 2.30 5.65 2.48 5.75 8.09 $ 13.13 Loomis Sayles 0.21 2.30 6.58 4.79 7.24 $ 4.89 Barclays Credit 0.12 2.91 4.61 1.02 5.80 Treasury only MMF $ 8.24
Total ACLS 0.04 1.20 12.63 13.68 9.17 15.23 $ 115.47 Portfolio Benchmark (1) 0.32 1.27 14.03 13.12 7.77 15.31 Portfolio Benchmark (1) 0.36 1.23 11.96 11.03 6.71 13.02
* Fiscal Year-End is 6/30 (1) Portfolio Benchmark consists of 80% MSCI ACWI and 20% Barclays US Aggregate (2) Policy Index consists of 60% MSCI ACWI / 20% T-Bills +5% / 15% Barclays US Aggregate /5% S&P Global Natural Resources (3) Blended Index consists of 50% MSCI Emerging Markets IMI /25% JP Morgan EMBI Global/25% JP Morgan GBI-EM Global Diversified
The American Council of Learned Societies Investment Organization and Management as of April, 2014
The ACLS Board of Directors approves the Council's investment policy. The Board Chair appoints an Investment Committee to review investment policy annually and to make appropriate adjustments, clarifications and improvements, subject to ACLS Board review and approval of substantive changes. The Investment Committee currently consists of ten members, five ACLS Board members and five outside investment professionals (see attached listing). Members of the Investment Committee serve pro bono. ACLS has engaged the investment consulting firm, Monticello Associates, to support the work of the Investment Committee.
The Investment Committee meets quarterly, with additional meetings as necessary. Its principal responsibilities include setting of asset allocations within ranges approved by the ACLS Board of Directors, hiring and firing independent investment managers and monitoring investment objectives and results. The Committee has currently allocated ACLS assets among fifteen investment vehicles. The Committee gives each investment manager discretion to manage the Council's assets to achieve the stated investment objectives within the guidelines set forth in the Statement of Investment Policies and Guidelines.
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American Council of Learned Societies Investment Committee as of April, 2014
Mr. Frederick M. Bohen Dr. James J. O'Donnell Executive Vice President (retired) Georgetown University The Rockefeller University ACLS Board Member
Dr. Nicola Courtright Ms. Heidi Carter Pearlson, Chair Amherst College Managing Partner ACLS Board Member Adamas Partners, LLC
Ms. Lisa Danzig Ms. Carla Skodinski Managing Director Vice President & Chief Investment Officer Post Rock Advisors, LLC Van Beuren Management, Inc.
Dr. Charlotte Kuh Dr. Nancy J. Vickers National Research Council (retired) Bryn Mawr College (retired) ACLS Board Member ACLS Board Member
Mr. Herbert Mann Dr. Pauline Yu Group Managing Director (retired) American Council of Learned Societies TIAA-CREF ACLS Board Member
ACLS Investment Committee Heidi Carter Pearlson, Chair
Heidi Carter Pearlson is a founder and managing partner of Adamas Partners, LLC which runs two hedge fund fund-of-funds. Prior to Adamas, from 1996 through May of 2000, she worked at Cambridge Associates. As a consultant at Cambridge Associates, Pearlson worked with numerous not-for-profit colleges and universities, foundations, other endowed institutions and family groups on all asset classes and investment related issues. She was a specialist in marketable alternative assets including hedge funds, risk arbitrage and distressed securities. Pearlson graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in law and public policy in 1991 and from the Yale University School of Management in 1996. Prior to business school, she worked at Cambridge Associates for three years as a senior consulting associate and team leader. Presently, Pearlson serves on the investment committees of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies and the American Council of Learned Societies, and on the Board of Overseers of Children’s Hospital Boston and the Boston Children’s Museum.
For Discussion Only
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES STATEMENT OF INVESTMENT POLICIES AND GUIDELINES INCLUDING REVISIONS AS OF APRIL 2014
A. INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES The ACLS is committed to a long-term approach with a balanced program of investments to preserve and enhance the real purchasing power of its endowment in order to provide a stable and, in real terms, constant stream of current income for annual operating needs. The ACLS investment objective is to attain a real return, after adjustment for inflation, fees, and administrative costs, of at least 5% per year, measured over rolling five-year periods. In pursuing these objectives, ACLS intends to select investment managers who are rigorous in the disciplines they utilize to produce returns at acceptable levels of risk.
B. SPENDING POLICY The ACLS Board of Directors supports the policy of limiting annual spending from the endowment for programs and operations to no more than 5% of the trailing three-year average market value of the endowment, and asked the Investment Committee to pursue investment activities that are consistent with that budgeting and spending policy. With respect to the portion of the ACLS endowment that is restricted for the purpose of underwriting fellowship grants to individuals, ACLS spending practice is today and has long been in-line with the 5% operating limitation.
C. PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION AND ASSET ALLOCATION 1. ACLS assets shall be diversified both by asset class (e.g., equities, bonds, etc.) and within each asset class (e.g., within equities by economic sector, industry, size, etc.)
2. Assets shall broadly be divided into three parts, “Equity Allocation, Fixed Income Allocation and Alternative Allocation ”
3. One of the principal responsibilities of the ACLS Investment Committee is asset allocation. The ACLS Investment Committee may change the equity, alternative investments and fixed income ratios within the ranges stated below at its discretion. Changes to the ranges must be reported to, and approved by the ACLS Board.
The current targets and ranges for the investment funds are as follows:
Long-Term Policy Target Range Global Equity 47.5% 40-60% Total Fixed Income 15% 10-20% Altern ative Investments 37.5% 30-50%
Actual allocations as compared to ta rgets and r anges shall be r eviewed by the Inve stment Committee on a quarterly basis. If an asset class is outside of its range, this shall be discussed by the Committee. The Committee shall either take actions to rebalance the asset class back into range, or shall document the reason for maintaining an allocation outside of range.
D. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE Independent investment management organizations will invest ACLS endowment assets. Each investment manager has discretion to manage the assets in each particular portfolio to best achieve the stated investment objectives, within the guidelines set forth in this policy statement. It is understood that mutual funds, commingled funds and limited partnerships are not subject to the specific guidelines of this Investment Policy Statement. However, it is expected that each will follow the guidelines and restrictions as specified in their Prospectus on the date of ACLS’ original investment. Should changes
1 be made to the original guidelines, ACLS is to be immediately notified. Managers’ performance will be monitored on a continuing basis and evaluated over one, three and five year periods.
E. GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF EQUITY ASSETS Within the overall Global Equity Allocation the Investment Committee may approve allocations to investments in U.S. domestic and International (developed and emerging) common stocks.
1. The objective for the Global Equity Allocation is to outperform the MSCI All Country World stock index (net of fees).
2. The ACLS Equity Allocation overall will be diversified by such economic characteristics as geography, economic sector, industry, capitalization and investment style. In order to achieve its investment objective, ACLS may employ multiple investment managers, each of whom may have focused investment styles. Accordingly, while each manager’s portfolio may not be diversified, the combined equity portfolio will have the characteristic of diversification.
a) Managers with developed markets mandates are permitted to hold assets in emerging markets securities (no more than 25% of their assets). b) A maximum of 15% of total Fund assets are allowed to be invested in managers with primarily emerging markets mandates.
3. Decisions as to individual security selection, number of industries and holdings, current income levels, turnover and the other tools employed by active managers are left to manager discretion, subject to the usual standards of fiduciary prudence.
4. Unless otherwise instructed, an equity manager may at his/her discretion hold investment reserves of either cash equivalents or bonds. Performance will be measured against an agreed upon equity benchmark.
F. GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FIXED INCOME ASSETS 1. The objective of the Fixed Income Allocation is to outperform the Barclay’s Aggregate Bond Index (net of fees).
2. Money market instruments as well as bonds may be used in the Fixed Income Allocation. Managers are expected to employ active management techniques with respect to the Fixed Income Allocation. The average maturity, duration and portfolio yield, or some equivalent measure, should routinely be communicated to the Investment Committee.
G. GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ALTERNATIVE ASSETS 1. The objective for Alternative Assets Allocation it to provide either higher returns than those generated by traditional investments and/or to generate lower volatility. It is generally expected that they will also have lower correlation to public equity markets. 2. The Investment Committee shall make decisions as to which types of strategies to allocate to within the Alternative Assets Allocation. Strategies allocated to will generally fall within the sub-strategies of Absolute Return, Hedged Equity or Real Assets. 3. Decisions as to diversification and selection between, and within, “alternative” investment strategies, and the other tools employed by active managers, are left to manager discretion, subject to the usual standards of fiduciary prudence. 4. The ACLS Alternative Asset Allocation will be diversified, as applicable, by such economic characteristics as region, country, economic sector, industry, capitalization, etc. 5. Decisions as to region, individual country, security selection, number of industries and holdings, current income levels, turnover and the other tools employed by active managers are left to manager discretion, subject to the usual standards of fiduciary prudence.
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Absolute Return: 1. The objective of Absolute Return is to outperform a benchmark of the risk-free rate plus 5% (net of fees) annualized over a complete market cycle. 2. Absolute Return strategies are expected to have volatility that is substantially lower than that of public equity markets and only moderately higher than fixed income markets. 3. An Absolute Return Hedge Fund manager may at his/her discretion hold investment reserves of cash. Performance will be measured against an agreed upon benchmark. Hedged Equity: 1. The objective of Hedged Equity is to outperform the MSCI AC World Index over a complete market cycle with lower volatility. 2. A Hedged Equity Fund manager may at his/her discretion hold investment reserves of either cash equivalents or bonds. Performance will be measured against an agreed upon equity benchmark.
Real Assets: 1. The objective of Real Assets is to provide an inflation hedge and outperform the CPI + 5% over a complete market cycle. 2. A Real Assets Fund manager may at his/her discretion hold investment reserves of either cash equivalents or bonds. Performance will be measured against an agreed upon benchmark.
H. MONITORING OF OBJECTIVES AND RESULTS 1. The portfolios will be monitored on a continuing basis for consistency in investment philosophy, return relative to objectives, investment risk as measured by asset characteristics, exposure to extreme economic conditions and market volatility. The Investment Committee will review portfolios on a quarterly basis. Investment managers will be evaluated on one, three and five year periods. 2. Each investment manager will report the following information monthly: total return net of all commissions and fees. Managers will also provide monthly or quarterly holding and exposure information. 3. The Investment Committee shall arrange to meet with each investment manager on a regular basis. The ACLS staff shall be responsible for scheduling these periodic meetings with investment managers. 4. If at any time a manager believes that any policy guideline inhibits investment performance, it is the manager’s responsibility to clearly communicate this view to the Investment Committee. 5. Another principal responsibility of the Investment Committee is the issue of investment manager selection, and the related question of investment manager separation / termination. These matters require thorough and consistent procedures over time. In addition to assessing the investment performance of those invited to manage ACLS assets, ACLS may resolve to separate managers for reasons related to changed circumstances of the managers themselves, such as: changes in firm ownership changes in the firm’s key personnel changes in the size of the firm as measured by changes in the scale of assets under management Changes in investment style including unexplained departures from, or exceptions to previously articulated investment philosophy, strategy or style.
I. PERIODIC REVIEW, REVISION AND RECONFIRMATION OF THIS ACLS STATEMENT OF INVESTMENT POLICIES AND GUIDELINES The ACLS Investment Committee is resolved, annually, to review this statement of Investment Policies and Guidelines, making adjustments, clarifications and improvements as appropriate, and to seek ACLS Board review and approval of substantive changes. The review of these policies and guidelines will routinely be scheduled at the quarterly meeting of the committee in the first calendar quarter of each year, normally scheduled in late January. The results of the review will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting. 3
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES CURRENT INVESTMENT MANAGER STRUCTURE AS OF APRIL 2014
Global Equities:
John W. Bristol & Co., Inc. -- Growth at a Reasonable Price: Bristol is a core manager, with a strong bias for stocks with superior long-term growth prospects, as well as sensitivity to valuation issues, when making stock selections. The firm favors companies with above-average long-term earnings and dividend growth. They “arbitrage time horizons” by having a much longer time horizon and holding period than other money managers for the purpose of taking advantage of favorable valuations caused by short term actions taken by those with short time horizons. To determine which stocks display these attributes, the firm analyzes both company-specific (e.g., high research spending, new product creation, participation in growth product markets) and macroeconomic factors (e.g., monetary and fiscal policy, political shifts, consumer and industrial spending habits). With respect to portfolio construction, the firm attempts to maintain portfolio diversity in an attempt to dampen volatility, with the long-term goal of providing clients a growing stream of income while maintaining the purchasing power of their capital. Stocks are generally held for three to five years, and turnover tends to be very low. The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed the S&P 500 Index, net of commissions and management fees, over the long term. In addition, performance is expected to exceed the Madison Portfolio Consultants’ Large Cap Core Manager Sample Median return. Key Personnel: Robert Coviello and Charles Mott.
Gardner Russo Gardner – Tobacco Free Equity Account: GRG is a concentrated long-only strategy that primarily invests in domestic and foreign, mid- and large cap stocks. The investment style is extremely long-term focused and portfolio companies must be willing to forego quarterly results in favor of long-term wealth creation via logical reinvestment opportunities in developing markets. The strategy seeks to invest in companies earning positive free cash flow and those that have demonstrated the ability to sustain free cash flow and above-average profitability. Other attributes the team looks for include business managers that will align their interests with those of other shareholders and provide them with a consistent method for measuring results against good intentions. Key Personnel: Tom Russo, Co-Owner and Portfolio Manager.
Lone Cascade L.P. – Global Equity Fund: Lone Pine Capital LLC, the portfolio’s investment advisor, manages this long only global equity strategy, which opened on 1/1/05. Its goal is to generate above market returns (vis-à-vis the S&P 500) with below market volatility. This fund is invested with the same style and investment analysis as is used in the long portion of the Lone Kauri Fund (established in 2002). In fact the Lone Cascade portfolio is invested in all or some of the long positions in Long Pine Capital’s Lone Kauri Fund – a long/short global equity investment vehicle. A description of the Lone Kauri Fund is contained in the description of the Lone Pinon Fund under the Long/Short Hedged Equity subsection of the ACLS guidelines. Unlike the Lone Kauri Fund, there is no leverage employed in the Lone Cascade portfolio. Typically, there will be 25 - 50 long positions, with 20 – 50% of the holdings in international assets. The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed the S&P 500 Index, net of commissions and management fees, over the long term. In addition, performance is expected to exceed a sample of similar style funds. Key personnel: Steve Mandel
Kalmar Investments Inc. - “Growth with Value” Small Cap MF: Kalmar’s philosophy is stated as “superior performance through intensely researched, longer term, small company ownership”. They combine creative investing in small companies (which are generally growing faster than average) with a strong value-seeking discipline. The intent is to take advantage of their core belief that the small cap universe is less efficient than the large stock category; that it has less analyst coverage and poorer information; and that it contains many companies with “hidden business positives” that are not appreciated, resulting in under-ownership and under-valuation. They feel that their creative, experienced, intensive, fundamental research gives them the edge in finding such companies. When they do, they prefer to hold them while they grow. In summary, they look for a “real business” with 4 hidden positives that has a growth outlook in excess of 15%, which is undervalued with “discovery potential” and projects an expected return of 50% or more over two years. Generally, they hold about 80 stocks in the portfolio. They seek to diversify holdings by issue and exposure (throughout the small cap size and sector spectrum) as well as by growth character (i.e., reliable earnings powerhouses, emerging growth businesses and those undergoing significant positive transformation). The firm was founded in 1982 by Ford Draper. It is independent and owned by its personnel. Key Personnel: Ford Draper.
Silchester International Investors LLP Business Trust: The portfolio’s advisors are bottom-up, international equity value investors who seek quality companies that are cheap relative to their asset values. Their focus is on evaluating financials [the balance sheet, financing policies, liquidity, free cash flow (trailing and normalized)] and the business [competitive advantages (franchise, barriers to competition, etc.) and meeting managements to assess their views of their financial positions and to understand their future plans].
Stock holdings are primarily in developed markets, although up to 20% of portfolio value may be in emerging markets equity. They don’t manage sector weights against an index, but do use common sense controls to spread holdings across countries and to put limits on maximum exposure percentages. In general, country and sector weights are a by-product of their stock picking process, although, typically, they will be invested in all of the countries comprising MSCI EAFE. The portfolio is well diversified, numbering between 90 and 145 stocks. In building the portfolio, their focus is on maximizing its intrinsic value (i.e., earnings, assets and dividends because they have determined there is a high correlation between the growth of intrinsic value and stock market value.
Capital Guardian - Emerging Markets Total Opportunities Fund: The strategy invests in debt and equity securities in emerging markets using an opportunistic approach which considers the relative opportunity set between EM equities and debt. Th e strategy is bench mark agnostic and has an objective of producing lower volatility than t ypical EM exposure. The portfol io is managed by three Portfolio Managers, using Capital Guardian’s multiple portfolio management approach. The three managers are each allocated an equal portion of the fund which they manage as individual portfolios. Key personnel: Shaw Wagener, Laurentius Harrer, and Luis Freitas de Oliveira
Long/Short Hedged Equity:
Lone Pinon Fund– Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund: Lone Pine Capital LLC, the partnership’s investment advisor, uses a well-diversified long/short global equity strategy in its goal to generate above market returns, net of commissions and management fees, (vis-à-vis the S&P 500) with below market volatility. The primary investment vehicle used is the Lone Kauri Fund. The Lone Kauri Fund (established in 2002) invests with the same style and investments as the Lone Pine Fund (established in 1998), except that it is invested in the more liquid equities that have a minimum daily trading volume of $20 million. Accordingly, Lone Kauri has fewer, more concentrated positions than Lone Pine. Lone Kauri uses a bottom up strategy relying on the expertise of its analysts to detect opportunities, both long and short, primarily within seven sectors: telecom/media, healthcare, industrial, consumer/ retail, business services, technology and financial services. On the long side, they search for attractively priced stocks of: (i) growth companies whose capital investments will produce high rates of return for long periods; (ii) highly cash generative businesses with slow growth whose management’s focus on using the cash to benefit shareholders and (iii) poorly managed, fundamentally strong, businesses now run by strong management teams. On the short side, they look for (i) overvalued firms where there are misperceptions about the economies or sustainability of growth; (ii) firms with long term competitive and/or balance sheet problems and (iii) firms with questionable reporting of financial results. Investments are selected and managed to minimize risk exposure. Net long/short exposure is typically 20 – 60%. Portfolio leverage ranges from 1.5X to 2X. Typically, there will be 40 - 60 longs averaging 1-5% allocation (max 10%) and 50 - 75 shorts averaging 0.5-3% (max 5%). Usually, 20 – 40% of the Fund’s gross exposure will be to international assets, although no more than 15% may be in emerging markets issues. In addition to investing in 5 public equity securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers, the investment manager is permitted to utilize over-the-counter and exchange traded instruments (including derivative instruments such as options, swaps and futures on equities and equity indices, as well as other equity derivatives) and invest in the high yield and convertible fixed income markets. Cash may be held. (Please note the PPM permits the investment manager to exceed any of the typical ranges above when deemed appropriate by him.) In addition, performance is expected to exceed a sample of similar style funds. Key personnel: Steve Mandel
First Pacific Advisors: FPA Crescent Fund: The Fund’s investment objective is to provide a total return consistent with reasonable investment risk through a combination of income and capital appreciation. The firm employs a strategy of selectively investing across a company’s capital structure with the potential to increase in market value, in order to achieve rates of return with less risk than the broad market indices. The strategy combines bottom-up fundamental analysis with a top-down macro analysis overlay to constructed a concentrated portfolio of investments across the capital structure, including common and preferred stocks, convertible bonds, high-yield bonds, bank debt, and government bonds (on occasion). The fund also has the ability to short stocks. Key personnel: Steven Romick
Fixed Income:
Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) Total Return Institutional Fund: In managing this mutual fund, PIMCO t akes an opp ortunistic approach to fixed income investing, concentrating in areas of the bond m arket (based on qualit y, sector, coupon, or maturity ) that are undervalued. The Fund may invest in a br oad range of fixed-income securities, including bonds, notes, mortgage pass-through securities, convertible debt securities, debt securi ties that make regular interest payments at variable or floating rates, foreign debt and zero coupon bonds which do not pay interest until maturity. They will use derivatives. Portfolio duration tends to range from three to six years, based on PIMCO’s forecast for interest rates and is expected to st ay within one year of th e duration of the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond In dex. The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index, net of commissions and management fees, over the long term. In addition, performance is expected to exceed the Madison Portfolio Consultants’ Core Bond Manager Sample Median return. Key personnel: Bill Gross
The Loomis, Sayles Credit Asset Fund LLC, a New Hampshire Investment Trust str ucture, is a credit focused strategy which invests in investment grade corporate bonds, bank loans (aka leveraged loans), high y ield corporate bonds and securitized assets, all dollar deno minated. No leverage is employed. Derivatives (futures) are allowed for duration and interest rate management purposes only. The Fund will invest in, and be allocated among, four sector focused Loomis funds. The sub-funds, as well as the choice of individual assets within their respective sectors, are managed by experienced Loomis Sayles managers who either run similar products or run one of these sectors within a broader mandated portfolio. Three portfolio managers determine the percentages invested in each sub-fund. Expected macroeconomic outcomes in their “decision matrix” tool will be the key driver of their allocation decisions. They are allowed to invest di rectly in individual securities, as well, but m ost of the assets ar e expected to be placed in the sub-f unds. The Fu nd’s objective is to be in the cr edit sectors offering the best risk/reward outcome at a ny point in time. The portfolio has a blended benchmark, which is: 50% BC Corporate index, 25% BC High Yield index and 25% S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan index. These per centages represent the likely long term ex posures for t he Fund. Loomis Sayles fixed inc ome investing process e mphasizes security selection via proprietary , fundamental research. They are known for their cr edit research capabilities, which is the ke y to their investment management. Their research analysts are global in s cope and are co mpensated on a par with portfolio managers, enabling them to be career analysts. They employ a proprietary bond rating system that is future oriented and which is focused on determining ratings that will be appropriate for the next 12 to 18 m onths. By comparing their future ratings to current ratings they look for undervalued issues in which to invest.
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Alternative Investments:
Davidson Kempner Institutional Partners, L.P.: Davidson Kempner is the manager of this multi- strategy, event driven fund, which it started in 1996. They engage in distressed securities, merger arbitrage, event driven equities, convertible arbitrage and healthcare strategies; although when nothing appears attractive they put their assets in cash equivalents. They take a botto m-up approach, based on fundamental research, in which each position they invest in is judged on its own relative risk/reward characteristics versus short-term interest rates. It is conservative – they invest in announced deals only (risk arbitrage) and buy senior secured paper (dis tressed). No leverage is employed. The Fund’ s objective is to produce superior risk-adjusted returns with low volatility and low correlation to traditional markets. The principals are highly motivated to succeed, since 90% of their own net worth is invested in their funds. Key personnel: Thomas Kempner.
Farallon Capital Institutional Partners, L.P.: Farallon Capital Management, LLC, manages this Multi Strategy Hedge Fund, started in 1990. They use a multi strategy, event driven approach that invests in risk arbitrage, distress ed debt, real estate, distressed convertibles, special situations (equity) and investments involv ing complex legal and regulatory elements. They adjust allocations opportunistically among those strategies and are gl obal investors. Their objective is to p roduce an above market rate of retu rn without ri sk to pr incipal and with lower volatility than equities. The manager has a long track record and experience. Going forward, ACLS will participate in new private, illiquid investments as they are made. The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed, over the long term, th e risk-free rate plu s 5% annually, net of commissions and management fees. K ey personnel: Thomas Steyer.
RS Investments: RS Global Natural Resource Fund: The strategy invests in natural resource equities with advantaged assets that ca n generate value across commodity cycles. The approach is fundamentally based with a focus on sub-sectors with high marginal cost curves, which enables greater degrees of differentiation between companies. The portfolio is constructed to be diversified by commodity but will be concentrated in the num ber of holdings. The investment universe for the Fund consists of 750 companies, which are narrowed down to approximately 250 based on RS’s advantaged assets filter of lower cost producers. The 250 investable list is further filtered down to 100 companies through RS’s preference for management teams focused on ROIC rather than production growth. The portfolio is ultimately constructed of 30-40 positions which have more attractive valuation metrics. RS emphasizes those companies trading near or at a discount to NAV. Key personnel: Andy Pilara and Ken Settles
Park Street Capital Natural Resources Fund II, LP (NRF II): Park Street Capital is an independent, employee-owned firm that was formed in 2001 during the Royal Bank of Canada’s acquisition of Tucker Anthony. The firm constructs fund of funds investme nts in private equity and, more recen tly, natural resources for the in stitutional market. NRF II is designed to b e a high qu ality core holdin g of real (“hard”) assets within an institutional portfolio. The fund is p rimarily focused on timb er and en ergy assets within the U. S., with some allocation to “Other Natural Resources”, such as renewable, wind power, etc. They will invest in 12 to 18 limited partnerships run by professional, experienced managers over the first 2 to 3 years. The term of the partnership is 15 years, with a projected average fee of 50 Bps on committed capital, starting with 75 Bps in the first five years. Carry is 2.5% after money back plus return on CPI. The fund’s objective is to gen erate returns, over th e long-term, which are competitive with U.S. equities. They expect net total returns of 9 to 14%, of which 3 to 5% is expected to be from yield (income) and the b alance from capital appreciation. Fund return s are expected to b e positively correlated with inflation (inflation hedge) and to have low correlations with stock markets (increasing overall portfolio diversification and lowering risk). The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed, over the long term, th e risk-free rate plu s 5% plus a liquidity premium of 2% (i.e., RF+7%), annually, net of commissions and management fees. Key personnel: Robert G. Segal.
7 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE NHA Call for Videos Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities
The National Humanities Alliance is pleased to issue this call to produce short videos offering first-person testimonials that bring the voices of those engaged in the humanities to a broad audience through social media. Those who are engaged in humanities research, teaching, preservation, and programming can be extremely effective at conveying the richness, impact, and overall value of the humanities simply by describing their work or their experience in concrete terms. By producing and disseminating short videos of your students, teachers, researchers, archivists, alumni, docents, program producers, participants, and audience members, you can highlight the importance of your organization’s work and promote the humanities.
Topic Who you should intervie w
Videos should appeal to a general audience and convey the specific experience of ■ students (undergraduate, the speaker, rather than broad definitions or arguments for the humanities. They graduate, and secondary) should be between one and three minutes in length. Videos should not require ■ teachers significant planning, rather they should be conducted interview-style. We have provided a series of sample questions to guide you. ■ researchers ■ archivists Production ■ alumni You can do more or less production work depending on your organization’s ■ producers of public programs technical resources and ability. Those with greater ability and resources may wish to heavily edit the raw footage and integrate still images, music, and titles ■ public program participants into the video. Those with fewer resources can simply isolate the most compelling and audience members minute as the completed video and convey context through the video caption. ■ volunteers and docents
Setting Use a comfortable location with adequate natural light that is not coming from Do you already have videos? behind the speaker. If you have already produced Video formats videos, please let us know about We recommend that you record in High Definition 1080i or 1080p, edit to 1080 them by sending an e-mail to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) and publish to the web 1080i mp4 using the H.264 codec. [email protected].
Publishing You will have the potential to reach a large audience by publishing your videos Examples through the most popular social media channels, such as YouTube and Facebook, Visit the National Humanities as well as on your own Web site. The National Humanities Alliance YouTube Alliance YouTube channel for channel will serve as a clearinghouse for select videos. a playlist of examples.
Please contact Erin Mosley, NHA Assistant Director, at 202 296 4994 or [email protected] with any questions.
NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE www.nhalliance.org Sample Questions for Videos Demonstrating the Value of the Humanites
It is not necessary to ask the recommended questions in order, or to ask all of them. They are, instead, meant to guide the interview. After you ask a question, give the interviewee time to think and respond, and don’t be afraid of periods of silence. Longer answers may cover multiple questions. Toward the end of the interview, review the questions to make sure that the interviewee’s answers have covered them all.
StudentS What is your name, major, and school? Where are you from? How did you come to study (your major)? What do you enjoy most about (your major)? Is there a professor, class, book, or experience that has had a great impact on you? Have you had experiences outside of the classroom that have been particularly important to you? How have your experiences changed the way you think? What do you want to do after graduation? What role do you hope to be doing in ten years? What is your advice for incoming students?
ResearcherS What is your name, title, and area of expertise? How did you come to study your subject? What questions are you trying to answer? Why are these questions important? How do you conduct your research? What collections are particularly important to your work? Please describe them. What item or discovery do you find most interesting? What do you hope the impact of your work will be?
TeacherS What is your name, title, and area of expertise? How did you come to study your subject? How do you connect with your students? How do you bring your research interests into the classroom? What is a specific occasion when you have seen students changed by a discussion or project? What do you hope that they will get out of your classes? What inspired you to become a teacher?
Please contact Erin Mosley, NHA Assistant Director, at 202 296 4994 or [email protected] with any questions.
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ArchivistS What is your name, title, and area of expertise? How did you come to be an archivist? Why are archives important? Describe particular collections or items that have special meaning to you. What challenges do you face in preserving items? What challenges do you face in making items and collections accessible? Who is most interested in your collections? Why should others care about them?
Alumni What is your name and what do you do? What is your experience with the humanities? How did you come to study (your major)? What did you enjoy most about your classes? What professor, class, book, or experience has had a great impact on you? What impact has your humanities education had on your career? What impact has your humanities education had on your life? What advice would you give students who are deciding what to study?
Program producers What is your name and title? What organization do you work for? What are some examples of programs that you have produced? What is the audience for these programs? Can you describe a program that had a particularly great impact? How did it impact the audience? How did it impact the participants? Why does it matter?
Public program participants/audience members What is your name and where are you from? Please describe the program that you attended. Why did you attend? What impact did the program have on you? Why does this program matter?
Docents/volunteers What is your name? Why did you choose to work at your organization? What is your role? What do you find most satisfying about your role? What experience has been the most meaningful to you?
Please contact Erin Mosley, NHA Assistant Director, at 202 296 4994 or [email protected] with any questions.
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Consent Agenda
These items are for the Council’s information; Council members may, of course, ask for further clarification or discussion of any of these items if they so desire. Otherwise, approval will be assumed.
1. Approval of the Proceedings of the 96th Meeting of the Council at the ACLS Annual Meeting, May 10, 2013 (attached) 2. Dates and location of the 2015 Annual Meeting: May 7-9, Philadelphia 3. Announcement of Delegates whose terms expire on December 31, 2014: American Association for the History of Medicine, Caroline Hannaway American Musicological Society, Elaine Sisman, Columbia University American Political Science Association, Richard M. Valelly, Swarthmore College American Schools of Oriental Research, Eric M. Meyers, Duke University American Society for Aesthetics, Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, John B. Bender, Stanford University American Studies Association, David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania Association of American Geographers, J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of Notre Dame Association of American Law Schools, Linda S. Greene, University of Wisconsin, Madison Bibliographical Society of America, David L. Vander Meulen, University of Virginia Economic History Association, Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania History of Science Society, Michael M. Sokal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Modern Language Association of America, Priscilla B. Wald, Duke University National Council on Public History, David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Society for American Music, John Graziano, City University of New York, Graduate Center Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Patrice Petro, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Society for Military History, Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Society of Dance History Scholars, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University
Institution, Person, Employer (Person)
Proceedings of the Ninety-sixth Meeting of the Council ACLS Annual Meeting May 9-11, 2013 Baltimore, MD
The ninety-sixth meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, its ninety-fourth Annual Meeting and the ninety-second meeting of the Corporation, was held on May 9-11, 2013. Information on the 2013 meeting (including agenda and full participants list) is available at http://www.acls.org/annual_meeting/2013.
The chair, James J. O’Donnell, called the business session of the Council to order at 11:15 am, on May 10, 2013. Ms. Bradley and Ms. Mueller were appointed recorders.
The chair announced the presence of a quorum of the members of the Council. He welcomed the Conference of Administrative Officers, Affiliates, and guests who were present as observers. He then asked those present to rise and stand in memory of colleagues who had died since the 2012 annual meeting.
Charlotte V. Kuh presented the report of the Board Nominating Committee. Serving as members of the 2013 Nominating Committee were Charlotte V. Kuh, chair; Kwame Anthony Appiah and Donald Brenneis, members of the board; John B. Bender, delegate, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; and Elizabeth Andersen, CAO member, American Society of International Law.
Nominations for the following offices were put forward: Vice Chair (for a three-year term ending in 2015): Nicola Courtright, Art History, Amherst College
The following nominations for members of the Board of Directors for four-year terms ending in 2016 were put forward: William C. Kirby, History, Harvard University Ann Fabian, History, Rutgers University
No nominations having been received in addition to these, which had been presented to the Council 45 days before the meeting as required by the By-laws, it was (2013, AM 1) Voted: To instruct the secretary to cast one ballot for the officers and members of the Board of Directors proposed by the Nominating Committee.
The Council then heard the financial and investment reports. The following financial and investment reports had been distributed to the members of the Council in advance of the meeting: Treasurer’s Report FY 13 Income and Expense Statement for the twelve months ended March 31, 2013, as compared to FYTD 12 Actual and FY 13 Budget and FY 13 Projection 2013-14 Proposed Budget Investment Performance Review, as of March 31, 2013
Ms. Vickers presented the Treasurer’s Report and the 2013-14 Proposed Budget. The complete report was distributed in advance of the meeting.
Action on the proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 is required at the meeting of the Council.
It was (2013, AM 2) Voted: To approve the 2013-14 Proposed Budget.
Ms. Vickers reported on the performance of the current array of investment managers.
Consent Agenda The consent agenda, which included the items below, was approved after a brief discussion.
1. Approval of the Proceedings of the Ninety-fifth Meeting of the Council at the ACLS Annual Meeting, May 11, 2012. 2. Dates and location of the 2014 Annual Meeting: May 8-10, Philadelphia, PA 3. Announcement of Delegates whose terms expire on December 31, 2013: African Studies Association, Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia American Academy of Religion, Mary McGee, Alfred University American Antiquarian Society, Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno American Comparative Literature Association, Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles American Folklore Society, Lee Haring, City University of New York, Brooklyn College American Philosophical Association, Jerome B. Schneewind, Johns Hopkins University American Society of Church History, Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga American Society of International Law, Peter D. Trooboff, Covington & Burling LLP American Sociological Association, Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland, College Park Archaeological Institute of America, Lisa Mignone, Brown University Association for Jewish Studies, Anita Norich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English, Keith Gilyard, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Latin American Studies Association, Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law and Society Association, Carol J. Greenhouse, Princeton University Linguistic Society of America, Thomas Wasow, Stanford University Medieval Academy of America, Nancy Partner, McGill University, Canada Metaphysical Society of America, William S. Hamrick, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Society of Architectural Historians, Kenneth Breisch, University of Southern California
Council Meeting Attendance Present during all or part of the session on May 10 as voting members of the Corporation were the following:
Officers James J. O’Donnell, chair Anand A. Yang, vice chair Jonathan D. Culler, secretary Nancy J. Vickers, treasurer
Members of the Board of Directors Kwame Anthony Appiah Donald Brenneis Terry Castle Richard Leppert Charlotte V. Kuh Teofilo F. Ruiz
Ex Officiis: Jack R. Fitzmier, chair, Executive Committee of the Conference of Administrative Officers, American Academy of Religion Elaine Sisman, chair, Executive Committee of the Delegates, American Musicological Association, Columbia University Pauline Yu, ACLS
Delegates of Constituent Societies African Studies Association, Joseph C. Miller American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Roger S. Bagnall American Academy of Religion, Mary McGee American Anthropological Association, Leith Mullings American Antiquarian Society, Scott E. Casper American Association for the History of Medicine, Caroline Hannaway American Dialect Society, William A. Kretzschmar American Folklore Society, Lee Haring American Historical Association, Vicki Ruiz American Oriental Society, Paul W. Kroll American Philological Association, Matthew B. Roller, acting American Philosophical Association, Jerome B. Schneewind American Philosophical Society, Julia Haig Gaisser American Political Science Association, Richard M. Valelly American Schools of Oriental Research, Eric M. Meyers American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, John B. Bender American Society for Environmental History, Mark Madison, acting American Society for Legal History, Constance Backhouse American Society of Church History, Charles H. Lippy American Society of Comparative Law, John C. Reitz American Society of International Law, Peter D. Trooboff American Sociological Association, Bonnie Thornton Dill American Studies Association, Zita Cristina Nunes, acting Archaeological Institute of America, Lisa Mignone Association for Jewish Studies, Marsha L. Rozenblit, acting Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, William G. Rosenberg Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Irena Blekys, acting Bibliographical Society of America, David L. Vander Meulen College Art Association, Anne Collins Goodyear College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English, Keith Gilyard Dictionary Society of North America, Edward Finegan Economic History Association, Daniel Raff German Studies Association, Patricia A. Herminghouse History of Science Society, Michael M. Sokal International Center of Medieval Art, Charles T. Little, acting Law and Society Association, Carol J. Greenhouse Linguistic Society of America, Thomas Wasow Medieval Academy of America, Nancy Partner Middle East Studies Association of North America, R. Stephen Humphreys Modern Language Association of America, Priscilla B. Wald National Communication Association, Mindy Fenske National Council on Public History, David Glassberg North American Conference on British Studies, Philippa J. Levine Organization of American Historians, Thomas Bender Renaissance Society of America, James S. Grubb Rhetoric Society of America, Susan Wells Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Allyson M. Poska, acting Society for American Music, John Graziano Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Patrice Petro Society for Ethnomusicology, Maria Mendonca, acting Society for French Historical Studies, Barry H. Bergen Society for Military History, Joseph T. Glatthaar Society for Music Theory, Edward Jurkowski Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Thomas A. DuBois Society of Biblical Literature, Kent Harold Richards World History Association, Maryanne Rhett
Also present at times during the meeting, but not voting:
From the Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) African Studies Association, Suzanne Moyer Baazet and Funmi Vogt American Anthropological Association, Edward B. Liebow American Antiquarian Society, Paul J. Erickson American Comparative Literature Association, Alexander Jamieson Beecroft American Dialect Society, Joan H. Hall American Economic Association, Peter Rousseau American Folklore Society, Timothy Lloyd American Historical Association, James Grossman American Musicological Society, Robert F. Judd American Philological Association, Adam D. Blistein American Philosophical Association, Amy Ferrer American Schools of Oriental Research, Andrew G. Vaughn American Society for Aesthetics, Dabney W. Townsend American Society for Environmental History, Lisa Mighetto American Society for Legal History, Craig Klafter American Society of Church History, Keith A. Francis American Society of Comparative Law, James A. R. Nafziger American Society of International Law, Elizabeth Andersen American Sociological Association, Sally T. Hillsman Archaeological Institute of America, Peter Herdrich Association for Jewish Studies, Rona Sheramy Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Lynda Park Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Olavi Arens Association of American Geographers, Douglas Richardson Bibliographical Society of America, Michele E. Randall College Art Association, Linda A. Downs College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English, Kent Williamson Dictionary Society of North America, Michael P. Adams German Studies Association, David E. Barclay History of Science Society, Robert (Jay) J. Malone Latin American Studies Association, Milagros Pereyra-Rojas Linguistic Society of America, Alyson Reed Middle East Studies Association of North America, Amy Newhall Modern Language Association of America, Rosemary G. Feal National Communication Association, Nancy Kidd Organization of American Historians, Katherine M. Finley Renaissance Society of America, Ann Moyer Rhetoric Society of America, Frederick J. Antczak Society for Cinema and Media Studies, James Castonguay Society for Ethnomusicology, Stephen Stuempfle Society for Military History, Robert H. Berlin Society for Music Theory, Victoria L. Long Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Richard L. Jensen Society of Biblical Literature, John F. Kutsko Society of Dance History Scholars, Susan L. Wiesner World History Association, Winston Welch
From Affiliated Institutions Association of Research Libraries, Elliott Shore Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Jean-Marc Mangin Community College Humanities Association, David A. Berry Federation of State Humanities Councils, Jeff Allen International Society for Third-Sector Research, Margery Berg Daniels
Presidents of ACLS Constituent Societies American Anthropological Association, Leith Mullings, City University of New York, The Graduate Center American Society for Theatre Research, Heather S. Nathans, University of Maryland, College Park College Art Association, Anne Collins Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Modern Language Association of America, Marianne Hirsch F’01, Columbia University Society for Military History, Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Society of Biblical Literature, Carol L. Meyers, Duke University
Other Participants Jeremy I. Adelman F’01, Director of the Council for International Teaching and Research, Director of the Fund for Canadian Studies, Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, and Professor of History, Princeton University Jane Aikin, Director of the Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities Patrick Alexander, Director of Penn State University Press, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Susan D. Amussen, Director of the Center for Research in the Humanities and Arts and Professor of History, University of California, Merced Deborah Bailin F’12, Analyst for the Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists (ACLS Public Fellow) Ruha Benjamin F’12, Assistant Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Boston University; and Visiting Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Peter Berkery, Executive Director, Association of American University Presses Carin Berkowitz, Associate Director of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation Brett Bobley, Chief Information Officer and Director of the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities Ronald Brashear, Director of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library of Chemical History, Chemical Heritage Foundation Carol Brobeck, Fellowships Administrator and Research Division Liaison, Folger Shakespeare Library Carolyn T. Brown, Director of Scholarly Programs and of the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress Peter Burian, Dean of Humanities in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, and of Theater Studies, Duke University Eva Caldera, Assistant Chairman for Partnership and Strategic Initiatives, National Endowment for the Humanities Barbara Ceptus F’11, Leadership Development Officer, Council on Foundations (ACLS Public Fellow) Jennifer Crewe, Associate and Editorial Director, Columbia University Press, Columbia University Bill Davis, Consultant, Bill Davis Consulting William Dean, Associate Vice President for Development in Markets in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, The George Washington University Mary Finn, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English, Northwestern University Saul Fisher, Executive Director for Grants and Academic Initiatives in the Office of the Provost and Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Mercy College Nick Galasso F’12, Research and Policy Advisor on Inequality and Economic Growth, Oxfam America (ACLS Public Fellow) Robert B. Gibbs, Inaugural Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto Roberta Graziano, Music in Gotham, City University of New York, The Graduate Center Daniel Greene, Vice President for Research and Academic Programs, The Newberry Roy J. Guenther, Executive Associate Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Music, The George Washington University John Hammer, Senior Program Advisor on Humanities and Cultures, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Charles Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources Garett R. Heysel, Assistant Dean of Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University Kristen Hodge F’11, Policy Analyst, Association of American Universities (ACLS Public Fellow) David W. Hunter, Associate Director of Foundation Relations in the Office of the Vice President for Research, The George Washington University Sarah H. Jacoby F’12, Assistant Professor of Religion, Northwestern University Adrian Johns F’12, Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History, University of Chicago Patricia J. Johnson, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University Stephen Kidd, Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance Rita S. Kranidis, Director of the MC Global Humanities Institute and Professor of English, Montgomery College Clifford M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Oral History Association; and Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University Gregg Lambert, Founding Director of the SU Humanities Center and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers James A. Leach, Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities Howard Lurie, Vice President for University Relations, edX Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information Kathryn Lynch, Dean of Faculty Affairs in the Office of the Provost and the Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English, Wellesley College Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center Deanna B. Marcum, Managing Director, Ithaka S+R David Marshall, Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara Heidi Massaro, Deputy Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers Susan K. McClary, Professor of Musicology, Case Western Reserve University Heidi McGregor, Vice President of Marketing and Communications, ITHAKA Susan Merriam, Associate Professor of Art History, Bard College Enrique Mu, Director of Programa de Capacitación Gerencial (PROCAGE) in the Institute for International Studies in Education, University of Pittsburgh; Co-Director of Master of Business Administration, Carlow University; and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Timothy Murray, Director of the Society for the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature and of English, and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Cornell Library, Cornell University James A. Parente, Jr., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Karen Park F’12, Global Projects Manager, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (ACLS Public Fellow) Donne Petito, Administrative Officer in the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study Deirdre Pettipiece, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English, City University of New York, Lehman College Jason Przybylski, Publisher Relations Associate, JSTOR Terry Ellen Rhodes, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities and Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Malcolm Richardson, Senior Partnership Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities David M. Robinson F’83, Director of the OSU Center for the Humanities, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, and Professor of English, Oregon State University M. Gary Sayed, Vice President of Scholar Exchanges, Institute of International Education; and Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars Alberta M. Sbragia, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, and Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Pamela Schirmeister, Associate Dean of Yale College, Associate Dean of The Graduate School, Dean for Special Projects, and Lecturer in English, Yale University Carol Geary Schneider, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities Geralyn Schulz, Associate Dean for Research in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University Verna Sodano-Richards, Educational Technology Coordinator, LEARN Regional Educational Service Center Jennifer L. Summit F’02, Professor of English, Stanford University James Swenson, Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of French, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Stefan Tanaka F’00, Director of the UCSD Center for the Humanities and Professor of Communication and of History, University of California, San Diego Robert B. Townsend, Director of the Washington Office, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Kellee S. Tsai, Vice Dean of Humanities, Social Sciences and Graduate Programs, Co-Director of the Yeung Center for China Collaborative Studies, and Professor of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University Judith E. Vichniac, Associate Dean of the Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Kai von Fintel, Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carole M. Watson, Acting Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities Carol Winkler, Associate Dean of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication, Georgia State University Adam Wolfson, Assistant Chairman for Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities Susan Zaeske, Associate Dean for Advancement, Arts and Humanities in the College of Letters and Science and Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jan M. Ziolkowski, Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Members of ACLS Staff Pauline Yu, President Steven C. Wheatley, Vice President Sandra Bradley, Director of Member Relations Kelly Buttermore, Grants Coordinator John Paul Christy, Program Officer, Offices of the Vice President and Fellowships and Grants Candace Frede, Director of Web and Information Systems Matthew Goldfeder, Program Officer, Fellowships and Grants Regan McCoy, Assistant to Web and Information Systems Cindy Mueller, Manager of Fellowships and Grants Sarah Peters, Administrative Assistant to the President Nicole A. Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs Patricia Stranahan, Senior Consultant for Public Fellows Program Andrzej W. Tymowski F’91, F’89, Director of International Programs Lawrence R. Wirth, Director of Finance
Luncheon Speaker Ballroom A&B
Earl Lewis became president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in March 2013. A native of Tidewater, Virginia, he earned an undergraduate degree from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, in history and psychology, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.
Lewis held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley (1984-89), the University of Michigan (1989-04), and Emory University (2004-12). Prior to Mellon he served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory.
In recent years he has championed the importance of diversifying the academy, enhancing graduate education, re-visioning the liberal arts, exploring the role of digital tools for learning, and connecting universities to their communities.
The author and coeditor of seven books as well as the 11-volume The Young Oxford History of African Americans, Lewis has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews on different aspects of American and African American history. Among his books are the critically recognized In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in 20th Century Norfolk (U of California P, 1991); the award-winning To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (Oxford UP, 2000); and the widely acclaimed Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (WW Norton, 2001). His most recent books are The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, (Macmillan, 2004), and Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (U of Michigan P, 2004).
Lewis has been a member of several academic and community boards, founding co-editor of the award-winning book series American Crossroads (U of California P) and, since 2008, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2014 ACLS Annual Meeting Philadelphia May 9, 2:00-4:00 pm
The Public Face of the Humanities
Kwame Anthony Appiah (moderator) Professor of Philosophy and Law New York University Member, ACLS Board of Directors
Michael Bérubé Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Pennsylvania State University
Jill Lepore David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Chair of the History and Literature Program Harvard University
Alexander Nemerov Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities Stanford University
The Public Face of the Humanities
Kwame Anthony Appiah received his B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University. He is the editor, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., of the Dictionary of Global Culture, Encarta Africana (a CD-ROM encyclopedia), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, as well as of many collections of criticism of African and African-American writers. Appiah coauthored Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan (of which his mother is the major author), an annotated edition of 7,500 proverbs in Twi, the language of Asante. He has published three novels and two introductions to philosophy, Necessary Questions and Thinking It Through. In 2005, Princeton University Press published The Ethics of Identity and W.W. Norton published Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers in 2006. In 2008, Harvard University Press published his Experiments in Ethics. In 2010, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen was published by W.W. Norton. Appiah is also the general editor of the Global Ethics Series, published by W. W. Norton. In the spring of 2014, Harvard University Press will publish Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity. Appiah has served on the boards of the MLA, the PEN American Center, the American Academy in Berlin, and the National Humanities Center and was once chair of the Joint Committee on African Studies of SSRC and ACLS, and president of the Society for African Philosophy in North America. He is currently a member of the board of ARTstor and served as chair of the board of the American Philosophical Association. His interests range over African and African- American intellectual history and literary studies, ethics and philosophy of mind and language, but his major current work has to do with the philosophical foundations of liberalism and moral epistemology. Appiah was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of seven books to date, including Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (Verso, 1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998); and What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006). Life As We Know It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1996 and was chosen as one of the best books of the year (on a list of seven) by Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio. He is also the editor of The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2004) and, with Cary Nelson, of Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 1995).
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Lepore’s work focuses on the histories of war and violence and of language and literacy. Much of her writing explores absences and asymmetries of evidence in the historical record. Her most recent book is Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Knopf, 2013), a biography of Benjamin Franklin’s sister, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and Time magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of the Year. Her next book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, will be published by Knopf in October 2014.
Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. In addition to honorary degrees, Lepore’s honors and awards include the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal for Distinction in Literature and the Kidger Award for service to the historical profession. She currently serves on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery and the Society of American Historians. Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Nemerov previously taught at both Stanford and Yale University in varying capacities since 1992. Deeply engaged in scholarship, he regularly contributes to the field of the history of art by authoring books, exhibition catalogues, articles, and essays, as well as by participating in conferences and invited lectures. He has been awarded fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution and Stanford and has curated exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Wistar Institute. Nemerov holds a Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale and a B.A. from the University of Vermont.
His most recent book, Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940’s was published by Princeton University Press in 2013. He is the author of five previous books, including To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures, and Acting in the Night: "Macbeth" and the Places of the Civil War.
THE 2014 CHARLES HOMER HASKINS PRIZE LECTURE
Bruno Nettl Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruno Nettl was born in 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of nine, settling first in Princeton, New Jersey, and then in Bloomington, Indiana. He studied principally at Indiana University (Ph.D. 1953) and, after several years on the faculty of Wayne State University and the University of Kiel, Germany, has spent most of his career, since 1964, teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is now professor emeritus of music and anthropology.
Professor Nettl’s main research interests are ethnomusicological theory and method, music of Native American cultures, and music of the Middle East, especially Iran. He has done field work with the Blackfoot people of Montana, and in Iran, Israel, and India, and he has an inter- est in the music history and folk music of his native Czech Republic. Professor Nettl has been focusing in recent years on the study of improvisatory music, the understanding of musical change throughout the world, and especially the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. He has published many articles and more than a dozen books, the best known being The Study of Ethnomusicology (1983, rec. ed 2005), The Western Impact on World Music (1985), Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (1989), Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Schools of Music (1995), and Encounters in Ethnomusicology (2002), a profes- sional memoir. Certain of his books have been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Persian.
As a teacher, Professor Nettl gave courses on a large number of musicological and ethnomusi- cological subjects, including ‘‘Introduction to World Music,’’ ‘‘Music of the Middle East,’’ ‘‘Native American Music,’’ ‘‘Music of the Czech Lands,’’ ‘‘Anthropology of Music,’’ and semi- nars on improvisation, music and culture change, the history of musicology, and the interaction of Western and non-Western musics. He is the advisor of over 30 dissertations, and current faculty members at institutions such as Harvard, UCLA, University of Texas, University of Chicago, and Carleton, Colorado, and Smith Colleges.
Professor Nettl has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, Carleton College, and Kenyon College. He is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Nettl has taught as visiting professor at Harvard, Northwestern, the universities of Chicago, Minnesota, Washington, and Texas, among others, and served as Benedict Distinguished Professor of Music at Carleton College. Most recently, he has published an edited collection (with co-editor Gabriel Solis), Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society (2009), and is the author of Nettl’s Elephant: On the History of Ethno- musicology (2010). He continues teaching part time in the University of Illinois School of Music.
Professor Nettl has been married for over 60 years to Wanda, an artist, and has two daughters, the older, a dancer, choreographer, and educator of dance, and the younger one, a singer- songwriter. His hobbies are baking Viennese cakes and making marzipan with his wife, low- stakes poker games, and writing light verse for family and friends.
American Council of Learned Societies Structure and Governance
The ACLS Constitution defines the Council as a 15-member Board of Directors and one Delegate from each constituent society. The Council holds an annual meeting, elects officers and members of the Board of Directors, provides general and fiscal oversight, and, assisted by the Executive Committee of the Delegates, admits new members. Working with the president, the Board of Directors establishes overall direction and policy, allocates funds, oversees investments, and reports on all major decisions to the constituent societies.
Selected by their societies, ACLS Delegates serve four-year terms. An elected, seven-member executive committee discharges the major responsibilities of the Delegates. This committee also functions as the advisory committee on admissions of new societies and affiliates. The chair of the Executive Committee of the Delegates serves ex officio as a member of the Board of Directors.
The principal administrator from each of the constituent learned societies serves as a member of the Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO). The CAO similarly elects a seven-member executive committee, whose chair also serves ex officio as a member of the Board of Directors.
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies was founded in 1919 to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. Organized as a private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations, ACLS is the pre-eminent representative of humanities scholarship in America.
Awarding peer-reviewed fellowships to individuals, and, on occasion, grants to groups and institutions, is at the core of ACLS activity. The intensive peer-review process that results in the selection of ACLS fellows is not just an administrative mechanism: it is an opportunity for distinguished scholars to reach broad consensus on standards of quality in humanities research. Since 1957, nearly 11,000 scholars have received ACLS fellowships and grants. In 2013, ACLS awarded $15.3 million in fellowships to over 300 individual scholars.
The international work of ACLS reflects the conviction that knowledge and scholarship are not bounded by political and cultural borders. ACLS programs provide opportunities for American scholars to pursue research on and in world areas outside the United States and to develop productive contacts with overseas colleagues and institutions. Programs also provide support directly to scholars based overseas and promote the development of their networks.
ACLS has long played a role in scholarly communication, with increasing emphasis on exploring the possibilities of new technologies for the humanities, creating a common space for innovation, and coordinating resources and expertise. ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital, fully searchable collection of approximately 4,000 high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access.
ACLS convenes representatives of its constituent learned societies to discuss innovations and share best practices in research and education in the humanities. ACLS also serves as advocate on behalf of the scholarly humanities in public fora and policy arenas. The Council’s critical role in helping to establish and to reauthorize the National Endowment for the Humanities is perhaps the most notable example of its exercise of this function. ACLS continues to develop programs that demonstrate the valuable and productive connections between the scholarly humanities and the public sphere.
ACLS is supported by income from endowment, annual subscriptions from institutional associates, dues from constituent societies and affiliates, private and public grants, government contracts, and donations from individuals.
ACLS Board of Directors Kwame Anthony Appiah received his B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University. He is the editor, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., of the Dictionary of Global Culture, Encarta Africana (a CD-ROM encyclopedia), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, as well as of many collections of criticism of African and African-American writers. Appiah coauthored Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan (of which his mother is the major author), an annotated edition of 7,500 proverbs in Twi, the language of Asante. He has published three novels and two introductions to philosophy, Necessary Questions and Thinking It Through. In 2005, Princeton University Press published The Ethics of Identity and W.W. Norton published Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers in 2006. In 2008, Harvard University Press published his Experiments in Ethics. In 2010, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen was published by W.W. Norton. Appiah is also the general editor of the Global Ethics Series, published by W. W. Norton. In the spring of 2014, Harvard University Press will publish Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity. Appiah has served on the boards of the MLA, the PEN American Center, the American Academy in Berlin, and the National Humanities Center and was once chair of the Joint Committee on African Studies of SSRC and ACLS, and president of the Society for African Philosophy in North America. He is currently a member of the board of ARTstor and served as chair of the board of the American Philosophical Association. His interests range over African and African- American intellectual history and literary studies, ethics and philosophy of mind and language, but his major current work has to do with the philosophical foundations of liberalism and moral epistemology. Appiah was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. Donald Brenneis is a linguistic and social anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Stanford and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His work has focused on the social life of communicative practices—linguistic, musical, performative, and textual. He worked in a South Asian diasporic community in Fiji over a 20-year period, examining the relationships among language, music, conflict, law, and politics—and considering, among other things, children’s arguments, men’s gossip, and the complexities of managing conflict through indirect speech. More recently he has been doing ethnographic work—both as participant and as observer—on peer review, scholarly publishing, assessment practices, higher education policy, and the ongoing shaping of scholarly and scientific knowledge within and beyond anthropology. He has also served as editor of American Ethnologist (1989-94) and president of the American Anthropological Association (2001-03). He cochaired the editorial committee of the University of California Press (2007-09) and is currently coeditor of Annual Review of Anthropology. In 2007-08 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Selected publications include “A Partial View of Contemporary Anthropology: 2003 Presidential Address, American Anthropological Association,” American Anthropologist (2004); “Doing Anthropology in Sound: Steven Feld in conversation with Donald Brenneis” (with Steven Feld), American Ethnologist (2004); and Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai'i (edited with Sally Engle Merry; School of American Research Press, 2004). Terry Castle has taught English literature at Stanford since 1983. She specializes in the history of the novel, especially the works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Austen. But she has taught a wide variety of other subjects too: the literature of the First World War; British modernism; Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and other twentieth-century women writers; psychoanalytic theory; literature and opera; and gay and lesbian writing. She has written seven books: Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’ (1982); Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986); The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993); The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995); Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (1996); Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing (2002); Courage, Mon Amie (2002); and The Professor: A Sentimental Education (2010). She is the editor of a prize-winning anthology, The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (2003). Several of her essays have likewise won individual prizes, including the William Riley Parker Prize awarded annually by the Modern Language Association for the best critical essay of the year. In 1995 her book The Female Thermometer was a finalist for the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the Art of the Essay. Her latest book, The Professor, has likewise been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes regularly for the London Review of Books, New Republic, Atlantic, and other magazines and journals. Nicola Courtright has taught the art and architecture of early modern Europe in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College since 1989. She received her B.A. at Oberlin College, her M.A. at Yale University, and a Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1990. Courtright has received numerous grants to pursue her research, including a Fulbright, a Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, and American Council of Learned Societies and American Association of University Women postdoctoral fellowships. Her book, The Papacy and the Art of Reform in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Gregory XIII and the Tower of the Winds in the Vatican (New York: Cambridge UP, 2003), was awarded honorable mention for the Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d’Arte. Courtright’s publications span a range of areas within early modern European art history, including the art and architecture of the Vatican Palace, Bernini sculpture, Louis XIV’s bedroom in Versailles, and Rembrandt drawings. Her focus has most often been on the conflicted intersection of Italian and Northern European cultures, in particular the formation of aesthetic or artistic canons used to shape new political agendas. Most recently her research focuses on the construction of authority for early-modern French queens in the art and architecture of royal domiciles. Courtright has been a member of the College Art Association Board of Directors since 2000, vice president of publications from 2004-06, and president from 2006-08. Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. A 1966 graduate of Harvard, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he took a B. Phil. in comparative literature and a D. Phil. in modern languages. He was fellow in French at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, and university lecturer in French at Brasenose College, Oxford University, before moving to Cornell. Culler's first book was Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (1974), but otherwise his publications bear principally on contemporary critical theory, French and English: Structuralist Poetics(winner of the MLA's 1976 Lowell Prize); Ferdinand de Saussure (1976); The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction (1981); On Deconstruction (1982); Roland Barthes (1983); Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions (1988); Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997); and The Literary in Theory (2006). He served as director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell for nine years. Thereafter, he was chair of comparative literature, chair of English, then senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has been active in a number of professional organizations: president of the American Semiotic Society, chair of the Supervising Committee, trustee of the English Institute, twice a member of the MLA's Executive Council, member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and president of the American Comparative Literature Association. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Ann Fabian is a professor of history at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received her Ph.D. in American studies from Yale where she taught for a dozen years before joining the faculty at Rutgers. Her work has explored aspects of the cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States from economics to print culture to race and science. Her books include Card Sharps, Dream Books & Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (1991), The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America (2000), and The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead (2010). A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Summer Scholar Fellowship from the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, supported work on her last book. She has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of American History, Signs, Reviews in American History, Raritan Quarterly Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and “Common-place”www.common-place.org. At Rutgers, she chaired the American Studies department and, from 2006 -2010, served as Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences. She has been a member of the Council of the American Studies Association, the Advisory Council of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and served on the boards of Rutgers University Press, the Classic Stage Company of New York and the French American School of Larchmont, New York. She was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society in 1998 and has served on the AAS Council since 2001. In 2010, she was elected to the Society of American Historians. Jack Fitzmier serves as the executive director of the American Academy of Religion. His duties include coordination of the work of the AAR executive staff at the Luce Center in Atlanta, strategic planning, fundraising, programming, and public affairs. Prior to his work at the AAR, he served as professor of American religious history, vice president for academic affairs, and dean at the Claremont School of Theology (1999- 2005) and associate dean at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School (1989-98). He attended the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1973), Gordon Conwell Seminary (M.Div., summa cum laude, 1981) and Princeton University (M.A., 1983; Ph.D., 1986). His scholarly interests are in the history of American religious thought from the Puritans through the mid-nineteenth century. He is the author of The Presbyterians (Greenwood, 1993, 1994, and 2004), with Professor Randall Balmer, and New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817 (Indiana UP, 1999). When he is not attending to his AAR duties, Jack is working on a research project about Samuel Miller (1769-1850) of Princeton, one of the nation’s earliest and most prolific teachers of religion. Fitzmier is presently chair of the Executive Committee of the ACLS Conference of Administrative Officers and serves as a member, ex officio, of the ACLS Board of Directors. Charlotte V. Kuh, recently retired as deputy executive director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division in the National Research Council (NRC) where she oversaw the Board on Higher Education and Workforce, which is responsible for studies conducted by the NRC concerned with flows of science and engineering talent, graduate education, and postdoctoral outcomes. She was also the study director for the NRC's Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs. She also oversaw two large operational programs that select over three hundred postdoctoral fellows annually for positions in national laboratories and that select recipients of pre- and postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Previously, she was director of the Graduate Record Examinations at the Educational Testing Service, where she initiated the first computerization of a national admissions test and a program of research designed to introduce measurement of a broader range of student talents for use in graduate admissions. She has also been a manager at AT&T and has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at Stanford. She served on a number of NRC study committees and on advisory committees for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Science Foundation, and the Law School at New York University. She received her undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Harvard and her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and chairman of the Harvard China Fund. A historian of modern China, Kirby's work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950s; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China's relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States. Before coming to Harvard in 1992, he was professor of history, director of Asian studies, and dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis. At Harvard, he has served as chair of the history department, director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. As dean, he led Harvard's largest school, with 10,000 students, 1,000 faculty members, 2,500 staff, and an annual budget of $1 billion. Kirby holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and (Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa) from the Free University of Berlin and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been named Honorary Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Chongqing University, East China Normal University, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and National Chengchi University. He has held appointments also as visiting professor at University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His Ph.D. is in musicology, with art history as his cognate field. He holds undergraduate degrees in music, English literature, and German literature. Leppert's work is concentrated on the relations of music and imagery to social and cultural construction, principally revolving around issues of gender, class, and race. Most of his work concerns European high culture from early modernity to the present, though he has also published on American music and art and popular culture. He has specific interests in critical theories of the arts and culture from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism, Adorno in particular. The more recent of Leppert’s books are The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body; Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England; Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception (coedited with Susan McClary); an edition of Essays on Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (coedited with Lawrence Kramer and Daniel Goldmark); Art and the Committed Eye: The Cultural Functions of Imagery; The Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity; and a volume of collected essays, Sound Judgment, for the Ashgate Press series, Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology. Leppert has held senior fellowships from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was a Phi Beta Kappa National Scholar in 2004-05. James J. O'Donnell became chair of the ACLS Board of Directors on January 1, 2013, having served on the board since 2005 and as its secretary from 2008-12. O'Donnell is University Professor at Georgetown University. He received an A.B. from Princeton University (Latin Salutatorian) in 1972, studied at University College (Dublin) 1972-73, and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education. In 1990, he cofounded Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second online scholarly journal in the humanities ever created. He has served as a director and as president of the American Philological Association; he has also served as a councillor of the Medieval Academy of America and has been elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy. From 1981-2002, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. From 2002-2012, he was provost of Georgetown University. His most recent books are Augustine: A New Biography (2005) and The Ruin of the Roman Empire (2008). He was named a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar for 2011- 12. Teofilo F. Ruiz is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ruiz received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 and taught at Brooklyn College, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Michigan, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and Princeton University (as 250th Anniversary Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching) before joining the Department of History at UCLA in 1998. He has been a frequent lecturer in the United States, Spain, Italy, France, England, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. He served as chair of the history department from 2002 to 2005. He is presently chair of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A scholar of the social and cultural (popular culture) of late medieval and early modern Castile, Ruiz’s publications include Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994), which was awarded the Premio del Rey Prize by the American Historical Association as the best book in Spanish history before 1580; Spanish Society, 1400-1600 (Longman, 2001; Spanish translation 2002); Spain: Centuries of Crises, 1300-1469(Blackwell, 2007; Spanish translation 2008); The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization (Princeton UP, 2011); and Diario de la expedicion de Fray Junipero Serra desde la Misión de Loreto a San Diego, co-edited with Anglel Encinas (Madrid, 2011). Another book, Sites of Encounter and Cultural Production: The Western Mediterranean, c. 450 to the Present, is under contract with Blackwell. Ruiz has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was selected as one of four Outstanding Teachers of the Year in the United States by the Carnegie Foundation in 1994-94 and as one of UCLA’s Distinguished Teachers in 2008. Ruiz was named a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar for 2011-12, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. In April 2013, he was elected a fellow the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elaine Sisman is the Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music at Columbia University, where she has taught since 1982, and served six years as department chair (1999-2005). The author of Haydn and the Classical Variation, Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony, and editor of Haydn and His World, she specializes in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and has written on such topics as memory and invention in late Beethoven, ideas of pathétique and fantasia around 1800, Haydn's theater symphonies, the sublime in Mozart's music, and Brahms's slow movements. Her most recent publications, after the monograph-length article on “variations” in New Grove 2, concern biography (Haydn and his multiple audiences), chronology (Mozart’s “Haydn” quartets), history (marriage in Don Giovanni), Enlightenment aesthetics (Haydn’s Creation), and the opus concept (“Six of One”), and she is completing studies of Haydn’s Metastasio opera L’isola disabitata and of music and melancholy. Her most recent work concerns Haydn's "poetics of solar time." Sisman studied piano at the Juilliard pre-college division and with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell, received her doctorate in music history at Princeton, and has taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has received the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society for best article by a younger scholar. She previously served as president of the American Musicological Society. She serves on the board of directors of the Joseph Haydn-Institut in Cologne, the Akademie für Mozartforschung in Salzburg, and the Haydn Society of North America, and as associate editor of The Musical Quarterly. Columbia has honored her with its Great Teacher Award and award for Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum. She currently serves as delegate of the American Musicological Association to ACLS, and, for 2012-14, as chair of the Executive Committee of the Delegates and a member, ex officio, of the ACLS Board of Directors. Nancy J. Vickers is both president emeritus and professor emeritus of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. Before that she was the dean of curriculum and instruction in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Vickers is a scholar in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Her interests range from Dante to Renaissance poetry to the transformations of the lyric genre as a result of changing technologies. She has published numerous articles and was a coeditor of Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Differences in Early Modern Europe and A New History of French Literature, for which she and her colleagues received the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize in 1990. Vickers received her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1967 and her master’s degree and doctorate from Yale University in 1971 and 1976, respectively. She taught French and Italian at Dartmouth College from 1973 until 1987, when she joined the University of Southern California faculty. Dartmouth awarded her its Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement in 1991. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Los Angeles, and a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Vickers has received awards for her excellence as a teacher from both Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California. She is currently president of the Dante Society of America. Pauline Yu became president of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, having served as dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994-2003. Prior to that appointment, she was founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of California, Irvine (1989-1994) and on the faculty of Columbia University (1985-89) and the University of Minnesota (1976-85). She received her B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. She is the author or editor of five books and dozens of articles on classical Chinese poetry, literary theory, comparative poetics, and issues in the humanities and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was awarded the William Riley Parker Prize for best PMLA article of 2007. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and Committee of 100, she is on the Academy's national Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences and a member of its board. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, and the Teagle Foundation. In addition, she is a trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, the Asian Cultural Council, and the National Humanities Center. She is a member of the Scholars’ Council of the Library of Congress, the Governing Board of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, and the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong- America Center. Yu holds three honorary degrees and is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University.
American Council of Learned Societies
Staff Report on Program Activities
FELLOWSHIPS
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
HUMANITIES E-BOOK
PUBLICATIONS AND ACLS WEBSITE
CONFERENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
April 2014
FELLOWSHIPS
I. Central ACLS Fellowship Program Program: General competition for 6-12 months support, open to scholars across all ranks as well as independent researchers in the humanities and related social sciences. Awards: The 2013-14 competition resulted in 65 awards for the academic year 2014-15 (committing up to $3,075,000 in stipends): 25 fellowships for assistant professors at up to $35,000, 20 fellowships for associate professors at up to $45,000, and 20 for full professors at up to $65,000. In addition to the ACLS Fellowships, this competition awards the ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships, the ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowships, the ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowship, and the ACLS/Frederic Wakeman Fellowship. Funding: The ACLS Fellowship Program and its endowment are supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Council’s institutional Associates, and former fellows and individual friends of ACLS. The ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and the ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowships receive some funding from outside sources.
A. ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships Program: This fellowship offers up to $65,000 for 6-12 months to support postdoctoral scholars doing humanistic research on the societies and cultures of non-Western countries. Awards: We made three awards to scholars for use in 2014-15. Funding: NEH supports this program through an award of $81,600 for the 2014-15 competition.
B. ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowships Program: This fellowship offers $70,000 for nine months of residency to support extensive research at the New York Public Library, given in conjunction with the NYPL Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Awards: Seven fellows have been named since the program began in 1999-2000. Funding: Funding for the residential fellowships is shared by the NYPL Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and ACLS.
C. ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowship in American History Program: This fellowship recognizes the work of a scholar pursuing archival research in American history. Up to one fellow may be named each year. Award: One fellow was named an ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellow in the 2013-14 competition. Funding: This fellowship is supported in part by the ACLS endowment and in part by the Oscar Handlin Fund for Research in American History held at the ACLS.
D. ACLS/Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellowship Fund Program: This fund helps support a fellowship awarded to a scholar pursuing research in Chinese history. Up to one fellow may be named each year. Award: Five fellows have been named in the past eight competition years. Funding: This fellowship is supported in part by the ACLS endowment and in part by the Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fund for Research in Chinese History held at the ACLS.
E. ACLS/Munro Fund for Chinese Thought Program: This fund helps support a fellowship awarded to a scholar pursuing research on Chinese philosophical and ethical traditions. Up to one fellow may be named each year. Award: The first fellow was named in the 2013-14 competition year. Funding: This fellowship is supported in part by a donation from Donald J. Munro, professor emeritus of philosophy and Chinese, University of Michigan.
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II. Other Fellowships
A. Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships Program: These fellowships support advanced assistant professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Stipends this year were set at $64,000, plus $2,500 for research and travel, and an additional two-ninths of the stipend ($14,222) for one summer’s support, if appropriate. Awards: Fourteen fellowships were awarded in the 2013-14 competition. Two additional fellowships beyond the customary 12 were possible this year due to available funding. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. The current grant supported the program for one competition cycle (2013-14). A renewal proposal for one competition (2014-15) was submitted in March 2014.
B. Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars Program: These are residential fellowships for an academic year at one of 14 selected residential research centers and are meant to support multi-year projects of wide scope and high significance. Awards: In the 2013-14 competition, 10 fellowships of $75,000 each were awarded for study at residential centers. An additional fellowship beyond the customary nine was possible this year due to available funding. Fellows selected in 2013-14 are taking up their awards in 2014-15, 2015-16, or 2016- 17. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program and has renewed funding (June 2013) for two competition cycles (2013-14 and 2014-15).
C. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships Program: This program features portable fellowships of up to $60,000 for an academic year in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward humanistic research that uses such tools as digital archives, new media representations of extant data, and innovative databases—and to help establish standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such research. In addition to the salary stipend, project funds are awarded of up to $25,000 for purposes such as access to tools and personnel for digital production, collaborative work with other scholars and with humanities or computing research centers, and the dissemination and preservation of projects. Awards: In the 2013-14 competition, seven fellowships were awarded for projects beginning as early as July 2014 and as late as September 2015. Additional fellowships beyond the customary five or six were possible this year due to available funding. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. The current grant supported the program for three competition cycles, the last of which was the 2013-14 competition. A proposal to renew the program for one competition (2014-15) was submitted in February 2014.
D. ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships Program: The 2013-14 competition was the sixth year of this program, which offers teams of two or three scholars the opportunity to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The fellowship provides salary replacement for each collaborator as well as up to $20,000 in collaboration funds (which may be used for such purposes as travel, materials, or research assistance). The amount of the ACLS fellowship for any collaborative project will vary (depending on the number of collaborators, their academic rank, and the duration of the research leave) but will not exceed $140,000 for any one project. Awards: Eight collaborative research projects were selected for funding in 2013-14. Collaborative fellowships can begin between July 2014 and September 2015 and last up to 24 months. Funding: The current grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided support for one competition (2013-14). A renewal proposal was submitted in March 2014 for two additional competitions (2014-15 and 2015-16).
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E. Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art Program: These are fellowships of $25,000 plus up to an additional $2,000 as a travel allowance to support dissertation research in American art. Awards: Ten awards were made for the 2013-14 competition year. Funding: The Henry Luce Foundation supports this program. ACLS received a grant in fall 2010 that supports the program for another five competition cycles, the third of which was the 2013-14 competition.
F. Mellon /ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Program: The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide $30,000 for an academic year to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants in the 2013-14 competition must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2015. In addition to the stipend, up to $3,000 is awarded for research costs, and up to $5,000 for university fees and tuition. Awards: The 2013-14 competition resulted in 65 awards for the 2014-15 academic year. The stipend was raised to $30,000 for the 2013-14 competition, from its previous level of $25,000. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renewed the Dissertation Completion Fellowship program in March 2014 for two additional competitions (2014-15 and 2015-16).
G. ACLS Public Fellows Program Program: This innovative program aims to expand the reach of doctoral education in the U.S. by demonstrating that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy. This career-launching initiative targets recent humanities Ph.D.s who wish to start postgraduate careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Awards provide annual stipends of $65,000 plus health insurance coverage for the fellow. Fellows participate in the substantive work of hosting organizations and receive professional mentoring. Awards: The third year of this growing program placed 20 fellows in two-year staff positions at partnering agencies in government and the non-profit sector. The selection process for the 2013-14 competition is underway and will again allow 20 fellows to join a diverse set of partnering organizations for two-year terms. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renewed funding for this program in December 2013 for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 competitions
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
I. Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Program: This program supports the development of China studies in the United States through predissertation-summer grants for preliminary investigation of research sites in China prior to the start of dissertation research ($5,000 each for a minimum of three months), postdoctoral fellowships (up to $45,000 each for one academic year), and grants for collaborative reading workshops (up to $15,000 each). Awards: The 2013-14 selection committee nominated 18 applicants for predissertation-summer grants, nine for postdoctoral fellowships, and three for workshop grants (committing up to $540,000 in stipends). Awards are in the process of being formally accepted. Funding: The Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (NEH provides funding for postdoctoral fellowships). Prospects: The Luce Foundation has approved a one-year renewal grant in the amount of $660,000 to ACLS for 2014-2015. The NEH has awarded $257,625 over three years, beginning with the 2013-14 competition.
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II. ACLS African Humanities Program Program: Now in its sixth year, the African Humanities Program (AHP) provides dissertation-completion and postdoctoral fellowships to early career scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the first five years, 57 awards were made for dissertations ($11,000 each) and 133 for postdoctoral research and writing ($18,000 each). Fellows are eligible for additional awards: three- month residential stays at African centers for advanced study (109 awards in the first five years), participation in Manuscript Development Workshops (24 awards in 2012-13), and travel to the African Studies Association annual meeting (nine awards between 2010 and 2013). To encourage mentoring and to build AHP networks in Africa, in 2013 we instituted Advisers’ Travel Grants for Mentoring (for travel to meetings and conferences at which AHP Fellows or applicants will be present). The first competition for travel grants resulted in seven awards. The best manuscripts resulting from AHP fellowships will be published in the African Humanities Series, a partnership between AHP and UNISA Press in South Africa. The first three books of the series will be released in June 2014. Funding: $5,450,000 over five-and-a-half years, July 2012 to December 2017, from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Prospects: Carnegie support is assured through December 2017.
III. ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine Program: The Humanities Program in BRU, initiated by a grant to ACLS from the president of Carnegie Corporation, concluded in December 2013. The results of 12 annual grant competitions are impressive. Production of new knowledge We received over 4,500 applications and awarded almost 750 grants totaling over $2,750,000. More than 130 books were published, whose titles, tables of contents, and front covers may be seen at http://www.acls.org/programs/hp/books/. Peer review 62 unique prescreeners in the region 75 unique prescreeners in western countries 29 unique selection committee members (regional and Western) Network building (In today’s unstable times, an international humanities network in the post-Soviet region is a much-needed voice of reason.) Annual regional meetings (2000-2009) for presentation of fellows’ work and program-advisory sessions were held in: Lviv, Ukraine (2000); St. Petersburg, Russia (2001); Kiev, UK (2002); Minsk, Belarus (2003); Moscow, RU (2004); Kharkiv, UK (2005); Rostov-on-Don, RU (2006); Kharkiv (2007); Kazan, RU (2008); Lviv (2009). See meeting programs: http://www.acls.org/programs/hp/. New learned society – The International Association for the Humanities (IAH), founded in 2007 by advisers to the Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, is a unique cross-national network in the region. For details of sponsored meetings, travel grant competitions, and other IAH activities see: http://www.mag-iah.com/ New Internet publication Founded by the International Association for the Humanities, MOCT/The Bridge serves as a newsletter and as a forum for scholarly communication between the association’s public meetings. The Bridge publishes articles in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and English. http://thebridge-moct.org/ The topic for the next public forum is “The humanities in the post-Soviet region after the collapse of Communism: What happened, what failed to happen, and what we should do now.” Funding and prospects: The International Humanities Association has received small grants from the International Renaissance Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its future activities.
IV. ACLS Program in East Europe Studies Program: ACLS lost its funding for fellowships in 2013 with the suspension of the Title VIII program of the Department of State, which has supported East Europe programs since 1984. ACLS continues to sponsor the financially independent quarterly journal East European Politics & Societies and Cultures (EEPS), launched by the ACLS Joint Committee on East European Studies in 1987. The journal acts as a
4 central point of reference for the small field of East Europe studies, much as learned societies do for larger fields. As a way of sustaining the field intellectually, EEPS organizes disciplinary workshops on the problems and prospects of its subfields. A literature studies workshop was held at Princeton University in February 2013 and another, in political science, at Florida State University in January 2014. Funding: An energetic campaign launched by the leadership of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for reinstatement of the Title VIII program this year, gives us hope for revival of fellowships at ACLS. The continuation of EEPS is assured by a small but steady income, which supports administration of the journal and annual workshops. Prospects: The resilience and resourcefulness of the community of East Europeanists, self-organizing through ASEEES and EEPS, are encouraging. They exemplify the benefits of learned societies.
V. Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Program: This program awards funds in support of planning meetings, workshops, and conferences leading to publications. In the 2013-14 cycle of competitions, proposals in the humanities and related social sciences that adopt an explicitly cross-cultural or comparative perspective were solicited. The program invites submission of projects that, for example, compare aspects of Chinese history and culture with those of other nations and civilizations, explore the interaction of these nations and civilizations, or engage in cross-cultural research on the relations among the diverse and shifting populations of China. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The program aims to promote interchange among scholars who may not otherwise have the opportunity to work together. Awards: The selection committee for this program nominated one application for a workshop grant and one application for a conference grant. The awards are in the process of being accepted. Funding: Approximately $150,000 per year. Prospects: Support from the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange is assured through 2015.
VI. The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Program: This exciting new program has been funded for one competition cycle. It solicits applications without regard to the citizenship of the applicants, the location of their proposed work, or the language of the scholarly products that result. This year it offered dissertation fellowships (10 awards at $30,000 each), residential postdoctoral fellowships (three two-year awards, $120,000 each); collaborative research grants (two two-year awards, up to $200,000 each); and visiting professorships (three awards at up to $200,000 each). Awards: The selection committee for the RHNHFF Program in Buddhist Studies reviewed a very strong pool of applications, especially in the dissertation category. The committee nominated 17 proposals for dissertation fellowships; three for two-year residential postdoctoral fellowships; three for collaborative research grants; and one proposal for visiting professorships. The awards are in the process of being accepted. The Foundation will issue official award letters. Funding: $1,908,600 for the 2013-14 competitions. Prospects: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation has approved a one-year renewal of funding and has invited an application for a three-year renewal, 2015-18.
VII. Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN) Summary: An ACLS subsidiary that carries out university exchanges, high-level contacts, and fellowship programs. Budget: In 2013-14, CEEVN will expend approximately $500,000. Prospects: The Center is now a well-established agency working effectively with both American and Vietnamese partners. ACLS holds almost $3 million in funds for CEEVN’s work.
ACLS HUMANITIES E-BOOK
Summary: ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a collaborative enterprise among university presses, learned societies, and libraries aimed at fostering a sustainable not-for-profit space for scholarly
5 publishing in the digital environment. HEB works with 111 publishers, including both university presses and several commercial publishers (see http://www.humanitiesebook.org/about-us/publishers.html), to make available to its subscribers books of time-tested intellectual importance and pedagogical value, as well as innovative works in new fields of scholarship. The HEB collection, originally launched online in 2002, contains monographs, collections of essays, archival materials, and some primary sources, including born-digital works that go beyond traditional print forms. Among other sources, title recommendations are provided by 30 of ACLS’s constituent societies (see http://www.humanitiesebook.org/about-us/societies.html). HEB’s technical partner and collection host is the University of Michigan Library’s Michigan Publishing division.
Funding: HEB was funded as the ACLS History E-Book Project in June 1999 with a $3 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a $30,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. It became self-sustaining in 2005, and continues to sustain all operations primarily through institutional subscriptions, as well as other regular revenues. Among these are individual subscriptions (offered to all members of ACLS’s constituent learned societies) and sales of print-on-demand (POD) and downloadable handheld titles.
HEB pays out royalties to participating copyright holders—over 100 publishers and 400 individual authors—on a semi-annual basis. Royalty payments are derived from subscriptions income and have increased more than ten-fold since FY 03.
Collection Status: As of March 2014, HEB includes approximately 4,000 titles. HEB typically adds over 300 titles a year from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
HEB titles now register over 8 million page hits a year. The collection has over 690 subscribing libraries, including more than 100 international subscribers (see http://www.humanitiesebook.org/subscriptions- pricing/subscribing-institutions.html), and has agreements with around 40 regional, national, and international consortia and distributors. Its readership has a combined FTE of over 6.3 million.
In November 2013, HEB added a new website feature and search option allowing users to identify existing works in the collection published by ACLS fellows, over 100 publications in all, showcasing these titles and and reinforcing HEB’s ties to other programs within ACLS.
Prospects: HEB plans to add approximately 320 titles to its collection in June 2014, including 160 titles from Oxford University Press and Harvard University Press, two of the original publishers to partner with HEB when the collection first launched.
PUBLICATIONS AND ACLS WEBSITE
I. American National Biography Summary: The ANB was published by Oxford University Press in 24 volumes in 1999. Its online counterpart, the American National Biography Online (http://www.anb.org), is a regularly updated resource currently offering over 18,700 biographies and more than 80,000 hyper-linked cross-references. A twenty-fifth volume was published in 2002, including entries originally published in the ANB Online. Susan Ware was appointed the general editor of the ANB in April 2012. She succeeds Mark Carnes, who held that post since the project began. Funding: ACLS editorial costs of the print edition were supported by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NEH, and the Rockefeller Foundation. ANB Online is funded from royalties from the print edition of the ANB. Prospects: Royalties from the ANB will continue to fund the operations of ANB Online.
II. Edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Summary: This project was begun in 1975 under the direction of ACLS President Emeritus Frederick Burkhardt. Cambridge University Press publishes the series. Twenty-one volumes of the edition
6 have been published, along with two editions of a calendar of the correspondence, a calendar of Darwin’s correspondence with German scientists, and a volume of selected letters. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II presented the project with the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Learning. In 2006, James Secord was appointed director. The project maintains a website (see http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk) with searchable texts of more than 7,000 of Darwin’s letters and information on another 8,000. Funding: The project has support in the United States from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Past support from NSF and NEH ended in 2013. In the United Kingdom, long-term funding has been secured that will ensure the completion of this massive project in 2022. Prospects: ACLS holds a reserve fund derived from grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of more than $1 million.
III. ACLS Publications and Website Summary: ACLS annual reports and Haskins Prize Lectures are published in print and available in pdf on the ACLS website. Haskins Prize Lectures since 2008 are also available in audio/video on the site, in a growing media collection that includes recent annual meeting sessions (http://acls.org/media). In addition to the usual updates and announcements (new awardees, ACLS activities, etc.), information on ACLS’s connection to the Monuments Men was recently added to the website (http://www.acls.org/about/monuments_men) and a new series entitled “Focus on Learned Societies” will launch this spring with a piece on the American Antiquarian Society. The series complements the “Focus on Research” series (http://www.acls.org/fellows/focus) on research. Activity: The ACLS Annual Report, 2012-2013 was published in April. We have engaged a videographer to produce brief broadcast-quality clips of members of the ACLS community speaking compellingly about their work and the value of the humanities during the annual meeting. If this experiment is successful, the clips will be featured on the website and be used in centennial-related projects.
CONFERENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
Program Focus: The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) serves as the primary vehicle for maintaining and enhancing relationships among the societies. It convenes twice each year to address the concerns of the community of humanistic scholars, especially issues related to maintaining and improving conditions for research, education, and communication among scholars.
The principal gathering of the CAO each year is a fall meeting hosted by the convention bureau of a particular city. The fall 2013 meeting was hosted by the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Discussions at that meeting focused on navigating leadership in mission-driven organizations, issues related to force majeure and the threat of strikes at conference hotels, impact factors as measures of research quality and productivity, innovation revenue streams and member benefits, and humanities advocacy over the past 50 years. Stephen Kidd, executive director of the National Humanities Alliance, provided an update on NHA advocacy efforts, which included short videos offering first-person testimonials from those engaged in the humanities to be disseminated through social media. The meeting included a reception at the Kentucky Derby Museum and a visit to Churchill Downs for an evening of horseracing. Information on the 2013 meeting (including agenda and participants list) and on previous CAO meetings is available on the ACLS website (see http://www.acls.org/societies/cao_mtgs).
Data Collection A Census Committee was formed to revive the effort to collect information on the finances, management, and organizational structure of ACLS member societies. The members of that committee are the chair, Alyson Reed, Linguistic Society of America; John Dichtl, National Council on Public History; Keith Francis, American Society of Church History; Sally Hillsman, American Sociological Association; Nancy Kidd, National Communication Association; and Kent Williamson, College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English. In December 2013, a 40-question census was opened to the members of
7 the CAO. As of March 2014, 56 societies have participated in the census. A presentation of the data will be made at the 2014 ACLS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
CAO Executive Committee The CAO Executive Committee is composed of seven members who plan ongoing CAO activities and meeting agendas. The current members of the committee are Jack R. Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, chair; Nancy Kidd, National Communication Association; Timothy Lloyd, American Folklore Society; Victoria Long, Society for Music Theory; Milagros Pererya-Rojas, Latin American Studies Association; Stephen Stuempfle, Society for Ethnomusicology; and Kent Williamson, College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Learned Society Leadership Seminars The ninth leadership seminar took place on September 9, 2013. The workshop was conducted by Bruce Lesley, a senior governance consultant with BoardSource with more than 30 years of experience in nonprofit board best practices, with a particular emphasis on the board's role in strategic planning and innovation. The 2014 seminar will be held on Monday, September 8.
Future CAO Meetings 2014 Fall Meeting: October 30-November 2 Host: Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau (complimentary airfare) 2015 Fall Meeting: October 29-November 1 Host: Tourism Montreal (complimentary airfare)
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Jefferson’s Legacy: Three Exhibitions
April 2014 – December 2016
See Jefferson's handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence. Learn about Philadelphia when Jefferson lived there. Learn more
Museum hours and directions View our calendar of events Join our email list Support the APS Silhouette of Thomas Jefferson, 1875-1925, artist unknown, APS Volunteer Mellon Post-Doc Fellowships Thomas Jefferson was president of the American Philosophical Society from 1797 to 1814—before, during, and after he was President of the United States—and the Society was one of Jefferson’s Search the collection primary ties to Philadelphia even after he left for Washington. As the site of Charles Willson Peale’s famed natural history museum, for which Jefferson served as chairman of the first Board of Visitors, the American Philosophical Society Museum provides an ideal venue for a series of exhibitions about Connect with us: Jefferson. This tripartite exhibition series—exploring Jefferson as a statesman, as a promoter of science and exploration, and as a student of Native America and indigenous languages—will not only add to our historical understanding of Jefferson’s accomplishments but will also demonstrate how his multifaceted legacy continues to be relevant today. Artists at the APS Museum
The APS Museum commissions contemporary artists in all disciplines to create innovative works in response to the museum’s historical Letter to Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Jefferson, 1776, APS exhibitions. Learn more
I. Jefferson, Philadelphia, and the Founding of a Nation (April 17, 2014 – December 28, 2014) For information on our current exhibition, click here.
Engraving of East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1761, George Heap and Nicholas Scull, APS
II. Jefferson, Science, and Exploration (April 10, 2015 – December 27, 2015)
Thomas Jefferson had a passion for knowledge that encompassed theoretical and applied sciences as well as statesmanship. His broad-ranging endeavors in fields ranging from paleontology to botany to climate change—all of which will be featured in the show—were often linked to Philadelphia’s intellectual resources. It was at Philosophical Hall that Jefferson gave a talk inaugurating American paleontology. When he obtained mastodon fossils while in the White House, he sent many of them for safekeeping to the APS.
As President, Jefferson advocated for westward exploration, commissioning Lewis and Clark’s successful 1804 expedition. The APS was a key ally of the Corps of Discovery and their investigation of the territory gained through the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Prior to the trip, Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis to study with five Philadelphians, all APS members. This government-sponsored journey aptly demonstrates the inextricable links between natural philosophy (science) and political ambition in Jefferson’s time.
Lewis and Clark journals, 1804-1806, APS
III. Jefferson, Native America, and the West (April 15, 2016 – December 18, 2016)
Jefferson had an abiding interest in Native American culture and language, while, at the same time, supporting national policies that ultimately threatened the survival of indigenous peoples. Jefferson believed that study of indigenous languages would reveal historical connections among Native American tribes, and he commissioned the collection of Native American vocabularies, many of which are housed in the APS library. In addition to these vocabularies, the exhibition will include Native American artifacts sent to Jefferson by Lewis and Clark.