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Societies is a private, nonprofit federation of national A C L S S taff scholarly organizations. The Council consists of a 15-member board of directors and one delegate from each constituent society. The principal administrative officer of each society participates in the Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO). OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PAULINE YU, President SandrA BrAdley, director of Member relations & Executive Assistant to the President SArAh PEtErS, Administrative Assistant to the President OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT StEVEN C. WhEAtLEY, Vice President KellY BUttErMorE, Grants Coordinator & Assistant to the Vice President SErVIo MORENo, office Assistant FELLOWSHIP & GRANT PROGRAMS Nicole StAhlmann, director of Fellowship Programs JoYCE LEE, Program officer CINdY MUELLEr, Manager, office of Fellowships & Grants KArEN WATT MATHEWS, Administrative Assistant RegaN McCoY, Program Assistant CONTENTS Lauren BIrnie, Program Assistant, Early Career Fellowship Program INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ANDRZEJ W. tYMoWSKI, director of International Programs 1 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT oLGA BUKhINA, Coordinator of International Programs EsztEr Csicsai, Program Assistant 7 INT RODUCTION JACQUELYN SoUTHErN, Coordinator, African humanities Program 8 AID ING RESEARCH ACLS HUMANITIES E-BOOK 9 ACL S MEMBER LEARNED SOCIETIES EILEEN GARDINEr, director RONALd G. MUSTO, director 10 INT ERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP NINA GIELEN, Editor for digital Content & Production 11 SCH OLARLY COMMUNICATION BROOKE BELOTT, Associate Editor ShIrA Bistricer, Assistant Editor 11 ANN UAL MEETING FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION 12 FUN DING LAWrENCE r. WIRTH, director of Finance 14 LIS T OF ACLS MEMBER LEARNED SOCIETIES SIMoN GUZMAN, Senior Accountant MAGEd SAdEK, Accountant 16 IND IVIDUAL GIVING TO ACLS WEB & INFORMATION SYSTEMS 21 ACL S FELLOWS AND GRANTEES CANdACE FrEdE, director of Web & Information Systems 43 ACL S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS StEPhANIE FELdMAN, Coordinator of Information Systems 60 ACL S BOARD OF DIRECTORS, INV ESTMENT COMMITTEE Information as of February 1, 2011. For current staff, see www.acls.org/staff. 61 ACL S S T A F F AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ISSN 0065-7972 LEARNED SOCIETIES ANNUAL REPORT, 2009–2010 (July 1,2009-June 30,2010) 6 33 T H I R D AV E N U E Copyright © 2011 American Council of Learned Societies NEW YORK, NY 10017-6795 DIRECTION: CANDACE FREDE T: 212 - 6 9 7-15 0 5 PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Page 1, Page 8 Top, Page 11 Top and Bottom, The cover features the 70 member societies of ACLS. F: 212- 9 4 9 - 8 0 5 8 Page 12 Top: Marc Barag, MB Commercial Photographers; Page 8 Bottom: Thomas C. Anderson; Page 9 Top: Olga Bukhina; www.acls.org Page 12 Bottom: Ian Robertson, Coast Mountain Photography. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The eighteenth-century dramatist Arthur Murray famously wrote that “the people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.” It sometimes seems that we in the humanities often share the British satisfaction in narratives of our own decline. There’s no doubt that the effects of the Great Recession have heightened the sense of threat from malign forces and despair about the future. In spring 2010, the Review of the Chronicle of Higher Education asked, “Is Graduate Education in the Humanities Broken?” and the annual meeting of the Education Writers Association featured a panel entitled “The Future of the Humanities in Higher Education: Beginning of the End?” But reports of our death are greatly exaggerated. At ACLS, we do not see signs of rigor mortis in the humanities; instead, we see intellec- tual vigor and scholarly accomplishment aplenty. There are certainly serious problems with which we must wrestle, but crisis-mongering is no substitute for effective action. It is better, perhaps, to follow the simple advice given by a poster the British government distributed at the outbreak of World War II. It had only five words underneath a heraldic crown: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” ACLS President Pauline Yu The fund balance of the ACLS endowment is still below its pre-meltdown peak, but thanks to the contributions of foundations, generous individuals, and colleges and universities, our support of scholarship and research in 2010 is at a new high: over $15 million in stipends and grants awarded worldwide. “The secret of success is constancy of purpose,” said Benjamin Disraeli. Our purpose— the first and final reason that ACLS and, indeed, our member societies exist—is to provide the scholarly community of the humanities and related social sciences with the means of setting their own intellectual direction. Our fellowship competitions, international programs, and