2013 ACLS Annual Meeting May 9-11, Baltimore, MD MEETING SCHEDULE

2013 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel May 9-11

Thursday, May 9 12:00 noon-1:30 pm ACLS Board of Directors, Executive Committee (members only) – Guilford 2:00-5:00 pm ACLS Board of Directors Meeting (members only) – Fells Point 5:45-6:30 pm Welcome Reception – Baltimore Foyer 6:30-8:30 pm Buffet Supper – Baltimore Ballroom 8:00-10:00 pm Informal Discussions on Topics of Current Interest Open Access: Managing Change – Homeland Changing Funding Patterns in International and Area Studies – Fells Point Friday, May 10 7:45-8:45 am Executive Committee of the Delegates Breakfast Meeting (members only) – Guilford 7:45-9:00 am Continental Breakfast – Baltimore Ballroom 9:00-10:15 am Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows – Maryland Ballroom Ruha Benjamin, 2012 ACLS Fellow Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Boston University Sarah H. Jacoby, 2012 ACLS Fellow Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Northwestern University Adrian Johns, 2012 ACLS Fellow Professor of History University of Chicago Teofilo F. Ruiz, Moderator Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles Member, ACLS Board of Directors 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 – Baltimore Foyer 12:30-2:00 pm Luncheon and Speaker – Baltimore Ballroom Jim Leach, Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities 2:15-4:00 pm MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies – Maryland Ballroom Jeremy Adelman Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Princeton University Howard Lurie Vice President for University Relations, edX Jennifer Summit Professor of English, Stanford University James J. O’Donnell, Moderator University Professor Georgetown University Chair, ACLS Board of Directors 4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break – Maryland Foyer 6:30-7:30 pm The Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture – Maryland Ballroom Robert Alter Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley 7:30-9:30 pm Reception and Buffet Supper – Baltimore Ballroom

Saturday, May 11 7:30-9:30 am Breakfast – Watertable Ballroom 8:30-11:30 am Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) Spring Meeting (members only) – Homeland 11:30-12:15 pm Optional CAO Session 2013 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel May 9-11

Thursday, May 9

Concurrent Sessions: (8:00-10:00 pm) Tab 1

Homeland Open Access: Managing Change Fells Point Changing Funding Patterns in International and Area Studies

Friday, May 10

Maryland Ballroom Tab 2 Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research Discussion with ACLS Fellows (9:00-10:15 am)

Report of the President (10:30-11:15am) Tab 3

Meeting of the Council (11:15-12:00 noon) Tab 4

Baltimore Ballroom Tab 5 Luncheon and Speaker (12:30-2:00 pm) Jim Leach, Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

Maryland Ballroom (2:15-4:00 pm) Tab 6 MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies

Additional Information Tab 7 Biography of Haskins Prize Lecturer Robert Alter Overview of ACLS Activities Biographies of ACLS Board of Directors ACLS Staff Report on Program Activities

Back Pocket Meeting Schedule Participants List Hotel Floor Plan 2013 ANNUAL MEETING Baltimore May 9, 8:00-10:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions:

Homeland Open Access: Managing Change

Fells Point Changing Funding Patterns in International and Area Studies 2013 ANNUAL MEETING Baltimore May 9, 8:00-10:00 pm Homeland

Open Access: Managing Change

Mary Ellen K. Davis, Moderator Executive Director Association of College & Research Libraries

Kara Malenfant Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives Association of College & Research Libraries

Brett Bobley Director and Chief Information Officer National Endowment for the Humanities

Changes in structures and policies of publishing and scholarly communications are a preoccupation for ACLS and its member societies. One of the most vociferous- ly advocated changes is the “open access” movement, which runs from demands for advocacy to business strategies. Past annual meetings have included sessions devoted to different points of view on these changes.

This session will start from the premise that open access has become one durable dimension of scholarly communications. It will present the argument made by this movement, polices adopted or created by government to promote open access, and strategies by which society publishers can respond. Open Access: Managing Change

Mary Ellen K. Davis is the executive director of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), the higher education association for librarians, with more than 12,000 members and 42 chapter affiliates. Serving as executive director since 2001, Mary Ellen has expanded the association’s programs, publications, and services. Under her leadership, ACRL has received leadership grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to demonstrate the value of academic libraries, moved its premier research journal to open access, and expanded professional development programs. She oversees a multimillion dollar publishing enterprise including two research journals, a monthly news maga- zine, CHOICE (a monthly review journal), and a host of electronic newsletters and blogs. She has held various positions at the American Library Association as well as Central Michigan University. She has an M.A. in education from Central Michigan University, an M.S. in Library and Information Science, and a B.S in education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of expertise include scholarly publishing, professional development, academic and research libraries, and association management.

Kara Malenfant is senior strategist for special initiatives at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), the higher education association for librarians, with more than 12,000 members and 42 chapter affiliates.At ACRL, Kara works with librarians in all types of academic libraries to accelerate the transition to a more open system of scholarship. She coordinates ACRL’s government relations initiative, developing strategies to influence legislation and policy affecting academic and research libraries. As the lead staff member on the Value of Academic Libraries initiative, she manages the IMLS grant-funded program “Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success.” Kara began her position at ACRL in fall of 2005, after working for six years at DePaul University Libraries in Chicago. Prior to her experience as a librarian, Kara worked for nonprofits focused on international humanitarian aid and advocacy. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the first group posted to the Republic of Armenia. Kara holds a Ph.D. in leadership and change from Antioch University, an M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and a B.A. in English from Allegheny College.

Brett Bobley is the chief information officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also serves as the director of the Office of Digital Humani- ties. Brett has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University. In 2006 Bobley received a Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council Leadership Award from the Office of Management and Budget. In 2007 he received a Presidential Rank Award from the President of the United States in recognition of his exceptional long-term accomplishments, such as cofounding the federal government’s Small Agency CIO Council and establishing the NEH Office of Digital Humanities.

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Open Access: Managing Change May 9, 8:00-10:00 pm

ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/ This toolkit was designed by ACRL member leaders to support advocacy efforts that transform the scholarly communication landscape. It is an educational resource primarily directed to librarians. The toolkit includes short overview essays on key aspects of the relationship between libraries and scholarly communication, highly selective lists of other sources of information on these topics, and copies of presentations, handouts, and similar material including (but not limited to) the teaching materials from the workshop Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement.

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association http://oaspa.org/ A trade association representing the interests of Open Access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission is carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation. Member benefits include membership in CrossRef and a discount on the Scholarly Exchange not-for-profit service that provides hosting for OA journals using Open Journal Systems.

SPARC Resources for Publishers http://www.sparc.arl.org/sparc/publisher/ SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) provides guides and planning resources on business models and other topics. SPARC provides business, financial, and strategic consulting services to universities and university presses, learned societies, and other academic and nonprofit organizations. Three partner programs assist publishers: Alternative program provides support to lower-cost, directly competitive journals as an alternative for academic disciplines formerly dependent on high-priced journals; Leading Edge program supports ventures that demonstrate open access or other innovative business models; Scientific Communities program supports development of non-profit portals by aggregating peer-reviewed research.

Budapest Open Access Initiative - Open Access Journal Business Guides http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/resources/open-access-journal-business-guides Three resources for publishers:  Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access v 3.0  Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal  Model Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers & Publishers

2013 ANNUAL MEETING Baltimore May 9, 8:00-10:00 pm Fells Point

Changing Funding Patterns in International and Area Studies

Amy Newhall, Moderator Executive Director Middle East Studies Association of North America

Rosemary G. Feal Executive Director Modern Language Association of America

Lynda Park Executive Director Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Since World War II, universities, foundations, scholars, and the federal government have worked together to build an infrastructure for developing deep expertise in cultures and societies around the world. The federal pillar of this structure is eroding. Budgetary cutbacks are one dimension of this erosion, but also apparent is a shift in emphasis from graduate and postdoctoral study toward undergraduate and secondary education.

The change is especially apparent in the operations of the Department of Educa- tion, which administers part of the Fulbright Program and Title VI, which supports National Resource Centers at universities around the country.

The panel will consider the implications of this development especially for area studies and language instruction and look ahead toward the renewal of the Higher Education Act that authorizes these activities. Changing Funding Patterns in International and Area Studies

Amy W. Newhall earned her B.A. in art history from the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, her M.A. in Arabic studies from the American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. in fine arts from Harvard University. She has served as executive director of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) since July 2002. MESA is a member of the Coalition for International Education, which works to educate legislators and the public about the importance of federal support for foreign language and area studies. She concurrently holds the position of associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona where she teaches courses in the art and architecture of the Islamic world and Middle Eastern humanities. Her research interests focus on the politics of patronage in the Mamluk empire but most recently she has published on academic independence and freedom issues. For over 20 years she has served on the Board of Directors of the Uni- versity of Arizona’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a federally designated National Resource Center continuously funded by HEA Title VI grants since 1976. She has been active in efforts in support of that legislation since 1995.

Since 2002, Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association’s publishing and research programs and editor of two MLA publications; and serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association. She is on leave from her position as professor of Spanish at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she was chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. From 1987 to 1998 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Rochester. A member and a past vice president of the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance, she also served on the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies. Coeditor of the SUNY Series in Latin American Iberian Thought and Culture, Feal is also an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and former senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review. Her book publications include Isabel Allende Today (coeditor; 2002); Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts (coauthor; 1995); and Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa (author; 1986). Feal was a 2011–12 American Council on Educa- tion Fellow at the Five Colleges, Incorporated. She earned a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a B.A from Allegheny College. Feal also completed the Bachillerato en Letras at the Insti- tuto Belga Guatemalteco (Guatemala) and studied abroad in France and Spain. Lynda Park has been the executive director of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) since 2010. Prior to ASEEES, she was the associate director of the University of Illinois European Union Center from 2008-2010 and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center from 1998-2008. During her tenure at Illinois, she wrote successful Title VI grants for the EU Center and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, both of which are VI-funded National Resource Centers. She has also written and implemented successful Fulbright-Hays GPA grants, U.S. Department of State Title VIII grants, and the European Commission grants. She serves as the ASEEES representative in the Coalition for International Education and the State Department’s Title VIII Advisory Committee. She has a B.A. in history and Russian from Rice University and is ABD in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the activities of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society in Siberia in the nineteenth century and the relationship between scientific knowledge production and empire-building. She conducted archival research in St. Petersburg and field and archival work in Irkutsk, Russia. COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Promoting U.S. Global Competence

September 14, 2012

The Honorable Arne Duncan The Honorable Jeffrey Zients Secretary Acting Director U.S. Department of Education Office of Management and Budget 400 Maryland Avenue, SW 725 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20202 Washington, DC 20503

Dear Secretary Duncan and Acting Director Zients,

As you consider the President's FY 2014 education budget priorities, the undersigned organizations of the Coalition for International Education call your attention to an urgent education issue that will affect the nation’s security and economic vitality for generations to come: Restoring the Department of Education’s International Education and Foreign Language Studies programs of the Higher Education Act, Title VI and Fulbright-Hays.

The Coalition consists of more than 30 national higher education organizations representing the nation’s 3,300 colleges and universities, and more than 18 million students.

As you know, these programs sustained a sudden and dramatic $50 million or 40% cut in the FY 2011 Continuing Resolution from their FY 2010 level of $126 million. This cut was followed by an additional $1.6 million reduction in FY 2012, pushing back total funding more than a decade to $74 million. In spite of fiscal constraints, the Administration’s FY 2013 budget proposal to restore $1.7 million to Title VI and level-fund Fulbright-Hays for a total of $75.5 million was a step in the right direction. We also support the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2013 bill, which adopted the Administration’s proposal in this respect.

We believe that FY 2014 budget presents an opportunity for the Administration to renew its commitment to these modestly funded programs, now representing a mere 0.1% of the Department’s discretionary budget. We strongly urge that the FY 2014 Administration’s request begin with a partial but robust restoration of funding to $109.96 million: $100.25 million for Title VI and $9.71 million for Fulbright-Hays.

The timing of our recommendation is critical. The FY 2014 budget will fund the next 4-year competitions for the Title VI world area, language and international business centers, which have been cut severely. The four center programs, together with other Title VI/Fulbright-Hays programs, serve as the foundation for our nation’s international and foreign language education system. Our suggested increase would allow full restoration of the Title VI center programs and the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program, as well as partial

Contact: Miriam A. Kazanjian • E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.usglobalcompetence.org

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restoration for several complementary programs. Without restoration, the number of centers in the U.S. will decline significantly, thereby reducing the reach of Title VI.

Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs are the federal government’s most comprehensive for improving our international and foreign language capabilities throughout the educational pipeline. Unlike other federal agency programs, Title VI and Fulbright-Hays support education and research on all world areas, multiple disciplines and over 200 languages, and at all levels of education, thereby ensuring the nation’s capacity to respond to new and unanticipated global challenges. Other federal programs, such as DOD’s National Security Education Program (NSEP) and the Department of Commerce’s National Export Initiative (NEI) each has a targeted focus that depends on the infrastructure and educational resources that Title VI and Fulbright- Hays programs develop and sustain. For example, 18 out of 22 NSEP grants are located at institutions of higher education also having Title VI centers in the same world areas. The Department of Commerce works with Title VI centers to help expand the global knowledge base of U.S. companies and managers for increasing exports.

Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs have a 50-year plus history of results. Just in the decade following 9/11, Congressional enhancements enabled Title VI grantees to increase foreign language and area training capacity by roughly 90% in targeted areas of national need. Priority language enrollments increased by over 54,000, and international business enrollments by over 200,000. Total placements in major employment sectors increased by over 60%. From ambassadors to university presidents, to Presidential advisors and Cabinet officials, Title VI beneficiaries also serve in a wide variety of positions in education, business, government, and NGOs such as the—

 Congressional Research Service (CRS) Specialist in International Security, providing analytical support to Members and staff to help frame national security debates, and the lead CRS expert on strategy and military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq;  National Security Council Director for Russia and Central Asia;  CIA operative who played a critical role in the battle at Qala-I Janghi Prison during the early stages of the Afghanistan war;  USAID/Bureau for Food Security Deputy Assistant Administrator, providing oversees technical and regional expertise for improving food security and reducing persistent rural poverty;  Microsoft Learning Product Manager who uses international business skills (market access, communication, analysis, strategy) and language/cultural competencies in both emerging and developed markets;  Medical doctor who established an NGO in Guatemala providing indigenous populations healthcare in their own Mayan language, and at home uses Spanish in treating non- English speaking immigrants in local Boston hospitals;  Assistant Professor of Political Science (African studies) at Morehouse College; and  Minneapolis middle school Arabic teacher.

Continuation of the cuts for three years is severely eroding a solid infrastructure built over many decades, as federal funding reductions will not be replaced with non-federal funds on a permanent basis. Prolonging the losses will damage our long-term national security and global economic capabilities by reducing—and in some cases eliminating—the production of our next generation of international experts and of a globally competent workforce, just when the nation faces severe shortfalls.

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Now is an opportune time to renew the Department’s commitment to these programs. We appreciate your leadership in restoring this modest Department of Education investment that is so vital to America’s wellbeing. Thank you for your consideration of our views.

Submitted by the following organizations:

African Studies Association Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange American Association of Community Colleges American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages American Council on Education American Political Science Association American University of Beirut Association of American Universities Association of International Education Administrators Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Association for Asian Studies Association for International Business Education and Research Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Consortium of Social Science Associations Council of American Overseas Research Centers Council of Directors of National Foreign Language Resource Centers Council of Directors of National Resource Centers Council of Graduate Schools The Forum on Education Abroad Joint National Committee for Languages Latin American Studies Association Middle East Studies Association Modern Language Association NAFSA: Association of International Educators National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities National Humanities Alliance North American Small Business International Trade Educators Association Social Science Research Council cc: Deputy Secretary Tony Miller Undersecretary Martha Kanter Acting Assistant Secretary David Bergeron Assistant Secretary Carmel Martin Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Sylvia Crowder Director of International Affairs Maureen McLaughlin OMB Deputy Associate Director Kathryn Stack Assistant to the President for Education Roberto Rodriguez, WH DPC Senior Advisor for Education Zakiya Smith, WH DPC

MLA Statement on Language Learning and United States National Policy

The Executive Council approved the following statement at its May 2012 meeting.

The MLA regards the learning of languages other than English as vital to an understanding of the world; such learning serves as a portal to the literatures, cultures, historical perspectives, and human experiences that constitute the human record. Pragmatically, we believe in the value of becoming part of a global conversation in which knowledge of English is often not enough, and the security and future of our country depend on accurately understanding other cultures through their linguistic and cultural practices.

We believe this view should be uncontroversial; anyone interested in the long-term vitality and security of the United States should recognize that it will be detrimental for Americans to remain overwhelmingly monolingual and ill informed about other parts of this increasingly interdependent world. We are therefore deeply alarmed by the drastic and disproportionate budget cuts in recent years to programs that fund advanced language study. We believe that advanced language study is important for the same reasons many policy makers, advisers, and elected officials do: Americans need to be literate about the languages and cultures of the United States’ major trading partners, and Americans need to be literate in the so-called strategic languages important to national security. But we note that national policy can be and has been considered in more expansive terms: the Fulbright International Education Exchange Program was created in 1946 explicitly to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,” and since then 310,000 Fulbright scholars have served as unofficial American ambassadors, practicing person-to-person diplomacy around the globe.

We also believe that language learning should be supported for additional reasons: because there is a wealth of heritage languages spoken in American families and communities, because one learns more about one’s native language in the course of learning a foreign language, and because recent research suggests that language learning enhances critical brain functions throughout an individual’s life. For all these reasons, the MLA views the study of languages and literatures as central to American education at every level.

http://www.mla.org/governance/executive_council/executive_council_ac/ec_us_language_policy CNRC Survey Results—Impact of Title VI NRC Budget Cuts in AY 2012-13 April 28, 2013 Anne H. Betteridge, University of Arizona

Introduction In November 2012 the Council of National Resource Center Directors conducted a survey of National Resource Centers (NRCs) in all world areas to gauge the effects of continued Title VI budget cuts on center activities. The survey was sent electronically to all 127 NRCs. Eight-seven centers (68.5%) responded. The current survey was implemented during the academic year when centers had a clear understanding of the effects of the cut and of university administration responses to it. Not all respondents answered all questions; numbers and percentages of responses received are included with data about responses to each question. Not all questions were relevant to all centers. Please note that FY 2012 budget cut effects are in addition to those reported in 2011. As in a similar survey in 2011, we also requested data about present and future prospects for supplementary institutional and other funding. Respondents were also asked to provide comments and specific detail on the effects of the budget cuts. New questions were added to gain additional information on NRC activities serving underrepresented groups, and NRC graduates in government service, higher education, and the private profit and nonprofit sectors.

Patterns Although the 2012-13 budget cut was at the same level as the previous year (46.53%), the effects of budget cuts were more severe in the 2012-13 academic year than in 2011-12 at many NRCs. In 2011-12 many center budgets were cushioned by grant rollover funds, some savings or endowment funds, and some university bridge funding. These sources of support are diminishing, and in some cases exhausted. Mellon Foundation three-year (2012-13 through 2013-14) grants offered relief at a number of universities with multiple NRCs; respondents noted that the Mellon funding does not support staff or outreach programs. State budget constraints and reduced university budgets exacerbated the situation for many NRCs.

Budget cuts caused cancellation of some classes and reductions in others. LCTL classes were cancelled at 28.2% (22) of 78 reporting institutions. Area and international studies classes were cancelled at one-third of responding centers. These totaled 110 classes, affecting 1676 students. In addition, funding was reduced for 245 courses at 71 institutions, limiting class size and course frequency, and affecting another 2303 students.

The cuts were particularly devastating to outreach programs; curriculum development; library acquisitions; professional development activities; evaluation; and collaborative activities at state, regional, national and international levels. Collectively, 62 responding centers noted that 15,971 K- 12 teachers and 303,820 K-12 students would be negatively impacted by the 2012-13 budget cuts. Many centers reported reduced outreach to government agencies and the military.

Seventy-six centers reported postponement or, more often, cancellation of hires of Less Commonly Taught Language (LCTL) and area and international studies faculty. At 84.3% of the 51 centers reporting reduced funding for LCTL hires, universities provided no supplementary funding to facilitate hires. Figures were almost identical for area studies hires.

Sixty-five centers reported decreased production of innovative teaching materials for 39 LCTLs. Universities provided no supplementary funding for LCTL teaching materials projects at 83.1% (54) of responding NRCs.

Continued staff reductions have reduced NRC ability to conduct outreach and to implement programs. Outreach coordinator funding was reduced at 40.3% (31) of 77 centers. Non-outreach staff funding decreased at 59% (46) of 78 reporting centers.

Evaluation budgets were reduced at 77.9% (60) of 77 responding centers.

Survey results demonstrated the extensive work NRCs do in sharing LCTL and area and international studies resources and knowledge with institutions that serve underrepresented groups. At the same time, budget cuts adversely affected NRC outreach for and collaborations with underrepresented populations at 59.7% (46) of 77 reporting centers.

Supplementary university funding will not last long term. Asked if their institution has filled the overall gap in funding resulting from the cumulative Title VI/FH cuts thus far, 2.5% (2) of 79 respondents replied yes; 69.6% (55) reported partial support, and 27.8% (22) replied no. An overwhelming 94.6% (53) of 56 centers with supplementary funding wrote that it is not sustainable. “Support has been promised only until we get through the NRC funding cycle.”

Non-university supplementary support is short term. Asked if they were able to obtain outside sources of funds to fill the gap, 3.8% (3) of 79 respondents replied yes, 45.6% (36) secured partial funding, 50.6% (40) replied no. Seventy percent of the centers that secured outside funding do not expect it to continue.

The effects of continued cuts will become more serious in 2013-14 due to additional cuts, reduced university support, and reduced state and outside supplementary funding. As one respondent put it, “Temporary reductions are becoming permanent. Phased out programs we had hoped to restore are not being restored.” Another commented, “Some areas where cuts were avoided in AY2012-13 through use of these [bridge] funds will be in serious danger of being eliminated entirely if the budget cuts are not reversed in AY2013-14.”

Respondents stressed the crucial importance of leveraging made possible by Title VI funding. One center reported that,“The overall effect of the cuts has been to distance parts of the University from the NRC mission. The non-traditional fields of international study, such as the STEM and professional fields, are in danger of being once again separated from international study. Title VI activities are what binds the international studies together at this university.”

Conclusion Continued budget cuts to NRCs are weakening and beginning to erode the national infrastructure for international language and area and international studies teaching, outreach, and research. Restricted NRC outreach is already limiting access to international studies education. One respondent cautioned against the assumption that “if universities are able to preserve their language and area expertise going forward, they will in the future make it available to the same beneficiaries targeted by the TVI program as they have in the past. There is a very good possibility that access will increasingly be limited to those who can pay for it.”

Supplementary funding, where it exists, is partial and short-term. The situation is particularly dire at many public universities, dealing greatly reduced state budgets. Private universities have also experienced budget reductions, which they pass on to centers. Universities see TVI programs as a partnership; reduced TVI funding lessens the likelihood of university investment in international studies. If cuts persist, respondents see a bleak future for foreign language and area and international studies at all educational levels in the United States.

2013 ANNUAL MEETING Baltimore May 10, 9:00-10:15 am Maryland Ballroom

Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows

Ruha Benjamin Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Boston University 2012 ACLS Fellow

Sarah H. Jacoby Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Northwestern University 2012 ACLS Fellow

Adrian Johns Professor of History University of Chicago 2012 ACLS Fellow

Teofilo F. Ruiz, Moderator Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles Member, ACLS Board of Directors Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows

Panel

Ruha Benjamin is assistant professor of Sociology and African American studies at Boston University and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford UP, 2013). She received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Boston University faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics. Benjamin is currently an ACLS Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Science, Technology, and Society Program, where she is working on a project that explores how life sciences shape and are shaped by society by investigating the interaction between folk ethnoracial taxonomies, government classifications, and population genomics in India, Mexico, and South Africa.

Sarah H. Jacoby is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University. She studies South Asian religions, with a specialization inTibetan Buddhism. She received her B.A. from Yale University, majoring in women’s studies, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies. She joined Northwestern in 2009 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Jacoby is a current ACLS fellow and is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Love and Liberation: The Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Vision- ary Sera Khandro.” Her book aims to better understand the roles of women and sexuality within particular early twentieth-century Eastern Tibetan religious communities by listening closely to the many conversations Sera Khandro recounts that convey not only her own sentiments, concerns, and values, but those of her interlocutors and their wider community. Her other publications include a book she co-edited with Antonio Terrone entitled Buddhism Beyond the Monastery: Tantric Practices and their Performers in Tibet and the Himalayas (Brill, 2009) and a book she coauthored with Donald Mitchell titled Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience (Oxford UP, expected publication 2013). She is the co-chair of the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion.

Adrian Johns is currently Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He was educated at Cambridge, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1992 in the history of early modern science. He taught at the University of Kent, the University of California, San Diego, and the California Institute of Technology before arriving at Chicago in 2001. He has researched and taught widely in the history of science, early modern Europe, and the history of the book. The first of his three books, The Nature of the Book (1998), argued that print was not necessarily a congenial medium for the scientific practitioners of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that in working to make it a useful instrument for knowledge they created some of the central elements of modern scientific culture. He has followed that with two more books,Piracy (2010), which examines the long history of conflicts over what we now call intellectual property, and Death of a Pirate (2011), which focuses on radio broadcasting in the 1960s. Johns is currently investigating the history and implications of the industry that seeks to defend intellectual property (and information in general) against pirates, hackers, and other miscreants of the information age. 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 before joining the Department of History at UCLA in 1998, where he served as department chair from 2002 to 2005. He is presently chair of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portu- guese. He has served on the ACLS Board of Directors since 2009.

A scholar of the social and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Castile, Ruiz’s many publications include Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medi- eval Castile (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994), which was awarded the Premio del Rey Prize by the American Historical Association; Spanish Society, 1400-1600 (Longman, 2001); Spain: Centuries of Crises, 1300-1469 (Blackwell, 2007); and The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization (Princeton UP, 2011). 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. 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 Com- mission on the Humanities & Social Sciences. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center, the Board of Directors of both the Teagle Foundation and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for Inter- national Scholarly Exchange, and the Scholars’ Council of the Library of Congress. In addition, she is a trustee of the Asian Cultural Council and the American Academy in Berlin and a member of the Governing Board of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong-America Center. From 2003-09, she served on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Yu holds three honorary degrees and is a senior research scholar at Columbia University. ACLS News

ACLS Board of Directors Appoints Pauline Yu to Third Term as President 3/27/2013

The Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies announced today its reappointment of Pauline Yu to a third five-year term as president, beginning July 2013. “Since joining ACLS as its president in 2003, Pauline Yu has been both an excellent steward of the organization and a visionary proponent for the humanities, expanding the work of the Council in exciting new directions,” said Professor James J. O’Donnell, chair of the ACLS Board of Directors. “Under her leadership, ACLS has responded quickly and effectively to the needs of our member societies in particular and academia in general. In the last decade, the Council has increased its annual funding for research in the humanities from $7 million to $15 million, with new programs to nurture the careers of young scholars, encourage digital and collaborative approaches to the humanities, expand scholarship on China, and assist humanities scholars in Africa. She has strengthened the capacity of ACLS to carry out its mission. The Board is delighted with her work and excited that she will continue to lead ACLS to seize its next opportunities. We look forward to working with her in the years to come, years that promise to be especially challenging for our community.” President Yu said, “I am deeply honored by the trust of the Board and of the ACLS community. ACLS has the noble mission of advancing the intellectual power of the humanities. While the humanities face many financial and organizational challenges, our fields have never been more intellectually vibrant. I look forward to building on that strength and making its benefit to society more visible.” The American Council of Learned Societies, established in 1919, is a federation of 71 scholarly organizations in the humanities and social sciences whose mission is to advance the societies’ work and to support research in those fields. Its fellowship programs will award over $15 million in stipends to nearly 400 individual scholars in the United States this year. Dr. Yu is the tenth executive leader of the Council. She became president of the ACLS 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 to 2003. Prior to that appointment, she was founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Lit- erature 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. ACLS News

ACLS Announces New Program in China Studies Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation 8/7/2012

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the launch of a new program in support of China studies, made possible by a grant of $1.2 million from the Henry Luce Foundation. The program aims to assure the continuing vitality of American scholarship on China when the need for understanding one of the world’s oldest continuing civilizations is ever more apparent. “The Henry Luce Foundation has been a steadfast advocate for and benefactor of the study of China for three-quarters of a century,” said ACLS President Pauline Yu. “We are grateful for its generosity and particularly honored that the Foundation’s directors chose to designate this new grant as one of the special initiatives marking its 75th anniversary.” The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies will aid scholars embarking on careers in research and teaching on Chinese history, literature, culture, and society. Annually, it will award stipends for pre-dissertation research in China, grants for collaborative reading workshops that unite a number of disciplines and scholarly generations, and postdoctoral research fellowships for scholars within eight years of the receipt of the Ph.D. These awards are designed to compensate for the decline in funding for early-career researchers at many American institutions of higher education. By supporting research in China, Luce/ACLS awards will also facilitate connections between American specialists and their Chi- nese counterparts, relationships that reflect the increased scholarly trade between the two countries. “China is intimately connected to the Foundation’s history and lies at the heart of our Asia Program,” said Michael Gilligan, president of the Luce Foundation. “We are delighted to continue a relationship with ACLS on the study of China that began with our first grant to the Council in 1971, at a time when the country was still closed to Americans. With the breathtaking pace of change in China now, it is more important than ever to nurture expertise and encourage contacts.” “ACLS shares with the Henry Luce Foundation the conviction that understanding China is both a national priority and a vital intellectual goal if we are to thrive in today’s world, and in tomorrow’s,” commented President Yu. “Over the past century American scholarship on China has become enormously strong and capacious, but to remain vital such knowledge must be constantly renewed and extended. This program will assist the scholars who will do that.” An understanding of the importance of China studies marked the ACLS’s earliest history. The first formal meeting of the ACLS, in 1920, concluded by resolving to promote China studies in the American academy. Since then, the Council’s work has supported individual and collaborative research, conferences, scholarly associations, publications, libraries, and exchange programs. ACLS and the Henry Luce Foundation have partnered in many of these areas; the recently concluded program in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History being the most recent joint effort. ACLS News

ACLS Announces 2012 African Humanities Program Fellows 8/23//2012

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce 51 fellowship awards to African scholars in the fourth year of the African Humanities Program (AHP), a multi-year initiative of annual, international competitions funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The program is open to humanities scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The AHP is inspired by a commitment to advancing the humanities as a core component of higher education in Africa, in the conviction that the humanities are essential to every society’s progress and development. To revitalize humanistic study AHP offers fellowships for the completion of Ph.D. dissertations and postdoctoral projects by early-career scholars. Stipends provide a year free from teaching for full-time dissertation writing or postdoctoral research and writing. Applications are evaluated by an international committee of senior scholars from African universities in a rigorous process of peer review. In addition to fellowships, the AHP has organized public meetings in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda for discussion of new intellectual directions and standards of quality in humanities scholarship, and for workshops in the preparation of applications. In future years AHP plans to publish the best work completed under terms of its fellowships in the AHP Humanities Publications Series. ACLS News

James J. O’Donnell Appointed Chair of ACLS Board of Directors 11/28/2012

The ACLS Board of Directors has appointed James J. O’Donnell, University Professor at Georgetown University, to serve as its chair. O’Donnell will fill the term of Earl Lewis, who leaves the post to lead The Andrew W. Mellon Founda- tion. O’Donnell’s term as chair begins January 1, 2013. “Jim O’Donnell takes up the chairmanship after years of dedicated service to ACLS and its mission of advancing the humanities,” said Pauline Yu, president of ACLS. “Jim is a scholar of tremendous accomplishment whose work has influenced fields from classics and religious studies to digital humanities and cyberculture. He has also distinguished himself as a dynamic academic administrator and as a leader of a learned society. In each of these roles he has empha- sized the vital importance of humanities research to the future of higher education. I join the officers and members of the ACLS Board in congratulating Jim. We have all benefited from his counsel, and I have every confidence in his vision for the future of ACLS.” O’Donnell served as provost of Georgetown from 2002 to 2012. He has been a member of the ACLS Board of Directors since 2005, holding the post of secretary of the board since 2008. A list of past chairs of the ACLS Board of Directors and Council is available at www.acls.org/about/leadership/. 2013 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Baltimore, May 9-11 Maryland Ballroom

May 10, 11:15-12:00 noon

Meeting of the Council Agenda

1. Call to Order – James J. O’Donnell, Chair, ACLS Board of Directors

2. In Memoriam: Carl Barnes, Joseph Blotner, Ronald Dworkin, Albert Feuerwerker, Joseph Frank, Eugene D. Genovese, Michael Henry Heim, Albert O. Hirschman, Nagayo Homma, Gerhard Koeppel, Gerda Lerner, Richard W. Lyman, Marcus McCorison, Elinor Ostrom, Charles Rosen, Dieter Sevin, John R. Silber, Gale Stokes, Francis X. Sutton, Gabriel Vahanian

3. Designation of Recorders

^4. Roll Call: Members of the Council must be in attendance and respond to the roll call to be eligible to vote.

^5. Report of the Board Nominating Committee – Charlotte V. Kuh, Chair

6. Report to the Delegates – Elaine Sisman, Chair, Executive Committee of the Delegates, ACLS Board of Directors

7. Report on the 2012-13 ACLS Fellowship Competition Year – Nicole A. Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs

8. Report of the Treasurer/Financial Reports (yellow pages) – Nancy J. Vickers, Treasurer, ACLS Board of Directors

^9. Vote on Approval of the Proposed Budget for the Fiscal Year 2013-14 (green pages)

10. Report from the Conference of Administrative Officers – Jack Fitzmier, Chair, Executive Committee of the CAO, ACLS Board of Directors

11. Report from the National Humanities Alliance – Stephen Kidd, Executive Director

12. Consent Agenda

^ action required Report of the Nominating Committee: Charlotte V. Kuh, 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 20, 2013 Nominations for members of the Board of Directors: April 25, 2013

Nominated for a term as Vice Chair of the Board 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 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.

Nominated for a term as Member of the Board 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 Cali- fornia, 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 ninetheenth-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 Unbur- ied 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 and 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.

Nominated for a term as Member of the Board William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard Univer- sity 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 Poly- technic 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. 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 2013 will serve until spring 2016. Each year a nominating committee is composed of the outgoing members of the Executive Committee and the ACLS president.

The members of the 2013 Delegates Nominating Committee are Nancy Partner, Medieval Academy of America, McGill University Peter D. Trooboff, American Society for International Law, Covington & Burling LLP Pauline Yu, ACLS The Nominating Committee proposes the following slate for two openings on the Executive Committee: 1. Leith Mullings, American Anthropological Association 2. Susan Wells, Rhetoric Society of America

The seven current members of the Executive Committee and their terms are Elaine Sisman, Chair, American Musicological Society, Columbia University (2014) Thomas DuBois, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Wisconsin- Madison (2015) J. Nicholas Entrikin, Association of American Geographers, University of Notre Dame (2014) Paul W. Kroll, American Oriental Society, University of Colorado at Boulder (2015) Philippa Levine, North American Conference on British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2015) Nancy Partner, Medieval Academy of America, McGill University (2013) Peter Trooboff, Covington & Burling LLP, American Society for International Law (2013)

Elaine Sisman will serve as chair for 2013-14. 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 2012-13 ACLS Fellowship Competition Year

Nicole A. Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs

The number of ACLS fellowship programs has grown vigorously over the past decade. ACLS now has 12 different programs awarding fellowships. These can be considered in a number of ways. Ten programs focus on U.S.-based scholars, two are open to scholars based abroad, one invites applications from both the U.S. and East Asia, and one is entirely focused on sub-Saharan Africa. One program called simply “ACLS Fellowships” is endowed; all others are funded by program grants. Three focus on the predoctoral stage, two on the immediate postdoctoral phase, and seven are open to scholars at different career stages. Most support work in any field of the humanities and interpretive social sciences, while four concern specific themes or world areas.

To supplement the ACLS Fellowship Program, our Central Program, with the widest catchment in terms of applicants and projects, we initially expanded our portfolio of pre-doctoral fellowships with the addition of the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, which offers close to 70 fellowships to late- stage graduate students. We then added two programs that provide support for particular research methodologies: the Digital Innovation Fellowships and the Collaborative Research Fellowships. The most recent additions to the ACLS fellowship portfolio are the New Faculty Fellows program and the Public Fellows program, which both, in very different ways, offer opportunities for the period right after the successful conferral of the Ph.D.

Overall, ACLS will be awarding in 2013 fellowships with a total value of $14.5 million to 270 domestic scholars in the still ongoing 2012-13 competition year. An additional $740,000 has been awarded to scholars based outside the United States, bringing the total of ACLS awards in 2012-13 to $15.3 million.

All ACLS fellowships are awarded on the basis of rigorous peer review. The annual cycle of fellowship competitions begins with the identification and recruitment of more than 500 reviewers, who read applications online at the first stage or serve on one of the many selection committees that meet in New York and determine awards. ACLS and the scholarly community owe thanks to these good citizens of the academy for the generous contribution of their time and the exercise of their judgment and expertise, particularly as our application numbers and number of programs grow.

None of these numbers, we think, convey the full scope of who benefits from these fellowships. The awardees do, to be sure: they report to us of how their fellowships have advanced, or even saved, their careers. We know it is hard work, but we believe that reviewers benefit as well as they have the opportunity to hone their knowledge of the new intellectual frontiers in their own fields and the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The fields themselves benefit from the identification of excellent work. Many more benefit in that new work circulates in print and online. If we multiply the number of fellowships we award by the number of students to whom our fellows teach their new knowledge, we see that our fellowships benefit millions.

ACLS Fellowship Programs Overview

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 2012-13 competition resulted in 65 awards for the academic year 2013-14 (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. For both programmatic and fiscal reasons, the administration of this program was combined with that of the central Fellowship Program several years ago, using a common selection process. Awards: We made five awards to scholars for use in 2013-14. Funding: NEH supported this program through a three-year award of $246,000 that ends in 2013: a one-year renewal was granted in April 2013.

B. ACLS/NYPL Residential Fellowships Program: This fellowship offers $65,000 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: Six 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 pre-tenured 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 2012-13 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 seven 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: No awards have been made as yet. Funding: This fellowship is supported in part by a donation from professor emeritus Donald J Munro. 2

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: Thirteen fellowships were awarded in the 2012-13 competition. An additional fellowship beyond the customary 12 was possible this year due to available funding. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. ACLS received a grant in June 2010 that supports the program for another three competition cycles, the third of which was the 2012-13 competition. A renewal proposal was submitted to the Foundation in April 2013.

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. In the 2012-13 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 2012-13 are taking up their awards in 2013-14, 2014-15, or 2015-16. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program and has renewed funding (June 2010) for another three competition cycles, the third of which was the 2012-13 competition. A renewal proposal was submitted to the Foundation in April 2013.

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 2012-13 competition, seven fellowships were awarded. 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. ACLS received a grant in June 2011 that supports the program for another three competition cycles, the second of which was the 2012- 13 competition.

ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships Program: The 2012-13 competition was the fifth 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: Seven collaborative research projects were selected for funding in 2012-13. Collaborative fellowships can be taken up between July 2013 and September 2014 and last up to 24 months. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded this program in 2008 for five competition cycles. The 2012-13 competition was the last one funded under the current grant.

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 2012-13 competition year. 3 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 second of which was the 2012-13 competition.

Mellon /ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Program: The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide $25,000 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 must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2014. 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 2012-13 competition resulted in 70 awards for the 2013-14 academic year. Five additional fellowships beyond the customary 65 were possible this year due to availability of extra funds. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renewed the Dissertation Completion Fellowship program in 2013 for one additional competition in 2013-14.

ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program: This program was developed and implemented in 2009 to allow recent Ph.D.s to take up two- year positions at participating institutions across the United States where their particular research and teaching expertise would augment departmental offerings. This ACLS initiative seeks to address the dire situation of newly minted Ph.D.s in the humanities and related social sciences. The fellowship provides a stipend of $50,000 plus $5,000 research/travel allowance annually, health insurance, and a $1,500 one- time moving allowance. Senior scholars at the receiving institutions mentor and help integrate fellows into their institutional communities. Awards: In the 2012-13 competition, 26 preliminary awardees were selected and, of those, three subsequently secured tenure-track positions and one accepted other postdoctoral fellowship. The 2013 cohort of New Faculty Fellows consists of 22 fellows who will be joining 14 different institutions in the fall for two years. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renewed funding for this program for the 2012-13 competition. This will be the final year of the program.

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, 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 first and second year of this growing program placed eight and 13 fellows respectively in two-year staff positions at partnering agencies in government and the non-profit sector. The selection process for the 2012-13 competition is now underway and will 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 for a third year in September 2012.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Program: This new program supports the development of China Studies in the United States through three types of awards: pre-dissertation grants for research in china ($5,000 each for a minimum of three months), postdoctoral fellowships (up to $45,000 each for one academic year), and collaborative reading- workshop grants (up to $15,000 each). 4 Awards: The 2012-13 competition awarded 15 pre-dissertation grants, seven postdoctoral fellowships, and four collaborative reading-workshop grants. Funding: $1.2 million over two years (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2014) from the Henry Luce Foundation. Prospects: We anticipate that ACLS will apply for a renewal for 2014-2016. The Henry Luce Foundation is well pleased with its partnership with ACLS; we expect our application to be favorably received.

ACLS African Humanities Program Program: Now in its fifth year of operation, the AHP provides dissertation-completion and postdoctoral fellowships to early career scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the first four years, 49 awards were made for dissertations and 111 for postdoctoral research and writing. Fellows are eligible to apply for additional awards: three-month residential stays at African centers for advanced study (85 awards in the first four years), travel to the African Studies Association annual meeting (six awards), and support for publishing AHP-supported manuscripts (four awards). 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.

ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine Program: The International Humanities Association (Slavic initials: MAG), formed by peer-reviewers of the ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, continues to establish itself as a learned society for the region through fundraising and a four-language online bulletin (www.thebridge-moct.org) ACLS staff advise and provide technical assistance to MAG. Funding: A no-cost extension until December 2013 of the $1 million Carnegie grant to ACLS, originally scheduled to end in 2012. Prospects: ACLS will continue to advise and support MAG until the conclusion of the no-cost extension.

ACLS East European Studies Program Program: In the absence of funding from the U.S. Department of State’s Title VIII office, ACLS is organizing a reduced competition for 2012-13 with royalties accumulated since 2000 by the ACLS- sponsored journal East European Politics & Societies. Funding and Awards: There is $126,000 available for seven dissertation fellowships in the 2012-13 competition. Prospects: ACLS applied for a renewal of federal funding for academic year 2013-14. The results of the competition will be available in May 2013.

Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Program: This program awards funds in support of planning meetings, workshops, and/or conferences leading to the publication of scholarly volumes. In the 2012-13 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. Budget: Approximately $150,000 per year. Support from the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange is assured through 2015.

5 2012-13 Fellowship Competition - Panelists

ACLS Fellowship Program – Central Program Alborn, Timothy, History, City University of New York, Lehman College Alcock, Susan, Classics, Brown University Baucom, Ian, English, Duke University Bronfman, Alejandra, History, University of British Columbia, Canada Donham, Donald L., Anthropology, University of California, Davis Eng, David L., English and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania Forster, Michael N., Philosophy, University of Chicago Gill, Lesley, Anthropology, Vanderbilt University Heise, Ursula K., English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles Higonnet, Anne, Art History, Barnard College Jaskot, Paul B., History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University Kaisse, Ellen M., Linguistics, University of Washington Kamensky, Jane, History, Brandeis University Kennedy, Dane, History, George Washington University Khalid, Adeeb, Asian Studies and History, Carleton College Lackey, Jennifer, Philosophy, Northwestern University Leppert, Richard, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F., Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Mitchell, Donald, Geography, Syracuse University Pease, Donald E., English, Dartmouth College Pecora, Vincent P., English, University of Utah Ritvo, Harriet, History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robertson, Jennifer, Anthropology and Art History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Stone, Ruth, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington Williams, Linda L., Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars Bay, Mia E., History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Christensen, Thomas, Music, University of Chicago Henderson, Diana, Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leja, Michael, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania Wallace, R. Jay, Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley Yu, Pauline, East Asian Languages & Cultures, American Council of Learned Societies

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships Apter, Emily S., French and Comparative Literature, New York University Collins, Derek K., Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Povinelli, Elizabeth A., Anthropology, Columbia University Thompson, Krista, Art History, affiliation in African American Studies, Northwestern University Yang, Anand A., History and International Studies, University of Washington

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships Cohen, Daniel J., History and Art History, George Mason University Favro, Diane G., Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles

Flanagan, Mary, Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College Price, Kenneth M., English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Rowe, Katherine A., English, Bryn Mawr College White, Richard, History, Stanford University

ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships Davis, Gregson G., Classics, New York University Davis, John H., Art, Smith College Galison, Peter L., History of Science; Physics, Harvard University David Marshall, English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara Wihl, Gary S., Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis

Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Abraham, Itty, Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Barlow, Tani, History and Asian Studies, Rice University Crenner, Christopher W., History, University of Kansas Green, Mitchell S., Philosophy, University of Virginia Hallward, Peter, Philosophy, Kingston University, London Heller-Roazen, Daniel, Comparative Literature, Princeton University Katz, Marion Holmes, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University Nagel, Alexander, Fine Arts, New York University Nakamura, Lisa, American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Oliensis, Ellen S., Classics, University of California, Berkeley Rabinowitz, Paula, English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Robbins, Bruce, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia 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 Straus, Scott, Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art Conrads, Margaret C., Deputy Director of Art and Research, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Chief Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum Kinsey, Joni, Art and Art History, University of Iowa Meyer, Richard E., Art History, Stanford University Schwain, Kristin A., Art History and Architecture, University of Missouri, Columbia Shannon, Joshua, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies Grudzinska Gross, Irena, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University Di Lellio, Anna, International Affairs, The New School Wolff, Larry, History, New York University Gross, Jan, History, Princeton University

The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley Ebrey, Patricia, History, University of Washington

Fong, Grace, East Asian Studies, McGill University Lu, Xiaobo, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University Wasserstrom, Jeffrey, History, University of California, Irvine Yan, Yunxiang, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

American Research in the Humanities in China/Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Smith, Paul, History, Haverford College Steinhardt, Nancy, East Asian Art, University of Pennsylvania Weller, Robert, Anthropology, Boston University West, Stephen, Chinese , Arizona State University Yu, Pauline, Comparative Literature, American Council of Learned Societies (Comparative Perspectives only)

2013-14 ACLS Fellowship and Grant Competitions

ACLS Fellowships September 26, 2013

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships September 26, 2013

Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars September 26, 2013

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships September 26, 2013

ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships September 26, 2013

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships October 23, 2013

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art October 23, 2013

African Humanities Program November 1, 2013

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies November 12, 2013

East European Studies Program November 12, 2013

Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society To be announced

ACLS Public Fellows To be announced

Application information will be posted in August 2013 at www.acls.org/programs/comps. AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

TREASURER’S REPORT

2013 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 6/30/12 with total support, revenue and investment income of $20,130,141 and total expenses of $22,470,950, for a 2% decrease in net assets of $2,340,809. The decrease included an investment loss of $1,106,266. The investment return for the fiscal year ended 6/30/12 was -1.09% as compared to the +6.0% that ACLS had budgeted. ACLS also received a $3,000,000 endowment grant from the Mellon Foundation to sustain the general administrative fund. The audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012 are available on ACLS’s website.

The current year (yellow sheets). Financial statements for the first nine months of this fiscal year, July 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013, follow this report. We project that ACLS’s net income (change in net assets) for fiscal year 2013 will be $10,244,000, $7,788,000 for the central fellowship fund and $2,456,000 for the general administrative fund. For budget and projection purposes, ACLS generally shows restricted program income and expense to be in balance. The projected surplus represents an 8.9% increase in net assets. Investment income is projected to be $12,512,000, assuming a 12-month investment return of 14.0%, 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 2013 budget, except for professional and consultant fees which include the $105,000 unbudgeted cost of refinancing $3.75 million of ACLS tax exempt bonds. The refinancing will bring the annual interest rate down to approximately 3.0% from 5.25%, and save ACLS considerable interest expense over the next ten years.

The year ahead (green sheets). The Proposed Budget for fiscal year 2014 also follows. Projected receipts are $21,178,000, with program grants managed by ACLS accounting for $12 million of receipts and ACLS’s own endowment income accounting for $5,983,000. The proposed budget projects a return on investments of 6%, as discussed with ACLS’s board and investment committee.

The fiscal year 2014 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 $947,000, and dues from Constituent Societies and Affiliates have been budgeted at $164,000. The 2014 budget reflects a continuing effort to control administrative costs. The proposed fiscal year 2014 budget anticipates that net ACLS administrative costs will remain relatively low, at 11.3% of total expenses. In summary, the proposed ACLS fiscal year 2014 budget consists of $21,178,000 of receipts and $17,522,000 of expense, with an increase in net assets of $3,656,000, or 2.9% 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 2014 provides for a payout rate of 5.1% for the central fellowship fund and 2.7% 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 $100 million. This 18% 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 programming 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 2014 is required at the meeting of the Council. American Council of Learned Societies Income and Expense for the 9-Months Ended 3/31/13 as Compared to the 12-Months Ending 6/30/13 Fiscal Year 2013 Projection ($000's)

FYTD 2013 FY 2013 9-Months 12-Months Ended 3/31/13 Ending 6/30/13 Income and Expense Actual Projection Income: Grants - program and administration 15,339 15,649 Investment income, 14% actual for 9-mos., 14% proj. for 12-mos. 12,512 12,512 Research university consortium 1,500 1,650 Associates 925 925 Annual giving 177 220 Learned societies and affiliates 45 160 Royalties and miscellaneous 74 150 Total income 30,572 31,266

Expense: Restricted program grants 4,076 15,399 Central fellowship stipends, peer review and develop. (from end.) 0 3,535 General administrative (net of cost recovery) 1,409 2,088 Total expense 5,485 21,022

Change in net assets 25,087 10,244

Net assets, beginning of fiscal year 115,099 115,099

Net assets, end of fiscal period 140,186 125,343

Table 1 American Council of Learned Societies General Administrative Expense for the 9-Months Ended 3/31/13 as Compared to the 12-months Ending 6/30/13 Fiscal Year 2013 Projection ($000's)

FYTD 2013 FY 2013 9-Months 12-Months Ended 3/31/13 Ending 6/30/13 General Administrative Expense Actual Projection

Salaries and employee benefits 1,855 2,494 Meetings, conferences and travel 119 279 Professional and consultant fees 179 344 Depreciation and amortization 178 237 Interest payments (purchase of office condominium) 147 196 Building maintenance 105 140 Office expense 109 121 Dues 57 66 Printing, publishing and reports 7 39 Beijing office 12 12 Development (direct expense / non-payroll) 6 10 Miscellaneous 22

Total general administrative expense before cost recovery 2,776 3,940

Less cost recovery from grants and endowment support for peer review -1,367 -1,852

Total general administrative expense net of cost recovery 1,409 2,088

Table 2 American Council of Learned Societies Proposed Income and Expense Budget, All Program Funds for the Year Ending June 30, 2014 ($000's)

Donor Central General Restricted Proposed Fellowship Admin. Program Total Income and Expense Fund Fund Fund Budget Income: Grants - program 0 0 12,000 12,000 Grants - NEH challenge grant 125 0 0 125 Investment income (+6.0% return proposed for FY 14) 4,411 1,572 0 5,983 Research university consortium 1,650 0 0 1,650 Associates 0 947 0 947 Annual giving 227 0 0 227 Learned societies and affiliates 0 164 0 164 Royalties 0 82 0 82 Total income 6,413 2,765 12,000 21,178

Expense: Restricted program grants 0 0 12,000 12,000 Fellowship stipends, peer review and develop. (from end.) * 3,537 0 0 3,537 General administrative (net of cost recovery) * 0 1,985 0 1,985 Total expense 3,537 1,985 12,000 17,522

Change in net assets 2,876 780 0 3,656

Net assets, beginning of fiscal year 73,526 26,090 25,727 125,343

Net assets, end of fiscal year 76,402 ** 26,870 *** 25,727 128,999

Central General * Endowment payout rate based on the average Fellowship Admin. ending net assets for the prior three fiscal years Fund Fund

Proposed FY 2014 payout rate 5.1% 2.7%

** 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, 2014 as Compared to FY 2009 - 2012 Actual and FY 2013 Projection ($000's)

Prop. 9-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 Income and Expense Actual Actual Actual Actual Proj. Budget Income: Grants - program 4,409 20,610 19,250 14,132 14,399 11,000 Grants - Mellon sustainability grants 0 0 200 0 0 0 Grants - Mellon endowment grants 0 0 6,000 3,000 0 0 Grants - NEH challenge grant 0000250125 Investment inc. (14% proj. for FY 13, 6% prop. for FY 14) -7,121 9,558 15,776 -1,106 12,512 5,983 Research university consortium 1,600 1,600 1,600 1,700 1,650 1,650 Associates 575 850 885 893 925 947 Subscriptions 511 809 771 891 1,000 1,000 Annual giving 210 217 175 264 220 227 Learned societies and affiliates 12 215 140 155 160 164 Royalties and miscellaneous 173 142 309 201 150 82 Total income 369 34,001 45,106 20,130 31,266 21,178

Expense: Restricted program grants 12,559 17,189 18,092 17,439 15,399 12,000 Fellowship stipends, peer review and development (from end.) 2,422 2,568 2,784 3,090 3,535 3,537 General administrative (net of cost recovery) 1,919 2,039 1,827 1,942 2,088 1,985 Total expense 16,900 21,796 22,703 22,471 21,022 17,522

Change in net assets -16,531 12,205 22,403 -2,341 10,244 3,656

Net assets, beginning of fiscal year 95,716 82,833 95,037 117,440 115,099 125,343

Net assets, end of fiscal year 79,185 95,038 117,440 115,099 125,343 128,999

Prop. 9-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. * Endowment payout rate based on the average ending FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 net assets for the prior three fiscal years Actual Actual Actual Actual Proj. Budget

Central fellowship fund 4.1% 4.5% 5.2% 5.4% 5.6% 5.1%

General administrative fund 4.5% 4.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.6% 2.7%

Table 2 American Council of Learned Societies Proposed General Administrative Expense Budget for the Year Ending June 30, 2014 as Compared to FY 2009 - 2012 Actual and FY 2013 Projection ($000's)

Prop. 9-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. 12-Mos. FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 General Administrative Expense Actual Actual Actual Actual Proj. Budget

Salaries and employee benefits 1,839 2,208 2,321 2,392 2,494 2,594 Depreciation and amortization 200 267 264 260 237 244 Meetings, conferences and travel 257 252 336 271 279 288 Professional and consultant fees 147 229 249 162 344 246 Interest payments (purchase of office condominium) 170 221 213 205 196 107 Office expense 79 172 177 117 121 124 Building maintenance 115 113 141 105 140 144 Printing, publishing and reports 41 68 78 38 39 40 Dues 62 58 52 64 66 68 Beijing office 22 40 28 49 12 0 Development (direct expense / non-payroll) 9 10 5 12 10 10 Miscellaneous 324222 Effect of adoption of SFAS No. 158 - Postretirement Medical Plan 97 13 -86 41 0 0

Total gen. admin. exp. before cost recovery 3,041 3,653 3,782 3,718 3,940 3,867

Less cost recovery from grants and end. support for peer review -1,122 -1,614 -1,955 -1,776 -1,852 -1,882

Total gen. admin. exp. net of cost recovery 1,919 2,039 1,827 1,942 2,088 1,985

Table 3 American Council of Learned Societies Preliminary Investment Performance Monthly Periods Ending March 31, 2013

Latest Quarter Year Latest Three Five Value FYTD* Month to Date to Date Year Years Years $(mil)

Total Global Equity 2.48 9.01 9.01 20.27 14.24 $ 54.31 MSCI ACWI 1.83 6.50 6.50 17.06 10.55

Total Large Cap 2.88 10.98 10.98 19.46 13.66 $ 27.34 Bristol 2.67 10.48 10.48 17.24 12.43 11.72 6.45 $ 15.64 S&P 500 3.75 10.61 10.61 17.18 13.95 12.67 5.81 Gardner Russo & Gardner 2.99 $ 2.58 S&P 500 3.75 Pzena Value Fund 4.09 15.47 15.47 25.50 17.05 10.52 4.44 $ 2.42 Russell 1000 Value 3.96 12.31 12.31 21.43 18.77 12.74 4.85 Lone Cascade 2.90 9.65 9.65 21.65 15.67 16.64 8.67 $ 6.70 S&P 500 3.75 10.61 10.61 17.18 13.95 12.67 5.81

Total Small Cap 3.31 9.95 9.95 16.83 10.82 $ 5.84 Kalmar Investments 3.31 9.95 9.95 16.83 10.82 17.33 8.91 $ 5.84 Russell 2000 4.62 12.39 12.39 20.48 16.30 13.45 8.24

Total International 1.74 6.37 6.37 22.41 15.22 $ 21.13 Capital Guardian ETOPS -0.25 -0.25 -0.25 $ 2.72 50% MSCI EM/50% JPM EMBI -1.24 -1.95 -1.95 Silchester International 2.20 7.86 7.86 25.23 17.52 $ 17.45 MSCI EAFE 0.82 5.13 5.13 19.79 11.25 Lone Dragon Pine -0.79 -0.03 -0.03 13.05 0.57 5.29 -0.68 $ 0.97 MSCI Emerging Markets -1.72 -1.62 -1.62 11.91 1.95 3.27 1.09

Total Hedged Equity 2.05 7.29 7.29 14.65 15.20 $ 11.98 Lone Pinon 1.68 7.53 7.53 15.80 14.72 16.10 6.53 $ 2.86 S&P 500 3.75 10.61 10.61 17.18 13.95 12.67 5.81 FPA Crescent 2.17 7.22 7.22 14.24 $ 9.12 S&P 500 3.75 10.61 10.61 17.18

Total Absolute Return 1.27 3.41 3.41 8.39 9.04 $ 19.95 Davidson Kempner 1.11 3.26 3.26 8.11 8.68 5.46 6.77 $ 10.82 T-Bills + 5% 0.42 1.24 1.24 3.82 5.12 5.12 5.36 Farallon Capital Institutional Partner 1.45 3.59 3.59 8.72 9.47 8.59 4.36 $ 9.13 T-Bills + 5% 0.42 1.24 1.24 3.82 5.12 5.12 5.36

Total Real Assets 2.72 1.91 1.91 0.51 -7.59 $ 4.22 RS Global Natural Resources Fund 3.25 $ 3.58 S&P Global Natural Resources -1.76 Park Street 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.73 -1.35 8.36 5.42 $ 0.64 CPI + 5% 0.67 2.62 2.62 5.21 6.54 7.37 6.82

Total Fixed Income 0.42 1.03 1.03 6.32 8.84 7.66 8.13 $ 15.08 PIMCO Total Retturn 0.33 0.60 0.60 4.99 7.92 6.93 7.77 $ 10.40 Barclays U.S. Aggregate 0.08 -0.12 -0.12 1.68 3.77 5.52 5.47 Loomis Sayles 0.62 2.00 2.00 9.39 10.96 9.39 $ 4.69 Barclays Credit 0.01 -0.17 -0.17 4.43 7.00 7.85

Total Endowment Cash $ -

Total ACLS 1.91 6.36 6.36 14.26 11.57 8.84 4.71 $ 105.54 Portfolio Benchmark (1) 1.48 5.17 5.17 13.85 9.32 7.60 3.11 Policy Index (2) 1.11 4.04 4.04 11.49 8.01 6.89 3.61

* 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 The American Council of Learned Societies Investment Organization and Management as of April 2013

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 Inc., 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 sixteen 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.

S:\2013 AM\Agenda Book Materials\Financials\ACLS Investment Organization and Management 4- 24-13.doc 05/03/13 1:56 PM 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 American Council of Learned Societies and Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and on the board of overseers of Children’s Hospital Boston and the Boston Children’s Museum.

Sheet1 InvComm1 4-24-13 1:57 PM 5/3/2013

American Council of Learned Societies Investment Committee as of April 2013

Mr. Frederick M. Bohen Ms. Heidi Carter Pearlson, Chair Executive Vice President (retired) Managing Partner The Rockefeller University 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. Anand Yang Group Managing Director (retired) University of Washington TIAA-CREF ACLS Board Member

Dr. James J. O'Donnell Dr. Pauline Yu Georgetown University American Council of Learned Societies ACLS Board Member ACLS Board Member

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THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES STATEMENT OF INVESTMENT POLICIES AND GUIDELINES INCLUDING REVISIONS AS OF APRIL 2013 (To be approved by the ACLS Investment Committee)

A. INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES The ACLS is com mitted to a long-term approach with a balanced program of investments to preserve and enhance the real purchasing power of its endowm ent in order to provide a stable and, in real term s, constant stream of current income for annual opera ting needs. The ACLS investm ent objective is to attain a real return, after adjustment for inflation, fees, and administrative costs, of at least 5% per y ear, measured over rolling five-y ear periods. In pursu ing these objectives, the ACLS intends to select investment managers who are rigorous in the disciplines they utilize to pr oduce 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% Alternative Investments 37.5% 30-50%

Actual allocations as com pared to targets a nd ranges shall be reviewed by the Investm ent Committee on a quarterly basis. If an asset class is outside of its range, this shall be discussed by the Committee. The Com mittee shall either take actions to rebalance the asset class back into range, or shall document the reason for maintaining an allocation outside of range.

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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 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

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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.

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.

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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.

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AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES CURRENT INVESTMENT MANAGER STRUCTURE AS OF APRIL 24, 2013

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.

Pzena Investment Management – Value Fund: The firm follows a classic “value” philosophy. They believe stock prices are often far more volatile than the fundamentals of companies dictate and they focus on finding those companies whose prices have negatively over-reacted to such short-term influences. They believe that a good investment opportunity exhibits the following: price to normalized earnings is low, current earnings are below their historical norm, management has a sound plan for earnings recovery, the company has a good business, and there is significant downside protection. For this product, their process is to screen the 1,000 largest U.S.-listed companies by degree of “undervaluedness” - as defined by price to normalized earnings. Among the most undervalued 200, they select stocks for deeper reviews based on cheapness, group/sector theme and/or by the degree of diversification each brings to the portfolio. The objective of their research is to define an accurate Normal Earnings Power for each company. Stocks for inclusion are those that are most undervalued. It is a concentrated portfolio of between 30 and 40 holdings. The process is a team approach. Key Personnel: Richard Pzena, founder, CEO and CIO.

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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 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.

Lone Dragon Pine L.P. – Emerging Markets Equity Fund: Lone Pine Capital LLC, the portfolio’s investment advisor, manages this long only emerging markets equity strategy, which opened on 4/1/08. Its goal is to generate above market returns (vis-à-vis a custom MSCI index – the MSCI Emerging Markets Index plus Hong Kong) with below market volatility. This fund is invested with the same style and investment analysis process as is used in the long emerging markets equity portion of the Lone Cascade, Lone Cypress and Lone Kauri Funds. It is anticipated by management that, typically, 80% of the names in the Lone Dragon Fund will overlap with those in the above mentioned funds. Akin to the Lone Cascade Fund, leverage and hedging will be used seldomly, if at all. Typically, there will be 30 - 50 long positions. The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed its S:\2013 AM\Agenda Book Materials\Financials\Investment Guidelines ACLS clean draft April 13.docH:\Investment Guidelines ACLS invob6 jmc1201 version 1-19-12.doc custom MSCI Index, net of commissions and management fees, over the long term. In addition, performance is expected to exceed the Madison Portfolio Consultants’ International Emerging Markets Equity Manager Sample Median return. Key personnel: Steve Mandel

Capital Guardian - Emerging Markets Total Opportunities Fund: The strategy invests in debt and equity securities in em erging markets using an opportunistic approach which considers the relative opportunity set between EM equities and debt . The strategy is benchmark agnostic and has an objective of producing lower volatility than typical EM exposure. The portfolio is m anaged by three Portfolio Managers, using Capital Guardian’s multiple portfolio management approach. The three managers are each allocated an equal porti on 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 managements 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 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

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Fixed Income:

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) Total Return Institutional Fund: In managing this m utual fund, PIMCO takes an opport unistic approach to fixed incom e investing, concentrating in areas of the bond m arket (based on quality , sector, coupon, or m aturity) that are undervalued. The Fund m ay invest in a broad range of fixed-income securities, including bonds, notes, mortgage pass-through securities, convertible debt securities, debt securities 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 stay within one y ear of the duration of the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index. The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index, net of co mmissions 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 Ham pshire Investment Trust structure, is a credit focused strategy which invests in investment grade corporate bonds, bank loans (aka leveraged loans), high y ield corporate bonds and securitized asset s, all dollar denom inated. No leverage is employed. Derivatives (futures) are allowed for duration and interest rate m anagement purposes only. The Fund will invest in, and be allocated am ong, four sector focused Loomis funds. The sub- funds, as well as the choice of individual assets within their respective sectors, are m anaged by experienced Loomis Sayles managers who either run similar products or run one of these sectors within a broader m andated portfolio. Three portfo lio 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 directly in individual securities, as well, but most of the assets are expected to be placed in the sub-funds. The Fund’s objective is to be in the credit sectors offering the best risk/reward outcome at any 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 percentages represent the likely long term exposures for the Fund. Loom is Sayles fixed incom e investing process em phasizes security selection via proprietary, fundamental research. They are known for their credit research capabilities, which is the key to their investment management. Their research analy sts are global in scope and are compensated on a par with portfolio managers, enabling them to be career analy sts. They employ a proprietary bond rating system that is future orie nted and which is focused on determ ining ratings that will be appropriate for the next 12 to 18 months. By comparing their future ratings to current ratings they look for undervalued issues in which to invest.

Alternative Investments:

Davidson Kempner Institutional Partners, L.P.: Davidson Kempner is the m anager of this m ulti- strategy, event driven fund, which it started in 1996. They engage in distressed securities, merger arbitrage, event driven equities, convertible arb itrage and healthcare strategies; although when nothing appears attractive they put their assets in cash equi valents. They take a bottom-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 em ployed. The Fund’s objective is to produce superior risk-adjusted re turns 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.

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Farallon Capital Institutional Partners, L.P.: Farallon Capital Managem ent, LLC, manages this Multi Strategy Hedge Fund, started in 1990. They use a multi strategy, event driven approach that invests in risk arbitrage, distressed debt, real estate, distressed convertibles, special situations (equity) and investments involving complex legal and regulatory elements. They adjust allocations opportunistically among those strategies and are global investors. Their objective is to produce an above market rate of return without risk 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, the risk-free rate plus 5% annually , net of com missions and m anagement fees. Key personnel: Thomas Steyer.

RS Investments: RS Global Natural Resource Fund: The strategy invests in natural resource equities with advantaged assets that can generate value across commodity cycles. The approach is fundamentally based with a focus on sub-sectors with high m arginal cost curves, which enables greater degrees of differentiation between com panies. The portfolio is constr ucted to be diversified by commodity but will be concentrated in the number of holdings. The investm ent universe for the Fund consists of 750 com panies, which are na rrowed 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 m anagement teams focused on ROIC rather than production growth. The portfolio is ultim ately constructed of 30-40 positi ons 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 form ed in 2001 dur ing the Roy al Bank of Canada’s acquisition of Tucker Anthony. The firm constructs fund of funds investments in private equity and, more recently, natural resources for the institutional m arket. NRF II is designed to be a high quality core holding of real (“hard”) assets within an institutional portf olio. The fund is prim arily focused on tim ber and energy assets within the U.S., with som e allocation to “Other Natural Resources”, such as renewable, wind power, etc. They will invest in 12 to 18 lim ited partnerships run by professional, experienced managers over the first 2 to 3 years. The term of the partnership is 15 y ears, with a projected average fee of 50 Bps on com mitted capital, starting with 75 Bps in the first five y ears. Carry is 2.5% after money back plus return on CPI. The fund’s objective is to generate returns, over the 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 balance from capital appreciation. Fund returns are expected to be positively correlated with inflation (inflation hedge) and to ha ve low correlations with stock markets (increasing over all portfolio diversif ication and lowering risk). The portfolio’s return objective is to exceed, over the long term , the risk-free rate plus 5% plus a liquidity premium of 2% (i.e., RF+7%), annually, net of commissions and management fees. Key personnel: Robert G. Segal.

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Promoting Opportunity for All Americans The humanities are a basic component of the broad-based, lifelong education that should form the basis of opportunity for all Americans. • All students deserve a strong, rigorous humanities component at all levels of their education. • Humanities disciplines teach essential skills and habits including reading, writing, critical thinking, and effective communication that are crucial for ensuring that each individual has the opportunity to learn and become a productive member of society. • Humanities disciplines teach essential information about the world around us including historical knowledge and cultural literacy. • The humanities foster the skills that employers seek.

Fostering Innovation and Economic Competitiveness Our nationʼs long-term economic success depends on cultivating a broadly-educated workforce ready to compete in the knowledge-based, global economy of the 21st century. • Employers predict that future economic growth will come from cultural knowledge and analytical ability paired with technical knowledge and scientific research. • The United States has exemplary humanities programs in its colleges and universities, and many countries are working to emulate these in order to boost their own economic competitiveness. • Workforce development experts argue that humanities courses need to be better integrated into the educational requirements of non-humanities majors to ensure that they develop the skills that will lead to innovation.

Ensuring Productive Global Engagement Deep language proficiency, historical knowledge, and cultural literacy are critical to productive diplomatic and economic engagement with the world. • Humanities disciplines cultivate and maintain deep knowledge of the languages, cultures, and histories of rapidly changing areas of the world that national security, diplomatic, and business communities regularly draw upon to understand the contexts in which they work. • Maintaining this deep capacity for all areas of the world is critical for informed diplomacy, business engagement, and national security.

Strengthening Civic Knowledge and Practice The humanities promote reasoned, informed dialogue that is critical to productive civic life. • Humanities research, teaching, and public programs promote the cultivation and dissemination of knowledge about civic institutions, citizen participation, and the foundations of community. • The humanities promote the understanding of our common ideals, enduring civic values, and shared cultural heritage. • The humanities promote understanding among diverse communities through the cultivation and exchange of knowledge about cultural heritage and history.

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 Ninety-fifth Meeting of the Council at theACLS Annual Meeting, May 6, 2012 (attached)

2. Dates and location of the 2014 Annual Meeting: May 8-10, Philadelphia

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

Proceedings of the Meeting of the Council 2012 Annual Meeting Philadelphia, PA

The ninety-fifth meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, its ninety-third Annual Meeting and the ninety-first meeting of the Corporation, was held on May 10-12, 2012. Information on the 2012 meeting (including agenda and full participants list) is available at www.acls.org/annual_meeting/2012.

The chair, Kwame Anthony Appiah, called the business session of the Council to order at 9:10 am, on May 11, 2012. 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 2011 Annual Meeting.

Charlotte V. Kuh presented the report of the Board Nominating Committee. Serving as members of the 2012 Nominating Committee were Charlotte V. Kuh, chair; Nicola Courtright and Teofilo F. Ruiz, members of the board; Lee Haring, delegate, American Folklore Society; and Linda Downs, CAO member, College Art Association.

Nominations for the following offices were put forward: Chair (for a three-year term ending in 2015): Earl Lewis, Provost, Emory University

The following nominations for members of the Board of Directors for four-year terms ending in 2016 were put forward: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy, Princeton University Richard Leppert, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

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 (2012, 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 12 Income and Expense Statement for the twelve months ended March 31, 2012, as compared to FYTD 11 Actual and FY 12 Budget and FY 12 Projection  2011-2012 Proposed Budget  Investment Performance Review, as of March 31, 2012

Mr. Wirth presented the Treasurer’s Report and the 2012-2013 Proposed Budget. The complete report was distributed in advance of the meeting.

Action on the proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 is required at the meeting of the Council.

It was (2012, AM 2) Voted: To approve the 2012-2013 Proposed Budget.

Lawrence R. Wirth, ACLS Director of Finance, 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.

Approval of the Proceedings of the Ninety-fourth Meeting of the Council at the ACLS Annual Meeting, May 6, 2011 Dates and location of the 2013 Annual Meeting: May 9-11, Baltimore Announcement of Delegates whose terms expire on December 31, 2012: American Economic Association, Charlotte V. Kuh, National Academy of Sciences (retired) Rhetoric Society of America, Gerard A. Hauser, University of Colorado, Boulder Association for Asian Studies, Anand A. Yang University of Washington Middle East Studies Association of North America, R. Stephen Humphreys, University of California, Santa Barbara American Society for Legal History, Maeva Marcus, George Washington University American Society for Environmental History, Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Society for Music Theory, Cristle Collins Judd, Bowdoin College Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Allyson M. Poska, University of Mary Washington College Art Association, Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University Society of Dance History Scholars, Janice L. Ross, Stanford University American Anthropological Association, Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz Renaissance Society of America, Michael J. B. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles Society for the History of Technology, Steve Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology Society for Ethnomusicology, Gage Averill, University of British Columbia, Canada American Society for Theatre Research, Rhonda Blair, Southern Methodist University American Numismatic Society, Roger S. Bagnall, New York University American Historical Association, Clement A. Price, Rutgers University, Newark

Council Meeting Attendance Present during all or part of the session on May 11 as voting members of the Corporation were the following:

Officers Kwame Anthony Appiah, chair Anand A. Yang, vice chair

Members of the Board of Directors Jonathan D. Culler Earl Lewis Charlotte V. Kuh Donald Brenneis Richard Leppert

Ex Officiis: William E. Davis, chair, Executive Committee of the Conference of Administrative Officers, American Anthropological Association R. Stephen Humphreys, chair, Executive Committee of the Delegates, Middle East Studies Association, University of California, Santa Barbara Pauline Yu, ACLS

Delegates of Constituent Societies American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Roger S. Bagnall American Academy of Religion, Mary McGee American Anthropological Association, Donald Brenneis American Association for the History of Medicine, Caroline Hannaway American Comparative Literature Association, Francoise Lionnet American Dialect Society, William A. Kretzschmar American Economic Association, Charlotte V. Kuh American Folklore Society, Lee Haring American Musicological Society, Elaine Sisman American Oriental Society, Paul W. Kroll American Philological Association, Ralph Rosen, 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 Aesthetics, Paul Guyer American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, John B. Bender American Society for Environmental History, Harriet N. Ritvo American Society for Legal History, Craig Klafter, acting American Society for Theatre Research, Cindy Bates, acting 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, Nancy Bentley, acting Archaeological Institute of America, Lisa Mignone Association for Asian Studies, Anand A. Yang Association for Jewish Studies, Jeffrey Shandler, acting Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, William G. Rosenberg Association of American Geographers, J. Nicholas Entrikin Association of American Law Schools, Linda S. Greene Bibliographical Society of America, David L. Vander Meulen College Art Association, Paul B. Jaskot College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English, Keith Gilyard Dictionary Society of North America, Edward Finegan Economic History Association, Alexander J. Field, acting German Studies Association, Patricia A. Herminghouse History of Science Society, Michael M. Sokal International Center of Medieval Art, Peter Barnet Latin American Studies Association, Marysa Navarro, acting Law and Society Association, Carol J. Greenhouse Linguistic Society of America, Thomas Wasow Medieval Academy of America, Nancy Partner Metaphysical Society of America, William S. Hamrick Middle East Studies Association of North America, R. Stephen Humphreys Modern Language Association of America, Michael F. Berube, acting National Communication Association, Patricia A. Suchy National Council on Public History, David Glassberg North American Conference on British Studies, Philippa Levine Organization of American Historians, Thomas Bender Rhetoric Society of America, Gerard A. Hauser Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Allyson M. Poska Society for American Music, John Graziano Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Patrice Petro Society for Ethnomusicology, Harris M. Berger, acting Society for French Historical Studies, B. Robert Kreiser Society for Military History, Christopher Derosa, acting Society for Music Theory, Edward Jurkowski acting Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Thomas A. DuBois Society of Architectural Historians, Sandra L. Tatman, acting Society of Biblical Literature, Kent Harold Richards Society of Dance History Scholars, Susan L. Wiesner, acting University of Pennsylvania, Sandra T. Barnes, acting World History Association, Maryanne Rhett

Also present at times during the meeting, but not voting:

From the Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) American Academy of Religion, Jack Fitzmier American Anthropological Association, William E. Davis American Antiquarian Society, Paul J. Erickson American Comparative Literature Association, Alexander Jamieson Beecroft American Dialect Society, Allan Metcalf American Historical Association, James Grossman American Musicological Society, Robert F. Judd American Philological Association, Adam D. Blistein American Philosophical Association, David E. Schrader American Political Science Association, Michael Brintnall American Society for Aesthetics, Dabney W. Townsend 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, Donna Farina Economic History Association, Alexander J. Field 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 Medieval Academy of America, Ronald G. Musto Modern Language Association of America, Rosemary G. Feal National Communication Association, Nancy Kidd National Council on Public History, John R. Dichtl National Humanities Alliance, Duane E. Webster Organization of American Historians, Katherine M. Finley Renaissance Society of America, Ann Moyer Rhetoric Society of America, Frederick J. Antczak Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Donald J. Harreld Society for American Music, Mariana Whitmer Society for Cinema and Media Studies, James Castonguay Society for Ethnomusicology, Stephen Stuempfle Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Richard L. Jensen Society for the History of Technology, W. Bernard Carlson 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 College and Research Libraries, Mary Ellen K. Davis Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Jean-Marc Mangin Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Srinivas Aravamudan

Presidents of ACLS Constituent Societies African Studies Association, Aili M. Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison American Society for Aesthetics, Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania American Society of Comparative Law, John C. Reitz, University of Iowa Association for Jewish Studies, Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University, New Brunswick History of Science Society, Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison Modern Language Association of America, Michael F. Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University, University Park North American Conference on British Studies, Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin Society for Ethnomusicology, Harris M. Berger, Texas A&M University

Other Participants 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 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Keith Anthony, Associate Director of The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita of History, University of California, Los Angeles Carin Berkowitz, Associate Director of Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation Robin Presta Boone, Program Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers Gail Bossenga, Assistant to the Chair of the Board and Scholar-in-Residence, Elizabethtown College Ronald Brashear, Director of Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and Arnold Thackray Director of Othmer Library of Chemical History, Chemical Heritage Foundation Christopher Capozzola, Acting Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Madeline Caviness, Mary Richardson Professor Emeritus, Tufts University Sewell Chan, Deputy Op-Ed Editor, The New York Times Jennifer Crew, Associate and Editorial Director, Columbia University Press, Columbia University Helen Cullyer, Associate Program Officer for Scholarly Communications and Information Technology, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Jean-Luc De Paepe, Deputy General Secretary, Union Académique Internationale Robert Gibbs, Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto Douglas Greenberg, Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 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 Gary Hardcastle, Executive Secretary and Treasurer, Philosophy of Science Association, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Geoffrey G. Harpham, President and Director, National Humanities Center Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Endowed Chair in Modern European History and Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Margaret C. Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Jeffrey Kallberg, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, Chair of the Department of Music, and Professor of Music History, University of Pennsylvania Kathleen Keane, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press, The Johns Hopkins University Patrick Kelly, Vice President and Director of Journal Publishing, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Claudia S. Kretzschmar, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Athens Regional Medical Center Gregg Lambert, Founding Director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of English, Syracuse University Jim A. Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities Jonathan Levy, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information Alejandro L. Madrid, Director of Graduate Studies in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Deanna B. Marcum, Managing Director, ITHAKA S+R Heidi Massaro, Deputy Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers Susan K. McClary, Professor of Musicology, Case Western Reserve University Deirdre McCloskey, UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, of History, of English, and of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago Susan M. Merriam, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bard College Robin D. Moore, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin Enrique Mu, Co-Director of Master of Business Administration and Information Technology Management Programs, Carlow University; Visiting Professor of Information Technology, European Business School; and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Mary Rose Muccie, Director of Current Journals Program, JSTOR James A. Parente, Jr., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Timothy Renick, Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Professor of Religious Studies, Georgia State University Malcolm L. Richardson, Senior Partnership Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities David M. Robinson, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, and Professor of English, Oregon State University Alberta M. Sbragia, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, and Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh David C. Schaberg, Interim Dean of the Division of Humanities, Co-Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles Pamela Schirmeister, Associate Dean of Yale College, Associate Dean of The Graduate School, Dean for Special Projects, and Lecturer in English, Yale University Sandra Thompson Schrader, Member, American Philosophical Association Rebecca Schuman, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University Jessica A. Schwartz, Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, New York University Verna Sodano-Richards, Educational Technology Coordinator, LEARN Regional Educational Service Center David Spadafora, President and Librarian, Newberry Library Carl J. Strikwerda, President, Elizabethtown College Stefan Tanaka, Director of the Center for the Humanities and Professor of Communication and of History, University of California, San Diego Judith E. Vichniac, Associate Dean of the Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Scott L. Waugh, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California, Los Angeles Duane Webster, Interim Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance Marian Zelazny, Administrative Officer of School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Members of ACLS Staff Pauline Yu, President Steven C. Wheatley, Vice President

Sandra Bradley, Director of Member Relations Kelly Buttermore, Grants Coordinator Candace Frede, Director of Web and Information Systems Joyce W. Lee, Program Officer Cindy Mueller, Manager of Office of Fellowships and Grants Sarah Peters, Administrative Assistant to the President Nicole A. Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs Patricia L. Stranahan, Senior Consultant for Public Fellows Program Andrzej Tymowski, Director of International Programs Lawrence R. Wirth, Director of Finance 2013 ANNUAL MEETING Baltimore May 10,12:30-2:00 pm Baltimore Ballroom

Luncheon Speaker

Jim Leach has served as the ninth chairman of the National Endow- ment for the Humanities. Prior to being nominated by President Obama for the post, Leach was a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and interim director of the Institute of Politics and lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Leach’s brief stint in academia was preceded by 30 years of service as a representative in Congress where he chaired the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Leach attended Princeton University, the School of Advanced Inter- national Studies of Johns Hopkins, and the London School of Economics. He holds 13 honorary degrees, has received decorations from two foreign governments, and is the recipient of the Wayne Morse Integrity in Politics Award, the Adlai Stevenson Award from the United Nations Association, the Edgar Wayburn Award from the Sierra Club, the Norman Borlaug Public Service Award, and the Woodrow Wilson Medal from Princeton. The chairman served on the board of several public companies and a series of non-profit organizations, including the Century Founda- tion, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Kettering Foundation, Pro Publica and Common Cause, which he chaired. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and he formerly served as a trustee of Princeton University. 2013 ANNUAL MEETING Baltimore May 10, 2:15-4:00 pm Maryland Ballroom

MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies

Jeremy Adelman Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture Princeton University

Howard Lurie Vice President for University Relations edX

Jennifer Summit Professor of English Stanford University

James J. O’Donnell, Moderator University Professor Georgetown University Chair, ACLS Board of Directors

“MOOC” may win the prize for the most rapidly adopted acronym for the 2012-13 academic year. More importantly, some predict that the MOOC will become the most rapidly adopted and consequential educational innovation in decades. Still, many questions surround this new development. The very demand for these courses indicates broad public interest in humanistic knowledge, and it is hard to imagine a significant future for liberal arts education and for the academic humanities without a vibrant online life. But while these courses bring new audiences, do they also require new pedagogical approaches? What are the implications of these new offerings for learned societies? MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies

Jeremy Adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture at Princeton University. Adelman is a scholar of global and Latin Ameri- can history. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he earned a master’s degree in economic history at the London School of Economics (1985) and completed a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). His books include Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada (1994); Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the New World (1999), which won the American Historical Association’s Atlantic History Prize, and Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006). His most recent book, Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, was published in March 2013. Adelman is also the editor of five books and coauthor ofWorlds To- gether, Worlds Apart (3rd edition, 2011), a history of the world from the beginning of humankind. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship. In 2006, he was awarded the Presidential Award for Teaching at Princeton University. Chair of the history department for four years, he is currently the director of the Council for International Teaching and Research at Princeton University.

Howard Lurie has been creating and distributing innovative online educational products since the late 1990s. His efforts have included both designing and teaching online courses, global forums, and managing digital content repositories for k-20 institutions, foundations, and educational non-profits. These experiences leveraged a 15 year teaching career, during which he taught history and digital humanities at secondary schools and community colleges and in graduate level teacher-development programs. Prior to joining edX, Lurie served as the managing director for PBS LearningMedia, a nationally recognized digital learning platform, jointly produced by the Public Broad- casting System (PBS) and WGBH Boston, a longtime leader in producing exemplary educational media. At WGBH, Lurie also served associate director for educational productions, and was responsible for managing online teacher professional development programs in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and for a wide range business development and fundraising efforts in support of WGBH’s k-16 digital platform, Teachers’ Domain. As both a teacher and ed tech innovator, Lurie has advocated for data-driven, pioneering uses of online digital media to accelerate teacher professional development and classroom instruction. He has a masters degree from Teachers College, Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. At edX, he is vice president for university relations, and is responsible for onboarding new higher education partner institutions, as well as a variety of business development and partnership efforts. Jennifer Summit is professor and former department chair of English at Stanford University. Currently she holds a fellowship from the American Council on Education (ACE) at San Jose State University, where she is working with President Mo Qayoumi and Provost Ellen Junn on issues surrounding student learning and online and blended curriculum development in the context of public, access-oriented higher education. With colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Mills College, she leads a Teagle Foundation-supported research group called “What is a Reader?” that investigates the reading practices of current undergraduate students and considers their implications for the future of post-secondary education in literature and the humanities . The author of Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589 (U of Chicago P, 2000) and Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (U of Chicago P, 2008), she has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities and holds Stanford’s Eleanor Loring Ritch University Fellowship in Undergraduate Education.

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 Col- lege (Dublin) in 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 Univer- sity 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. MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies

MOOCs in the News: A sampling of recent press coverage http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/grading-the-mooc-university.html http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/02/survey-finds-presidents-are- skeptical-moocs http://www.chronicle.com/article/Major-Players-in-the-MOOC/138817/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/137905/#id=overview THE 2013 HASKINS PRIZE LECTURE

Robert Alter

Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley

Robert Alter has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1967. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow, and has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. Professor Alter has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on contemporary American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His publications include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding, Stendhal, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. His books have been translated into eight different languages. Among his publications since the beginning of the 1990s are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991), The World of Biblical Literature (1992) Hebrew and Modernity (1994), Imagined Cities (2005), and Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007). His most recent books are Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010), The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2011), and Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets (2013). In 2009, Professor Alter received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime contribution to American letters.

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 priv ate, nonprofit federation of 71 n ational 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 ad ministrative mechanism: it is an opportunity for dis tinguished scholars to reach b road consensus on standards of quality in humanities research. Since 1957, nearly 11,000 scholars have received ACLS fellowships and grants. In 2013, ACLS will award $14.5 million to U.S.-based scholars. When our international fellowship programs are included, the total amounted awarded to individual scholars is nearly $15.3 million.

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 outsid e the United Stat es and to develop produ ctive contacts with overseas colleagues and institutions. Programs also provide support directly to scholars based overseas and promotes development of their networks.

ACLS has lo ng played a role in scholarly communication, with increasing emphasis on exploring th e possibilities of new tech nologies for the hu manities, creating a co mmon space for innovation, and coordinating resources and expertise. ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digita l, fully searchable collection of over 3,300 high-quality books in the humanities, re commended and reviewed by scholars and featurin g 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 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. His other publications include The Ethics of Identity (Princeton UP, 2005), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (WW Norton, 2006), Experiments in Ethics (Harvard UP, 2008), and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (WW Norton, 2010). 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 observ- er—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 served as editor of American Ethnologist (1989-94) and as 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 Behav- ioral Sciences. Selected publications include “A Partial View of Contemporary Anthro- pology: 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 Homo- sexuality 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), which was named as a finalist for the National Book Critics CircleAward. She is the editor of a prize-winning anthology, The Literature of Lesbianism: A Histoical 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 Lan- guage 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. 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 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, Ber- nini 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. Currently she serves as editor in chief of the Grove Dictionary of Art.

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.

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 Univer- sity 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 Randall Balmer, and New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817 (Indi- ana 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.

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 also 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. He initiated major reforms in undergraduate education in Harvard College; enhanced Harvard’s international studies at home and abroad; increased substantially financial aid in the College and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; supported the growth of the Division (now School) of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and oversaw the construction of major new buildings in the life sciences, engineering, and the arts. During his tenure, the faculty expanded at its most rapid rate since the 1960s.

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.

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 300 postdoctoral fellows annually for positions in national laboratories and that select recipients of pre- and postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Founda- tion. 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.

Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Profes- sor 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 theo- ries 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 Composi- tion, 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, having served on the board since 2005 and as its secretary from 2008-12. He 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 Univer- sity in 1975. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediter- ranean 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. He has served on the ACLS board since 2005. From 1981-2002, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. 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. A student of Joseph R. Strayer, Ruiz received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 and taught at Brooklyn College, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Michi- gan, 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.

Ruiz has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humani- ties, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1994-95, he was selected as one of four Outstanding Teachers of the Year in the United States by the Carnegie Foundation. He has published 10 books and over 50 articles in national and international scholarly journals, plus hundreds of reviews and smaller articles. His Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994) was awarded the Premio del Rey Prize by the American Historical Association as the best book in Spanish history before 1580. His Spanish Society, 1400-1600 was published by Longman in 2001 and translated into Spanish the following year. Another book, From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Late Medieval Castilian Society, was published by Princeton University Press in 2004, while his coauthored Medieval Europe and the World (Oxford UP) was published in 2005. He authored an additional book for Blackwell, Spain: Centuries of Crises, 1300-1469 (published in 2007 and translated into Spanish in 2008) and has completed a long monograph (500+ pp. in typescript) on festivals in late medieval and early modern Spain. His most recent book, The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in West- ern Civilization, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011. He has two forthcoming publications: a general history of the western Mediterranean under contract to Blackwell and A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, coming out in early 2012 from Princeton University Press. Ruiz received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2007-08 and was selected one of UCLA’s Distinguished Teachers in 2008. He was named a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar for 2011-12. He was awarded the Nation- al 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, serving six years as department chair (1999-2005). She has just completed a term as president of the American Musicological Society. 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 18th and 19th 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 Univer- sity 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 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.

Nancy J. Vickers, treasurer of the ACLS Board of Directors, is both president emeritus and professor emeritus of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr Col- lege. Before that she was the dean of curriculum and instruction in the College of Let- ters, 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. Anand A. Yang is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor, International Studies and History, and director of the South Asia Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Yang received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Among his publications are The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920 (U of California P, 1989) and Bazaar India: Peasants, Traders, Markets, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar, 1765-1947 (U of California P, 1998). He recently co-edited Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (2005) and is currently finishing a book on the coerced migration of South Asians to Southeast Asia in the colonial period and a translation from Hindi of an Indian soldier’s account of Thirteen Months in China. Yang is past president of the Association for Asian Studies and of the World History Association.

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 Univer- sity 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 & Social Sciences. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center, the Board of Directors of both the Teagle Foundation and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and the Scholars’ Council of the Library of Congress. In addition, she is a trustee of the Asian Cultural Council and the American Academy in Berlin and a member of the Gov- erning Board of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong-America Center. From 2003-2009, she served on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Yu holds three honorary degrees and is a senior research scholar at Columbia University. ACLS Social Media Activities

Overview: ACLS employs a variety of social media platforms to keep members and fellows connected and to promote the scholarly humanities to key audiences.

Facebook is the most popular social networking service, with nearly a billion users worldwide. The Facebook exposure of ACLS and the African Humanities Program is growing. We currently have over 1,500 followers (“likes”) combined, almost double last year’s total. Through the networks of our dedicated followers, ACLS announcements have the potential to reach an aggregate network of 600,000 Facebook users.

Twitter is one of the fastest growing social media platforms, boasting over half a billion users worldwide as of April 2013. Through Twitter, ACLS interacts with learned societies, fellows and their universities, members of the media, and individuals interested in the humanities and higher education. The ACLS Twitter feed has become a popular way for fellows to share information about their research and activities. Since April 2012, ACLS has doubled the number of its Twitter followers.

Tumblr is a versatile blogging platform and social networking website. Since its launch in February 2012, the ACLS Tumblr page has become a popular space for sharing news and information about fellows’ publications and the activities of member societies.

Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. As of April 2013, Pinterest boasted 48.7 million unique users. ACLS joined in March 2012 to feature the work of our member societies, fellow profiles, coverage of fellows’ research, and ACLS events. ACLS’s Pinterest page provides a dynamic visual overview of the Council’s widespread engagement with the scholarly humanities.

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April 2013 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 2012-13 competition resulted in 65 awards for the academic year 2013-14 (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 Humani- ties, 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. For both programmatic and fiscal reasons, the administration of this program was combined with that of the central Fellowship Program several years ago, using a common selection process. Awards: We made five awards to scholars for use in 2013-14. Funding: NEH supported this program through a three-year award of $246,000 that ends in 2013: a one-year renewal was granted in April 2013.

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: Thirteen fellowships were awarded in the 2012-13 competition. An additional fellowship beyond the customary 12 was possible this year due to available funding. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program. ACLS received a grant in June 2010 that supports the program for another three competition cycles, the third of which was the 2012-13 competition. A renewal proposal was submitted to the Foundation in April 2013.

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 2012-13 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 2012-13 are taking up their awards in 2013-14, 2014-15, or 2015-16. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program and has renewed funding (June 2010) for another three competition cycles, the third of which was the 2012-13 competition. A renewal proposal was submitted to the Foundation in April 2013.

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 2012-13 competition, seven fellowships were awarded. 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. ACLS received a grant in June 2011 that supports the program for another three competition cycles, the second of which was the 2012-13 competition.

D. ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships Program: The 2012-13 competition was the fifth 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: Seven collaborative research projects were selected for funding in 2012-13. Collaborative fellowships can be taken up between July 2013 and September 2014 and last up to 24 months. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded this program in 2008 for five competition cycles. The 2012- 13 competition was the last one funded under the current grant.

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 2012-13 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 second of which was the 2012-13 competition.

F. Mellon /ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Program: The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide $25,000 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 must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2014. 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 2012-13 competition resulted in 70 awards for the 2013-14 academic year. Five additional fellowships beyond the customary 65 were possible this year due to availability of extra funds. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renewed the Dissertation Completion Fellowship program in 2013 for one additional competition in 2013-14.

G. ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program: This program was developed and implemented in 2009 to allow recent Ph.D.s to take up two-year positions at participating institutions across the United States where their particular research and teaching expertise would augment departmental offerings. This ACLS initiative seeks to address the dire situation of newly minted Ph.D.s in the humanities and related social sciences. The fellowship provides a stipend of $50,000 plus $5,000 research/travel allowance annually, health insurance, and a $1,500 one-time moving allowance. Senior scholars at the receiving institutions will mentor and help integrate fellows into their institutional communities. Awards: In the 2012-13 competition, 26 preliminary awardees were selected and, of those, three subsequently secured tenure-track positions and one accepted other postdoctoral fellowship. The 2013 cohort of New Faculty Fellows consists of 22 fellows who will be joining 14 different institutions in the fall for two years. Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation renewed funding for this program for the 2012-13 competition. This will be the final year of the program.

H. 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, 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 first and second year of this growing program placed eight and 13 fellows respectively in two-year staff positions at partnering agencies in government and the non-profit sector. The selection process for the 2012- 13 competition is now underway and will 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 for a third year in September 2012.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS I. Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Program: This new program supports the development of China Studies in the United States through three types of awards: pre-dissertation grants for research in China ($5,000 each for a minimum of 3 months), postdoctoral fellowships (up to $45,000 each for one academic year), and collaborative reading-workshop grants (up to $15,000 each). Awards: The 2012-13 competition awarded 15 pre-dissertation grants, seven postdoctoral fellowships, and four collaborative reading-workshop grants. Funding: $1.2 million over two years (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2014) from the Henry Luce Foundation. Prospects: We anticipate that ACLS will apply for a renewal for 2014-2016. The Henry Luce Foundation is well pleased with its partnership with ACLS; we expect our application to be favorably received.

II. ACLS African Humanities Program Program: Now in its fifth year of operation, the AHP provides dissertation-completion and postdoctoral fellowships to early career scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the first four years, 49 awards were made for dissertations and 111 for postdoctoral research and writing. Fellows are eligible to apply for additional awards: three-month residential stays at African centers for advanced study (85 awards in the first four years), travel to the African Studies Association annual meeting (six awards), and support for publishing AHP-supported manuscripts (four awards). Funding: $5,450,000 over five-and-a-half years, July 2012 to December 2017, from the Carnegie Corpo- ration of New York. Prospects: Carnegie support is assured through December 2017.

III. ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine Program: The International Humanities Association (Slavic initials: MAG), formed by peer-reviewers of the ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, continues to establish itself as a learned society for the region through fundraising and a four-language online bulletin (thebridge-moct.org/) ACLS staff advise and provide technical assistance to MAG. Funding: A no-cost extension until December 2013 of the $1 million Carnegie grant to ACLS (originally scheduled to end in 2012). Prospects: ACLS will continue to advise and support MAG until the conclusion of the no-cost extension.

IV. ACLS East European Studies Program Program: In the absence of funding from the U.S. Department of State’s Title VIII office, ACLS is organizing a reduced competition for 2012-13 with royalties accumulated since 2000 by the ACLS-sponsored journal East European Politics & Societies. Funding and Awards: There is $126,000 available for 7 dissertation fellowships in the 2012-13 competition. Prospects: ACLS applied for a renewal of federal funding for academic year 2013-14. The results of the competition will be available in May 2013.

V. Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Program: This program awards funds in support of planning meetings, workshops, and/or conferences leading to the publication of scholarly volumes. In the 2012-13 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. Budget: Approximately $150,000 per year. Support from the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange is assured through 2015. VI. Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN) Summary: An ACLS subsidiary that carries out university exchanges, high-level contacts, and fellowship programs. Budget: In 2012-13, CEEVN will expend $1 million. Most of its support comes from the Ford Founda- tion. Prospects: The Center is now a well-established agency working effectively with both American and Viet- namese partners. It has received significant support from the Ford Foundation and is administering the Vietnam portion of Ford’s $300 million International Fellowship Program. ACLS holds almost $4 million in funds granted for CEEVN’s work.

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 publishing in the digital environment. HEB works with over 100 publishers, including both university presses and several commercial publishers (see www.humanitiesebook.org/publishers.html). 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 27 of ACLS’s constituent societies (see www.humanitiesebook.org/societies.html). HEB’s technical partner is the University of Michigan Library’s MPublishing 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 Founda- tion. 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 (now offered to all members of ACLS’s constituent learned societies) and sales of print-on-demand (POD) and downloadable (handheld edition) titles.

HEB pays out royalties to participating copyright holders—over 100 publishers and 400 individual authors—on a semi-annual basis. Royalty payments have increased more than ten-fold since FY 03. Collection Status: As of March 2013, HEB includes approximately 3,700 titles. HEB typically adds 300- 500 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 670 subscribing libraries, including more than 100 international subscribers (see http://www.humanitiesebook.org/subscribinginsts. html), and has agreements with around 40 regional, national, and international consortia and distributors. Its readership has a combined FTE of over 5.8 million.

Prospects: HEB is currently processing and will release its next round of titles (numbering approximately 325) in late spring or early summer. This will represent round 10 since the collection first went live in 2002.

HEB’s new marketing initiatives are now underway, including a new sales program, that entails on-site visits to prospective and current subscribers by two field representatives.A cost-benefit analysis of this pilot program will be undertaken after the first six months, coinciding with the end ofACLS’s fiscal year. HEB is also about to launch a revised version of collection interface, incorporating new design elements already in use on the descriptive portion of the HEB website; the new design will offer better accessibility for visually impaired readers, among other improvements. PUBLICATIONS AND ACLS WEBSITE I. American National Biography Summary: The ANB is a 27-volume biographical reference work in American history published by ACLS and Oxford University Press in 1999. ANB Online, launched in 2000, is a regularly updated resource, now offering over 18,300 biographies. 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. Nineteen volumes of the edition have been published, along with two editions of a calendar of the correspondence, a calendar of Dar- win’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 editor. The project maintains a website (see 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 NEH, NSF, The Andrew W. Mellon Founda- tion, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In the United Kingdom, long-term funding has been secured that will ensure the completion of this massive project in 2022. Prospects: NSF and NEH support is assured through 2013. 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: The annual report and the Haskins Prize Lecture are published in print and in pdf (downloadable from the ACLS website). Audio and/or video of the lectures are available in the growing multimedia collection on the ACLS website (see www.acls.org/multimedia), which also includes audio of annual meeting program sessions. The ACLS website is regularly updated and expanded, and we are active on many social media sites. Confidential extranets for the CAO (CAONet) and for the Board of Directors (BoardNet) are similarly updated to serve those groups. Activity: The ACLS Annual Report, 2011-2012 was published in March. Work is underway on a rede- sign of the website to be introduced at the time of the annual meeting.

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 2012 meeting was hosted by the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Discussions at that meeting focused on media training, annual meetings as social/political statements, association management companies, records management and archives, and maximizing the potential of the CAO. The group also heard a report from Stephen Kidd, executive director of the National Humani- ties Alliance, on the advocacy activities of the organization and the outlook for federal humanities funding. (The meeting included a reception at the Country Music Hall of Fame and visits to the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium and The Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson.) Information on the 2012 meeting (including agenda and participants list) and on previous CAO meetings is available on the ACLS website (see www. acls.org/societies/cao_mtgs).

Learned Society Archives ACLS society representatives attended a one-day workshop at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hol- low, New York in June 2012. The Center’s staff organized the workshop for learned societies concerned with the management and curation of their association’s historical record. The workshop covered how to manage records with future archival preservation in mind, factors to consider in selecting an archival depository, what to expect when negotiating with an archive, and current thinking on the best practices for archiving born-digital material. Representatives from 17 societies attended the workshop, along with ACLS staff. The materials presented at the workshop were made available to the CAO on the extranet.

Data collection A Census Committee has been formed to initiate an effort to collect information on the finances, management, and organizational structure of ACLS member societies. 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; Victoria Long, Society for Music Theory; Amy Newhall, Middle East Studies Association of North America; Michael Paschal, Association for Asian Studies; Pauline Saliga, Society of Architectural Historians; Stephen Stuempfle, Society for Ethnomusicology; and Kent Williamson, College Forum of National Council of Teachers of English.

Learned Society Leadership Seminars The eighth leadership seminar took place on September 10, 2012. The workshop was conducted by Katha Kiss- man, who provides interim leadership for nonprofit organizations and consults on nonprofit organizational development.

Future CAO Meetings 2013 Fall Meeting: November 14-17 Host: Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau ($400 subsidy of airfare)

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