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ORANGE: 0C 53M 100Y 0K | GREY: PANTONE 431 The American Council of Learned Societies is a private, nonpro t federation of national scholarly organizations. The Council consists of a 15-member board of directors and one delegate from each constituent society. The principal administrative ocer of each society participates in the Conference of Administrative Ocers (CAO).

CONTENTS

1 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 SUMMARY OF 2012 2013 ACTIVITIES 10 ACLS MEMBER LEARNED SOCIETIES 12 2013 PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE COUNCIL 20 2013 INDIVIDUAL GIVING TO ACLS 25 2013 ACLS FELLOWS AND GRANTEES 41 SELECTION COMMITTEES FOR 2012-2013 FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT COMPETITIONS 44 ACLS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, JUNE 30, 2013 AND 2012 63 ACLS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 64 ACLS STAFF

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633 THIRD AVENUE ISSN 00657972 NEW YORK, NY 10017-6795 ANNUAL REPORT, 20122013 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013) T: 212-697-1505 The cover features the 71 member societies of ACLS. Copyright © 2014 F: 212-949-8058 American Council of Learned Societies

www.acls.org DIRECTION: CANDACE FREDE

GREY: PANTONE 431 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, I am pleased to present our 2012–13 annual report. For over 90 years, ACLS has advanced the humanities by strengthening connections among learned societies, convening leaders to address issues facing the academic community, and awarding fellowships to support research and scholarly innovation. What follows in these pages is a brief summary of ACLS’s activities from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.

The past year was marked by expansion of our fellowship programs to serve growing areas of scholarly inquiry, particularly in the inter- national sphere. In 2013, ACLS announced the inaugural cohorts of pre- and postdoctoral fellows of the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies. This interdiscipli- nary initiative is designed to allow U.S.-based scholars in the early stages of their careers to ACLS President Pauline Yu gain access to archival and scholarly resources in China. Besides providing fellow- ships, the program also fosters collaborative approaches to foundational texts of Chinese culture by funding reading workshops that bring scholars together from a variety of humanistic disciplines. In addition, ACLS forged a new partnership with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation to launch a suite of programs to support research in the field of Buddhist studies. This new set of fellowship and grant programs is truly international in scope: scholars from all national backgrounds are eligible to apply for funding to pursue their research anywhere around the world. I look forward to reporting to you next year on the results of the first competition, which promises to encourage diverse approaches to the study of Buddhist philosophy and practice.

While the past year brought welcome new additions to our programs, I will also note that 2013 serendipitously offered many opportunities to reflect on ACLS’s longstanding engagement with issues of critical importance to the humanities. My participation this past year as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, a task force convened at the behest of a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, was a contemporary reprise of earlier efforts. Five decades ago, led by then-president Frederick Burkhardt, ACLS joined with the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council of Graduate Schools in the to form the Commission on the Humanities. Arguing eloquently for the vital importance of the humanities to the public interest, the commission produced a report that spurred Congress to establish the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. (I encourage you to read the report, which is available on our website.) www.acls.org/publications/ We might also look back 20 years further, to 1943, when ACLS established a special NEH/1964_Commission_on_the_ Humanities.pdf Committee on the Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas. The committee drew on the scholarly expertise of ACLS member societies to guide Allied Forces in preserving www.acls.org/about/ the cultural heritage endangered by the war’s devastating spread through Europe, monuments_men North Africa, and Asia. Ultimately, the fruits of the committee’s labors, which included www.acls.org/talks detailed maps of cultural sites and guides to preserving endangered art and artifacts,

1 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT CONTINUED would be put to heroic use by the famous Monuments Men in their efforts to locate and repatriate the cultural treasures plundered by the Nazis. The many ongoing conflicts in the world today are potent reminders that we must continue to build the deep humanistic knowledge and expertise necessary to understand and preserve endangered cultures. ACLS fellowships in support of research in the humanities are doubly important for this reason, as are our Digital Innovation Fellowships, which have funded scholars building tools to map and recover artifacts in the field, and our Public Fellows program, through which humanities Ph.D.s may take up posi- tions at nonprofits and government agencies, thereby demonstrating the value of doctoral study in many spheres of activity.

One last historical note: ACLS is quickly approaching the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1919. As we plan for a second century of supporting advanced research in the humanities, strengthening the practices of rigorous peer review and scholarly self-governance, and fostering new generations of scholars, it is critical that we build upon past achievements so that we can aid scholars for years to come.

2 INTRODUCTION

The American Council of Learned Societies provides the humanities and related social sciences with leadership, opportunities for innovation, and national and international representation. ACLS was founded in 1919 to represent the United States in the Union Académique Internationale. Its mission is “the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.”

3 FE LLOW SHIPS ACLS fellowships and grants awarded to individuals in the humanities and related social sciences are a core component of our effort to advance humanistic scholarship. The fellowship enterprise is driven by the intellectual initiative of the individual, allowing for the broadest range of research topics to be considered. In the 2012–2013 competition year, ACLS made awards totaling $15.3 million to more than 300 scholars selected from nearly 4,000 sub- mitted applications. Support was offered through 12 discrete programs, 10 of which focus on U.S.-based scholars and two of which are open to scholars based abroad. ACLS fellows are selected through rigorous peer review. In 2012–2013, ACLS drew on the expertise of more than 600 scholars for this purpose.

Top: ACLS Board of Directors member Teofilo F. Ruiz with ACLS Fellow Ruha Benjamin at the 2013 annual meeting in Baltimore. Right: ACLS Public Fellows with Nicole A. Stahlmann, former director of fellowships (third from right), and Program Officer John Paul Christy.

ACLS fellowship programs include: • ACLS Fellowships, our central program, for research toward a significant scholarly work • Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships, for advanced assistant professors • Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars, for work on a long-term, unusually ambitious project at a national research center • ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships, for teams of scholars working on a common project • ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, for work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form • ACLS New Faculty Fellowships, for recent Ph.D.s to take up two-year positions at U.S. universities and colleges (in its final competition year) • ACLS Public Fellows program, placing recent Ph.D.s in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, for advanced doctoral students www.acls.org/fellows/new • Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

4 Left: The journals of ACLS member societies, which foster high-quality, peer-reviewed research in the humanities.

Right: American Academy of Religion executive director Jack Fitzmier, chair of the Conference of Administrative Officers Executive Committee, speaking to the CAO in Nashville.

ACL S MEMB ER S OCIETIES The 71 learned societies that are members of ACLS are national or international organizations in the humanities and related social sciences. The executive directors of ACLS member societies meet as the Conference of Admin istrative Officers (CAO), which serves as the primary vehicle for maintaining and enhancing relationships among societies. It convenes twice each year to address the concerns of humanistic scholars—especially issues related to maintaining and improving conditions for research, education, and communication in the academic community.

The 2012 fall CAO meeting was held in Nashville, Tennessee. President Pauline Yu and Jack Fitzmier of the American Association for Religion, serving as chair of the CAO Executive Committee, offered opening remarks. Over the course of the three- day meeting, the group participated in sessions on records management and archival work, association management companies, media relations, and force majeure contract clauses and other factors impacting annual conventions. Stephen Kidd, executive director of the National Humanities Alliance, reported on NHA’s advocacy activities and the outlook for federal humanities funding.

The 2013 spring meeting was held on the final day of the ACLS annual meeting in Baltimore. The group learned of progress on a new census designed to capture data on the state of member societies, the results of which are expected to inform programming for the 2014 annual meeting. Representatives from two organizations spoke about initiatives in web-based scholarly communication: MLA Commons, a networking site for members of the Modern Language Association whose open-source platform will be extended to other scholarly organizations, and JPASS, a subscription plan from ITHAKA providing underserved researchers access to JSTOR’s archives of society journals, which will be made available to members of ACLS societies. As part of the group’s efforts to broker services for society administration, information was provided on group insurance and legal www.acls.org/societies/work services options.

5 Left: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow Scott Feinstein, whose research is on “The Political Foundations of Secession, Stability and Chaos: Russia, Moldova, and Ukraine.”

Right: American Research in the Humanities in China Fellow Jeehee Hong is studying Chinese funerary art, 1000-1400.

I NTERNATIONAL SCHOL ARSHIP ACLS supports scholarship internationally through fellowship competitions for Americans to study other world areas, for scholars from other countries to do work in situ or to travel, and for collaborations across borders.

In 2012–2013, the African Humanities Program (AHP), funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, held its fifth annual competition, awarding eight disserta- tion and 25 postdoctoral grants in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, and bringing the total number of awards made to 190. The AHP also sponsored a number of related benefits to fellows, including residencies for writing and manuscript-development workshops.

With funds from the Henry Luce Foundation, ACLS in 2012–2013 initiated a multi- year China Studies Program, awarding seven postdoctoral fellowships to American China specialists, 14 travel grants for graduate students to make predissertation visits to research sites and host institutions in China, and four grants for collab- orative reading workshops for interdisciplinary examination of key texts in the languages of China. In addition, ACLS continued competitions for American Research in the Humanities in China, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds North American scholars for research in China, and for Compara tive Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society, a program funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, which supports planning meetings, workshops, and conferences on topics in Chinese studies that adopt a cross-cultural or comparative perspective. The Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam, a subsidiary organization of ACLS, administers and supports educational and academic exchanges between Vietnam and the United States.

ACLS organized a competition in 2012–2013 for graduate students at U.S. universities to complete dissertations in East European studies, making eight awards. ACLS www.acls.org/programs/ continues to sponsor the research quarterly East European Politics & Societies international and Cultures.

6 Left: Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art Jill Bugajski with a rare 1943 hand-painted poster designed by Charles Keller.

Right: The 2013 annual meeting plenary session focused on “MOOCs, the Humanities, and Learned Societies.” (See inside back cover for panelists’ names and affiliations.)

S CHOL ARLY COMMUNICATION Since its founding, ACLS has funded major studies on scholarly communication and supported the creation of landmark scholarly publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book, an online collection of more than 4,000 digitized titles in the humanities, accessible by subscription, continues to grow by several hundred books per year. These are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. The collection is developed in collaboration with 30 learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division of the University of Michigan Library.

The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by Frederick H. Burkhardt, president emeritus of ACLS and general editor of the project until his death in 2007. All known letters to and from Charles Darwin will be published in an edition of 32 volumes. Funding sufficient to complete the entire edition was recently secured from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Evolution Education Trust, and the Isaac Newton Trust. Volume 20, containing the letters Darwin wrote and received in 1872, was released in 2012. The project’s website offers a full-text search of more than 7,500 of Darwin’s letters and information on another 7,500. ACLS continues to fund the print and online components of the American National Biography (ANB). The ANB was published in a 24-volume set in 1999; ANB Online is a regularly updated resource currently offering over 19,000 biographies. Entries originally www.humanitiesebook.org published in ANB Online have been published in two supplementary volumes. General Editor Susan Ware is working with a national advisory board on professional outreach www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ and recruitment of authors, and identification of subjects, as well as collaborating with www.anb.org Oxford University Press on improving the user experience on ANB Online.

A NNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies brings together delegates and administrative officers of our member societies, representatives of institutional associates and affiliates, and friends of ACLS from foundations, govern- ment agencies, and institutions and organizations across the academic and public humanities. The 2013 annual meeting was held on May 9–11 in Baltimore.

7 Left: ACLS Board of Directors at the 2013 annual meeting. (See inside back cover for members’ names and affiliations.)

Right: Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, delivered the 2013 Prize Lecture in Baltimore.

In her Report to the Council (the full text of which appears on pages 12–18), President Yu took note of several current efforts to frame the value of the humanities to liberal education and to the public interest in general. The ACLS Public Fellows program, she reported, was an effort to provide postdoctoral opportunities for new Ph.D.s while also exemplifying their value to fields outside of academia. Two informal sessions considered the significance of open access for both the scholarly community and the wider public, and changing funding patterns in international and area studies. The meeting’s plenary session was devoted to the burgeoning phenomenon of MOOCs, and in particular their ramifications for the humanities, learned societies, and the higher education model. The session was moderated by ACLS board chair James J. O’Donnell of Georgetown University, who was joined by panelists Jeremy Adelman of Princeton University, Howard Lurie of edX, and Jennifer Summit of Stanford University. Three recent ACLS fellows spoke about their work as it exemplifies emerging themes and methods of humanities research.

The 2013 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture on “A Life of Learning” was delivered by Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. Professor Alter’s lecture offers a personal account of his long scholarly engagement with some of the most evocative stories of Western litera- ture. At the same time, his account is a potent reminder of the impact that one scholar’s life of learning can have on generations of students, fellow scholars, and, indeed, a www.acls.org/annual_meeting public whose very culture stems from, and is held together by, shared narrative. www.acls.org/pubs/haskins Videos of annual meeting sessions and Haskins Prize Lectures are available in the www.acls.org/media media collection on the ACLS website.

F UNDING ACLS is funded by foundation and government grants, endowment income, annual subscriptions from university and college associates (including the ACLS Research University Consortium, a select group of associate members who have committed to providing additional financial support to ACLS), dues from constituent societies and affiliates, and individual gifts. In 2012–2013, ACLS received nearly $15 million www.acls.org/funding from foundation and government agencies to support program activities.

8 MEMB ER SOCIETIES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF L EARNED SOCIETIES

9 ACL S MEMB ER L EARNED SOCIETIES year of founding (year admitted to ACLS)

African Studies Association, 1957 (1990) Bibliographical Society of America, 1904 (1929) American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780 (1919) College Art Association, 1911 (1942) American Academy of Religion, 1909 (1979) College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English, American Anthropological Association, 1902 (1930) 1911 (1996) American Antiquarian Society, 1812 (1919) Dictionary Society of North America, 1975 (1994) American Association for the History of Medicine, 1925 (2002) Economic History Association, 1940 (1967) American Comparative Literature Association, 1960 (1974) German Studies Association, 1976 (1995) American Dialect Society, 1889 (1962) Hispanic Society of America, 1904 (1973) American Economic Association, 1885 (1919) History of Science Society, 1924 (1927) American Folklore Society, 1888 (1945) International Center of Medieval Art, 1956 (2000) American Historical Association, 1884 (1919) Latin American Studies Association, 1966 (1990) American Musicological Society, 1934 (1951) Law and Society Association, 1964 (1997) American Numismatic Society, 1858 (1937) Linguistic Society of America, 1924 (1927) American Oriental Society, 1842 (1920) Medieval Academy of America, 1925 (1927) American Philological Association, 1869 (1919) Metaphysical Society of America, 1950 (1958) American Philosophical Association, 1900 (1920) Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1966 (1988) American Philosophical Society, 1743 (1919) Modern Language Association of America, 1883 (1920) American Political Science Association, 1903 (1920) National Communication Association, 1914 (1997) American Schools of Oriental Research, 1900 (1998) National Council on Public History, 1979 (2002) American Society for Aesthetics, 1942 (1950) North American Conference on British Studies, 1950 (2007) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1969 (1976) Organization of American Historians, 1907 (1971) American Society for Environmental History, 1977 (2004) Renaissance Society of America, 1954 (1958) American Society for Legal History, 1956 (1973) Rhetoric Society of America, 1968 (2008) American Society for Theatre Research, 1956 (1975) Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 1970 (1990) American Society of Church History, 1888 (2001) Society for American Music, 1975 (1995) American Society of Comparative Law, 1951 (1995) Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 1959 (1990) American Society of International Law, 1906 (1971) Society for Ethnomusicology, 1955 (1966) American Sociological Association, 1905 (1919) Society for French Historical Studies, 1956 (1993) American Studies Association, 1950 (1958) Society for Military History, 1933 (2010) Archaeological Institute of America, 1879 (1919) Society for Music Theory, 1977 (2000) Association for Asian Studies, 1941 (1954) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1911 (2003) Association for Jewish Studies, 1969 (1985) Society for the History of Technology, 1958 (1973) Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Society of Architectural Historians, 1940 (1958) 1948 (1984) Society of Biblical Literature, 1880 (1929) Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, 1968 (1991) Society of Dance History Scholars, 1979 (1996) Association of American Geographers, 1904 (1941) World History Association, 1982 (2011) Association of American Law Schools, 1900 (1958)

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10 2013 PRESIDENT’S R EPORT

TO THE C OUNCIL

11 2013 PRESIDENT’S R EPORT TO THE C OUNCIL President Yu delivered this report at the ACLS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 11.

It is a pleasure to welcome you to Baltimore. This great mission of the public university in terms that still city is renowned for many reasons. Not least of which resonate today. But Hopkins was to be a new model of is that it is the home of the Baltimore Orioles, the parent higher education in North America. The purpose of the team of my beloved Rochester Red Wings for 42 years. university, Gilman maintained, was “the acquisition, But there are other reasons as well. 199 years ago, con servation, refinement and distribution of knowl- Francis Scott Key penned the verses of “The Star- edge. . . . It is the universities,” he declared “which edit, Spangled Banner” on a ship in the harbor outside during interpret, translate and reiterate the acquisitions of the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Many impor- former generations both of literature and science. Their tant cultural personalities called Baltimore home over revelation of error is sometimes welcomed but it is the years. There is Edgar Allan Poe, who is buried not generally opposed; nevertheless the process goes on, far from here. For many years, on the anniversary of his indifferent alike to plaudits and reproaches.”3 death, an anonymous admirer left on his grave a rose The Johns Hopkins University experiment was not just and a half-empty bottle of brandy—evermore. And of a new institutional form for doctoral education, based course there is also John Waters, the creator and largely on German models with the graduate seminar director of the movie Hairspray and many other films as the driving engine; the university was also the in which the odd and marginalized subvert the smoth- seedbed of many of our learned societies, such as the ering stasis of respectability. American Historical Association, the Modern Language Waters was preceded in the first decades of the last Association, and the American Economic Association. century by H. L. Mencken, the caustic “Sage of Baltimore,” The research university and the modern learned society who occupied what is probably now an unfilled role: were born together and bound together in a common critic, commentator, public intellectual, and aggressive project: valorizing the research enterprise and the idea tormentor of the anti-intellectual. In 1926, Walter of the teacher-scholar. Lippmann wrote that Mencken was “the most powerful The new research universities also saw themselves as personal influence on this whole generation of educated a public knowledge project. When people.” Mencken was known for his sharp retorts. recruited prominent faculty to the new University of When asked why, if he disliked American politics so he often promised them the resources to much, did he stay in the country, Mencken replied publish two journals, one scholarly and one public. “Why do people go to the zoo?” When the president of One of our member societies takes the same approach a university worried that the cause of a rash of under- today: the magazine Archaeology Today is the popular graduate suicides was reading “too much Mencken,” sibling of the American Journal of Archaeology, both Mencken replied that suicides among college presi- published by the Archaeological Institute of America. dents would be the best possible improvement for Other ACLS societies have launched efforts in different American higher education.1 More recently, Baltimore media such as the MLA’s radio program What’s the Word? was featured as the setting for the television drama (which produced over 300 programs in 1997–2010), or the The Wire, a gripping and bracing depiction of indi- new “Archipedia” of the Society of Architectural Histori- vidual dignity struggling against the urban despair of ans, an online source of information about significant the drug trade. buildings of the United States. One question we will But probably the most important point of Baltimore’s confront at this meeting is the degree to which we can history relevant to our enterprise today is that this is think of MOOCs as a vehicle for public knowledge. where the American research university was born, How is this overarching project of the research univer- with the founding of The Johns Hopkins University in sity faring today? What is the place of our fields in it? 1876. This was, according to sociologist of knowledge Later this month, I will be speaking at a conference at Edward Shils, “perhaps the single most decisive event the University of Michigan on the future of the liberal in the history of learning in the Western hemisphere.”2 arts in the research university. The conference organizers Hopkins’ first president, Dwight Coit Gilman, had have suggested that Hanna Holborn Gray’s Searching served previously as the first president of the University for Utopia might be a springboard for discussion. This of California, and in that position he had articulated the collection of her 2009 Clark Kerr Lectures focuses

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mostly on two intertwined strands of the DNA of universities in general remains very strong and . . . the liberal education as exemplified by two great prophets tendency to see all imperfections or problems as inevi- of the research university: tably fatal is absurdly excessive.” 5 of the and Clark Kerr of the I could not agree more; nevertheless, Gray goes on to University of California. state that “public perceptions of universities seem little I cannot do justice here to Hanna Gray’s nuanced treat- affected by what universities say about themselves.” ment of these thinkers, but I would like to focus on two This may be, but I think we need to try. The public points of her analysis. First, the ambitious educational may not accept the self-conceptions of the academy, but projects and visions of a Hutchins or a Kerr are limited that is all the more reason for us to redouble our efforts and shaped by even greater social, political, and to put the case in new terms. We should distill the economic forces, especially as those forces are mediated argument, not water it down. by the proximate factors of university politics and Some of you may have heard presi- faculty ideas. Second, these limitations do not neces- dent Christine Paxson address the annual meeting of sarily spell defeat, for a project can succeed against the National Humanities Alliance this past March in these forces if it maintains a strong normative core. Washington, D.C., where she considered, from an Hanna Gray chose “Utopia” as a title to denote the economist’s standpoint, how to measure the value of high-level aspirations of educational reformers. But the humanities. Among her many excellent points, and she also grounds it with reference to Thomas More’s I encourage those of you who missed her speech to Utopia of 1516. What was the place of education and read the transcript in its entirety online, Paxson learning in his imaginary? More, Gray notes, placed emphasized that a broad and capacious research enter- the learned in a prominent role, but in the public prise is the best preparation for an unpredictable sphere, not the university. On his island of Utopia there future. As she put it, “We do not always know the are no formal institutions of instruction, no campuses future benefits of what we study and therefore we or cloisters; instead, the wise and well-spoken deliver should not rush to reject some forms of research as less public lectures to all comers. Not online, certainly, but deserving than others. We certainly want to know that openly, and to the masses. benefits will accrue from all of the research and conversations taking place on a lively college campus. In More’s own words: But we should be prepared to accept that this value All the void time that is between the hours of may be difficult to measure and may not be clear for work, sleep and meat, that they be suffered to decades or even centuries.” bestow, every man as he liketh best himself. . . . [They may] bestow the time well and thriftily Let me share with you some important efforts currently upon some other science as shall please them. underway to make clear the public value of the For it is a solemn custom there, to have lectures humanities. daily early in the morning [given by those] Many of you may know that members of both houses chosen and appointed to learning . . . Howbeit, a of Congress asked the American Academy of Arts and great multitude of every sort of people, both men Sciences to form a commission to identify actions that and women, go hear lectures, some one and government agencies, civil society partners, and the some another, as every man’s nature is inclined.4 education community can take to main tain national Perhaps one can see in More’s description the outlines excellence in the humanities and social sciences. I am of the earliest imagined not-for-credit MOOCs: Medieval one of the 54 members of this commission, which Open Opinionated Conversations. met three times over the past year in cities across the U.S. to consider how to bolster the humanities Turning to the very real university of today, Gray notes and social sciences in our country. In addition, at that, “To read the literature on higher education over six forums organized across the country, members of the past fifty years is to discover a litany of perpetual the commission received testimony from individuals alarm and imminent catastrophe.” But she counsels and institutional representatives about the importance wisely that despair is unwarranted, for “the state of our

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of the humanities to their communities, to their local listening sessions. I am happy to announce that the economies, indeed, to the very social fabric of our Academy will release the recommendations of the increasingly globalized and interconnected world. commission’s report on June 19th, and I look forward to the discussion that the report will engender. For Glenna Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of now I want to highlight one thing that the report does Oklahoma, spoke last September at a session high- particularly well: it firmly situates the humanities, lighting the importance of the humanities and social along with the social sciences and physical and biolog- sciences not just as the product of academic labor but ical sciences, into a holistic liberal arts curriculum. as a vital force in public life. The commission’s website The report does not pit the humanities and social has a video recording of Chief Wallace’s remarks, sciences against the sciences as competitors for ever during which she speaks quite poignantly about the unequal portions of university resources and federal debilitating losses suffered by her tribe over the past dollars. Indeed, the commission demonstrates how the 200 years. I would like to quote just a bit of it here. various fields of learning have come to lend vitality to In that loss, do we really realize what was taken each other and to foster creativity across disciplines. away from us? In my opinion, it can be summa- rized in the word “humanities.” Our language In addition to the rollout of the commission’s recom- was taken from us, our dress was taken from mendations, I am also happy to report that the National us, our hairstyles were taken from us, our Humanities Alliance, now under the able direction of religion was taken from us, our culture was Stephen Kidd, has done excellent work to promote the taken from us, our freedom to express ourselves value of the humanities to a variety of audiences, including was taken from us. I’ve been sitting here and some very important constituencies in Washington. In listening and it seems to me that the emphasis an atmosphere in which brevity and bulleted talking is upon how much does it cost to provide the points are essential to the toolkit of advocacy, the NHA humanities and I say to you from my experience has done well to focus in on four important benefits of I think that question should be turned around the humanities on civil society. and say what is the cost of not providing 1) First, the humanities promote opportunity for all humanities. And I can tell you that . . . [w]e Americans, as a basic component of the broad-based, have found that our people are not able to hold lifelong liberal arts education that should form the jobs because in many cases they don’t know who they are, they don’t have an identity, they basis of opportunity for all Americans. have had a spirit taken away from them. Our 2) Second, the humanities foster innovation and economic success with our people comes when we are competitiveness, by cultivating a broadly-educated able to give that identity back, when we are able workforce ready to compete in the knowledge-based, to give that spirit back to them, when we are global economy of the twenty-first century. able to give the humanities, to provide them. We do not know our history, and if the humani- 3) Third, the humanities ensure productive global ties are not funded, we will not know our engagement, by providing deep language profi- history of what happened.6 ciency, historical knowledge, and cultural literacy that are critical to productive diplomatic and Chief Wallace puts it very powerfully: many in our economic engagement with the world. society take the humanities for granted, but if we do not support them, foster them, advocate for them, we 4) Fourth and finally, they strengthen the practice of will surely feel it when they are lost. As Dick Brodhead, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, by president of and co-chair of the com- promoting reasoned, informed dialogue that is mission pointed out last year at the National Humanities critical to productive civic life. Alliance, “The humanities may be cheap to provide for, The ACLS Public Fellows program is one of our but they are costly to put at risk.” Wallace’s testimony is fellowships that underscores, by its very function, the but one of many eloquent arguments for the humanities value that advanced training and learning in the that emerged from the commission’s cross-country

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humanities can bring to the public sphere. ACLS which is financial stringency. As this fellowship developed Public Fellows three years ago to provide program continues to exemplify what are sometimes postdoctoral, practical fellowships at institutions in considered nontraditional employment paths for government and the nonprofit sector for carefully Ph.D.s, it can shorten or eliminate what is for some a selected humanities Ph.D.s interested in pursuing needless and unwanted detour. careers outside the classroom by choice, rather than As the Public Fellows program enters its third year, we circumstance. We launched the program with two key are gratified to see its initial successes. The program goals in mind. First, we wanted the program to high- has grown each year, starting with eight fellows in the light to partnering institutions the value of employing first, and 13 in the second; now 20 fellows will be skilled and accomplished young scholars from a variety placed in the third. Awareness of the program has of disciplines and educational backgrounds. Some spread among aspiring Ph.D.s and host organizations employers, such as our partners at the State Department alike. This year, applications to the program more than or Human Rights Watch, have been eager to draw on doubled. Another promising sign is that many of our more specialized knowledge that humanities Ph.D.s learned societies are pursuing complementary paths acquire in their study, such as language skills, inter- toward broadening the career horizons of humanists. cultural breadth, and understanding of different reli- In the past year, both the American Historical gious or historical traditions. But all humanities Ph.D.s Association and the Modern Language Association possess analytical, research, and communication skills devoted significant space in their annual meeting that are in all too short supply. Their ability to sift and programs to issues related to nontraditional career synthesize the avalanche of information that now paths for recent Ph.D.s. The societies have long played cascades through the networked world has become an important and active role in aiding scholars in their increasingly crucial. professionalization. As they increasingly embrace and As we anticipated, reports from the first two cohorts of legitimize non-academic career options for Ph.D.s, and Public Fellows are showing just how quickly the as more talented and industrious humanities scholars fellows’ supervisors and colleagues have come to value forge new paths in alternative and non-academic what humanities Ph.D.s bring to these positions. We sectors, the public’s valuation of humanistic training repeatedly hear from representatives at partnering can only grow. Both AHA and MLA have also received organizations about our fellows’ ability to “read into” grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to organizational culture by reviewing and analyzing explore this issue further. We look forward to working existing work products at the host organization, which with them and others to reassert and reinforce the allows them to adapt to unfamiliar communication public value of the humanities Ph.D. styles and work processes. The habit of searching out The ideal relationship between intellectual pursuit and and reviewing a wide variety of materials is a reflex pursuing a career, wherever it may take you, is of many fellows say they developed as they conducted course on the minds of all of you gathered here today, doctoral-level research. not merely because so many of you are called on to A second goal of the Public Fellows program, which advise your own undergraduate and graduate students builds on the first, is to expand the reach of doctoral who feel the creeping pressure of an inhospitable job education in the United States by demonstrating that market. Recently, the musicologist Don Randel, former the capacities developed in the course of attaining a president of the University of Chicago, and, more Ph.D. have wide application both within and beyond recently, of the Mellon Foundation, wrote about the the academy. As much as our fellows in the field are many possible answers to the question, “Why study convincing our non-academic organizational partners musicology?” This question can become quite pointed, of the value of their degrees, the Public Fellows with parents worried about future careers for their program must also help convince the academic children, and politicians feeling pressed to enact policy community to broaden its conventional ideas of the with only the shortest-term economic returns in mind. ideal Ph.D. career path. This is especially important as Although Randel did not doubt that the students doctoral education is likely to be reshaped significantly trained as musicologists have skills immediately trans- in the coming years by several forces, not the least of ferable to a number of careers, he noted that the value

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of studying musicology was less in “the specific tech- the Luce Foundation, with whom we began a new nical aspects of musicological training but the values fellowship program this year, and the Chiang that underlie that pursuit. I have always thought that if Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly there must be deans and provosts and presidents I Exchange, as well as generous individuals, like want them to have my values. This has led me to be a Professor Donald J. Monro of the University of dean of arts and sciences, a provost, a university presi- Michigan, who created a fund for the study of Chinese dent, and . . . a foundation president, jobs that have not philosophy, and the friends of the late Professor Frederic left much time for musicology but that have enabled E. Wakeman, Jr. of the University of California, Berkeley, me to apply both the values and the intellectual tools I whose gifts support fellowships on the history of China. developed as a musicologist. These are values and If one definition of the humanities is the study of how habits of mind that can be lived in activities well humans create and convey meaning, then it is easy to beyond academe. The more the better.”7 see why the study of religion is one of the core concerns of the humanities. Another field-shaping initiative was This year, we have seen a transition in Mellon’s lead- the ACLS Committee on the History of Religions, which ership, and soon we will see a transition at our great helped make the comparative study of different faith public humanities effort, the National Endowment for traditions the focus of academic inquiry. Religious tradi- the Humanities. We all will have an opportunity to tions are, almost by definition, rooted in history, but honor Jim Leach when he speaks to us at our luncheon, they are not merely fixed intellectual artifacts, for they so now let me just briefly note how fortunate we have are continuously reflected upon, interpreted anew, and been to have had such a humane man leading the applied to contemporary problems and concerns. humanities. We continued discussions with the Ho Foundation’s We at ACLS value all of our philanthropic partners, able staff, and I had the opportunity to meet with the and I am pleased that we have a new one: the Robert foundation’s board this past March. Following these H. N. Ho Family Foundation. The Ho Foundation is a very productive and collegial exchanges, I am new philanthropy based in Hong Kong and estab- delighted to announce today the new Robert H. N. Ho lished by the generosity of a family with deep roots in Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies at ACLS. This that great city. You may have seen the announcement new program will offer pre-doctoral and postdoctoral in March of the foundation’s gift of $10 million to the fellowships, grants for collaborative research, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to endow a new funds for colleges and universities wishing to host curatorial position in contemporary Asian art. visiting professorships in Buddhist studies. We will Bringing contemporary Chinese creativity to global open the first competition for these awards in July and audiences is one of the foundation’s interests, but so make the first selections next March. I should empha- is preserving and interpreting the cultural monu- size that this new venture will be our first truly global ments of the past. Another of the foundation’s signifi- program: it will be open to applications from scholars cant donations supported restorations of Beijing’s throughout the world with no restrictions as to citi- Forbidden City. zenship or site of research. I want to thank the Ho I first visited the Ho Foundation’s offices in 2011 to Foundation for its confidence in the ACLS. This is a explore the possibility of working together. Our welcome opportunity to enact the ideals of a truly discussions quickly focused on the foundation’s borderless scholarship. interest in Buddhist studies, a commitment that most The focus of the new Ho Foundation program points to recently had led to the creation of the Ho Center for another important dimension of the public value of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the the humanities: they are the repository of knowledge endowment of a professorship there. This interest of traditions, practices, and thoughts distant in time resonated with our Council’s long and deep experi- and space from us. Princeton historian Anthony ence: As we often note, at its first meeting in 1920, the Grafton made this point very well in the deliberations Council specified work in China studies as a priority of the Commission on the Humanities and Social for the nascent ACLS, and those efforts continue to Sciences when he wrote: flourish today, thanks to such generous supporters as

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A substantial part of humanistic work has value and dignity of the individual. . . . Anything to do with preservation: preserving languages, that promotes human individuality . . . is a truly preserving skill in the authentication and inter- liberal or liberating agent, and hence of the pretation of works of art, preserving long-form, greatest value to our democracy. Whoever demanding expository writing. Of course, all of believes in democracy must believe in the value these areas also produce innovations: new peda- and dignity of the individual, and whoever gogies for classical languages such as Arabic, believes in this must believe that the disciplines Chinese, Greek and Latin, for example, as well as which deepen and personalize human individu- for the whole range of modern languages. But ality should be allotted a central role in a liberal there are central humanistic skills, largely tradi- curriculum.10 tional in nature, such as the editing and interpre- As I move to a conclusion, attentive listeners will notice tation of difficult texts in little-known languages, that I haven’t recited the catalog of very real challenges which American universities have fostered and facing the humanities and the academy in general. preserved. They are lamentably familiar to all of us, and at the top The humanities are also the repository of the means for of any list is the rise of policy frameworks that focus inquiring into the question of value. This is not to say on short-sighted vocationalism and instrumentalism, that they teach a catechism of received values. As rather than education and knowledge creation. We Robert Maynard Hutchins put it, “all attempts to teach know the problems, but I think we should see what our character directly will fail. They degenerate into vague opportunities are. Dwight Coit Gilman and the others exhortations to be good, which leave the bored listener who founded The Johns Hopkins University had the to commit outrages that would otherwise never have opportunity to build new structures and establish new occurred to him.”8 Former ACLS board chair Howard practices that would ignite the growth of knowledge. Mumford Jones wrote in 1959, “Perhaps nobody knows Our opportunity today is to conserve the structures how to make any human being better, happier, and and practices we know to be startlingly effective while more capable, but at the very least the humanities, also devising new modes producing knowledge that humane learning and humanistic scholarship help to can catalyze work of existing structures. sustain a universe of thought in which these questions We have in the last half-century seen many structural have meaning, and in which adults may have the innovations. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of opportunity to work out such problems for the report of the Commission on Humanities that helped themselves.”9 convince Congress to establish the National Endowment During World War II, an ACLS committee published a for the Humanities. Almost one-fifth of ACLS member book on the role of education in a threatened democ- societies have been founded since 1963. Add to that list racy. They premised their argument on the question of the humanities centers, digital humanities centers, and value, asserting that, state humanities councils that have been established The importance of liberal education can hardly as well. I imagine, however, that in the future innova- be exaggerated. The war which is now being tions are less likely to take on the form of creating new waged involves . . . a conflict between two radi- institutions and structures and more likely to be cally divergent philosophies . . . If democracy is adopting new practices. to make headway against authoritarianism, it What about the next 50 years? If the humanities are to must rely on a form of education which is as live out their full promise we must embrace the oppor- effective for the promotion of democratic ideals tunity to bring to the public perspectives on the great and the liberal spirit as propaganda has been demands of our time: embracing diversity, navigating effective for the achievement of authoritarian complexity, promoting creativity. We have the oppor- ends. . . . The humanities . . . perform a function tunity to conserve and make meaningful the heritage which justifies their being given a central place of past thought and human expression. We have the in liberal education in our democratic society. Basic to the American ideal is the belief in the opportunity, indeed the obligation, to bring forward

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insistent questions of value grounded in the vision of 1 Marion Elizabeth Rodgers: Mencken: The American Iconoclast individual human dignity that undergirds the humani- (New York: Oxford UP, 2005), 306–8. ties. We must never lose sight of what Shawnee leader 2 Edward Shils, “The Order of Learning in the United States: Glenna Wallace reminds us: that the humanities are The Ascendancy of the University,” in Alexandra Oleson and John Voss, eds., The Organization of Knowledge in Modern not an academic special interest but an essential America, 1860-1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979), 28. element of a vibrant and healthy society. 3 Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University: This is a very exciting project, and I am delighted that A History (New York: Vintage Books, 1962), 272–73. I will continue to work with you on it. I am deeply 4 Thomas More, Utopia (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 67. honored that the ACLS Board of Directors has offered 5 Hannah Holborn Gray, Searching for Utopia: Universities and me another term as president. I want thank the board, Their Histories (Berkeley: U of California P, 2011). the staff, and the whole community represented in this 6 The Heart of the Matter–A Film. American Academy of Arts and room for your confidence, support, and guidance. I Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, think our project is a great one, and I look forward to www.humanitiescommission.org/. working with you to maintain it. 7 “‘What I Do in Musicology’: Thoughts from the Field,” AMS Newsletter 43.1 (February 2013): 5, www.ams-net.org/newslet- ter/AMSNewsletter-2013-2.pdf. 8 Robert Maynard Hutchins, No Friendly Voice (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1936), 93. 9 Howard Mumford Jones, One Great Society: Humane Learning in the United States (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1959), 181. 10 Theodore M. Greene, Charles C. Fries, Henry M. Wriston, William Dighton, Liberal Education Re-Examined: Its Role in a Democracy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943), xiii, 69, 70.

18 2013 INDIVIDUAL GIVING TO THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF L EARNED SOCIETIES

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ACLS gratefully acknowledges donations from the individuals and foundations whose names appear below. ACLS is also deeply appreciative of the matching gifts from those organizations listed. Contributions credited to the ACLS Fellowship Fund are also used to match a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These efforts continue a successful campaign launched in 1997 to augment the endowment devoted to fellowships and the number and size of fellowship stipends that the endowment can fund. In 2013, ACLS received individual contributions of more than $233,000. Contributions may be designated to specific funds that honor individuals whose work has advanced scholarship and/or to a general fund that supports the work of ACLS. Designated gifts are denoted as follows:

• ACLS/John H. D’Arms Fund, dedicated to supporting the ACLS Fellowship Program and initiatives identified with former ACLS President John H. D’Arms’s leadership in the humanities; • ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowship in American History; • ACLS/Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fund for fellowships in Chinese history; • Contributions in memory of the late Frederick H. Burkhardt, president emeritus of ACLS, to support The Correspondence of Charles Darwin; and • ACLS General Fund to support the work of ACLS overall.

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Funded by the ACLS ACL S FELLOW SHIPS Fellowship Endowment ELIZABETH ANDERSON, Professor, Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Moral Epistemology from a Pragmatist Perspective: Case Studies from the History of Abolition and Emancipation ANDREA S. BACHNER, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University (Professor Bachner was Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, University Park at time of award.) Comparison at the Margins: Latin America and the Sinophone World SELIM BERKER, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, The Rejection of Epistemic Consequentialism DEBORAH A. BOEHM, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Gender, Race, and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno Return(ed): Transnational Mexicans in an Age of Deportation KATHERINE BRADING, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Theoretical Physics as a Contribution to Philosophy MARY KATHERINE CAMPBELL, Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mormon Porn: Charles Ellis Johnson’s Stereographic Sinners and Latter-day Saints CATHERINE CANGANY, Assistant Professor, History, University of Notre Dame An Empire of Fakes: Counterfeit Goods in Eighteenth-Century America HUEY COPELAND, Associate Professor, Art History, In the Arms of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice SUZANNE G. CUSICK, Professor, Music, New York University Men Hearing Women in Medicean Florence MICAELA DI LEONARDO, Professor, Anthropology, Northwestern University Grown Folks Radio: The Black Elephant in the American Public Sphere LAWRENCE ROBERT DOUGLAS, Professor, Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College The End of Something: Demjanjuk in Munich ANDREW ELFENBEIN, Professor, English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The Gist of Reading JACOB EYFERTH, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago (Professor Eyferth has been designated an ACLS/Frederic Wakeman Fellow.) Cotton, Gender, and Revolution: The Political Economy of Handloom Cloth in Maoist China HUSSEIN FANCY, Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mercenary Logic: Muslim Soldiers in the Service of the Crown of Aragon, 1265–1374 KENNETH A. FONES-WOLF, Professor, History, West Virginia University Struggle for the Soul of the Post-World War II South: Evangelical Protestantism, White Workers, and the CIO’s Operation Dixie GLENDA E. GILMORE, Professor, History, A Homeland of His Imagination: Romare Bearden’s Southern Odyssey in Time and Space MICHEL GOBAT, Associate Professor, History, University of Iowa Forgotten Empire: U.S. Manifest Destiny Expansion by Sea, 1848–1860 MICHAEL GORHAM, Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida Russia’s Digital Revolution: Language, New Media, and the (Un)making of Civil Society LENORE A. GRENOBLE, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, University of Chicago Contact-induced Change and Attrition: The Linguistic Impact of Russian MARK A. HEALEY, Assistant Professor, History, University of Connecticut Waterscapes of Power in the Dry Lands of Argentina, 1880–1980 DAVID R. HERNANDEZ, Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Notre Dame The Discovery and Excavation of the Roman Forum at Butrint (Albania): Urbanism in Ancient Epirus www.acls.org/awardees from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A.D.

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MARTHA S. JONES, Associate Professor, History, Afroamerican and African Studies, Law, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Overturning Dred Scott: Race, Rights and Citizenship in Antebellum America LORI KHATCHADOURIAN, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University The Satrapal Condition: Archaeology and the Matter of Empire BEN F. KIERNAN, Professor, History, Yale University Cambodia, A History: From Agriculture to Angkor to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal MARY A. KNIGHTON, Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, College of William and Mary (Professor Knighton has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Insect Selves: Posthumanism in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture VLADIMIR KULIC, Assistant Professor, Architecture, Florida Atlantic University (Professir Kulic has been designated an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Building Between Empires: Yugoslav Architecture in the Cold War Networks REGINA G. KUNZEL, Professor, History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University (Professor Kunzel was Professor, History and Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities at time of award.) In Treatment: Mental Illness, Health, and Modern Sexuality JANE LANDERS, Professor, History, Vanderbilt University African Kingdoms, Black Republics, and Free Black Towns across the Iberian Atlantic MARIXA LASSO, Associate Professor, History, Case Western Reserve University Building La Zona: Landscaping Urban Development in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1914 GEORG B. MICHELS, Professor, History, University of California, Riverside Popular Revolt, Religion, and the Habsburg-Ottoman Border in Seventeenth-Century Hungary CRISTANNE MILLER, Professor, English, State University of New York, Buffalo Emily Dickinson’s Poems, As She Retained Them—A New Reading Edition QUINCY MILLS, Assistant Professor, History, Vassar College (Professor Quincy has been designated an Oscar Handlin Fellow.) The Wages of Resistance: Financing the Black Freedom Movement KATHLEEN S. MURPHY, Assistant Professor, History, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Slaving Science: Natural Knowledge and the British Slave Trade, 1660–1807 SUSAN D. MURRAY, Associate Professor, Media, Culture and Communication, New York University Brought to You in Living Color: A Cultural History of Color Television MATTHEW O’HARA, Associate Professor, History, University of California, Santa Cruz The History of the Future in Mexico KEVIN LEWIS O’NEILL, Assistant Professor, Study of Religion, University of Toronto Securing the Soul: Christianity and Delinquency in Guatemala CORINNE O. PACHE, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, Trinity University Remembering Penelope SUE PEABODY, Professor, History, Washington State University Slavery and Emancipation in the Indian Ocean World: A Family Biography GUSTAV PEEBLES, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, The New School Debtors’ Paradises and Debtors’ Prisons: The Laws and Flaws of Estate Planning Through the Ages JOANNA M. PICCIOTTO, Associate Professor, English, University of California, Berkeley “Union without End”: The Physico-Theological Vision HILARY PORISS, Associate Professor, Music, Northeastern University Writing a Musical Life: Pauline Viardot RUSSELL POWELL, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Boston University Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity: A Philosophical Exploration of the Biotechnology Revolution

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DAVID M. ROBINSON, Professor, History, Colgate University Empire’s Shadow: The Ming Court in Eurasia HEATHER F. ROLLER, Assistant Professor, History, Colgate University (Professor Roller has been designated as an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Contact Strategies: Independent Indians in the Brazilian Borderlands, 1700–1800 DAROMIR RUDNYCKYJ, Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria, Canada Homo Economicus or Homo Islamicus?: Malaysia and the Globalization of Islamic Finance D. FAIRCHILD RUGGLES, Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shajar al-Durr: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a Thirteenth-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen ANDREA RUSNOCK, Professor, History, University of Rhode Island The Birth of Vaccination: An Environmental History PRIYA SATIA, Associate Professor, History, Stanford University Guns: The British Imperial State and the Industrial Revolution LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT, Professor, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis Public Atheism: An American History SUSAN SCHNEIDER, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Connecticut The Mind-Body Problem: Rethinking the Solution Space JEFFREY S. SELINGER, Assistant Professor, Government and Legal Studies, Bowdoin College Making Parties Safe for Democracy: Political Development and the Lineage of Legitimate Party Opposition in the United States YARON SHEMER, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Professor Shermer has been designated as an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) Neighboring Identities: The Jew in Arab Cinema DANIEL A. SHORE, Assistant Professor, English, Georgetown University Cyberformalism: The History of Syntactic Forms in the Digital Archive TRACY STEFFES, Assistant Professor, Education, Brown University Shifiting Fortunes: City Schools and Suburban Schools in Metropolitan Chicago, 1945–2000 MICHAEL D. SWARTZ, Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University Ritual Theory and Religious Professionalism in Judaism in Late Antiquity JENNIFER TAPPAN, Assistant Professor, History, Portland State University (Professor has been designted as an ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellow.) “A Healthy Child Comes From A Healthy Mother”: Malnutrition and Motherhood in Uganda, 1920–2012 EDWARD VAZQUEZ, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture ELVIRA LÓPEZ VILCHES, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, North Carolina State University Doing Business: Commerce and Mercantile Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World MARGARET WALLER, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College Napoleon’s Closet: The Emperor, the Clergy and the Fashion Press ROXANN WHEELER, Associate Professor, English, Ohio State University Slaves, Servants, and British Literature, 1660–1830 DAVID WOLFSDORF, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Temple University Greek Eudaimonism and Modern Morality XIAOSHAN YANG, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame Wang Anshi and the Song Poetic Sensibility TARA ZAHRA, Associate Professor, History, University of Chicago Exodus from the East: Emigration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the “Free World,” 1889–1989 ELYA JUN ZHANG, Assistant Professor, History, University of Rochester Foreign Money and the Chinese State: A Loan Story, 1865–1949

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Funded by C HARL ES A. RYSK AMP R ESEARCH F E LLOW SHIPS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation DAVID C. ALBERTSON, Assistant Professor, Religion, University of Southern California Figures of the Invisible: Geometrical Icons in Early Modern Christianity PENELOPE ANDERSON, Associate Professor, English, Indiana University, Bloomington Humanity in Suspension: Gender and International Law in Seventeenth-Century Literature IRUS BRAVERMAN, Associate Professor, Law, State University of New York, Buffalo Managing (Wild)Life: Integrating the Management of Nature and Captivity KEITH L. CAMACHO, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Indigeneity on Trial: Colonialism, Law, and Punishment in America’s Pacific Empire NERGIS ERTURK, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Communism, Translation, and the Literatures of Revolution STEFANOS NIKOLAOU GEROULANOS, Assistant Professor, History, New York University The ‘New Man’: Conceptual and Cultural History of a European Fantasy, 1880–1940 JEFFREY EDWARD GREEN, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania The Plebeian Addendum to Liberal Democracy CATHERINE A. MOLINEUX, Associate Professor, History, Vanderbilt University African Sovereignty in the British Atlantic World, 1580–1807 ANDREW MONSON, Assistant Professor, Classics, New York University The Ancient Tax State: A New Fiscal History of the Hellenistic World SARAH MOSS, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Epistemology Formalized: A Theory of Degreed Knowledge ELLEN MUEHLBERGER, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Moment of Reckoning: Death and Violence in Late Ancient Christian Culture RAMNARAYAN S. RAWAT, Assistant Professor, History, University of Delaware A New History of Democracy: Dalit Spaces, Printing, and Practices in Twentieth-Century North India ELLEN R. WELCH, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Spectacles of State: Diplomacy and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France

Funded by FREDERICKB URK HARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOW S H I P S F O R The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation RECENTLY TENURED SCHOL ARS BARBARA R. AMBROS, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Shamans, Nuns, and Demons: Women in Japanese Religions EDYTA BOJANOWSKA, Associate Professor, Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Empire and the Russian Classics JESSICA BRANTLEY, Associate Professor, English, Yale University The Medieval Imagetext: A Literary History of the Book of Hours CATHERINE M. CHIN, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California, Davis Incarnate Language in Christian Late Antiquity CHRISTIAN DE PEE, Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Visible Cities: Text and Urban Space in Middle-Period China, Eighth through Twelfth Centuries LYLE MASSEY, Associate Professor, Art History, University of California, Irvine Woman Inside Out: Gender, Dissection and Representation in Early Modern Europe ELLEN STROUD, Associate Professor, Growth and Structure of Cities, Bryn Mawr College Dead as Dirt: An Environmental History of the American Corpse CAROL SYMES, Associate Professor, History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Public Acts: Performance, Popular Literacies, and the Documentary Revolution of Medieval Europe JUDITH TONHAUSER, Associate Professor, Linguistics, Ohio State University Content and Context in the Study of Meaning Variation

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Funded by ACL S DIGITAL INNOVATION F E LLOW SHIPS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation STEPHEN BERRY, Professor, History, University of Georgia CSI Dixie: Race, the Body Politic, and the View from the South’s County Coroners’ Offices, 1840–1880 ALISON BOOTH, Professor, English, University of Virginia The Practice and Theory of Digital Prosopography: Collective Biographies of Women and the Biographical Elements and Structure Schema GREGORY DOWNS, Associate Professor, History, City University of New York, City College Mapping Occupation: The Union Army and the Meaning of Reconstruction WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, Professor, English, University of Georgia Computer Simulation of Speech and Culture as a Complex System ERIC E. POEHLER, Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Resource DIANA TAYLOR, Professor, Performance Studies, Spanish, New York University The Politics of Passion: A Digital, Bi-lingual Scholarly Book Focusing on the Art and Activism of Jesusa Rodríguez TED UNDERWOOD, Associate Professor, English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes

Funded by ACL S CO LLAB ORATIVE R ESEARCH F E LLOW SHIPS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation HEATHER BLURTON, Associate Professor, English, University of California, Santa Barbara HANNAH JOHNSON, Associate Professor, English, University of Pittsburgh Ethics, Criticism, Anti-Semitism: Chaucer’s Prioress and the Jews PHILLIPPE BOURGOIS, Professor, Anthropology, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania LAURIE HART, Professor, Anthropology, Haverford College Cornered: The Everyday Experience of U.S. Inner-City Poverty in the Early Twenty-first Century STEFANOS NIKOLAOU GEROULANOS, Assistant Professor, History, New York University TODD MEYERS, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Wayne State University The Whole on the Verge of Collapse: Shock, Balance, and Disequilibrium in Physiology and Related Disciplines during and after WWI MICHAEL EDWARD KULIKOWSKI, Professor, History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park GAVIN A.J. KELLY, Associate Professor, Classics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland A Landmark Ammianus Marcellinus MEGAN R. LUKE, Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Southern California SARAH B.H. HAMILL, Assistant Professor, Art History, Oberlin College Sculpture and Photography: The Art Object in Reproduction JEFFREY J. ROSSMAN, Associate Professor, History, University of Virginia LYNNE A. VIOLA, Professor, History, University of Toronto Stalin’s Great Terror: A Documentary History of Soviet Perpetrators TIMOTHY H. SILVER, Professor, History, Appalachian State University JUDKIN BROWNING, Associate Professor, History, Appalachian State University The Civil War: An Environmental History

Funded by ACL S NEW FACULTY FELLOWS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The 2013 New Faculty Fellows awards are for academic years 2013–2014 and 2014–2015. BROOKE BELISLE, Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley Appointed in Cultural Analysis and Theory at the State University of New York, Stony Brook RAD S. BORISLAVOV, Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Appointed in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University CHRISTOPHER M. BROWN, Ph.D., English, University of Maryland, College Park Appointed in English and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University

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RYAN LEE CARTWRIGHT, Ph.D., American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Appointed in American Studies at the University of California, Davis FELIPE GAITAN-AMMANN, Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University Appointed in Anthropology at the University of Chicago GLENDA GOODMAN, Ph.D., Music, Harvard University Appointed in History at the University of Southern California JULIA GUARNERI, Ph.D., History, Yale University Appointed in History at the University of Pittsburgh GOKCE GUNEL, Ph.D., Anthropology, Cornell University Appointed in Anthropology at Columbia University STEPHEN BOYD HEQUEMBOURG, Ph.D., English, Harvard University Appointed in English at the University of Virginia SARAH E. INSLEY, Ph.D., Classics, Harvard University Appointed in Classics at Brown University PATRICIA L. IRWIN, Ph.D., Linguistics, New York University Appointed in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania SUSAN N. JOHNSON-ROEHR, Ph.D., Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Appointed in Art at the University of Virginia SARAH KEYES, Ph.D., History, University of Southern California Appointed in History at the University of California, Berkeley KIRSTEN LENG, Ph.D., History and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Appointed in History and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University SHENGHAI LI, Ph.D., Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Appointed in South Asian Studies at Harvard University EMMA LIEBER, Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Appointed in Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University, New Brunswick DEIRDRE LOUGHRIDGE, Ph.D., Music, University of Pennsylvania Appointed in Music at the University of California, Berkeley BRONWEN CATHERINE MCSHEA, Ph.D., History, Yale University Appointed in History at Columbia University THERESA O’BYRNE, Ph.D., Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame Appointed in English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick JOHN SAVARESE, Ph.D., English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Appointed in English at the University of California, Berkeley CECELIA A. WATSON, Ph.D., Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago Appointed in Philosophy and the Program in the Humanities at Yale University GREGORY A. ZINMAN, Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University Appointed in Film at Columbia University

Funded by the ACL S PUBLIC FELLOWS The Andrew W. Mellon The 2012 Public Fellows are placed in staff positions at partnering agencies in government and Foundation the nonprofit sector for two-year appointments starting in summer 2012.

FRANCES ABBOTT, Ph.D., American Studies, Emory University Appointed as Project Manager, Digital Public Library of America ANNA J. ARMENTROUT, Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley Appointed as Associate Director for Special Projects, International Student Exchange Programs CHRISTOPHER A. BARTHEL, Ph.D., History, Brown University Appointed as Senior Manager for Academic and Public Programming, Center for Jewish History

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CAROLYN EISERT, Ph.D., History, Princeton University Appointed as Policy Analyst, Amnesty International ERIN EVANS, Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Appointed to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State/USAID LISA D. FELDKAMP, Ph.D., Classics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Appointed as Senior Coordinator, Science Communications, The Nature Conservancy JEANETTE GODDARD, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison Appointed as Program Manager, Chicago Humanities Festival LINDSAY N. GREEN-BARBER, Ph.D., Political Science, City University of New York, Graduate Center Appointed as Media Impact Analyst, Center for Investigative Reporting MOLLY O’HAGAN HARDY, Ph.D., English, University of Texas, Austin Appointed as Digital Humanities Curator, American Antiquarian Society LAUREN LEIGH HINTHORNE, Ph.D., Political Science, University of York, England Appointed to the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of State/USAID WENDY HSU, Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of Virginia Appointed as Arts Manager, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs JANE JOANN JONES, Ph.D., Sociology, New York University Appointed as Program Analyst, BronxWorks EMILY KANE, Ph.D., English, University of Georgia Appointed as Program Officer, Center for Global Education, Hobart and William Smith Colleges MARGARET H. KUNDE, Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Appointed as Program Evaluator, North Carolina General Assembly JAMES MANOS, Ph.D., Philosophy, DePaul University Appointed as Planning Associate, Vera Institute of Justice JAIME A. SHABALINA, Ph.D., Geography, University of Washington Appointed as Policy Advisor, CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) NINO TESTA, Ph.D., English, Tufts University Appointed as Development Associate, The Feminist Press RACHEL MARIE WIMPEE, Ph.D., French, French Studies, New York University Appointed as Program Officer, Rockefeller Archive Center JENNIFER SOLVEIG WISTRAND, Ph.D., Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis Appointed to the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of State BENJAMIN YOUNG, Ph.D., French and Romance Philology, Comparative Literature, Columbia University Appointed as Content Development Analyst, JSTOR

Funded by MELLON / ACL S DISSERTATION COMPL ETION FELLOW SHIPS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation BEGUM ADALET, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Mirrors of Modernization: The American Reflection in Turkey MARCUS P. A DAMS, Doctoral Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Mechanical Epistemology and Mixed Mathematics: Descartes’ Problems and Hobbes’ Unity ABIGAIL ANDREWS, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Negotiating Capitalism, Community, and Gender: Power and Agency in Two Streams of Mexican Migration MEGHAN C. ANDREWS, Doctoral Candidate, English Literature, University of Texas, Austin Shakespeare’s Networks EMILIA BACHRACH, Doctoral Candidate, Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin The Living Tradition of Hagiography in the Vallabh Sect of Contemporary Gujarat MICAELA K. BARANELLO, Doctoral Candidate, Musicology, Princeton University The Operetta Empire: Viennese Music Theater and Austrian Identity, 1900–1935

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ROBERT O. BEAHRS, Doctoral Candidate, Ethnomusicology, University of California, Berkeley Economies of Voice and the Politics of Transmission: Tuvan Khöömei Throat-Singing, 1981–2013 ALEXANDER BEVILACQUA, Doctoral Candidate, History, Princeton University Islamic Culture in the European Enlightenment BETH BLUM, Doctoral Candidate, English Literature, University of Pennsylvania Proverbial Modernism: Difficult Literature and the Self-Help Hermeneutic SUSAN HANKET BRANDT, Doctoral Candidate, History, Temple University Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740–1830 ANDREW BRICKER, Doctoral Candidate, English, Stanford University Producing and Litigating Satire, 1670–1760 PAUL A. BROYLES, Doctoral Candidate, English, University of Virginia Remapping Insularity: Geographic Imagination in Medieval English Romance DANIELLE CHRISTMAS, Doctoral Candidate, English, University of Illinois, Chicago Auschwitz and the Plantation: Labor and Social Death in American Holocaust and Slavery Fiction CLARA COHEN, Doctoral Candidate, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley Incorporating Abstract and Usage-based Information: The Effect of Syntactic Context on the Production of Morphemes J. BRENT CROSSON, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz Catching Power: Science, Spiritual Work and Altered Solidarities in Trinidad ADAM DAHL, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Empire of the People: The Ideology of Democratic Empire in the Antebellum United States CHRIS DONLAY, Doctoral Candidate, Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara A Grammar of the Kazo Language in Yunnan, China JATIN DUA, Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Regulating the Ocean: Piracy and Protection along the East African Coast ABIGAIL A. DUMES, Doctoral Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University Divided Bodies: The Practice and Politics of Lyme Disease in the United States STACY FAHRENTHOLD, Doctoral Candidate, History, Northeastern University The Global Levant: Making a Nation in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1913–1939 MADELEINE PATRICIA FAIRBAIRN, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison Betting the Farm: Speculation, Regulation, and the Creation of a Global Farmland Market SCOTT GRANT FEINSTEIN, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, University of Florida The Political Foundations of Secession, Stability and Chaos: Russia, Moldova, and Ukraine ARUNABH GHOSH, Doctoral Candidate, History, Columbia University To ‘Know’ the Nation: Statistics, Quantification, and State-Society Relations in the Early People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959 ANNA MARIE GIBSON, Doctoral Candidate, English, Duke University Forming Person: Narrative and Psychology in the Victorian Novel AGLAYA GLEBOVA, Doctoral Candidate, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley Visualizing Stalinism: Photography of the Early GULags JAMIE GREENBERG REULAND, Doctoral Candidate, Musicology, Princeton University Sounding Resemblances: Music and Ritual in Late-Medieval Venice and its Maritime Colonies, 1204–1450 LUKE HABBERSTAD, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley Courtly Institutions, Politics, and Status in Early Imperial China, 206 B.C.E–9 C.E. ELIZABETH HENNESSY, Doctoral Candidate, Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the Backs of Turtles: A Critical Geography of Evolution in the Galápagos Islands APRIL DAWN HUGHES, Doctoral Candidate, Religion, Princeton University Waiting for Darkness: Apocalyptic Eschatology in Early Medieval China JANG WOOK HUH, Doctoral Candidate, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Black Radicalism in Korea: The Poetics of Overlapping Dispossessions in Afro-Korean Literary Intersections, 1910–1953

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KRISTY IRONSIDE, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of Chicago The Value of a Ruble: A Social History of Money in Postwar Soviet Russia, 1945–1964 SAMANTHA G. IYER, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley The Paradox of Plenty and Poverty: A Political Economy of Food in Egypt, India, and the U.S., 1870s–1970s AARON GEORGE JAKES, Doctoral Candidate, History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University State of the Field: Agrarian Transformation, Colonial Rule, and the Politics of Material Wealth in Egypt, 1882–1922

ZENIA KISH, Doctoral Candidate, American Studies, New York University Investing for Impact: Philanthrocapitalism and the Rise of Ethical Finance MARY P. K UHN, Doctoral Candidate, English, Boston University The Garden Politic: Botany, Horticulture, and Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature JENNIFER LYNN LAMBE, Doctoral Candidate, History, Yale University Baptism by Fire: The Making and Remaking of Madness in Cuba, 1899–1980 HEATHER RUTH LEE, Doctoral Candidate, American Studies, Brown University Consuming Labor: Migration and Mobility of Chinese Restaurant Workers in New York City, 1894–1965 PHILIPP N. LEHMANN, Doctoral Candidate, History, Harvard University The Threat of the Desert: Colonial Climatology, Theories of Desiccation, and Climate Engineering, 1870–1950 PRISCILLA LEIVA, Doctoral Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California Bigger Stadiums, Better Futures? The Cultural Politics of Difference and Civic Identity in Postwar Urban Imaginaries HUWY-MIN LUCIA LIU, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, Boston University Dying Socialist in Capitalist Shanghai: Ritual, Governance, and Subject Formation in Urban China’s Modern Funeral Industry NIDHI MAHAJAN, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University Securing the Present, Unsettling the Past: Trade and Control on the Swahili Coast TIMOTHY S. MILLER, Doctoral Candidate, English, University of Notre Dame Closing the Book on Chaucer: Medieval Theories of Ending and the Ends of Chaucerian Narrative KATE NOLFI, Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Understanding Epistemic Normativity ZEYNEP OZGEN, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Schooling, Islamization, and Religious Mobilization in Turkey INTAN PARAMADITHA, Doctoral Candidate, Cinema Studies, New York University The Wild Child’s Desire: Cinema, Sexual Politics, and the Experimental Nation in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia GIULIO PERTILE, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature, Princeton University Literature and the Limits of Consciousness in the Renaissance ANDREI PESIC, Doctoral Candidate, History, Princeton University The Enlightenment in Concert: The Concert Spirituel and Religious Music in Secular Spaces, 1725–1790 AMANDA PHILLIPS, Doctoral Candidate, English, University of California, Santa Barbara Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games NAOMI RUTH PITAMBER, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, University of California, Los Angeles Re-Placing Byzantium: Laskarid Urban Environments and the Landscape of Loss, 1204–1261 SARA PROTASI, Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy, Yale University Envy: Varieties, Evils, and Paradoxes ANNIE RUDD, Doctoral Candidate, Communications, Columbia University The Hidden Camera and the Aesthetics of Authenticity in Documentary Photography, 1880–1945 SARA SAFRANSKY, Doctoral Candidate, Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Promised Land: The Politics of Abandonment and the Struggle for a New Detroit

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SARA SALJOUGHI, Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies and Film Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Burning Visions: The Iranian New Wave and the Politics of the Image, 1962–1979 BENJAMIN A. SALTZMAN, Doctoral Candidate, English and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley Holding the Sacred: Discourses of Secrecy and Concealment in Early Medieval England, 600–1100 SUZANNE L. SCHULZ, Doctoral Candidate, Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, Austin Lucknow Screens: Cinema and the Everyday State in Postcolonial India CHRISTOPHER SHIRLEY, Doctoral Candidate, English, Northwestern University Reading by Hand: Manuscript Poetry and Readerly Identities in Renaissance England JAMES PATRICK STEICHEN, Doctoral Candidate, Musicology, Princeton University George Balanchine in America: Institutions, Economics and Aesthetics of the Nonprofit Performing Arts, 1933–1954 SIRI SUH, Doctoral Candidate, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Boundaries at Work: Practicing Abortion Care at the Intersection of Medicine and Law in Senegal AARON SULLIVAN, Doctoral Candidate, History, Temple University In the Jaws of the Lion: Loyalty and Liberty in Occupied Philadelphia ANGELA SUTTON, Doctoral Candidate, History, Vanderbilt University Mercantile Culture of the Slave Trade: Piracy and Broken Monopolies in the African Atlantic World, 1621–1720 MAGGIE TAFT, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, University of Chicago Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960 STACEY VAN VLEET, Doctoral Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and the Medical Marketplace of Qing China STACEY VANDERHURST, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, Brown University Sheltered Lives: Sex, God, and Mobility in Nigeria’s Counter-Trafficking Programs CHRISTINE WALKER, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor To Be My Own Mistress: How Women in Jamaica Shaped the British Empire, 1660–1760 EMILY M. WANDERER, Doctoral Candidate, History, Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Remaking Mestizaje in the Age of the Biological: An Ethnography of Biological Invasion and Nation-Building in Mexico KEVIN WHALEN, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Riverside Beyond School Walls: Labor, Mobility, and Indian Education in Southern California, 1902–1940 NAOMI R. WILLIAMS, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Workers United: The Labor Movement and the Shifting U.S. Economy, 1950s–1980s SUNNY XIANG, Doctoral Candidate, English, University of California, Berkeley Asia’s Unreliability: Literary and Historical Positings of the Asian Human from the American Century to the Pacific Century SUNNY YANG, Doctoral Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania Fictions of Territoriality: Legal and Literary Narratives of U.S. Imperial Contestation Zones, 1844–1914

Funded by the L UCE / ACL S DISSERTATION FELLOW SHIPS IN AMERICAN ART Henry Luce Foundation CLARA ELIZABETH BARNHART, Doctoral Candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis A New Unity: Montage in the Murals of Ben Shahn and Stuart Davis in the 1930s United States SARAH D. BEETHAM, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, University of Delaware Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865–1917 JILL E. BUGAJSKI, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, Northwestern University Totalitarian Aesthetics and the Democratic Imagination in American Art, 1933–1947

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EMILY RUTH CAPPER, Doctoral Candidate, Art History and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago Allan Kaprow’s Formalism: Composing Pedagogy and Mixed Media in the Postwar American University KATELYN D. CRAWFORD, Doctoral Candidate, Art, University of Virginia Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750–1780 KLINT ERICSON, Doctoral Candidate, Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sumptuous and Beautiful, As They Were: Architectural Form, Everyday Life, and Cultural Encounter in a Seventeenth-Century New Mexico Mission FAYE R. GLEISSER, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, Northwestern University Guerrilla Tactics: Performance Art and the Aesthetics of Resistance in the United States, 1967–1987 LAURA TURNER IGOE, Doctoral Candidate, Art History, Temple University The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia ERIN K. PAUWELS, Doctoral Candidate, History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington Sarony’s Living Pictures: Performance, Photography and Gilded Age American Art D. JACOB RABINOWITZ, Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Public Construction: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence

Funded by the A FRICAN H UMANITIES P ROGRAM Carnegie Corporation of New York D ISSERTATION F E LLOW SHIPS GODSON AHORTOR, Doctoral Candidate, Study of Religions, University of Ghana Soteriological Beliefs and Ethical Values of the Tongu Mafi People GEORGE KATOTO AMBINDWILE, Assistant Lecturer, History, University of Dar es Salaam Market-Driven Rice Farming and Environmental Changes in the Usangu Plains-Tanzania, 1945–2000 KAYODE AYOBAMI ATILADE, Lecturer II, Francophone African Literature, University of Ibadan Towards Deconstructing Home in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Novels: A Critical Discourse Analysis SALISU BALA, Program Coordinator, Nigeria Arabic Manuscript Project (NAMP), History, Ahmadu Bello University History of Origin, Spread and Development of Tijjaniyyah Sufi Order in Hausaland: Case Study of Zaria City c. 1835–1935 HARRIET NAJJEMBA, Doctoral Candidate, History, Makerere University Utility of Indigenous Agricultural knowledge in Food Production: Buganda from the Late Eighteenth Century to 1997 GREG ORJI OBIAMALU, Lecturer I, Linguistics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Aspects of the Morphosyntax of Igbo Functional Categories: A Minimalist Approach ABAYOMI OLUSEYI OGUNSANYA, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of Ibadan Hausa Migrants, Communication Strategies and Place-Making in Sabo, Sagamu, Southwest Nigeria MORUFU BUKOLA OMIGBULE, Assistant Lecturer, Literature-in-English, Obafemi Awolowo University Representations of Mythic Realities in Selected Annual Ritual Festivals in Ile-Ife

P OSTDOCTORAL FE LLOW SHIPS OLUWAKEMI ABIODUN ADESINA, Lecturer I, History and International Studies, Osun State University “Runaway Wives” of Yoruba Chiefs and the Narratives of Women’s Sexuality in Colonial Nigeria ESTHER SERWAAH AFREH, Lecturer, English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Metaphor and Creativity in Ghanaian Magazine Advertising AKINMADE TIMOTHY AKANDE, Senior Lecturer, English, Obafemi Awolowo University Multilingual Practices in Nigerian Army Barracks HARRIE UVIETOBOR BAZUNU, Lecturer I, Fine and Applied Arts, Delta State University Igun N’ Ugboha (Ugboha Blacksmiths): The Unsung Benin Empire Builders

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JOANNA BOAMPONG, Lecturer, Modern Languages, University of Ghana Accounting for Hispanophone Perspectives in New African Writing: Sefi Atta, Fatou Diome and Guillermina Mekuy DEVALERA NANA BOTCHWAY, Senior Lecturer, History, University of Cape Coast The “Craft of Bruising” and Azumah “Ring Professor” Nelson: A Social History of Ghanaian Boxing GRACE DIABAH, Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Ghana Representation of Gender Identities in Ghanaian Commercial Adverts: Sustaining or Challenging Gender Stereotypes? FLORENCE EBILA, Lecturer, Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University Gender and Nationalism in African Women’s Political Autobiographies: The Case of Wangari Muta Maathai, Elizabeth Bagaaya Nyabongo and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf REBECCA HODES, Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Medicine, Institute for the Humanities in Africa (Huma) The Medical History of Abortion in South Africa, c. 1950–2010 FOLASADE OYINLOLA, Hunsu, Lecturer I, English, Obafemi Awolowo University Engendering an Alternative Approach to Reading Otherness in African Women’s Autobiography ADEDIRAN DANIEL IKUOMOLA, Lecturer I, Sociology and Anthropology, Adekunle Ajasin University Socio-historical Conception of Albinism and the Corollary Effect on Albinos’ Sexuality in Southwestern Nigeria ANGELUS ANGELO KAKANDE, Senior Lecturer, Industrial Art and Applied Design, Makerere University Surviving as Entrepreneurs: Contemporary Ugandan Art and the Era of Neoliberal Reform PAMELA KHANAKWA, Research Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University Carving Men and Nationhood: Struggles in Male Circumcision among the Bagisu in Twentieth-Century Uganda DINA ADHIAMBO LIGAGA, Lecturer, Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand Reading the Public Script: Mediation of Everyday Life in Kenyan Popular Media GERALD CHIKOZHO MAZARIRE, Senior Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, History and International Studies, Stellenbosch University Chishanga: Landscape, History and Memory in Southern Zimbabwe, c. 1750-2000 ADEBAYO MOSOBALAJE, Lecturer I, English, Obafemi Awolowo University Erotic Music, Women and the Contemporary Yoruba Society NAMBALIRWA HELEN NKABALA, Assistant Lecturer, Religions and Peace Studies, Makerere University Understanding the Use of Old Testament Texts by the Lord’s Resistance Army OKECHUKWU CHARLES NWAFOR, Lecturer II, Fine and Applied Arts, Nnamdi Azikiwe University The Fabric of Friendship: Aso Ebì and the Moral Economy of Amity in Nigeria ‘ IFEYINWA GENEVIEVE OKOLO, Lecturer, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Lokoja Sexual Violation of Men in Selected African Prose Fiction HENRI AJAYI ORIPELOYE, Lecturer I, English/Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University Representations of Exile in Anglophone West African Poetry JORDAN SAMSON RENGSHWAT, Lecturer, Historical Theology, Theological College of Northern Nigeria The Sudan United Mission British Branch, 1934–1977: An Examination of the Mission’s Indigenous Church Policy KAYODE MICHAEL SAMUEL, Research Fellow/Lecturer I, Music, University of Ibadan The Challenge of Gender: Emergence of Female Drummers among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria MOSES TERHEMBA TSENONGU, Senior Lecturer, English, Benue State University Historicizing the Literatures of Minority African Cultures through Biography: The Case of Tiv Oral Poetry EVASSY AMANDA TUMUSIIME, Lecturer, Visual Communication and Multimedia, Makerere University Art and Gender: Imag[in]ing the New Woman in Contemporary Ugandan Art EMMANUEL CHUCKWUEMENAM UMEZINWA, Lecturer II, Music, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Collection, Notation and Analysis of Ezenduka’s Compositions and their Significance in Igbo Liturgical History (1962–2012)

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Funded by the L UCE / ACL S PROGRAM IN CHINA STUDIES Henry Luce Foundation P REDISSERTATION SUMMER G RANTS IN C HINA S TUDIES SELDA ALTAN, Doctoral Candidate, History, New York University The French Railroad Project in Yunnan and Everyday Politics of Labor in Early Twentieth-Century China KYOUNGJIN BAE, Doctoral Candidate, History, Columbia University Objects of Taste and Knowledge: Chinese Furniture between London, Batavia, and Canton in the Long Eighteenth Century TRISTAN BROWN, Doctoral Candidate, History, Columbia University The Western Muslim Frontier Corridor in the Making of Modern China, 1684–1928 AUSTIN DEAN, Doctoral Candidate, History, Ohio State University A Coin for China? Minting Money and Modernity in the Late Qing Dynasty, 1870–1912 JIN LI, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Treasure, Conversion and Subjectivity: The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Post-Communist China ZHIYING MA, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago Intimate Politics and Ethics of Care: Mental Health Law Reform and Family Practices in Contemporary China THOMAS PTAK, Doctoral Candidate, Geography, University of Oregon Small is Beautiful: Dam Construction and the Hydropolitics of Energy Development in Yunnan, China ERIC SCHLUESSEL, Doctoral Candidate, History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University The Muslim Emperor of China: Legal Cultures and Ritual Regimes in Reconstruction Xinjiang, 1877–1933 AMELIA SCHUBERT, Doctoral Candidate, Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder Impacts of Female Out-Migration on Ethnic Korean Communities in China YUBIN SHEN, Doctoral Candidate, History, Georgetown University Global Networks and the Making of Tropical Medicine in Modern China, 1910–1980 MYRA SUN, Doctoral Candidate, Modern Chinese Literature, Columbia University Cover to Cover: Editing, Authorship, and the Media Making of New Literature in Republican China, 1916–1937 CHEN-CHENG WANG, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Irvine The Politics of Local Statecraft in Nationalist China ANGELA WU, Doctoral Candidate, Communication, Northwestern University Uses of the Chinese Internet: Everyday Media Practices and Political Subject-Formation among China’s Early Web Surfers TAOMO ZHOU, Doctoral Candidate, History, Cornell University International and Transnational China during the Cold War: People’s Republic of China and Indonesia, 1949–1967

P OSTDOCTORAL FE LLOW SHIPS IN C HINA S TUDIES DANIEL ASEN, Assistant Professor, History, Rutgers University (Professor Asen was Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University of Pittsburgh at time of award.) On the Case with the Coroners of Beijing: Law, Science, and City Life in Modern China LIANA CHEN, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, George Washington University Staging the Empire: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1662–1924 MATTHEW ERIE, Postdoctoral Fellow, International and Regional Studies, Princeton University The Prophet and the Party: Shari’a and Sectarianism in China’s Little Mecca MICHAEL HATHAWAY, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Simon Fraser University Emerging Matsutake Worlds: Markets, Science and Nature in Southwest China PAIZE KEULEMANS, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Princeton University Idle Chatter: The Productive Uses of Gossip in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature

37 2013 FELLOW S AND GRANTEES OF T HE A MERICAN C OUNCIL OF LEARNED S OCIETIES CONTINUED

JUDD KINZLEY, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Staking Claims to China’s Borderland: Oil, Ores, and State Building in Xinjiang, 1893–1964 SHELLEN WU, Assistant Professor, History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Geography and the Fate of Chinese Civilization: the Rise of Geopolitical Discourse in Twentieth-Century China

CO LLAB ORATIVE R EADING WORK SHOP G RANTS IN C HINA S TUDIES BEVERLY BOSSLER, Professor, History, University of California, Davis Letters in Late Song China (1160–1270) RODERICK CAMPBELL, Assistant Professor, East Asian Archaeology and History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University The Huayuanzhuang Oracle-bones in Context JACK CHEN, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles CHRISTOPHER M. B. NUGENT, Associate Professor, Asian Studies, Williams College Reading, Information, and Quantification in Traditional China TINA LU, Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Xu Wei (1521–1590)

Funded by the COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON C HINESE C UL TURE Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for AND S OCIETY International Scholarly KATHLENE TERESA BALDANZA, Assistant Professor, History, Pennsylvania State University, Exchange University Park ERICA F. BRINDLEY, Associate Professor, History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Conference on “Maritime Frontiers in Asia: Indigenous Communities and State Control in South China and Southeast Asia, 2000 B.C.E. to 1800 C.E.,” April 12–13, 2013, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park GORDON H. CHANG, Associate Professor, History, Stanford University Workshop on “The Chinese Railroad Workers of North America Project,” September 2013, Stanford University JANET MUIFONG DUDLEY, Professor, English, City University of New York, College of Staten Island Workshop on “On China’s Margin? The Emergence of an ‘East Asian’ Culture,” May 8–11, 2013, The Graduate Center, City University of New York ANDREA S. GOLDMAN, Professor, History, University of California, Los Angeles Planning Meeting on “Rethinking Ritual: Chinese Performance in Asian Historical and Comparative Contexts,” August 15–16, 2013, University of California, Los Angeles ARI DANIEL LEVINE, Associate Professor, History, University of Georgia Conference on “Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China,” October 4–6, 2013, Heidelberg University FLORA SAPIO, Research Associate, Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Workshop on “Changes in Criminal Justice: Comparing the PRC, Taiwan and South Korea,” June 15–16, 2013, The Chinese University of Hong Kong NETINA TAN, Assistant Professor, Political Science, McMaster University, Canada Workshop on “Political Representation of Women in Asia,” October 3–5, 2013, McMaster University

Funded by the AMERICAN RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES IN CHINA National Endowment for the Humanities JEEHEE HONG, Assistant Professor, Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400 TIMOTHY R. SEDO, Assistant Professor, History, Concordia University, Canada Expelling Locusts in Late Imperial China: Environmental Governance, Statecraft, and the Creation of the Public Good (1100–1850 C.E.)

38 2013 FELLOW S AND GRANTEES OF T HE A MERICAN C OUNCIL OF LEARNED S OCIETIES CONTINUED

YUDRU TSOMU, Assistant Professor, History, Lawrence University Migration, Settlements and Community Formation: Han Chinese Immigrants in Eastern Tibet MEIGIN WANG, Associate Professor, Art, California State University, Northridge From the Countryside to the City: The Urban Turn of Contemporary Chinese Art RICHARD G. WANG, Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida Daoism and Local Society in Ming China SHENGQING WU, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University Emotion in Transit: Text and Image in China from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century

Funds appropriated E AST E UROPEAN S TUDIES P ROGRAM by the U.S. Congress and administered by MALGORZATA K. BAKALARZ, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, New School the U.S. Department The Stranger Comes (Back) to Town: The Restitution of Jewish Property and Civil Society in Southeast of State Poland. MICHAEL DEAN, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Berkeley What the Heart Unites, the Sea Shall Not Divide: Claiming Overseas Czechs for the Nation, 1848–1914 FILIP ERDELJAC, Doctoral Candidate, History, New York University Croatian Nation-Building and World War II: Everyday Nationalism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Ustasha State, and the Postwar Republic of Croatia, 1934–1948 CRISTINA FLOREA, Doctoral Candidate, History, Princeton University Czernowitz: City of Dreams at the Crossroads of Empires, 1875–1975 SANJA KADRIC, Doctoral Candidate, History, Ohio State University The Foundation Myth of Bosnian Muslims: The Devsirme in Ottoman Bosnia KRISTINA MARKMAN, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of California, Los Angeles Between Two Worlds: A Comparative Study of the Representation of Lithuania in Late Medieval German and Russian Chronicles KATALIN FRANCISKA RAC, Doctoral Candidate, History, University of Florida Orientalism for the Nation: Jews and Oriental Scholarship in Modern Hungary DAVE WILSON, Doctoral Candidate, Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles Making Music, Making Space: Musicians, Scenes, and Alternative Ideologies in the Republic of Macedonia

39 SEL ECTION COMMITTEES FOR 2012-2013 FELLOW S H I P A N D GRANT COMPETITIONS

40 SEL ECTION COMMITTEES FOR 20122013 FELLOW S H I P AND GRANT COMPETITIONS

ACL S FELLOW SHIPS TIMOTHY ALBORN, City University of New York, DANE KENNEDY, George Washington University Lehman College ADEEB KHALID, Carleton College IAN BAUCOM, Duke University JENNIFER LACKEY, Northwestern University ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN, University of British RICHARD LEPPERT, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Columbia, Canada LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP, University of North Carolina, DONALD DONHAM, University of California, Davis Chapel Hill DAVID ENG, University of Pennsylvania DONALD MITCHELL, Syracuse University MICHAEL FORSTER, University of Chicago DONALD PEASE, Dartmouth College LESLEY GILL, Vanderbilt University VINCENT PECORA, University of Utah URSULA HEISE, University of California, Los Angeles HARRIET RITVO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ANNE HIGONNET, Barnard College JENNIFER ROBERTSON, University of Michigan, PAUL JASKOT, DePaul University Ann Arbor ELLEN KAISSE, University of Washington RUTH STONE, Indiana University, Bloomington JANE KAMENSKY, Brandeis University LINDA WILLIAMS, University of California, Berkeley

CHARL ES A. RYSK AMP RESEARCH FELLOW SHIPS EMILY APTER, New York University KRISTA THOMPSON, Northwestern University DEREK COLLINS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ANAND YANG, University of Washington ELIZABETH POVINELLI, Columbia University

FREDERICK B URK HARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOW S H I P S F O R RECENTLY TENURED SCHOL ARS MIA BAY, Rutgers University, New Brunswick MICHAEL LEJA, University of Pennsylvania THOMAS CHRISTENSEN, University of Chicago R. JAY WALLACE, University of California, Berkeley DIANA HENDERSON, Massachusetts Institute PAULINE YU, American Council of Learned Societies of Technology

ACL S DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOW SHIPS DANIEL COHEN, George Mason University KENNETH PRICE, University of Nebraska, Lincoln DIANE FAVRO, University of California, Los Angeles KATHERINE ROWE, Bryn Mawr College MARY FLANAGAN, Dartmouth College RICHARD WHITE, Stanford University

ACL S COLLAB ORATIVE RESEARCH FELLOW SHIPS GREGSON DAVIS, New York University DAVID MARSHALL, University of California, JOHN DAVIS, Smith College Santa Barbara PETER GALISON, Harvard University GARY WIHL, Washington University in St. Louis

MELLON / ACL S DISSERTATION COMPL ETION FELLOW SHIPS ITTY ABRAHAM, National University of Singapore ELLEN OLIENSIS, University of California, Berkeley TANI BARLOW, Rice University PAULA RABINOWITZ, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities CHRISTOPHER CRENNER, University of BRUCE ROBBINS, Columbia University MITCHELL GREEN, University of Virginia RICHARD SCHROEDER, Rutgers University, New PETER HALLWARD, Kingston University, UK Brunswick DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN, Princeton University VANESSA SCHWARTZ, University of Southern California MARION KATZ, New York University KAY SHELEMAY, Harvard University ALEXANDER NAGEL, New York University SCOTT RAUSST , University of Wisconsin, Madison LISA NAKAMURA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

41 SEL ECTION COMMITTEES FOR 20122013 FELLOW S H I P AND GRANT COMPETITIONS CONTINUED

L UCE / ACL S DISSERTATION FELLOW SHIPS IN AMERICAN ART MARGARET CONRADS, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art RICHARD MEYER, Stanford University ELEANOR HARVEY, KRISTIN SCHWAIN, University of Missouri, Columbia JONI KINSEY, University of Iowa JOSHUA SHANNON, University of Maryland, College Park

L UCE / ACL S PROGRAM IN CHINA STUDIES MARK CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, University of California, XIAOBO LU, Barnard College, Columbia University Berkeley JEFFREY WASSERSTROM, University of California, PATRICIA EBREY, University of Washington Irvine GRACE FONG, McGill University YUNXIANG YAN, University of California, Los Angeles

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY PAUL SMITH, Haverford College STEPHEN WEST, Arizona State University NANCY STEINHARDT, University of Pennsylvania PAULINE YU, American Council of Learned Societies ROBERT WELLER, Boston University

AMERICAN RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES IN CHINA PAUL SMITH, Haverford College ROBERT WELLER, Boston University NANCY STEINHARDT, University of Pennsylvania STEPHEN WEST, Arizona State University

EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM JAN GROSS, Princeton University ANNA DI LELLIO, The New School IRENA GRUDZINSKA GROSS, Princeton University LARRY WOLFF, New York University

42 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF L EARNED SOCIETIES June 30, 2013 and 2012

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R EPORT ON THE F INANCIAL STATEMENTS We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the American Council of Learned Societies (the “Council”), which comprise the statements of financial position as of June 30, 2013 and 2012, and the related statements of activities, functional expenses, and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes to the financial statements.

M ANAGEMENT’S R ESPONSIBIL ITY FOR THE F INANCIAL STATEMENTS The Council’s management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presenta- tion of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

A UDITORS’ RESPONSIBIL ITY Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards gener- ally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the organization’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements, in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the organization’s internal control.

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Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

O PINION In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the American Council of Learned Societies as of June 30, 2013 and 2012, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

New York, New York October 25, 2013

45 STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

American Council of Learned Societies June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 ASSETS Cash $ 11,022,020 $ 8,048,576 Grants receivable, net 6,055,591 6,937,226 Accounts receivable 434,440 451,440 Accrued interest and other assets 3,948 10,404 Investments 131,776,318 119,765,121 Property and equipment 3,178,519 3,287,849 Deferred debt issuance costs, net 76,516 177,097 $ 152,547,352 $ 138,677,713

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 960,904 $ 664,914 Accrued postretirement benefit cost 1,636,555 1,740,007 Fellowships payable 15,941,313 17,317,767 Deferred revenues 858,908 110,432 Bank loan payable 3,745,000 – New York City Industrial Development Agency Bonds – 3,745,000 23,142,680 23,578,120

Contingency (Note M)

Net assets: Unrestricted: Board-designated endowment: Central Fellowship Program 46,939,753 41,837,339 Program administration 15,170,275 9,888,086 62,110,028 51,725,425

Undesignated 3,255,034 3,464,945 Total unrestricted 65,365,062 55,190,370

Temporarily restricted 29,857,651 25,727,264 Permanently restricted – endowment 34,181,959 34,181,959 129,404,672 115,099,593 $ 152,547,352 $ 138,677,713

See notes to financial statements.

46 0 Total 5,793 61,000 (41,209) 901,233 890,935 195,310 1,700,000 1,047,644 1,033,416 1,900,439 (1,106,266) 20,468,302 22,429,741 $ 10,000 264,301 Restricted 3,000,000 16,231,191 Permanently Permanently

901,233 890,935 Restricted Year EndedYear June 30, 2012 Temporarily Temporarily 13,231,191 $ $ 4,917 876 61,000 (41,209) 229,301 25,000 156,057 39,253 312,302 721,114 (896,316) (209,950) 1,700,000 1,047,644 1,900,439 Unrestricted (2,748,767) (2,560,833) 3,010,000 (2,299,600) (2,789,976) (2,560,833) 3,010,000 (2,340,809) 17,439,371 (17,439,371) 19,368,672 (3,281,947) 3,010,000 19,096,725 19,680,974 (2,560,833) 3,010,000 20,130,141 20,468,302 22,429,741 57,980,346 28,288,097 31,171,959 117,440,402 $ $ 55,190,370$ 25,727,264 $ 34,181,959 $ 115,099,593 $ 0 Total 39,496 63,000 668,604 260,251 114,725 177,026 205,290 1,650,000 1,083,112 2,135,821 15,513,958 18,092,813 15,683,342 17,097,701 35,190,514 18,891,904 21,090,725 14,099,789 14,305,079 $ Restricted Permanently Permanently Restricted Year EndedYear June 30, 2013 668,604 114,725 Temporarily Temporarily 15,513,958 $ 35,904 3,592 63,000 166,543 93,708 136,956 40,070 205,290 Unrestricted 1,650,000 1,083,112 2,135,821 9,969,402 4,130,387 17,938,902 (17,938,902) 19,755,445 (1,662,632) 10,048,710 5,634,632 11,304,682 5,793,019 31,060,127 4,130,387 18,891,904 21,090,725 10,174,692 4,130,387 55,190,370 25,727,26434,181,959 $ 115,099,593 $ $ 65,365,062$ 29,857,651 $ 34,181,959 $ 129,404,672 $ investment income : Total support, and revenue, Total Foundations and corporations and Foundations U.S. government agencies Contributions: Dues Subscriptions Royalties Other Program administration Fund-raising STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES STATEMENTS

American Council of Learned Societies Support: See financial notes to statements. Individuals University consortium Net assets released from program restrictions Total support Total Revenue and investment income: (loss) income Net investment

Total revenue and investment income and investment revenue Total

Expenses and direct other Fellowships program costs Total expenses Total netChange in assets before pension-related charges periodic than other costs Pension-related charges other than periodic than other charges costsPension-related Change in net assets Net assets, beginning of year Net assets, end of year

47 0 Total 64,719 174,164 294,798 260,236 205,013 142,128 2,678,928 12,827,226 $ Fund- raising Fund- Program 260,236 205,013 Year EndedYear June 30, 2012 Administration 529 64,190 858 1,536 53 2,447 37,268 104,860 948,479 270,988 64 1,219,531 125,122 49,042 593,159 162,034 6,500 761,693 231,605 117,234 5,338 354,177 294,798 145,539 38,045 268 183,852 215,614 (215,614) Other Direct 2,678,928 2,369,177 $ 842,87548,777 $ 3,260,829 Program Costs 12,827,226 Fellowships and and Fellowships $ $ 20,468,302$ 1,900,439 $ 61,000 $ 22,429,741 $ 0 Total 2,328 11,314 57,796 387,353 404,280 194,724 197,560 133,642 2,817,163 11,298,624 21,090,725 $ 54,716 3,317,295 63,000 $ Fund- raising Fund- Program 404,280 194,724 Year EndedYear June 30, 2013 2,135,821 $ Administration 499 57,297 789 1,539 53,298 80,344 629,566 262,357 1,250 893,173 220,071 115,363 5,435 340,869 387,353 167,869 29,691 175,558 (175,558) Other Direct 739,7159 293,290 1,599 1,034,604 2,401,399 $ 861,180 $ 2,817,163 Program Costs 11,298,624 18,891,904 $ Fellowships and and Fellowships $ $ EXPENSES L STATEMENTS OF FUNCTIONA OF STATEMENTS Other and stipends fellowships Salaries and employee benefits American Council of Learned Societies Learned of Council American fellowshipsCentral (endowed) See financial notes to statements. Meetings, conferences and travel Meetings, conferences Beijing support Beijing Consultants, honoraria and professional fees Office expense Authors’ fees and royalties Depreciation and amortization Interest expenseInterest Printing, publishing and reports publishing Printing, Rent and maintenance Dues Miscellaneous Overhead allocation Overhead

48 STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

Year Ended Year Ended American Council of Learned Societies June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 Cash flows from operating activities: Change in net assets $ 14,305,079 $ (2,340,809) Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 404,280 260,236 Bad debt expense 5,542 Net change in unrealized (gains) losses on fair value of investments (13,886,856) 4,524,971 Net realized gains on sales of investments (829,920) (2,988,505) Donated securities (15,870) Proceeds from sales of donated securities 15,870 Permanently restricted contributions 3.010,000 Changes in: Accounts receivable 17,000 (23,008) Grants receivable, net 881,635 (2,267,055) Accrued interest and other assets 6,456 12,878 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 295,990 72,605 Accrued post-retirement benefit (103,452) 131,854 Fellowships payable (1,376,454) 207,046 Deferred revenues 748,476 5,881 Net cash provided by operating activities 462,234 611,636

Cash flows from investing activities: Proceeds from sales of investments 18,805,596 19,009,137 Purchases of investments (16,100,017) (26,862,088) Purchases of property and equipment (117,210) (45,441) Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities 2,588,369 (7,898,392)

Cash flows from financing activities: Permanently restricted contributions (3,010,000) Debt issuance costs (77,159) Proceeds from bank loan 3,745,000 Bond principal repayments (3,745,000) (160,000) Net cash used in financing activities (77,159) (3,170,000)

Change in cash 2,973,444 (10,456,756) Cash, beginning of year 8,048,576 18,505,332

Cash, end of year $ 11,022,020 $ 8,048,576

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: Interest paid during the year $ 194,724 $ 205,013

See notes to financial statements.

49 NOTES TO FINA NCIAL STATEMENTS

American Council of Learned Societies, June 30, 2013 and 2012

NOTE A O RGANIZ ATIO N AND SIG NIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

1. Organization: The American Council of Learned Societies (the “Council”), incorporated in Washington, D.C. in 1924, was established in 1919 and is located in New York City. The Council is a private, not-for-profit federation of national scholarly organizations, funded largely by grants from private foundations and universities and by federal grants (principally from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of State). The purpose of the Council is the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. The Council is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, and from state and local taxes under comparable laws.

2. Basis of accounting: The accompanying financial statements of the Council have been prepared using the accrual basis of accounting and conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, as applicable to not-for-profit entities.

3. Use of estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, as well as the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

4. Functional allocation of expenses: The cost of providing the various programs and supporting services has been summarized on a functional basis in the accompanying statements of activities. Accordingly, expenses have been allocated among the programs and supporting services using appropriate measurement methodologies developed by management.

5. Revenue recognition: (a) Grants and contributions are recorded as revenue at the earlier of the receipt of an unconditional pledge or the receipt of cash or other assets. Revenues are considered available for unrestricted use, unless the donors restrict the use thereof, either on a temporary or permanent basis. Revenues to be received over periods greater than one year are discounted at an appropriate interest rate. Revenue has been recognized based on the present value of the estimated future payments to be made to the Council. (b) Restricted revenue received from U.S. government agencies, foundations and corporations is initially recorded as temporarily restricted upon the receipt of cash or unconditional obligations to give. As the restrictions are met, the support is reclassified as unrestricted. Restrictions are generally met when program and administration expenses relating to the designated purpose of the particular contract, grant or award are incurred. (c) The Council receives dues from its members. Dues applicable to a current year are recognized as revenue in that year. Dues received for a future year’s membership are deferred and recognized on a pro-rata basis over the period of membership.

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6. Investments: Investments in equity securities with readily determinable fair values are reported in the accompanying statements of financial position, with realized and unrealized gains and losses included in the accompanying statements of activities. The Council’s mutual funds are also reported at their fair values, as determined by the related investment manager or advisor. Donated securities are recorded at their fair values at the dates of donation. The Council has investments in certain not-readily-marketable securities which are ownership interests in private equity securities and certain limited partnerships for which market values are not readily obtainable. Because of the inherent uncertainty of the valuation of these investments, the Council and its various investment managers monitor their positions to reduce the risk of potential losses due to changes in fair values or the failure of counterparties to perform. The estimated values provided by these managers may differ from actual values had a ready market for these investments existed. Investment transactions are recorded on a trade-date basis. Realized gains or losses on investments are determined by comparison of the average cost of acquisition to proceeds at the time of disposition. The earnings from dividends and interest are recognized when earned. Investment expenses include the services of investment managers and custodians. The balances of investment management fees disclosed in Note B are those specific fees charged by the Council’s various investment managers in each fiscal year; however, they do not include those fees that are embedded in various other investment accounts and transactions. 7. Property and equipment: Property and equipment are stated at their costs at the dates of acquisition. Building improvements are also capitalized, whereas costs of repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets, which range from five to thirty years.

8. Deferred debt-issuance costs: During fiscal-year 2013 the Council obtained a bank loan and incurred $77,159 in debt issuance costs in the process. These costs have been capitalized and are being amortized over the life of the loan on a straight-line basis. Amortization of deferred debt issuance was $643 in fiscal-year 2013. The costs associated with the issuance of New York City Industrial Development Agency (“IDA”) Bonds had been capitalized at the date of issuance and were being amortized over the life of those bonds, using a straight-line basis. However, during fiscal-year 2013, the IDA bonds were redeemed, and the remaining balance of $177,097 in related issuance costs was written off.

9. Accrued vacation: Based on their tenure, employees are entitled to be paid for unused vacation time if they leave the Council. Accordingly, the Council must report a liability for the amount that would be incurred if employees with such unused vacation were to leave. The accrued vacation obligation was approximately $230,000 and $221,000 for fiscal-years 2013 and 2012, respectively, and was reported as part of accounts payable and accrued expenses in the accompanying statements of financial position.

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10. Net assets: The accompanying statements of activities present the changes in the various classifications of net assets for the respective fiscal-years. The Council’s net assets, and the changes therein, are classified based on the existence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions and are reported as follows: (a) Unrestricted: Unrestricted net assets represent those resources that are not subject to donor-imposed restrictions. Substantially all of the Council’s unrestricted net assets, exclusive of the amounts representing property and equipment, have been allocated by formal resolution of the Board of Directors to board-designated endowment, the unrestricted earnings of which will be applied to future support of its central fellowship program and administrative expenses. Annually, any amount up to, but not greater than, the excess of its unrestricted revenue over expenses, including unrealized gains or losses on its entire investment portfolio, may be so designated. (b) Temporarily restricted: Temporarily restricted net assets represent those resources that are subject to the requirements of the District of Columbia’s Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (“UPMIFA”) and the use of which has been restricted by donors or state law to specific purposes and/or the passage of time. When a donor restriction expires, that is, when a stipulated time restriction ends, a purpose restriction is accomplished, or the funds are appropriated through an action of the Board of Directors, temporarily restricted net assets are reclassified as unrestricted net assets and reported in the accompanying statements of activities as net assets released from restrictions. (c) Permanently restricted: Permanently restricted net assets represent those resources the principal of which is originally restricted into perpetuity by donors. The purposes for which the income and net capital appreciation arising from the underlying assets may be used depend on the wishes of those donors. Under the terms of UPMIFA, those earnings are classified as temporarily restricted in the accompanying statements of activities, pending appropriation by the Board of Directors.

11. Endowment funds: The Council reports all applicable disclosures of its funds treated as endowment, both donor- restricted and board-designated (see Note I).

12. Income tax: The Council is subject to the provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (the “FASB”) Accounting Codification (“ASC”) Topic ASC 740-10-05 relating to accounting and reporting for uncertainty in income taxes. Because of the Council’s general tax-exempt status, ASC Topic 740-10-05 has not had, and is not anticipated to have, a material impact on the Council’s financial statements.

13. Fair-value measurement: As further described in Note B, the Council reports a fair-value measurement of all applicable assets and liabilities, including investments, grants and accounts receivable, and short-term payables.

14. Subsequent events: The Council considers all of the accounting treatments, and the related disclosures in the current fiscal-year’s financial statements, that may be required as the result of all events or transactions that occur after the fiscal year-end through the date of the independent auditors’ report.

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NOTE B INVESTMENTS

At each fiscal year-end, investments consisted of the following:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012

Fair Value Cost Fair Value Cost Money-market funds $ 592,768 $ 592,768 $ 912,107 $ 912,107 Certificates of deposit 2,115,403 2,115,403 3,290,020 3,290,020 Equity securities 26,138,920 19,621,760 21,972,348 17,883,221 Mutual funds 26,628,974 25,146,451 23,914,655 23,115,693 Limited partnerships 76,300,253 56,672,094 69,675,991 60,823,094 $ 131,776,318 $ 104,148,476 $ 119,765,121 $ 106,024,135

For each fiscal year, investment income consisted of the following:

Year Ended Year Ended June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 Interest and dividends $ 1,493,110 $ 760,847 Net realized gains (losses) 829,920 (4,524,971) Net unrealized gains 13,886,856 2,988,505 Less: investment expenses (526,544) (330,647) $ 15,683,342 $ (1,106,266)

The FASB’s ASC Topic 820, provides the framework for measuring fair value. The framework provides a fair-value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements), and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). The three levels of the fair-value hierarchy are described as follows: • Level 1—Inputs to the valuation methodology are unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Plan has the ability to access. • Level 2—Inputs to the valuation methodology include: (1) quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets; (2) quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets; (3) inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability; or (4) inputs that are derived principally from, or corroborated by, observable market data by correlation or other means. If the asset or liability has a specified (contractual) term, the Level 2 input must be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability. • Level 3—Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair-value measurement. Most investments classified in Level 3 consist of shares or units in investment funds, as opposed to direct interests in the funds’ underlying holdings, which may be marketable. Because the net asset value reported by each fund is used as a practical expedient to estimate fair value of the Council’s interest therein, its classification in Level 3 is based on the Council’s ability to redeem its interest at or near its fiscal year-end. If the interest can be redeemed in the near term, the investment is classified as Level 2. The classification of investments in the fair-value hierarchy is not necessarily an indication of the risks, liquidity, or degree of difficulty in estimating the fair value of each investment’s underlying assets and liabilities.

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The preceding methods described may produce a fair-value calculation that may not be indicative of net realizable value or reflective of future fair values. Furthermore, although the Council believes its valuation methods are appropriate and consistent with other market participants, the use of different methodologies or assumptions to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a different fair-value measurement at the reporting date. The following table summarizes the fair values of the Council’s assets each fiscal year-end:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 Level 1 Level 3 Total Level 1 Level 3 Total Money-market funds $ 592,768 $ 592,768 $ 912,107 $ 912,107 Certificates of deposit 2,115,403 2,115,403 3,290,020 3,290,020 Equity securities 26,138,920 26,138,920 21,972,348 21,972,348 Mutual funds 26,628,974 26,628,974 23,914,655 23,914,655 Limited partnerships $ 76,300,253 76,300,253 $ 69,675,991 69,675,991 Total investments $ 55,476,065 $ 76,300,253 $ 131,776,318 $ 50,089,130 $ 69,675,991 $ 119,765,121

The following table presents the Council’s reconciliation of Level 3 investments at each fiscal year-end:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012

Limited Partnerships Limited Private Equity (Total) Partnerships Investment Total Balance – July 1 $ 69,675,991 $ 57,961,503 $ 4,091,419 $ 62,052,922 Net purchases 565,000 13,017,500 13,017,500 Net sales (4,716,000) (90,000) (3,446,089) (3,536,089) Realized (losses) gains (833,213) 672,664 672,664 Unrealized gains (losses) 11,608,475 (1,213,012) (1,317,994) (2,531,006) Balance – June 30 $ 76,300,253 $ 69,675,991 $ 0 $ 69,675,991

The FASB provides accounting guidance on measuring the fair value of certain investments such as private equity funds and hedge funds, to offer investors a practical expedient for measuring the fair value of investments in certain entities that calculate net asset value (“NAV”). Under this practical expedient, entities are permitted to use NAV without adjustment for certain investments that qualified under the guidance. The Council’s investments in funds fitting this description, classified within Level 3 of the fair-value hierarchy, are carried at fair value based on NAV. Investments in these types of funds are subject to withdrawal restrictions, and, for these Level 3 investments, the Council does not have the ability to withdraw at reported NAV at June 30, 2013, or within a reasonable period of time. The Council’s investments in limited partnerships are valued based on the valuation policies and procedures of the general partner. The general partner performs oversight of the underlying managers’ material positions both on an investment level and from a risk perspective. The general partner is responsible for ensuring that investments are valued according to the policies and procedures adopted by the partnership. The Council places reliance upon those procedures and records these investments at fair value, as determined by the general partner.

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The following table lists investments in limited partnerships, and their redemption requirements, at June 30, 2013

Unfunded Redemption Redemption Fair Value Commitments Frequency Notice Period Quarterly – 30 days to Limited partnerships $ 76,300,253 $ 37,5000 Annually termination

NOTE C GR ANTS AND ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

1. The Council has recorded as grants receivable those amounts that have been promised to the Council as of the end of each respective fiscal-year, but that have not yet been collected as of that date. The receivables were estimated to be due as follows:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 One year or less $ 3,475,273 $ 3,519,620 One to five years 2,856,800 3,847,800 6,332,073 7,367,420

Less discount to present value at a rate of 4% (276,482) (430,194) $ 6,055,591 $ 6,937,226

Based on prior experience with donors, management expects to collect the receivables in full and, accordingly, has not established an allowance for uncollectible accounts.

2. At each year-end, other accounts receivable consisted of amounts due to the Council for exchange-type transactions. All amounts are due within one year and, based on the Council’s prior experience, are expected to be fully collected. Accordingly, no allowance for doubtful accounts has been established.

NOTE D PROPER TY AND EQUIPMENT

At each fiscal-year end, property and equipment consisted of the following:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 Building and improvements $ 4,716,861 $ 4,716,861 Equipment 1,019,541 902,331 Furniture and fixtures 242,955 242,955 5,979,357 5,862,147 Less: accumulated depreciation (2,800,838) (2,574,298) $ 3,178,519 $ 3,287,849

Depreciation expense for fiscal-years 2013 and 2012 was $226,540 and $248,559, respectively.

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NOTE E FELLOWSHIPS PAYABLE

Fellowships and stipends are awarded to institutions and individuals for the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning. It is the Council’s policy, in conjunction with grant agreements, to allow recipients to choose when payments of awards are to be received. Fellowships and stipends are usually paid over a period of one to nine years. The Council records the expense and commitment of these fellowships and stipends when the awards are approved by the Council and accepted by the recipient. Fellowships and stipends are estimated to be paid as follows:

Year Ending June 30, Amount 2014 $ 11,021,204 2015 1,937,278 2016 2,982,831 $ 15,941,313

The effect of calculating the present values of future year’s payables is not material. During fiscal-years 2013 and 2012, the Council awarded fellowships and stipends of $14,115,787 and $15,506,154, respectively.

NOTE F NEW YORK CITY INDUSTR IAL DEVELO PMENT AG ENCY BO NDS

To finance the acquisition of office space for use as the Council’s place of operations, in August 2002, the Council borrowed $5,000,000 through the issuance by the New York City Industrial Development Agency (“IDA”) of Civic Facility Revenue Bonds, Series 2002 (the “Bonds”). The Bonds, in an aggregate original face amount of $5,000,000, were set to mature on July 1, 2027 and bore interest at 5.250%. The Bonds were permitted to be redeemed by IDA or the Council at any time after July 1, 2012. The Bonds had a balance of $3,745,000 as of June 30, 2012 and were redeemed during fiscal-year 2013, with the proceeds received from a bank loan (see Note G).

NOTE G BANK LOAN PAYABLE

During fiscal-year 2013, the Council obtained a bank loan of $3,745,000, which matures on May 23, 2023. The proceeds from the loan were used to redeem the IDA bonds referred to in Note F. The loan is subject to certain covenants and bears interest at an initial rate of 3.07%. The interest rate will increase by 0.2% for every $10,000,000 increment below $40,000,000 that the Council holds in expendable cash and investments at the anniversary of the date of the loan. The loan is payable in monthly installments of principal and interest beginning in July 2013. Future minimum principal payments due each year under the loan are as follows:

Year Ending June 30, Amount 2014 $ 301,544 2015 310,933 2016 320,614 2017 330,597 2018 340,890 Thereafter 340,890 $ 3,745,000

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NOTE H TEMPORAR ILY RESTR ICTED NET ASSETS

During each fiscal year, the changes in temporarily restricted net assets were as follows:

Balance Release of Balance July 1, 2012 Program Support Restrictions June 30, 2013 Fellowship programs $ 11,698,292 $ 14,162,586 $ (10,797,909) $ 15,062,969 Vietnam Program/CEEVN 4,023,200 232,257 (982,644) 3,272,813 Darwin Program 1,680,049 298,621 (321,040) 1,657,630 International programs 7,072,700 3,262,152 (2,571,531) 7,763,321 Electronic publishing 137,425 119,571 (256,996) 0 Accumulated endowment income reserved for appropriation 325,198 3,926,034 (2,817,163) 1,434,069 Other programs 790,400 68,068 (191,619) 666,849 $ 25,727,264 $ 22,069,289 $ (17,938,902) $ 29,857,651

Balance Release of Balance July 1, 2011 Program Support Restrictions June 30, 2012 Fellowship programs $ 17,854,891 $ 6,459,377 $ (12,615,976) $ 11,698,292 Vietnam Program/CEEVN 4,210,307 691,266 (878,373) 4,023,200 Darwin Program 1,820,275 278,201 (418,427) 1,680,049 International programs 2,687,150 6,884,724 (2,499,174) 7,072,700 Electronic publishing (31,984) 892,339 (722,930) 137,425 Accumulated endowment income reserved for appropriation 656,770 (331,572) 325,198 Other programs 1,090,688 4,203 (304,491) 790,400 $ 28,288,097 $ 14,878,538 $ (17,439,371) $ 25,727,264

NOTE H ACCOUNTING AND R EPORTING FOR ENDOWMENTS

1. The endowment: The Council’s endowment was established based on its mission and consists of both donor- restricted endowment funds and funds designated by the Board of Directors to function as endowment. As required by generally accepted accounting principles, net assets associated with endowment funds, including board-designated funds, are classified and reported based on the existence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions.

2. Interpretation of relevant law: The Board of Directors has interpreted the District of Columbia’s UPMIFA as requiring the preservation of the fair value of the original gift as of the date of the donor-restricted endowment funds, absent explicit donor stipulations to the contrary. As a result of this interpretation, the Council classifies as permanently restricted net assets (i) the original value of gifts donated to the permanent endowment, (ii) the original value of subsequent gifts to the permanent endowment, and (iii) accumulations to the permanent endowment (made in accordance with the direction of the applicable donor gift instrument at the time the accumulation is added to the fund). The remaining portion of the donor-restricted endowment fund that is not classified in permanently restricted net assets is classified in temporarily restricted net assets until those amounts are appropriated for expenditure by the Council, in a manner consistent with the standard of prudence prescribed by UPMIFA.

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In accordance with UPMIFA, the Council considers the following factors in making a determination to appropriate or accumulate donor-restricted endowment funds: • the duration and preservation of the fund; • the purpose of the organization and the donor-restricted endowment fund; • general economic conditions and the possible effect of inflation and deflation; • the expected total return from income and the appreciation in value of the investments; and • the investment policies of the Council.

3. Endowment net-asset composition by type of fund:

June 30, 2013

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Board-designated endowment funds $ 61,913,028 $ 61,913,028 Donor-restricted endowment funds $ 1,434,069 $ 34,181,959 35,616,028 Total endowment funds $ 61,913,028 $ 1,434,069 $ 34,181,959 $ 97,529,056

June 30, 2012

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Board-designated endowment funds $ 51,725,425 $ 51,725,425 Donor-restricted endowment funds $ 325,198 $ 34,181,959 34,507,157 Total endowment funds $ 51,725,425 $ 325,198 $ 34,181,959 $ 86,232,582

Temporarily restricted endowment represents that portion of allocated investment income derived from permanently restricted endowment assets that has not been appropriated by the Board Directors for expenditure.

Net assets were permanently restricted to support the following at each fiscal year-end:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 Central Fellowship Program: Mellon Foundation $ 12,300,000 $ 12,300,000 Ford Foundation 7,068,400 7,068,400 National Endowment for the Humanities 2,750,000 2,750,000 Rockefeller Foundation 1,000,000 1,000,000 William & Flora Hewlett Foundation 500,000 500,000 Carnegie Corporation 100,000 100,000 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation 180,000 170,000 Other 2,395 2,395 23,900,795 23,890,795 Program Administration: Mellon Foundation 10,000,000 7,000,000

Other: Lumiansky Fund 281,164 281,164 $ 34,181,959 $ 34,181,959

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4. Changes in endowment net assets:

Year Ended June 30, 2013

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Net assets, beginning of year $ 51,725,425 $ 325,198 $ 34,181,959 $ 86,232,582 Contributions 2,625,379 2,625,379 Investment return 10,048,709 3,926,034 13,974,743 Funds appropriated for expenditure (2,486,485) (2,817,163) (5,303,648) Net assets, end of year $ 61,913,028 $ 1,434,069 $ 34,181,959 $ 97,529,056

Year Ended June 30, 2012

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Net assets, beginning of year $ 54,300,606 $ 656,770 $ 31,171,959 $ 86,129,335 Contributions 2,977,444 3,010,000 5,987,444 Investment return (565,670) (897,242) Funds appropriated for expenditure (4,986,955) (331,572) (4,986,955) Net assets, end of year $ 51,725,425 $ 325,198 $ 34,181,959 $ 86,232,582

5. Funds with deficiencies: Due to unfavorable market fluctuations, from time to time, the fair value of assets associated with individual donor-restricted endowment funds may decline below the historical dollar value of the donor’s original, permanently restricted contribution. Under the terms of UPMIFA, the Council has no responsibility to restore such decrease in value. 6. Return objectives and risk parameters: The Board of Directors evaluates its long-term asset allocation in meeting its fiduciary responsibilities for funding programs, protecting its endowment resources, and supporting future spending requirements. Accordingly, the Board has adopted investment policies for its endowment assets that seek to maintain their purchasing power.

7. Strategies employed for achieving objectives: To satisfy its long-term rate-of-return objectives, the Council relies on a total-return strategy in which investment returns are achieved through both capital appreciation (realized and unrealized) and current yield (interest and dividends). The Council targets diversified assets, within prudent risk constraints.

8. Spending policy and relation to the spending policy: The Council has a policy of appropriating for distribution each year an average of 5% of its endowment fund’s average fair value over the prior 12 quarters through the fiscal year-end proceeding the fiscal year in which the distribution is planned. This is consistent with the Council’s objective to maintain the purchasing power of the endowment assets held in perpetuity or for a specified term, as well as to provide additional real growth through new gifts and investment return.

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NOTE J EMPLOYEEBENEFIT PLAN

For its eligible employees, the Council provides retirement benefits under a defined-contribution, Section 403(b) employee-benefit plan, the assets of which are maintained through the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America—College Retirement Equities Fund. The Council contributes a minimum of 5% of each eligible employee’s salary, as well as matches employee contributions up to a maximum of 5% of each eligible employee’s salary. Contributions for fiscal-years 2013 and 2012 were $193,062 and $187,807, respec tively.

NOTE K POSTR ETIREMENT MEDICAL BENEFIT PLAN

The Council sponsors an unfunded, noncontributory, defined-benefit postretirement medical plan that covers employees hired prior to February 1, 1995. The following sets forth the plan’s funded status, reconciled with amounts reported in the Council’s financial statements at each-year end:

June 30, 2013 June 30, 2012 Actuarial present value of benefit obligations: Expected benefit obligation $ (1,671,002) $ (1,803,578) Accumulated postretirement benefit obligation $ (1,636,555) $ (1,740,007) Plan assets 0 0 Funded status (excess of obligation over assets) $ (1,636,555 $ (1,740,007 Net periodic postretirement medical benefit costs included the following components: Service cost $ 25,157 $ 19,166 Interest cost 64,211 76,693 Transition obligation amortization 25,142 25,142 Net loss amortization 84,870 51,247 Net periodic postretirement benefit cost $ 199,380 $ 172,248 Adjustments to net assets, reported in the statement of activities: Net actuarial loss $ 95,278 $ (117,598 Unrecognized transition obligation 110,012 76,389 Funded status (excess of obligation over assets) $ 205,290 $ (41,209) Weighted-average assumptions: Discount rate 4.50 % 3.75 % Medical cost-trend rate 5.00 % 5.00 %

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A one percentage-point increase in the assumed health-care cost-trend rates for each fiscal year would have resulted in an increase in the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation as of June 30, 2013 of $134,609 and an increase in the aggregate cost components of net period postretirement benefit cost of $8,330 for fiscal-year 2013. Employer contributions and benefits paid were $97,542 and $81,603 for fiscal-years 2013 and 2012, respectively. The estimated amount of the Council’s contributions for fiscal-year 2014 is $115,600. The following table illustrates the benefit distributions that are expected to be paid over the next ten fiscal years:

Year Ended Expected Benefit June 30, Distributions 2014 $ 115,600 2015 112,000 2016 129,800 2017 125,500 2018 114,000 2019–2022 575,800

NOTE L CONCENTR ATIO N O F CREDIT R ISK

The Council places its temporary cash investments with high-credit-quality financial institutions in amounts which, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. Management believes that the Council is not subject to a significant risk of loss on these accounts, which would result from the failure of these financial institutions.

NOTE M CO NTING ENCY

U.S. government grants are subject to audit in the future by governmental authorities. Accordingly, the Council could be required to fund any disallowed costs for its own federally supported programs, as well as those of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars that were incurred during the period of the Council’s stewardship. In management’s opinion, any such audits would not result in disallowed costs in amounts that would be significant to the Council’s operations. The Council is subject to litigation in the routine course of conducting business. In management’s opinion, however, there is no current litigation the outcome of which would have a material adverse impact on the Council’s financial position.

NOTE N CO NCENTR ATIO N O F REVENUE

During fiscal-years 2013 and 2012, approximately 80% and 76%, respectively, of the Council’s total support was provided by two donors.

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ACL S STAFF

62 ACL S BOARD OF D IRECTORS

JAMES J. O’DONNELL, Georgetown University, Chair NICOLA COURTRIGHT, Amherst College, Vice Chair JONATHAN D. CULLER, Cornell University, Secretary NANCY J. VICKERS, Bryn Mawr College, emeritus, Treasurer KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH, New York University DONALD BRENNEIS, University of California, Santa Cruz TERRY CASTLE, Stanford University ANN FABIAN, Rutgers University WILLIAM C. KIRBY, Harvard University CHARLOTTE V. KUH, National Research Council (retired) RICHARD LEPPERT, University of Minnesota TEOFILO F. RUIZ, University of California, Los Angeles

Ex officiis: JACK FITZMIER, American Academy of Religion (Chair, Executive Committee of the Conference of Administrative Officers) ELAINE SISMAN, American Musicological Society, Columbia University (Chair, Executive Committee of the Delegates) PAULINE YU, President, ACLS

ACL S INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

HEIDI CARTER PEARLSON, Adamas Partners, LLC, Chair CARLA BEAL, Monticello Associates FREDERICK M. BOHEN, Rockefeller University (retired) NICOLA COURTRIGHT, Amherst College LISA DANZIG, Rockefeller University CHARLOTTE V. KUH, National Research Council (retired) HERB MANN, TIAA-CREF (retired) Information as of JAMES J. O’DONNELL, Georgetown University March 2014. CARLA H. SKODINSKI, Van Beuren Management, Inc. NANCY J. VICKERS, Bryn Mawr College, emeritus www.acls.org/committees PAULINE YU, ACLS

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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PAULINE YU, President SANDRA BRADLEY, Director of Member Relations & Executive Assistant to the President SARAH PETERS, Administrative Assistant to the President

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT STEVEN C. WHEATLEY, Vice President KELLY BUTTERMORE, Grants Coordinator & Assistant to the Vice President SERVIO MORENO, Office Assistant

FELLOW SHIP & GRANT PROGRAMS MATTHEW GOLDFEDER, Director of Fellowship Programs CINDY MUELLER, Manager, Office of Fellowships and Grants KAREN WATT MATHEWS, Administrative Assistant JOHNNY BRENNAN, Program Assistant

PU BLIC PROGRAMS JOHN PAUL CHRISTY, Director of Public Programs KATIE SMITH, Program Assistant

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ANDRZEJ W. TYMOWSKI, Director of International Programs ESZTER CSICSAI, Program Associate, African Humanities Program ELISABETA POP, Program Assistant, International Programs OLGA BUKHINA, Consultant, Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

ACL S HUMANITIES E B OOK NINA GIELEN, Managing Editor CLARE DOYLE, Subscriptions and Marketing Coordinator SHIRA BISTRICER, Assistant Editor KEVIN MURPHY, Editorial Assistant

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION SIMON GUZMAN, Senior Accountant MAGED SADEK, Accountant Information as of WEB & INFORMATION SY STEMS March 2014. CANDACE FREDE, Director of Web and Information Systems www.acls.org/staff REGAN McCOY, Assistant, Web and Information Systems

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1 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 SUMMARY OF 2012–2013 Activities 10 ACLS MEMBER LEARNED SOCIETIES 12 2013 PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE COUNCIL 20 2013 INDIVIDUAL GIVING TO ACLS 25 2013 ACLS FELLOWS AND GRANTEES 41 SELECTION COMMITTEES FOR 2012-2013 FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT COMPETITIONS 44 ACLS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, JUNE 30, 2013 AND 2012 63 ACLS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 64 ACLS STAFF

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