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SOCIETYFORETHNOMUSICOLOGY SOCIETYFORFREN The American Council of Learned Societies is a private, nonprot 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 6 INTRODUCTION 7 SUMMARY OF 20102011 ACTIVITIES 13 ACLS MEMBER SOCIETIES 15 INDIVIDUAL GIVING TO ACLS 20 2011 ACLS FELLOWS AND GRANTEES 38 ACLS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, JUNE 30, 2011 AND 2010 55 ACLS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 56 ACLS STAFF ISSN 00657972 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ANNUAL REPORT, 20102011 (July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011) LEARNED SOCIETIES Copyright © 2012 American Council of Learned Societies 633 THIRD AVENUE DIRECTION: CANDACE FREDE NEW YORK, NY 10017-6795 PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Page 1, Page 7 Top, Page 8 Top, T: 212-697-1505 Page 11 Top and Bottom: Marc Barag, MB Commercial Photographers; The cover features the 71 member societies of ACLS. F: 212-949-8058 Page 7 Bottom: Ken Levinsohn; Page 9 Bottom: Virendra Pratap Yadav; www.acls.org All others: ACLS A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT It is one of the U.S. Senate’s more venerable traditions to ask one of its members to read George Washington’s Farewell Address to the American people each year on February 22, the official date of Washington’s birthday. Our first president had wise guidance for Congress and his successors, whom he advised to “promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” Washington’s argument that organized knowledge is an essential element of free government was enacted in the Morrill Act of 1862, which foresaw a vibrant set of land-grant universities providing both practical and liberal arts education as a vindication of democ- racy. Washington’s assertion echoed again in the 1964 Report of the Commission on the Humanities sponsored by ACLS, the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, and the United Chapters of ACLS President Pauline Yu Phi Beta Kappa. The Commission’s formulation that “democracy demands wisdom” helped convince Congress of the wisdom of establishing the National Endowment for the Humanities. But Washington’s advice has been lost on today’s leaders. The protracted battle over the federal budget has demonstrated that the humanities have few defenders in government—even President Barack Obama, a former university law professor and the rare American politician who actually writes the books that bear his name, has sought to reduce funding for the NEH. One reason the humanities are disadvan- taged during such delib erations is that they are not perceived as research enterprises. We need to recover the vision that strengthening and broadening higher education is essential to democracy both as a solvent for the calcifications of social caste and as a seedbed of diverse opinion. We need also to assert strongly that the humanities and humanities research produce new knowledge that is important not just on its own terms, but in relation to the entire spectrum of human inquiry. Efforts are indeed afoot at ACLS to press this case. In 2011, we introduced “ACLS Fellows: Focus on Research,” an online series in which ACLS fellows describe their research, the knowledge it creates, and how this new knowledge benefits our under- standing of the world. These reflections—from scholars of art history, philosophy, geography, anthropology, and literature—prove that humanities scholarship is far from just academics being clever on paper. ACLS fellows work in libraries and archives, but they also conduct research among diverse populations throughout the world and in collaboration with scientists, policy makers, and humanist colleagues. The questions they pose, and the breadth and depth of the knowledge they synthesize and generate, demonstrate that humanistic inquiry is essential to both our practical and loftier concerns. As Howard Mumford Jones put it more than 60 years ago, when he was chairman of ACLS, “Without the activity of humanities scholars . our available information about the human would grow more untrust- www.acls.org/talks www.acls.org/fellows/ worthy and eventually disappear.” The achievements of ACLS fellows richly focusonresearch illustrate this assertion. 1 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT CONTINUED ACLS also endeavors to conserve the ideal that has shaped our programs for the past 92 years: the conviction that the humanities are integral to any higher
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