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American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of national scholarly organizations. The Council consists of a 15-member Board of Directors and OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT one Delegate from each constituent society. The principal administrative officer of PAULINE YU, President SanDRA BRADley, Director of Member Relations each society participates in the Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO). & 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 FELLOWSHIP & GRANT PROGRAMS SAUL FISHER, Director of Fellowship Programs NicOle STAHlmann, Program Officer CINDY MUELLER, Manager, Office of Fellowships & Grants KAREN WATT MATHEWS, Administrative Assistant Regan McCOY, Program Assistant CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ANDRZEJ W. TYMOWSKI, Director of International Programs OLGA BUKHINA, Coordinator of International Programs JennifeR HasTY, Program Associate, African Humanities Program 1 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Ewa GRigaR, Program Assistant 4 INTRODUCTION ACLS HUMANITIES E-BOOK 5 AIDING RESEARCH EILEEN GARDINER, Director RONALD G. MUSTO, Director 5 ACLS MEMBER LEARNED SOCIETIES NINA GIELEN, Editor for Digital Content & Production 6 INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP BROOKE BELOTT, Assistant Editor 7 SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION LAWRENCE R. WIRTH, Director of Finance 7 ANNUAL MEETING MICHAEL J. CORTEZ, Senior Accountant 8 FUNDING MAGED SADEK, Accountant 10 ACLS MEMBER SOCIETIES WEB & INFORMATION SYSTEMS CANDACE FREDE, Director of Web & Information Systems 12 INDIVIDUAL GIVING TO ACLS STEPHANIE FELDMAN, Coordinator of Information Systems 17 ACLS FELLOWS AND GRANTEES SERviO MORenO, Office Assistant 35 ACLS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For current information on staff, 48 ACLS BOARD O F D I R E C T O R S , see www.acls.org/staff. INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, AND STAFF AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ISSN 0065-7972 LEARNED SOCIETIES ANNUAL REPORT, 2007–2008 Copyright © 2009 633 THIRD AVENUE American Council of Learned Societies NEW YORK, NY 10017-6795 T: 212-697-1505 DIRECTION: CANDACE FREDE, ACLS The cover features the 70 member societies of ACLS. PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: F: 212-949-8058 Page 5, boTTom: Eric Smoodin; PAGE 6, BOTTOM: CopyrighT (See page 8.) ©2008 KenneTH Walker; Page 7, boTTom: Jeevan ShresTha. www.acls.org All OTher phoTos: ACLS A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The year covered by this report was one of significant achievement for the American Council of Learned Societies. We awarded more than $9.4 million to 314 scholars through our fellowship programs in the United States and abroad. The initial invest- ment in research and learning supported by those awards will be returned many times over—with new knowledge and interpretations, enhanced classroom teaching, and new networks of cooperation among scholars. In June 2007, we were fortunate to be able to announce the receipt of more than $12 million dollars in generous grants made to ACLS by three leading philanthropies: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Henry Luce Foundation. We are grateful that the boards and staff of these foundations share our belief that the world very much needs the sense of meaning and understanding of values that the humanities provide. I will describe briefly how the programs supported by these foundations expand and extend both the methodological and geographical scope of ACLS’s work. But first let me answer a very basic question: Why are research fellowships valuable? The