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Community Message for December 2024
Community Message for December 2024
Read ACLS President Joy Connolly’s community message for December 2024.
Open Resources for China Studies
Open Database Resource Guide for China Studies
This new Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Resource Guide highlights the growing number of online repositories that offer free access to large primary source sets for China studies research across a range of subfields.
Case Studies for Change in Higher Education
Innovation in Action: Case Studies for Change in Higher Education
Explore stories of institutional, programmatic, and curricular change at colleges and universities across the United States.
2024 CEO Fall Meeting
2024 CEO Fall Meeting
ACLS convened the Conference of Executive Officers (CEO) of its member societies in Austin, TX, to discuss urgent issues facing academic societies and humanities and social sciences in higher education .
Insights on PhD Careers Beyond the Academy
Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows
A new ACLS report explores the breadth of humanities PhD careers and opportunities and challenges for PhDs in the workplace.
2024-25 Competitions Now Open
ACLS Announces 2024-25 Fellowship and Grant Competitions
ACLS is accepting applications for 2024-25 fellowship and grant programs, supporting scholars across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Community Message for December 2024
Read ACLS President Joy Connolly’s community message for December 2024.
Open Database Resource Guide for China Studies
This new Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Resource Guide highlights the growing number of online repositories that offer free access to large primary source sets for China studies research across a range of subfields.
Innovation in Action: Case Studies for Change in Higher Education
Explore stories of institutional, programmatic, and curricular change at colleges and universities across the United States.
2024 CEO Fall Meeting
ACLS convened the Conference of Executive Officers (CEO) of its member societies in Austin, TX, to discuss urgent issues facing academic societies and humanities and social sciences in higher education .
Public Pathways: Lessons about PhD Careers from 10 Years of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows
A new ACLS report explores the breadth of humanities PhD careers and opportunities and challenges for PhDs in the workplace.
ACLS Announces 2024-25 Fellowship and Grant Competitions
ACLS is accepting applications for 2024-25 fellowship and grant programs, supporting scholars across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Recent News & Events
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Representatives from more than 30 leading US research universities gathered in New York for this annual convening.
News Article
November 25, 2024
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Heather Hewett and Stacy Hartman examine how the humanities are being reimagined in departments and programs across higher education.
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November 25, 2024
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ACLS President Joy Connolly authored a chapter in the new book “The Arts of Leading: Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts.”
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December 4, 2024
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Parjanya Sen F’23 shares his research as a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies.
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November 25, 2024
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ACLS hosts focus groups to help identify and better understand a more equity centered academy.
News Article
November 26, 2024
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ACLS co-hosted a ceremony in Vancouver to honor the authors of As I Remember It, winner of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award.
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November 7, 2024
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ACLS Vice President James Shulman co-authored a new essay on humanities in the United States as part of The World Humanities Report.
News Article
October 22, 2024
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