Thirty Faculty at Two-year Institutions Recognized for Contributions to Advancing Humanistic Scholarship
NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the 2022 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows.
The Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship program offers faculty teaching at two-year colleges support for research projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Launched in 2018 with the support of the Mellon Foundation, this four-year initiative has recognized the vital and diverse contributions of more than one hundred community college faculty to humanistic research and teaching.
"ACLS is proud to have led this singular program, which has supported exceptional faculty working at community colleges across the country," said ACLS President Joy Connolly. "The commitment of these fellows to bringing vibrant humanistic inquiry into the undergraduate classroom is exemplary, and we look forward to drawing on their experience and expertise as we develop new opportunities to support scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences."
The 30 awardees selected for the final cohort for the program will each receive $40,000 to advance their projects, many of which include research, community engagement, and pedagogical dimensions. The fellows also will participate in a multi-day convening hosted by ACLS that will bring current and past awardee cohorts together with academic leaders to share perspectives from their work.
This year's supported projects include a study of the multilayered concept of home in Palestinian American women's poetry; research on Indigenous kinship ethics and the development of a related undergraduate course; and a series of scholarly papers and open educational resources on the domestic and international political dimensions of the "Chinese Dream."
Learn more about the 2022 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows and their projects.
Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 78 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS utilizes its $179 million endowment and $34 million annual operating budget to expand the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices in support of racial and social justice.
The Mellon Foundation is the nation's largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Mellon believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, Mellon seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; and Public Knowledge.
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