ACLS honors students, grads, faculty
Current Harvard students, recent graduates, and two professors are among those recently awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences. The peer-review process used to select ACLS fellows enables distinguished scholars to reach broad consensus on standards of excellence in humanities research. In 2011, awards totaling nearly $15 million were made to 350 scholars worldwide. The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. Recipients from Harvard include: Abigail Krasner Balbale, doctoral candidate, history; “Between Kings and Caliphs: Religion and Authority in Sharq al-Andalus, 542-640 AH/1145-1243 C.E.” Ana Olenina, doctoral candidate, comparative literature; “Gesture, Affect, Expression: Psychophysiology and Theories of Performance in Literature and Cinema of the 1910s-1920s” The ACLS New Faculty Fellows program allows recent Ph.D.s in the...