Humanities scholars earn ACLS fellowships

For the second consecutive year, four Cornell faculty and graduate students in the humanities will receive research support through fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The 2014 recipients are:

  • Joel Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the field of medieval studies, received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for “Imagining Universal Government at the Edge of the World: Institutional Forms in Norse Bishops’ Lives.”
  • Andrew Chignell, associate professor in the Sage School of Philosophy, received the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, given to recently tenured scholars, for “Hope at the Intersection of Philosophy and Psychology.”
  • Aleksandar Matovski, a doctoral candidate in the field of government, received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for “Popular Dictators: The Attitudinal Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism.”
  • Ding Xiang Warner, associate professor of Asian studies, received a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grant for “The Culture of Literary Competence and Tang Bureaucracy.”

ACLS fellowships allow humanities (and related social sciences) scholars to devote six to 12 continuous months to full-time research and writing on a major scholarly work. The maximum awards given range from $35,000 to $75,000 based on scholarly rank; dissertation completion stipends are $30,000 plus funds for research costs and university fees.

Cornell scholars awarded fellowships for 2013-14 were Gökçe Günel, Ph.D. ’12, ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Anthropology at Columbia University; assistant professor of Near Eastern studies Lori Khatchadourian, ACLS Fellowship; Nidhi Mahajan, doctoral candidate in the field of anthropology, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship; and Taomo Zhou, doctoral candidate in the field of history, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship and pre-dissertation summer travel grant for research in China.

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