In September, I was named an inaugural ACLS Leading Edge Fellow! I’ll spend the next year working (remotely) with the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC on a portfolio of virtual programming.

Read more about this new fellowship program below and about my project here.

The American Council of Learned Societies Names 2020 Leading Edge Fellows to Advance COVID-19 Community Initiatives. ACLS launched the $1.6 million rapid-response fellowship, generously sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation, to galvanize the power of humanities scholarship and training in addressing critical challenges facing communities hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each fellow will partner with a non-profit organization on publicly engaged projects that document and respond to the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked and that advance collective understanding of the societal fault lines that helped worsen its impact, notably inequality, increasing precarity, divisive media, and racism.