The latest edition of Building Blocks for a New Academy is out today! In it, ACLS Program Manager Treviene Harris shares three innovative humanities undergraduate programs designed to serve students’ intellectual formation and their lives post-graduation: https://bit.ly/4o8hj1E

Happy #PrideMonth from ACLS! We asked members of the ACLS community to share resources on LGBTQ+ liberation consisting of existing research, published works, podcasts, and any other mediums. Check out the list here: https://bit.ly/3xb2Cll

ICYMI: Last week, we announced the 2026 ACLS Leading Edge Fellows 🎉 The fellowships support outstanding early-career PhDs in the humanities and social sciences as they join the work of mission-driven nonprofit organizations. Meet the awardees: bit.ly/4v5uqmg

We are pleased to announce the 2026 ACLS Leading Edge Fellows! In fall 2026, 14 fellows will begin two-year positions designed to take advantage of the numerous skills of PhD humanists while contributing to the work of host organizations. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4v5uqmg

ACLS announces the 2026 awardees of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies: bit.ly/431tHqt More than $1.5 million awarded to advance Buddhist Studies research, teaching, and public engagement across three continents

"The problem is that most of the time, we treat the committee report as the culmination of months of meetings and discussions, when in fact a committee report should be an invitation: a beginning rather than an end." Read ACLS Program Officer Stacy Hartman's Message for May: bit.ly/4d8I0PP

States-in-Waiting is now a History finalist for the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize! In the two years since publication, the book has over 20K full text views, which would not have happened without OA publication, made possible by the Ohio State Libraries and @universitypress.cambridge.org

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

Congratulations to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social F'10, F'17 on being awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and to @benchansfield.bsky.social F'20, F'22 on being named a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in History! bit.ly/4tKQ7ag

We need historians because what we remember matters. Public memory shapes how we understand the past and present. What story do you think should be remembered more widely? #WeNeedHistorians #TalkAboutHumanities

Make your case for why we need humanities research using this tool kit from @acls1919.bsky.social: acls.org/TalkAboutHumanities/ #Talkabouthumanities For AI guidance from the MLA, check out our AI Resources page on the MLA Style Center: style.mla.org/ai-resources/

Last month, ACLS President Joy Connolly delivered her annual Report to the Council. Watch the 2026 report here: youtu.be/j12k4lw7Sms?...

ACLS is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Directors: Lizabeth A. Cohen, Sylvester A. Johnson, and Ayanna Thompson. Learn more about our new members: https://bit.ly/438z9Yx

Explore the latest ACLS Annual Report, highlighting the many ways our work today is building toward our bold vision for the future of the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4fuZR4S We also document achievements to date and milestones related to our strategic framework for 2025-2030.

In our Community Message for May, ACLS Program Officer Stacy Hartman shares the challenges and possibilities of re-envisioning the humanities PhD from the lens of the ACLS Doctoral Futures initiative: https://bit.ly/4d8I0PP

We are excited to announce the 2026 ACLS Project Development Grant recipients. The $5,000 grants support scholars in teaching-intensive faculty roles who are conducting innovative research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/42zWCSk

We mourn the passing of Xavier Navarro Aquino, novelist, assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and 2020 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow. bit.ly/4wrYERX

"This is a victory for the scholars, students, colleges, universities, associations, state humanities councils, libraries, and local organizations in all fifty states and territories whose work was abruptly disrupted last year." Read ACLS President Joy Connolly's new advocacy update: bit.ly/4dGLDN6

We need more students to study Africa and its Diasporas across every discipline! #TalkAboutHumanities and tell us why you study Africa.

A federal judge ruled on May 7 that the NEH's mass termination of 1,400+ grants to support scholars, research institutions & humanities organizations was unconstitutional. Explore media highlights on this historic case brought by ACLS, @historians.org, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social: bit.ly/4tsFVmE

More than 180 academic societies, universities, humanities centers, academic presses, & individuals contributed 485+ posts to our recent social media campaign highlighting the value of the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4tZoeMA Join us and #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutSocialSciences

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than 1,400 previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities violated the Constitution, while also creating a broad “chilling effect.”

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

New book alert! "Markets of Pain" by 2017 ACLS Fellow Benjamin Robert Siegel reframes the history of legal opium as a driver of global capitalism, medicine, and state power.

Congratulations to all the 2026 inductees to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, including ACLS fellows and community members! https://bit.ly/4um7Vtf

ACLS celebrates the successful transition of Path to Open, a community-supported open access monograph program by JSTOR, from a pilot to an ongoing program. Exceeding expectations, Path to Open will reach 1,000 titles by the end of 2026. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4urwd4W

Announcing the 2026 @hlucefdn / ACLS Early Career Fellows and Travel Grantees in China Studies! A total of $405,000 has been awarded to 24 emerging scholars to advance China Studies through research, writing, and fieldwork: https://bit.ly/4uA97JD #ChinaStudies #humanities #grants #highered

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Thanks to all the ACLS awardees who contributed new resources to our scholarly resource list: https://bit.ly/4t3N5NW #AAPI #AAPIMonth #AANHPI #highered

ACLS and The New York Public Library held a convening aiming to make the case for the value of collaborative research in the humanities and social sciences and identify tangible steps that can be taken to dismantle barriers to doing this work: https://bit.ly/4vXOVTm

In a new video, ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grantee Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri shares his research recovering the histories of land treaties in East and Southern Africa: https://bit.ly/4e9vUa5

What does it take to make more scholarly books #OpenAccess? 🔓 Join us on May 6th to learn how Path to Open is evolving from pilot to program and what that means for the future of academic publishing. Register: https://bit.ly/4cPXAyx

ACLS announces the 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, supporting 50 early-career graduate students transcending the boundaries of doctoral research: bit.ly/3OV2PVF

The AHA has released a statement opposing the new Texas Tech University Course Content Guidelines, which prohibit content related to sexual orientation & gender identity in undergraduate courses, without defining these terms. Students deserve full and accurate histories. Read the statement:

Today the APA & 50+ other organizations issued a statement on academic freedom violations in Texas. www.apaonline.org/news/725942/...

ACLS is thrilled to welcome five new members to our federation of professional academic societies: the African Literature Association, @berksconference.bsky.social, @ces-europe.bsky.social, @oieahc.bsky.social, and the Society for American Archaeology. bit.ly/4tOx1Rt

Congratulations to Prof. Sophie Maríñez, who has received a 2026 ACLS Fellowship for her new project on Dominican political leader José Francisco Peña Gómez! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @smarinez.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social

This Friday, May 1, Sarah McKee, ACLS Project Manager for Amplifying Humanistic Scholarship, will participate in a @brown.edu Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship event on "Multimodal Publishing: Innovation and Impact." Join the hybrid session at 10:30 AM ET: https://bit.ly/4vQg8HI

Help us make the @acls1919.bsky.social funded @digitalarc.bsky.social a great resource for community-led archiving by providing your feedback. Open peer review through May 29, 2026: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #CommunityArchive #publichistory

Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, 2022 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, has edited a new book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s "El Monte." "El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean" is out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social

ACLS is pleased to name the inaugural awardees of the Graduate Internships on the Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future: https://bit.ly/4vOeLcc Starting in June, 10 fellows will take up 9-week internship projects designed to utilize the diverse skills of humanities & social sciences PhD students.

Next Monday, April 27, join ACLS President Joy Connolly and Marwan Kraidy, Dean of Northwestern University in Qatar and Chair of the ACLS Board of Directors, at Northwestern University for a conversation about lessons from—and for—the humanities: https://bit.ly/4cFINq7

Sarah McKee, ACLS Project Manager for Amplifying Humanistic Scholarship, and and Kate McCready wrote a new piece on "Charting the US Landscape for Open Access Books" in Katina Magazine: https://bit.ly/4dYbS2f #oa #openaccess

Happy Earth Day! Celebrate by exploring our Environmental Humanities Scholarly Resource List, which highlights work at the intersection of the environment, climate change, and sustainability with the humanities and social sciences: https://bit.ly/36csPFI

ACLS congratulates the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows, including 17 past ACLS fellows who were awarded! https://bit.ly/4tcGemg

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research. #TalkAboutHumanities

We need more sociologists, because learning about the challenges we face is the first step towards overcoming them. I wrote about the critical role sociologists play in our quest for a more equitable future and how anyone can think like a sociologist. #talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences

New book alert! "Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions" by 2023 ACLS Fellow @jdelagv.bsky.social is out now from @utexaspress.bsky.social The book contrasts works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration

Powerful people in the past justified inequality & violence by claiming to imitate ancient Greece and/or Rome. Those decisions still shape our world. We need Classical scholars because we can expose this history to help imagine a future where better decisions are made. #talkabouthumanities

ACLS joined @aceducation.bsky.social and 37 other higher education associations in expressing concerns over proposed Workforce Pell rule: https://bit.ly/4tlPRiG

I am honored to have received one of these awards to finish my book on Indigenous interventions in the archive. The humanities continue to be important and deserving of funding. #TalkAboutHumanities