The Honors College is proud to announce that University Honors collegiate fellow Sam Holley-Kline has been awarded a 2023 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond the awardees’ fields.
Holley-Kline has been recognized as one of 60 early-career scholars selected through a multi-stage peer review from a pool of nearly 1,200 applicants. ACLS Fellowships provide between $30,000 and $60,000 to support scholars during six to 12 months of sustained research and writing. Awardees who do not hold tenure-track faculty appointments—half of the 2023 cohort—also receive an additional $7,500 stipend for research or other personal costs incurred during their award term.
Holley-Kline’s research explores the history and politics of archaeology in Mexico. His fellowship will be spent conducting research for a book manuscript on labor in Mexican archaeology, with a focus on Indigenous excavators and guards.
“With higher education under sustained attack around the country, ACLS is proud to support this diverse cohort of emerging scholars as they work to increase understanding of our connected human histories, cultures, and experiences,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “ACLS Fellowships are investments in an inclusive future where scholars are free to pursue rigorous, unflinching humanistic research.”
