U-M professors win prestigious fellowships in the humanities

ANN ARBOR-Six professors from the University of Michigan's College of Literature. and the Arts are among 88 faculty members nationwide awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies. Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy; Hussein Fancy, assistant professor of history; and Martha Jones, associate professor of history and Afroamerican and African studies, received ACLS Fellowships, which provide financial support to individual scholars in the humanities and related social sciences for up to one year of full-time research and writing. Sarah Moss, assistant professor of philosophy, and Ellen Muehlberger, assistant professor of Near Eastern studies and history, were named as Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellows. The program provides advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences with time and resources to pursue research under optimal conditions. Ryskamp Fellowships recognize those whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Christian de Pee, associate professor of history, was awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, designed to support recently tenured scholars in the humanities and related social sciences in the years immediately following the granting of tenure, providing potential leaders in their fields with the resources to pursue long-term, unusually ambitious projects.