Awards Recognize Excellence in Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
The Department of French and Italian is proud to announce that Kaliane Ung has been awarded a 2024 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program supports scholars who are poised to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in any field of the humanities or interpretive social sciences.
Ung has been recognized as one of 60 exceptional early-career scholars selected through a multi-stage peer review from a pool of 1,100 applicants. ACLS Fellowships provide up to $60,000 to support scholars during six to 12 months of sustained research and writing. Awardees who do not hold tenure-track faculty appointments receive a supplement of $7,500 for research or other personal costs incurred during their award term.
Ung’s research is at the intersection of French literature, philosophy, and health humanities. Her project is structured around four “situated experiences” of disability (the war wound, mental illness, neurodivergence, and skin disorders) that display four different ways of negotiating the articulation of first-hand experience and the search for community. In Spring 2025, she will do fieldwork in France and make progress on her monograph Wounded Writings: Disability in France.
“The applications we received this year were nothing short of inspiring – a powerful reminder of the capacity of humanistic research to illuminate and deepen understanding of the workings of our world” said John Paul Christy, Senior Director of US Programs at ACLS. “As scholars face increasing challenges to pursuing and disseminating their research, we remain committed to advancing their vital work."