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Today we celebrate the birth in 1929 of the American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt, emeritus professor at Princeton University, and an instructor at Yale University and the Ohio State University, among others, whose contributions to the topics of ethics and personal responsibility were notable.

Elsie Paul, Davis Mackenzie and Harmony Johnson authors from the qathet region won multimodal award for RavenSpace digital book.

Inaugural $50,000 Prize Awards and Expands Open Access Book Publishing in the Humanities

Elsie Paul, Davis Mackenzie and Harmony Johnson authors from the qathet region won multimodal award for RavenSpace digital book.

/PRNewswire/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open...

"Archiving materials still matters even in our digital age, primarily if the stories you explore provide a counter-narrative to the dominant society."

Darius Stewart, a University of Iowa graduate student pursuing a PhD in English, is a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

Cherisse Jones-Branch will become the next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Communication at Arkansas State University, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Calvin White Jr. announced Thursday.

A fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and an Urban Bird Project scholar, Dr Olarotimi Daniel Ogungbemi, has called for the use of

I am a historical and environmental anthropologist studying how people politicize “impure” environments in the long afterlife of American industry. Much of my work is based in Baltimore, where I follow industrialism’s enduring traces in toxified landscapes, patchy regulation, quotidian expressions of white supremacy, and particular orientations toward time. I am especially interested in what kinds of environmental futures take form amid these legacies.