The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) awarded 2015 ACLS Fellowships to two Penn faculty members and 2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships to three Penn doctoral students in May.

Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor Dorothy Roberts will use her fellowship to work on a book project, Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago, 1937–1967, which examines the lives of black-white couples to investigate the relationship between interracial marriage and racial equality. She is Penn’s 14th PIK professor, as well as the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights and a professor of Africana studies.

Kathy Peiss, Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, will also use her fellowship to work on a book project, The Collecting Missions of World War II, which explores the impact of World War II on American policies and practices toward information, knowledge and culture.

Whitney Laemmli, a doctoral candidate in the history & sociology of science department, will use her ACLS grant for a project titled The Choreography of Everyday Life: Rudolf Laban and the Analysis of Modern Movement. 

Kelly Mee Rich, a doctoral candidate in the English department, is working on a project titled States of Repair: Institutions of Private Life in the Postwar British Novel.

Emily Warner, a doctoral candidate in the history of art department, is working on a project titled Painting the Abstract Environment: Abstract Murals in New York, 1935-55.