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Six Penn Students, Alumni and Faculty: American Council of Learned Societies Fellows

Six Penn Arts and Sciences graduate students, alumni, and faculty have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). ACLS fellowships and grants recognize scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences.

Christa D. Cesario, a lecturer of anthropology, was named a Mellon / ACLS Public Fellow. She was appointed as a community organizer at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 

Devin Sanchez Curry, a doctoral candidate in philosophy, received a Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the project “Believers,” a study of believing. 

Nabeel Hamid, a doctoral candidate in philosophy, received a Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the project, “Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy.”

Nancy Hirschmann, a professor of political science and director of both the program on gender, sexuality and women’s studies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women, was named an ACLS Fellow for her book project, Freedom, Power, and Disability.

Susanne Liuyin Kerekes, a doctoral candidate in religious studies, received the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies for her dissertation “Wat Arun and the Material Culture of Thai Buddhism.”

Leqi Yu, a doctoral student in East Asian languages and civilizations, received a Luce / ACLS Predissertation-Summer Travel Grant in China Studies for “Xia Yong and Architectural Painting Traditions in Yuan China.”

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