Clifton Boyd Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Ph.D. candidate Clifton Boyd has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship program supports promising doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with a year of funding designed to help them complete projects that will form the foundations of their scholarly careers. The ACLS named 72 fellows this year, the largest and most diverse cohort in the program’s history, selected through a multi-stage peer review process from a pool of over 1,000 applicants.