FACULTY AWARD: Three faculty win ACLS fellowships for humanistic research

By the Office of Communications on April 9, 2014, 4:35 p.m.

Three members of the Princeton faculty have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, which funds humanistic research.

This year the council provided awards totaling more than $15 million to more than 300 scholars. Princeton's recipients, along with the titles of their research projects, are:

• Devin Fore, associate professor of German, "All the Graphs: Soviet Factography and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Documentary"

• Robert Kaster, professor of classics, "A New Critical Edition of Suetonius' 'Lives of the Caesars'"

• Judith Weisenfeld, professor of religion, "Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in the Urban North, 1920-1950"

The American Council of Learned Societies is a private nonprofit federation that seeks to advance studies in all fields in the humanities and the social sciences.
 

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