The American Council of Learned Societies is a nonprofit federation of 78 scholarly organizations dedicated to supporting the development and promoting the circulation of humanistic knowledge throughout society. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS holds the core belief that knowledge is a public good. In addition to stewarding and representing its member organizations, ACLS employs its $180 million endowment and over $30 million annual operating budget to support humanistic scholarship to advocate for the centrality of the humanities and interpretive social sciences in the modern world.
1965: Ronald Howard Paulson
1968: William A. Camfield
1973: William A. Camfield
1975: William C. Martin
1976: David L. Minter
1980: Edward Doughtie
1981: Meredith Skura
1982: Gale Stokes, Martin J. Wiener
1990: Eugenia Georges
1991: Paula Sanders, Julie M. Taylor, Philip R. Wood
1992: Deborah A. Harter, Michael R. Maas
1996: Tanya K. Dunlap, History
1999: Tanya K. Dunlap, History
2002: Alexander X. Byrd, History
2004: Ussama Makdisi, History; Hamid Naficy, Art History
2006: Marcia Brennan, Art History; Steven G. Crowell, Philosophy; Jeffrey J. Kripal, Religion
2009: John North Hopkins, Art History
2011: Gregory Barnett, Musicology; Donna Beth Ellard, English; John North Hopkins, Art History
2012: Moramay Lopez-Alonso, History
2016: Shih-shan Susan Huang, Art History
2017: Claire L. Fanger, Religion
2020: Daniel Domingues, History
2021: Abdulbasit Kassim, Religion