The Department of History is proud to announce that Prof. Sandy F. Chang has been awarded a 2023 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond the awardees’ fields.
Dr. Chang has been recognized as one of 60 early-career scholars selected through a multi-stage peer review from a pool of nearly 1,200 applicants. ACLS Fellowships provide between $30,000 and $60,000 to support scholars during six to 12 months of sustained research and writing. Awardees who do not hold tenure-track faculty appointments – half of the 2023 cohort – also receive an additional $7,500 stipend for research or other personal costs incurred during their award term.
Dr. Chang specializes in the history of migration, gender, and sexuality in Southeast Asia and the British Empire. Her scholarly areas of interest also include global China, inter-Asian connections, modern border regimes, women’s history, and global empires/comparative colonialisms. Dr. Chang will use her fellowship to work on a book project, tentatively titled, Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration to British Malaya, 1877-1940.