Rovel Sequeira, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Sequeira is one of 62 scholars selected from a pool of over 2,300 applications. The award carries up to $60,000 to support scholars in full-time research and writing.
The longest running program at ACLS, the fellowships "support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences." Sequeira's project "shows that India's encounter with the literary and scientific infrastructures of imperial sexology under British colonial rule engendered a modern racial grammar of sex that limited the prospect of liberal sexual personhood for Indians."
ACLS Vice President James Shulman says: "Representing many different fields of study—including African diaspora studies, art history, English, gender studies, musicology, philosophy, religious studies, and more—this year's fellows demonstrate the importance of foundational humanistic inquiry in helping us to understand a wide range of questions concerning our collective and varied histories, narratives, creations, and beliefs."
Congratulations to Rovel Sequeria on this exciting award!
Read more about the ACLS Fellowship here.
