Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2004-05 to work on his book Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability. From a pool of 1058 applicants, 77 received fellowships.
According to the ACLS Web site, The American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of 67 national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."
This is the second fellowship Wheatley has been awarded for this project. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in December.
