PhD Candidate Richard Lim Awarded the 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
Congratulations to Richard Lim (PhD candidate in American Studies) for being awarded the Mellon Dissertation/ACLS Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Lim's dissertation examines contemporary efforts on reducing violence for marginalized communities.
About the award
The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
The program makes awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research—practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological—during the formative stage of dissertation development. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.
