Melvin Ely awarded American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

by The History Department | April 24, 2007

Melvin Ely has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. The award will allow him to spend the whole of academic year 2007-2008 working on his next book, A Horrible Intimacy: Whites and Enslaved Blacks in Old Virginia. "The competition for these fellowships was very rigorous," the ACLS announced, "with 1017 eligible applications for 65 awards."