HASTS alumna Michelle Spektor PhD ’23 has been named a 2026 Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Currently a postdoctoral associate at MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing, Spektor will use the fellowship to make progress on a project entitled “Making Biometric Citizens: State Power and National Belonging from the British Empire to the Digital Age.” This work builds from her HASTS doctoral research.
The ACLS, which marks its centennial of academic grantmaking in 2026, will award more than 5.3 million dollars in funding to the 63 members of this year’s cohort. Their proposals were selected from a pool of 2,000 applications following lengthy review by leading scholars in their respective fields.
Congratulations, Michelle, on this achievement!