Juliana Rowen Barton, PhD'20, Receives Luce 2020 Leading Edge Fellowship

Juliana Rowen Barton, PhD'20, Receives Luce 2020 Leading Edge Fellowship

The American Council of Learned Societies Names 2020 Leading Edge Fellows to Advance COVID-19 Community Initiatives

ACLS launched the $1.6 million rapid-response fellowship, generously sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation, to galvanize the power of humanities scholarship and training in addressing critical challenges facing communities hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each fellow will partner with a non-profit organization on publicly engaged projects that document and respond to the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked and that advance collective understanding of the societal fault lines that helped worsen its impact, notably inequality, increasing precarity, divisive media, and racism.

Juliana Rowen Barton  |  Center for Craft, Ashville, NC  |  Craft in Virtual Spaces

Developing and contributing to a portfolio of virtual community engagement initiatives intended to increase the value and relevance of craft to society, with a particular focus on advancing, documenting, and measuring the impact of the Craft Futures Fund, the Center’s COVID-19 response grants.