Award recognizes excellence in humanities and social sciences research
WSU’s Program in WGSS is proud to announce that M.A. Miller has been awarded a 2026 ACLS Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program is the organization’s longest-running program and supports outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Miller is one of 63 scholars selected from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants through a multi-stage peer review process. ACLS Fellowships provide up to $60,000 to support scholars for six to 12 months of full-time research and writing. Awardees who are independent scholars, adjunct faculty, or have teaching-intensive roles receive an additional stipend between $3,000 and $6,000.
In Gender Unconformities: Deep Time’s Trans Matters, Miller’s research uncovers how the British empire’s extractive industries not only powered economies but also remade gender itself. Chalk, coal, iron, and tin reclassified bodies through dust, pigment, and injury, governing gender variance through labor and matter long before it was named as an identity. In doing so, the book reframes trans history as a formation shaped by deep time, extraction, and imperial infrastructure.
The ACLS Fellowship Program is funded primarily by the ACLS endowment, which has benefited from the generous support of esteemed funders, institutional members, and individual donors since the organization’s founding in 1919.
