ACLS awards UF’s Zoe Ziliak Michel with public fellowship

June 4, 2015

Zoe Ziliak Michel, a University of Florida Ph.D. in linguistics, has been named a 2015 American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow.

Michel joins a cohort of 22 Public Fellows who will take up full-time staff positions at a range of nonprofit and government organizations across the United States and, for the first time, in Europe.

This year’s host organizations include the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Radio International and the Vienna Museum. The fellowship provides an annual stipend of $65,000 as well as health insurance for the fellow.

The ACLS Public Fellows program, now in its fifth year, demonstrates that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.

ACLS, a private, nonprofit federation of 73 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences

For more information about the fellowship competition and this year’s cohort, including further details about Michel’s placement, please visit http://www.acls.org/research/publicfellows.aspx?id=7006.