History Prof. Hannah Greenwald has received a 2026 ACLS Fellowship to support new research and strengthen connections among faculty scholarship, student learning, and mentorship at Gettysburg College.
Gettysburg College History Prof. Hannah Greenwald has been selected as a 2026 fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), one of the nation’s leading supporters of scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Greenwald is among 63 scholars selected from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants through a multi-stage peer review process. ACLS fellowships provide scholars with six to 12 months of dedicated research and writing time, allowing recipients to step away from teaching and administrative responsibilities and focus fully on their scholarship.
“Receiving an ACLS fellowship is not only a huge honor, but it will also give me valuable time to begin a new research project,” Greenwald said. “I’m really grateful to have this semester of uninterrupted research and writing time so that I can hit the ground running and get started on this next project.”
Greenwald will use the fellowship to take a semester of leave from Gettysburg and begin a new project examining connections between national belonging and property rights in 19th-century Argentina.
“I’ll be spending part of the fall traveling to archives in Argentina to track down documentation related to land titling,” Greenwald said. “I want to understand the ways that rural people—especially those without formalized property titles—spoke about themselves, their land, and their relationship to their country, and how these discourses about identity and national belonging related to struggles for land and property.”
The project builds upon the research behind Greenwald’s first book, which is currently in the final stages of editing. It also connects closely with courses she teaches at Gettysburg, including Modern Latin America and Borderlands of the Americas. Greenwald believes the work could eventually inform new comparative courses examining land, property, citizenship, and national identity throughout the Americas.
The connection between faculty scholarship and student learning is central to Greenwald’s work at Gettysburg. She credited the College’s librarians at Musselman Library with providing access to rare and difficult-to-obtain materials from around the world. Greenwald also praised her History Department colleagues for fostering a culture in which teaching and research reinforce one another.
“My department really embraces the teacher-scholar model, and my colleagues encourage me to design classes that align with my research interests,” Greenwald said. “This enables me to stay focused on my research while also sharing my expertise with students.”
Greenwald is putting that model into practice this summer through Gettysburg’s Kolbe Research Fellowship program, which supports collaborative research between faculty members and students. The experience provides students like Julia Lavine ’28 with opportunities to participate directly in the research process while working closely with a faculty mentor.
“The Kolbe Fellowship has provided me with research experience that will prepare me for future graduate studies,” said Lavine, a history and English double major from York, Pennsylvania. “Working on this project with Prof. Greenwald has taught me how to organize and manage long-term research projects. This experience has helped me define my career goals and made me more confident in my research abilities.”
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By Corey Jewart
Photos by Tyler Caruso
Posted: 07/27/26