Women’s Institute Director Jessie B. Ramey Awarded ACLS Fellowship

Jessie B. Ramey, Ph.D., the director of Chatham’s Women’s Institute and an associate professor of women’s & gender studies and history, was this week awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

The fellowship will support Ramey’s work on her current book, a biography of activist, coal miner, educator, and Chatham alumna Kipp Dawson ’94.

Only a handful of scholars in the Pittsburgh region have received ACLS Fellowships in the past 25 years, and Ramey will be the first at Chatham University. She previously won an ACLS New Faculty Fellowship in 2011 and is considered one of the society’s “Notable Fellows and Grantees.”

Fewer than 5% of applicants to the ACLS Fellowship receive the award, making it one of the most competitive of its kind. 

The American Council of Learned Societies is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations dedicated to supporting the development and promoting the circulation of humanistic knowledge throughout society.