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Rachel Ellis, Ph.D. candidate, has accepted the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. She was selected as one of 66 fellows from more than 1,000 applicants. The ACLS Fellowship supports writing and research in the final year of dissertation work.