The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to invite applications for Digital Justice Development Grants, which are made possible by The Mellon Foundation.
Donor Name: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000 and $100,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
Through both their content and methods, projects funded by ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants pursue the following activities:
- Engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people.
- Advance beyond the prototyping or proof-of-concept phase and articulate the next financial, technological, and intellectual phases of project development.
- Cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge and strategic approaches to content building and knowledge dissemination.
- Engage in capacity building efforts, including but not limited to: pedagogical projects that train students in digital humanities methods as a key feature of the project’s content building practice; publicly engaged projects that develop new technological infrastructure with community partners; trans-institutional projects that connect scholars across academic and cultural heritage institutions.
Funding Information
- Amount: between $50,000 and $100,000
- Grant terms must begin between July 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024, with a workplan that lasts from 12-18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project’s principal investigator must be a scholar in the humanities and/or the interpretative social sciences.
- Projects must demonstrate evidence of significant preliminary work as well as a record of engagement and impact with scholarly and/or public audiences.
- Projects must be made as widely available as intellectual property constraints allow, ideally with the most liberal open-source and Creative Commons license that is appropriate for the underlying content.
- An institution of higher education in the United States must administer any awarded grant funds.
Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewers in this program evaluate all eligible proposals on the following criteria:
- The project’s advancement of equity and justice by centering and engaging with understudied, underfunded, or otherwise marginalized topics of inquiry that are relevant to both society and scholarship.
- The feasibility of development, extension, and/or renewal plans, including (where appropriate) reflections on intentional sunsetting and data stewardship beyond the grant term.
- The proposal’s analysis of the various technological, financial, and/or institutional supports (or lack thereof) and how grant funds might complement, or in some cases, completely underwrite, these gaps in support.
- The project’s potential to bolster the ecosystem of digital scholarship within and/or outside the project’s home institution, whether by (yet not limited to) its intellectual contributions, innovative use of existing technology, and/or networks of skills-building and sharing.
- The project’s clarity with respect to how it will engage various publics (e.g. as intellectual partners or as audiences of the produced content) and why.
For more information, visit ACLS.
