Applications are now open for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships to select fellows who are broadly representative of the variety of humanistic scholarship across all fields of study.
Donor Name: American Council of Learned Societies
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 09/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $60,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
ACLS also believes that diversity enhances scholarship and seek to recognize academic excellence from all sectors of higher education and beyond. In ACLS’s peer review, funding packages, and engagement with fellows, they aspire to enact the values of equity and inclusion.
The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources. The fellowships support projects at any stage of development. This program does not fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
ACLS Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. The awards are portable and are tenable at any appropriate site for research. An ACLS Fellowship may be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants and sabbatical pay. For fellows with full-time academic appointments, the total amount of support, including the ACLS Fellowship, may not exceed the candidate’s academic year salary. Fellows without full-time academic contracts may teach up to one course during the fellowship term.
Funding Information
- Maximum award: $60,000
- Tenure: six to twelve consecutive months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2023 and July 1, 2024, and to be completed no later than December 31, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- be US citizens, permanent residents, Indigenous individuals residing in the United States through rights associated with the Jay Treaty of 1794, DACA recipients, asylees, refugees, or individuals granted Temporary Protected Status in the United States. In addition, foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or US territories for three or more years before the application deadline are also eligible, provided that they do not establish permanent residence outside the United States during the period of the fellowship.
- have a PhD officially conferred between September 29, 2014 and September 28, 2022.
- not hold a tenured faculty position.
ACLS will confirm the tenure status of provisional awardees before finalizing the fellowship award.
For more information, visit American Council of Learned Societies.
