Project Grants for HBCU Faculty – Nov 6

Posted by American Council of Learned Societies on October 8, 2024

American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for Project Grants for HBCU Faculty

Formed in 1919, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors in the past, present, and future, with a view toward improving human experience.

The ACLS invites applications for 2025 ACLS Project Grants for HBCU Faculty program. Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to support exploratory research, advance an existing or established project to its next stage of development, and/or serve as a formative next step for future funding opportunities. In addition to the grant stipend, awardees will have access to networking and mentorship opportunities that align with their scholarly goals and institutional circumstances. Grants will support early-stage project design as well as smaller-scale project development that can be completed within the 12- to 15-month award tenure. Each project grant comes with an additional grant of $2,500 to the awardee’s home institution to support humanities programming or infrastructure. Applicants who advance to the finalist round of review will receive a $500 grant in support of their research, in addition to access to project and proposal development workshops in 2025.

The applicant’s goal should be to pilot and/or substantially develop a research-grounded project during the term of the award. Possible project outcomes include but are not limited to contributions to the development of one or more of the following: monographs, scholarly articles, conference papers, book chapters, or books on a topic in the humanities or social sciences and/or teaching and learning in those disciplines; pedagogical tools that make meaningful connections between a scholar’s research and teaching; works that bridge scholarly and creative practice; and community-engaged projects grounded in scholarly research but geared toward a public audience.

Projects must address a topic in the humanities or social sciences and/or teaching and learning in those disciplines in a higher education setting, employ predominantly humanistic approaches and qualitative/interpretive methodologies, and include original scholarly research.

Fellows might use grant funds for research (e.g., train research assistants, pay research participants, learn new methods, travel to libraries and archives, pay for reproductions); support for integrating research and pedagogy/teaching and learning, such as action research projects or Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the classroom; travel costs and registration fees for research and conferences; costs associated with organizing a workshop or event related to the project; course releases; writing and editorial assistant to advance work to publication, or other fees related to publication or dissemination of research; collaborations across institutions, both among HBCUs and other universities; interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues across fields with similar research agendas; and support for civic engagement and/or social justice work with surrounding communities.

To be eligible, applicants must employed primarily as instructors at an institution designated as an historically Black college or university. (Please consult this list to determine whether your institution is eligible.) Applicants need not be appointed full time, nor on the tenure track. Part-time and adjunct instructors are welcome to apply. All awardees must remain employed at an accredited HBCU for the duration of the award term and have an MA or PhD in the humanities or related social sciences that was conferred by the application deadline.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the American Council of Learned Societies website.

Deadline: November 6, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET