American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Program – Sep 25

Posted by American Council of Learned Societies on August 27, 2024

American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for fellowship program

Formed in 1919, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good.

ACLS invites applications for its fellowship program, which supports research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. In the 2024-25 competition cycle, the program will award up to 60 fellowships to scholars across all stages of the scholarly career, with approximately half of this year’s awards to support early-career scholars.

ACLS welcomes applications from scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or humanistic methodology and aims to select fellows who are broadly representative of the variety of humanistic scholarship across all fields of study. 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, publicly engaged humanities project, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources. The fellowships support projects at any stage of development—beginning, middle, or end. This program does not fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation (without significant scholarly interpretation and apparatus), or projects that are primarily pedagogical in focus.

The fellowship awards a $60,000 stipend for a 12-month fellowship. Awards of shorter duration will be prorated at $5,000 per month, with the minimum award set at $30,000. ACLS provides award supplements of between $3,000 to $6,000 for independent scholars, adjunct faculty, and faculty with teaching-intensive roles for costs incurred during the fellowship term, including research support, access to manuscript development workshops, learned society conference attendance, health insurance, or child- or eldercare.

To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or 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; have earned a PhD in the humanities or interpretive social sciences no later than the application deadline; and devote six to 12 months to full-time research and/or writing during the award period, to be initiated between July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026, and to be completed by December 31, 2026.

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

Deadline: September 25, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET