Digital Justice Development Grants – Dec 3

Posted by American Council of Learned Societies on November 12, 2024

American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for Digital Justice Development Grants 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.

The ACLS invites applications for its Digital Justice Development Grants program, which is designed to address inequities in access to tools and boost for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the program promotes inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars and projects at the beginning stages of development.

Through both their content and methods, projects funded by the program will pursue the following activities: critically 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 through the ethical use of digital tools and methods—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; and 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; and trans-institutional projects that connect scholars across academic and cultural heritage institutions.

Grants between $50,000 and $100,000 will be awarded.

To be eligible, at least one of the project’s principal investigators 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. Institutions of higher education in the United States must administer any awarded grant funds.

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

Deadline: December 3, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. ET