Deadline: 29-Sep-21
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.
ACLS also believe 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 publication(s), critical edition, or other scholarly resources. 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.
Benefits
The fellowship stipend is set at $60,000 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. Independent scholars, adjunct faculty, and faculty with teaching-intensive appointments will receive an award supplement of $3,000 for research support, access to manuscript development workshops, or learned society conference attendance.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- 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.
- have a PhD officially conferred between September 30, 2013 and September 29, 2021.
- not hold a tenured faculty position.
ACLS will confirm the tenure status of provisional awardees before finalizing the fellowship award.
Requirements
Applications must be submitted online and must include:
- Completed application form
- Proposal (no more than five pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font)
- Up to two additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials (optional)
- Bibliography (without annotation, no more than two pages)
- Publications list (no more than two pages)
- A brief personal statement of up to one page (double spaced, Times New Roman 11-point font) describing how your background and personal experiences have influenced your intellectual trajectory as a scholar (optional)
- A brief writing sample (no more than five pages total, single or double spaced, including footnotes or endnotes, in Times New Roman 11-point font), including a brief description of context and the sample’s relation to the proposed project
- One reference letter.
For more information, visit https://www.acls.org/Competitions-and-Deadlines/ACLS-Fellowships
