Deadline: 25 January 2017
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is seeking applications for its “Digital Extension Grants” to support digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences.
The program aims to extend the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars. To this end, projects supported by ACLS Digital Extension Grants may:
- Extend established digital projects and resources with content that adds diversity or interdisciplinary reach
- Develop new systems of making established digital resources available to broader audiences and/or scholars from diverse institutions
- Foster new team-based work or collaborations that allow scholars from institutions with limited digital infrastructure to exploit digital resources
- Create new forms and sites for scholarly engagement with the digital humanities. Projects that document and recognize participant engagement are strongly encouraged
- Support projects aimed at preserving and making sustainable established digital projects and content.
Funding Information
- ACLS will award up to six Digital Extension Grants in this competition year. Each grant may provide funding of up to $125,000 to support a range of project costs, including, where necessary, salary replacement for faculty or staff, software, equipment, travel, or consultant fees.
- Applicants also may request up to an additional $25,000 to fund concrete plans to collaborate with and build networks among scholars from US higher education institutions of diverse profiles.
- Each grant carries a maximum possible award of $150,000.
- Grants may support projects of 12-18 months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects must be hosted by an institution of higher education in the United States.
- Project’s principal investigator must be a scholar in a field of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.
- Principal investigator must have a PhD degree conferred prior to the application deadline. (An established scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the PhD in publications and professional experience may also qualify).
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through ACLS Online Fellowship Application system.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit ACLS Digital Extension Grants.
