Deadline: 10 January 2018
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:
- Develop new systems of making existing digital resources available to broader audiences and/or scholars from diverse institutions
- Extend existing digital projects and resources with content that adds diversity or interdisciplinary reach
- Foster new team-based collaborations between scholars at all career stages. Projects that convene, train, and empower communities of humanities faculty and/or graduate students around established digital research projects, as well as projects that allow scholars from institutions with limited digital infrastructure to exploit digital resources or to participate in existing labs or working groups, are especially welcome
- Create new forms and sites for scholarly engagement with the digital humanities. Projects that document and recognize participant engagement are strongly encouraged.
Funding Information
- ACLS will award up to five Digital Extension Grants in this competition year. Each grant provides 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, project related convenings, and consultant fees.
- Awards provide base funding of up to $125,000 for a variety of project costs, such as salary replacement, staffing, travel and lodging, meetings, equipment, and software. Projects that demonstrate concrete plans to develop new collaborations with partners at different institutions and/or engage in community building activities with scholars from US colleges and universities of diverse profiles may apply for up to $150,000 in funding.
- 12-18 months, to be initiated between July 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018
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.
