Deadline: September 30, 2020
Applications are open for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships 2020-2021. ACLS invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences.
Given the disproportionate effect the current economic downturn has on emerging, independent, and untenured scholars, in the 2020-21 competition year the awards are designated solely for untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within the past eight years. ACLS welcomes applications from scholars without faculty appointments and scholars off the tenure track.
Program Details
In 2020-21, the program will award up to 50 fellowships. ACLS invites applications from scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or humanistic methodology. ACLS aims to select fellows who are broadly representative of the variety of humanistic scholarship across all fields of study. They also believe that diversity enhances scholarship and seek to recognize academic excellence from all sectors of higher education and beyond.
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. The ACLS Fellowship program does not fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
Fellowship
- 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
Applicants must:
- be a US citizen, permanent resident, or DACA recipient.
- have a PhD officially conferred between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2020.
- not hold a tenured faculty position.
ACLS will confirm the tenure status of provisional awardees before finalizing the fellowship award.
Application
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 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
- Two reference letters
For more information, visit ACLS.
