ACLS, a private, nonprofit federation of 81 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities.
In response to the disproportionate effect the current economic downturn has had on independent scholars & those w/o tenured positions, ACLS will redirect the focus of the ACLS Fellowship Program to support early career, non-tenured scholars exclusively:
ACLS Fellowships of up to $60K are open to all career stages in all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Apply by Sept. 25, 9PM EDT.
Apply now for a 2025 ACLS Fellowship, supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences! Awards of $30-60k + additional funding for independent scholars, adjunct faculty & faculty in teaching-intensive roles. Deadline Sept. 25, 9PM EDT
Humanities scholars: apply by Sept. 25, 9PM EDT for an ACLS Fellowship! We welcome applications from scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or humanistic methodology.
This year, the ACLS Fellowship program is exclusively supporting early-career, untenured scholars who earned the PhD after Sept. 30, 2012. Awards offer up to $60k to advance research in all fields of the humanities. Apply by Sept. 30th, 9pm EDT.
ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ACLS Fellowships. This year, the program will award more than $3.8 million in research support to 60 scholars:
On Friday, Nov. 19,
@ProfCAnderson
F'98 will be in conversation with
@nhannahjones
on the upcoming book "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," to which Anderson contributed an essay. Learn more and register for this
@FamilyActionNet
event:
ACLS is accepting applications for our ACLS Fellowships, which this year are designated for early career, non-tenured scholars who earned PhDs on or after Sept 29, 2015. Awards of $30-60k + research funds for NTT scholars. Apply by Sept. 28, 9PM EDT:
Calling PhD students in the humanities or social sciences! The
@MellonFdn
-ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support projects that push the traditional approaches and forms of dissertation research in new directions. Apply by Oct 30 9PM EDT:
Calling humanistic scholars studying the Arab world and/or Latin America! Apply for the ACLS
@MKraidy
&
@utekraidy
Centennial Fellowship by Sept 28, 9PM. Special interest in supporting comparative or transnational approaches across these spheres.
Congratulations to the first cohort of ACLS Emerging Voices Fellows! We're proud to support these 45 recent PhDs who will bring their innovative research and vision to universities across the country.
Calling
#digitalhumanities
#DH
graduate students: ACLS is hiring a Digital Humanities Program Intern for fall 2024!
This remote position is 20 hours/week and will provide programmatic support to the ACLS Digital Justice Grants Program:
One month until the deadline! ACLS Fellowships support scholars in the humanities & interpretive social sciences! Awards of $30-60k + additional funding for independent scholars, adjunct faculty & faculty in teaching-intensive roles. Deadline 9/25, 9PM EDT
ACLS is pleased to announce the 2022
@MellonFdn
-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. The awards support 50 early-career scholars in the final year of PhD dissertation writing:
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 ACLS Fellowships. This year, the program will award more than $3.6 million in research support to 60 scholars:
Announcing our 2024-25 fellowship and grant competitions!
ACLS offers programs that promote research across all fields of the
#humanities
and interpretive
#socialsciences
.
Congratulations to
@ProfCAnderson
F'98 on being named winner of 2022 Gittler Prize
@BrandeisU
! The award recognizes outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations:
ACLS is pleased to announce the formation of the Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship, with support from the
@MellonFdn
. Learn more here:
The
@MellonFdn
/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships are open! This fellowship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the
#humanities
and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.
ACLS is pleased to announce that its 2020-21 competitions with fall deadlines are now open & accepting applications. ACLS offers fellowship & grant programs that promote research across the full spectrum of
#humanities
& humanistic social science fields:
#Humanities
scholars: We are increasing the number of awards available through our central ACLS Fellowship program to 81 this year! Applications due by 9pm EDT on Sept 26:
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on all of us, we are committed to supporting our scholars. Congrats to the 2020
@MellonFdn
/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows! Learn more on the 64 graduate students & their projects here:
Calling HBCU faculty in the humanities and interpretive social sciences! Apply now to the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program, with grants up to $10k and fellowships up to $50k. Apply by Nov 6, 9 PM EST:
Congratulations to the 2020 cohort of
@MellonFdn
/ACLS
#publicfellows
! These 22 dynamic humanities PhDs will join top civic, cultural, media, and social justice organizations this fall. Meet the 2020 fellows here:
We're pleased to announce a new fellowship program starting this fall: the Mellon/ACLS
#CommunityCollege
Faculty Fellowships, supporting the research of humanities faculty teaching at 2-year institutions
ACLS is pleased to share a new resource guide on open databases for
#ChinaStudies
as part of the
@HLuceFdn
-ACLS Digital Archives Mapping Project. The guide highlights online repositories that offer free access to large primary source sets:
ACLS is pleased to announce that 2023-24 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions are now open for programs with September and October deadlines.
Explore all our upcoming fellowship and grant opportunities:
ACLS is pleased to announce the 3rd competition of the Leading Edge Fellowship program. Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities. Learn more and apply:
ACLS is pleased to announce the 2021
@MellonFdn
/ ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. The awards support an exceptional group of emerging scholars during their last year of dissertation research and writing:
We are excited to announce the inaugural ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellows and Grantees! This year, the program will support 20 HBCU faculty scholars pursuing exceptional research projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Excited to announce the 9th annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
program! 2-yr fellowship opportunities in 21 nonprofit & gov organizations for recent
#humanities
PhDs. Check out this year's positions and apply by 9pm ET, March 13:
The 8th annual Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
competition is now open! In 2018, ACLS will place up to 25 recent humanities PhDs in 2-yr roles in top nonprofit & government orgs. Read about this year's competition at and apply by March 14, 2018!
ACLS is proud to announce the inaugural cohort of
@MellonFdn
/ ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows, supporting 45 early-career doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences:
Congratulations to the 2019 Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
! Meet the 20 humanities PhDs who will join top nonprofit & government agencies around the country this fall
ACLS has proudly named 48 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2021. The program assists new and recent PhDs in continuing research and professional development during a challenging academic job market:
Calling scholars studying the Arab World and/or Latin America! Apply for the ACLS
@MKraidy
&
@utekraidy
Centennial Fellowship by Sept 25, 9PM. Special interest in supporting comparative or transnational approaches across these spheres. Learn more:
We're thrilled to announce the 10th annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
program! This year, 21 recent PhDs in the humanities will take up roles in the arts, media, policy, international affairs, and more. Apply by March 18, 2020
We are proud to announce 45 new
@MellonFdn
-ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows! The program supports doctoral students as they pursue bold and innovative approaches to dissertation research.
New book alert! "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" by
@hollyguise
F'22 is out now from
@UWAPress
. Guise draws on oral histories & interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the relationship between Alaska Natives & the US military during the Pacific War.
Congratulations to the first-ever recipients of the 2019 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship!
The program supports research projects from humanities & social science faculty who teach at two-year colleges.
Meet the 2019 fellows:
Two weeks left to apply for an ACLS Fellowship! This year, awards are designated for early career, non-tenured scholars who earned PhDs on or after Sept 29, 2015. Awards of $30-60k + research funds for NTT scholars. Apply by Sept. 28, 9PM EDT.
Interested in learning more about 2023-24 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions? Register now for informational webinars and office hours hosted by ACLS staff:
Congratulations to Founder & Executive Director Kim Gallon F'15
@BlackDigitalHum
on the launch of
@COVIDBLK
, a project born out of the pandemic that uses health data, storytelling, and theoretical frameworks to address racial health disparities:
Congratulations to the 2018 Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
! 24 recent humanities PhDs will take up 2yr fellowships in top nonprofits & government agencies
Any faculty employed primarily at HBCUs are eligible to apply for the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship and Grant Program! Grants of up to $10k and fellowships up to $50k. Apply by Nov. 2, 9 PM EDT:
Congratulations to the 81 newest fellows of the ACLS fellowship program! Recipients are awarded from $40k to $75k and support six to 12 months of full-time research & writing. Find out more about the 2020 ACLS fellows and their projects here:
The Age of Intoxication (
@PennPress
), a new forthcoming book by assistant professor of history and
#ACLSFellow
@ResObscura
of
@ucsc
, explores the impact of drug culture on 17th and 18th c. British and Portuguese empires.
“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
― Toni Morrison
ACLS announces the launch of the Leading Edge Fellowship program, made possible by the
@HLuceFdn
. This $1.6M fellowship aims to put the power of humanities scholarship & training to work in addressing challenges facing communities hard hit by COVID19:
New book alert! "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (
@ucpress
) by
@DrMaDMo
F'21 explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the 20th century.
ACLS is pleased to celebrate President
@Joyclassicist
's election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
@americanacad
, one of the oldest and most esteemed honorary societies in the United States:
ACLS has been awarded a $3.6M grant from the
@MellonFdn
to implement a major expansion of its new Leading Edge Fellowship program. The 3rd phase of this program will award up to 40 fellowships to emerging scholars in a variety of humanities fields in 2021.
We are pleased to announce the ACLS Digital Justice Grant Program. This
@MellonFdn
-funded program will support
#digitalhumanities
projects focused on the histories and cultures of historically marginalized communities:
Congrats to
#ACLSfellow
@sahelblog
for his latest book, "Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups." In 2017, Thurston received the
@HLuceFdn
/ACLS Fellowship in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs.
We are accepting applications for our central ACLS Fellowships, which are designated this year for early career, non-tenured scholars who earned PhDs after Sept 29, 2013. Awards of up to $60k + research funds for NTT scholars. Apply by Sept 29, 9pm ET:
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support students embarking on innovative doctoral research - transdisciplinary, digital, publicly engaged, collaborative, & more. $52k awards fund year of research & mentorship. Apply by Oct 30:
The
@MellonFdn
/ ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships are open! They support
#humanities
and interpretive social sciences advanced graduate students in the last year of PhD research and dissertation writing. Apply by Oct 27, 9pm ET:
The 2018
#publicfellows
competition is open! 25 two-yr opps for recent humanities PhDs seeking careers beyond the professoriate, in great orgs like
@ELPCenter
in Chicago,
@UNCF
in DC,
@policylink
in Oakland. Read more & apply by March 14:
ACLS is offering Digital Justice Seed Grants of $10k-50k and Development Grants of $50k-100k to provide vital resources for digital humanities projects focused on the histories and interests of historically marginalized communities. Apply by 12/15:
Despite myths to the contrary, English majors are employed, earn good salaries, and experience satisfaction with their career paths, based on a new report commissioned by
@MLAnews
.
Read more about the report in
@DiverseIssues
⬇️
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we are increasing the number of awards in our ACLS Fellowship program to 81 this year - the most ever offered! Open to scholars in all fields of the humanities. Apply online by Sept 26
ACLS is pleased to announce Buddhism Public Scholars, a new initiative made possible by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, which will place emerging scholars of Buddhism in positions with museums and publishers focusing on Buddhist art and traditions:
We are pleased to announce that anthropologist, distinguished educator, and museum professional
@johnnettabcole
will deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture on Thursday, May 20.
In the latest
@culanth
journal, Radhika Govindrajan
@r_gov11
F'20 "asks how conceptualizing love as work might provide a fresh perspective on love’s politics."
"Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India"
Community colleges are a vitally important to the
#humanities
. The
@MellonFdn
/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships support research by humanities & social science faculty who teach primarily at two-year institutions. Apply by Sept 30th, 9pm EDT:
We are thrilled to announce the 2023 ACLS Leading Edge Fellows. Eighteen early-career PhDs will join nonprofit organizations across the US in two-year positions to advance social justice initiatives.
.
@MellonFdn
-ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support students embarking on innovative doctoral research - transdisciplinary, digital, publicly engaged, collaborative, & more. $50k awards fund year of research & mentorship. Apply by Oct 25:
Recent humanities PhDs: ACLS has partnered w/ 21 nonprofit & government orgs to offer 2-yr, career-building placements in arts & culture, community development, media, & policy fields. Apply by 9pm ET, March 13 to join the
#publicfellows
program!
This year, the ACLS Fellowship program will support early-career, untenured scholars who earned PhDs on or after Sept. 29, 2014. Awards of up to $60k for research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Apply by Sept. 28, 9pm EDT.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2019 ACLS Digital Extension Grants! Five
#DH
projects receive $150,000 awards to advance research & extend their reach to new communities of scholars
ACLS is pleased to announce our 2021-22 fellowship and grant competitions. Our online application system is now open for programs with September and October deadlines:
Calling recent PhDs conducting research on China!
@HLuceFdn
-ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies support untenured, emerging scholars through flexible or long-term research fellowships. Apply by November 2, 9 PM EDT:
ONE WEEK LEFT! Apply now for a 2024 ACLS Fellowship, supporting early-career, non-tenured scholars in the humanities and related social sciences. Awards of $30-60k + award supplements for independent scholars & adjunct faculty. Deadline Sept. 28, 9PM EDT
ACLS announces the 2024 Leading Edge Fellowship competition, made possible by the support of the
@MellonFdn
. The program will offer 21 recent PhDs in humanities & interpretive social sciences the opportunity to join social justice organizations:
Congratulations to
@malindalowery
, who has recently been elected to the Society of American Historians and the American Council of Learned Societies Board!
Congrats to the 2020
@MellonFdn
/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows. Now in its 2nd year, this singular program recognizes & supports outstanding research projects from
#humanities
& social science faculty teaching at two-year colleges. Learn more:
ACLS has received a $2 million grant from the
@MellonFdn
to fund a three-year series of summer institutes to explore innovative practices of equity, inclusion, and structural change in the academy.
For more:
Announcing the new Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowships, supporting humanities faculty who pursue publicly engaged scholarship and innovation in doctoral education at their universities
ACLS is offering grants of up to $150k each to enhance
#digital
#humanities
projects and extend their reach to broader communities of scholars. Apply by January 16, 9pm ET for an ACLS Digital Extension Grant
#dh
The 2018 Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
competition is open! 25 two-yr opportunities for recent humanities PhDs seeking careers beyond the professoriate, in top orgs like
@rockarch_org
,
@laphamsquart
&
@NILC_org
. Read more & apply by March 14:
Calling PhDs in humanities & interpretive social sciences: ACLS is hiring two Program Officers, one focusing on International Programs and one on Higher Education Initiatives (2-year term). Please share, and see full job descriptions and how to apply here:
Interested in learning more about 2023-24 ACLS fellowship and grant opportunities? Register now for informational webinars and office hours hosted by ACLS program officers and staff:
ACLS is thrilled to name 28 new
@MellonFdn
/ ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows for 2021, recognizing exceptional faculty at community colleges and their contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities:
Congratulations to
@NicoleFleetwoo2
F'16, whose book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration is a finalist in Criticism for the
@nationalbook
Critics Circle Award!
ACLS is now accepting applications for the 2020 Mellon/ACLS
#publicfellows
program. New this year: Applicants may apply to up to two of this year's 21 great positions!
Recent humanities PhDs, read more here and apply by March 18 (9pm ET)
ACLS names 21 new Leading Edge Fellows supported by
@MellonFdn
. These early career PhDs will join nonprofit organizations in 2024-26 to advance social justice initiatives across the United States.
Meet the fellows: