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ACLS invites research proposals from untenured scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences for a major piece of scholarly work.
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Get matched →The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships Competition invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Given the disproportionate effect the pandemic’s social and economic disruptions have had on emerging, independent, and untenured scholars, ACLS will continue in the 2023-24 competition year to offer these fellowships solely to untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within eight years of the application deadline. ACLS welcomes applications from scholars without faculty appointments and scholars off the tenure track. ACLS aims to select fellows who are broadly representative of the variety of humanistic scholarship across all fields of study.
In 2023-24, the program will award up to 60 fellowships. ACLS Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve months to full-time research and writing. The awards are portable and are tenable at any appropriate site for research.
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, publicly-engaged humanities project, digital research project, critical edition, or other scholarly resources. The fellowships support projects at any stage of development – beginning, middle, or end. This program does not fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
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