Nandi Dill Jordan is finishing her first year as a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and digital content specialist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Jordan, who has a PhD in sociology from New York University, reflects on the greatest challenges of pursuing a career path outside of academia, as well as her most rewarding experiences thus far at LACMA. 

ACLS awards over $800,000 to fund research in China studies.

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows, representing 36 different universities, are completing dissertations in a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines.

The challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow ACLS to amplify and extend our support for humanities scholars.

The Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships were awarded to advanced graduate students pursuing promising dissertation research in the study of object- and image-based US art history.

Fellows represent more than 50 colleges and universities, and work in fields across the humanities on topics that span the globe and human history.

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The Luce/ACLS Fellowships in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs support scholars in the humanities and related social sciences who are pursuing research on religion in an international context and desire to connect their projects with journalists and media specialists.

Burkhardt Fellowships support recently tenured faculty as they pursue long-term, ambitious research while in residence at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities are ideally suited to facilitate their research.

The teams that make up this year’s cohort of ACLS Collaborative Research Fellows transcend disciplines, institutions, time periods, or geographies (and, in some cases, all four) to shape new understandings of our world.

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The consortium includes 35 leading research universities, each of which has pledged $50,000/year to enable the increase of stipends for scholars selected to receive ACLS Fellowships.

ACLS convened its annual Public Fellows Seminar in Philadelphia on August 25-27. The event, the third meeting of its kind for the six-year-old program, focuses on forging a network of PhD-professionals at similar stages in their careers.

Deadlines vary by program, with the first on September 28, 2016.

Congratulations to the eighth cohort of the African Humanities Program (AHP)!

Fellows and senior scholars gathered on June 15-17 in Glen Cove, NY.

The 2016 cohort of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellows and institutional grantees in Buddhist studies received over $2.1 million in support for research, writing, and teaching.

With the 2016 cohort, the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program now has supported more than 100 PhDs as they demonstrate that the capacities honed in the course of completing a PhD in the humanities have broad practical applications.

The inaugural cohort of grantees will develop new public programming, research working groups, and curricular ventures that increase the presence of scholarship on religion in journalism training and practice.

This year's awardees will be pursuing research and writing on the history and cultures of China, including African and South Korean Pastor-Entrepreneurs in Guangzhou, Conceiving the Communist Child, Calligraphy by Zhang Huaiguan, and Chinese Culinary Nationalism.”

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows, who are from 32 different universities, are completing dissertations in a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines.

On this twenty-fifth anniversary of the Luce/ACLS program, fellows are pursuing promising research in object- and image-based US art history, funded by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Fellows include independent scholars as well as tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty of all ranks, from more than 50 colleges and universities, working on projects that span the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Burkhardt Fellowships support recently tenured faculty as they pursue long-term, unusually ambitious research while in residence at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities are ideally suited to facilitate the proposed research project.

The projects cross disciplinary, methodological, and geographic boundaries, and stretch team members beyond current practice to produce knowledge together they could not produce alone.

Heads of nine organizations met at the ACLS offices.

The new program, which is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, will offer grants to universities and fellowships to scholars to foster greater understanding of religion in public discourse.

PPI aims to provide new data about the impact of postdoctoral fellowships on the careers of scholars and the institutions that host them.

ACLS’s new Digital Extension Grants will support teams of scholars as they enhance existing digital projects and engage new audiences across a range of academic communities and institutions.

Rustow, a historian and director of the Princeton Geniza Project, is a two-time ACLS fellowship awardee.

New grants for colleges and universities around the world that wish to develop teaching positions in Buddhist studies.

The 37 awardees reflect the breadth and vibrancy of the humanities in Africa.

Deadlines vary by program, with the first falling on September 23, 2015.

The symposium, supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation and organized by ACLS, took place at the University of British Columbia, June 7–9, 2015.

The Luce/ACLS Ellen Holtzman Dissertation Fellowship in American Art will be awarded to an emerging scholar of demonstrated achievement whose research and writing concerns American modernism and art of the 1950s and 1960s.

ACLS is pleased to announce the second cohort of fellows in The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

The event, which will take place July 7-9 at the University of British Columbia, will celebrate the first cohort of Dissertation Fellows of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

Jackson, a 2012 ACLS Public Fellow, describes how his new role promoting collaboration between an academic library and a university press "engages the same problem-solving dopamine receptors" that led him to pursue a humanities PhD.

China studies continue at ACLS, funded by the Luce Foundation, NEH, and CCK, for predoctoral  and postdoctoral research and workshops.

Awardees will take up two-year positions with top nonprofits and government agencies.

Expansion of Burkhardt fellowship program comes as long-running Ryskamp program makes final awards.

Professor Gay was an ACLS Fellow in 1958 and the 2004 Charles Homer Haskins Lecturer.

Ten fellowships were awarded to advanced graduate students pursuing promising and ambitious PhD research in the study of object- and image-based American art history.

The new program awards up to $200,000 to scholars, journalists, and authors to support research in the social sciences and humanities.

The 2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows are from 29 universities and nearly 20 fields of humanistic study.

Seventy awards were made to faculty of all ranks and independent scholars from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

The two programs, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, support scholars who are embarking on ambitious, large-scale research projects at critical stages in their academic careers.

Selected from a highly competitive field of applicants, the awardees will dedicate a year to projects that further the digital transformation of humanistic research.

Most frequently accessed e-books in the online collection include two by ACLS fellows.

The scholars selected for funding cross boundaries of discipline, methodology, and geography to undertake new research projects that will result in joint publications.

The heads of nine organizations in the humanities met at ACLS on December 3 to discuss how best to support research scholars.

The recommendations by leading African academics will be presented at the African Higher Education Summit in Dakar in March 2015.

The three have been named African Studies Association Presidential Fellows, an honor bestowed upon them in recognition of their contributions to the humanities in Africa

ACLS asked its fellows to describe their research the knowledge it creates and how this knowledge benefits our understanding of the world. This response comes from two ACLS Collaborative Research Fellows. 

ACLS congratulates the University of Chicago historian and two-time ACLS fellowship awardee.

The new cohort of fellows met on September 18-20 in Philadelphia, PA.

ACLS is pleased to announce 38 fellowship awards to African scholars in the sixth year of the African Humanities Program (AHP).

Information is now posted on the projects that will be undertaken by awardees in the first annual competitions of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

ACLS’s diverse program offerings support humanities scholars at all stages of the academic career.

Awards were made across a dozen programs to scholars working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

All combined, 31 fellowships and grants were awarded from over 190 applications.

Awardees to take up two-year fellowships in public policy, arts administration, and communications.

The program will add five new fellowships for associate professors and raise the maximum stipend level to $70,000.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the results of the first annual competitions of the new Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

This year, 64 fellowships were awarded to advanced graduate students pursuing promising and ambitious PhD research from 32 universities and more than a dozen humanistic disciplines.

Ten fellowships were awarded to advanced graduate students pursuing promising and ambitious Ph.D. research in the study of object- and image-based American art history.

Teemu H. Ruskola, professor of law at Emory University, is the first ACLS Fellow to be supported in part by the Munro Fund for Chinese Thought.

A total of 65 awards were made to faculty of all ranks and independent scholars in ACLS's central fellowship program.

Matthew Goldfeder has been appointed as director of fellowship programs and John Paul Christy as director of public programs.

The two programs support scholars who are embarking on ambitious, large-scale research projects at critical stages in their academic careers.

Fellows will spend a year dedicated to projects advancing digital scholarship in powerful new directions.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 Collaborative Research Fellowships.

The program will place 20 recent humanities Ph.D.s in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector.

ACLS continues to be the leading private institution supporting scholars in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

Once a neglected topic, alternative or non-academic career paths for Ph.D.s are finding increasing support within the scholarly community.

A seminar on "Preparing for the Academic Job Market" took place on September 5-7 in San Antonio, TX.

The group met on October 3 at the ACLS Offices.

A Memorandum of Understanding was executed on October 2 at the ACLS offices.

Thirty-four awards are given to African scholars in the fifth year of the program.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce that the 2013 14 ACLS fellowship competitions are now open.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the 2013 cohort of ACLS Public Fellows.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the results of the first annual competitions of the new Henry Luce Foundation ACLS Program in China Studies.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the 2013 cohorts of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art.

The new initiative, funded by a $1.9 million grant from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, will support research and teaching in Buddhist studies.

88 scholars receive awards to support new research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

The 22 awardees, recent Ph.D.s from a range of humanistic disciplines, will take up two-year positions at participating universities across the country.

The report features a message from President Yu and highlights of the year's activities, along with a complete listing of 2012 fellows and grantees and their research projects.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Collaborative Research Fellowships.

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships.

ACLS was saddened to learn of the passing of Sarah Namulondo (F'11), who was a lecturer in the department of literature at Makerere University at the time of her death.

On February 15, 2013, the American Council of Learned Societies hosted a panel presentation and discussion at the College Art Association's (CAA) 2013 annual conference to mark the 20th year of the Henry Luce Foundation ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art.

Cohen was in the inaugural cohort of ACLS Digitial Innovation Fellows.

On December 4, 2012 ACLS convened the fourth annual meeting of heads of national fellowship-granting organizations in the humanities.

"The humanities help to make the world a better place by revealing to us the complexities and ambiguities of human society in its varied dimensions, helping to shake us from our old biases and habits of thought, from which prejudice and discrimination (even unintentional bias) stem."

"Personal stories are often the inspiration for history projects."

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce 51 fellowship awards to African scholars in the fourth year of the African Humanities Program (AHP), a multi-year initiative of annual, international competitions funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The program is open to humanities scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.

The program will aid scholars embarking on careers in research and teaching on Chinese history, literature, culture, and society.

"Whitman’s writing has special standing both because of its quality and because of his proximity to the war.  No other significant writer experienced the war so directly and for such an extended period of time. Perhaps only Abraham Lincoln commented on it with as much insight and eloquence."

"Biotechnology is giving us the capability not just to change our world, but to change ourselves—to manipulate and partially redesign our own bodies and minds."

The 13 fellows will join partnering organizations for two-year terms. They will participate in the substantive work of these agencies and receive professional mentoring to further transition into non-academic careers.