Past Programs

Past ACLS Fellowship and Grant Programs

Program descriptions and awardee information for initiatives that came to a close over the past 10 years. 
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ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ACLS appointed a national Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2014. The report on its investigation into technology and humanistic research was released in 2006. 
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Social Science Translation Project

Organized by the ACLS with financial support from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Translation Project brought together translators, editors, and social scientists to discuss problems arising from the translation of a variety of texts that employ social-scientific concepts. The guidelines that resulted were published in eight languages.
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ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

With funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York, between 1999 and 2010, the ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine supported humanities scholars doing exemplary work in the former Soviet Union during a time of crisis.
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East European Constitutionalism Teacher-Training Project

With funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, ACLS extended its earlier work in comparative constitutionalism by introducing the teaching of constitutionalism in the then Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. The project report appeared as ACLS Occasional Paper 51.
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Comparative Constitutionalism Project

Beginning in 1987, ACLS organized, with major support from the Ford Foundation, six international institutes—in Germany, Hungary, Thailand, the United States, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe—to consider constitutionalism. Oxford University Press published an essay collection, and a report appeared as ACLS Occasional Paper 13.
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National Commission on the Humanities

In 1963, ACLS joined with the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States and the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa to establish the Commission. Its final report led to the creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965.
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