The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce that 2022-23 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions are now open for programs with September and October deadlines. ACLS offers fellowship and grant programs that promote research across the full spectrum of humanities and interpretive social science fields.
Our peer review and award processes aim to promote inclusive excellence, and we welcome applicants from groups that are underrepresented in the academic humanities and from across the diverse landscape of higher education.
ACLS is the leading private institution supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. In the last competition year, ACLS awarded over $25 million to approximately 350 scholars worldwide. Learn about recent fellows’ and grantees’ profiles and research abstracts.
Meet Recent Fellows & Grantees
Catherine Hartmann shares how support from The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies has been instrumental in her academic career.
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July 12, 2022
Kay Sohini F’21 discusses the process of creating her graphic dissertation using comics as a method, and how nontraditional approaches to scholarship can create space for inclusive work accessible to the public.
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May 11, 2022
ACLS fellows and partners share their work creating spaces for Black communities and stories in partnership with the Leading Edge and Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship programs.
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February 8, 2022
ACLS Leading Edge Fellow Chris Hedlin F’21 shares her experience as the faith & religion reporter at PublicSource.
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January 11, 2022
Franco D. Rossi, Austen-Stokes Postdoctoral Fellow in the Art of the Ancient Americas at Johns Hopkins University, is one of two inaugural recipients of the ACLS H. and T. King Fellowship in Ancient American Art and Culture.
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September 15, 2021
Erica Vogel F’19 explores the rise of K-pop in Mexico as a venue through which people with unequal privileges establish connections and imagine themselves as producers and consumers of global trends.
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August 23, 2021
For Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University, tackling inequalities facing Black women, girls, and femmes continues to be crucial particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 18, 2021
Notable Fellows and Grantees