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ACLS Fellowship Program

Supporting outstanding scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences
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Geraldine Heng F’17 delivering a keynote at the RaceB4Race conference at the Folger Institute in September 2019.

The longest running program in ACLS’s portfolio, the ACLS Fellowship program supports outstanding scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. In the most recent competition year, ACLS awarded approximately $3.6 million in support to 60 exceptional scholars.  

Given the disproportionate effect the current economic downturn has had on emerging, independent, and untenured scholars, ACLS continued in the 2022-23 competition year to offer these fellowships solely to untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within eight years of the application deadline. 

The ACLS Fellowship program is funded primarily by ACLS’s endowment, which has benefited from the generous support of esteemed institutions and individuals including the Mellon Foundation, Arcadia Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ACLS Research University Consortium and college and university Associates, past fellows, and friends of ACLS. 

Fellowships include the following named awards (no separate application required): 

  • ACLS Barrington Foundation Centennial Fellowships in Classical Studies 
  • ACLS Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Fellowships in English and American Literature 
  • ACLS Centennial Fellowships in the Dynamics of Place 
  • ACLS Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellowships in Chinese History 
  • ACLS H. and T. King Fellowships in Ancient American Art and Culture 
  • ACLS Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Fellowships in the Arab World and Latin America
  • ACLS Morton N. Cohen and Richard N. Swift Fellowships
  • ACLS Oscar Handlin Fellowships in American History 
  • ACLS Pauline Yu Fellowships in Chinese or Comparative Literature 
  • ACLS Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellowships in Music Studies 
  • ACLS Yvette and William Kirby Centennial Fellowships in Chinese Studies 

In addition, applicants for the ACLS Fellowship are eligible to apply for the ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships. This joint fellowship requires a separate application to the Cullman Center, due in late September.

 

Opportunities & Deadlines

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ACLS Fellowships Fellowship

September 28, 2022, 9pm EDT

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Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 79 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good.

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