Opportunities & Deadlines
| Name | Type | Due |
|---|---|---|
| ACLS Leading Edge Fellows: Potential Host Organizations | Proposal | November 5, 2021 |
| ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships | Fellowship | March 2022 TBD |
ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships
Demonstrating the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build capacity, and advance social justice and equity
The ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship program aims to demonstrate the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build capacity, and advance social justice and equity. The fellowships support recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they work with social justice organizations to advance justice and equity in communities across the United States.
The program is made possible through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
An earlier phase of the program, funded as part of a $2.6 million grant by the Henry Luce Foundation, launched in the summer of 2020 to rapidly respond to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These fellowships placed PhDs pursuing research in art, art history, religion, theology, and ethics with nonprofit partners across the country to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities and advance collective understanding of the conditions that worsened that impact. With the support of the Mellon Foundation, ACLS expanded the program and refocused it to demonstrate the capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society.