The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce that the 2021-22 ACLS competitions are now open for programs with fall 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. Application information and eligibility criteria for all programs can be found at www.acls.org/Fellowship-and-Grant-Programs/Competitions-and-Deadlines.

Application deadlines vary by program:

September 29, 2021, 9pm EDT
*ACLS Fellowships (in 2021-22, for untenured scholars who earned the PhD within eight years of the application deadline)

October 27, 2021, 9pm EDT
*Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
*Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
*Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowships
*Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

November 1, 2021, 9pm EDT
*Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies

November 15, 2021, 9pm EST
*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Translation Grants in Buddhist Studies
*Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs – Collaborative Programming Grants

December 3, 2021, 9pm GMT
*African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowships

January 11, 2022, 9pm EST
*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies
*The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars
*ACLS Digital Humanities Grants (pending renewal of funding)

March 2022 TBD
*ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships for recent PhDs (pending renewal of funding)

 

The American Council of Learned Societies is the leading private institution supporting scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. In the last competition year, ACLS awarded over $25 million to approximately 350 scholars worldwide. Recent fellows’ and grantees’ profiles and research abstracts are available at www.acls.org/Fellows-and-Research/Recent-Awardees . We encourage you to circulate this notice to members of your community who may be interested in these fellowship and grant opportunities.

For all questions, please contact: fellowships@acls.org. Interested in contributing to ACLS’s mission by serving as a peer reviewer? Please fill out this form.