2001 - 2002 Fellowship Opportunities

American Council of Learned Societies

*ANNOUNCING ACLS FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT COMPETITIONS TO BE HELD IN 2001-2002*

APPLICATION FORMS ARE NOW (OR WILL BE SHORTLY) AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE COMPLETION

See: http://www.acls.org/fel-comp.htm

The ACLS is pleased to announce the opening of the 2001-2002 competition year for fellowships and grants programs, including two new programs.

NEW THIS YEAR are the CHARLES A. RYSKAMP RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS. These fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and named in honor of Charles A. Ryskamp, literary scholar, distinguished library and museum director, and long-serving trustee of the Foundation, provide a stipend of $60,000 for an academic year of research, plus an allowance of $2,500 for research and travel, and the possibility of funding for an additional summer, if justified. The fellowships support tenure-track Assistant Professors in the humanities and related social sciences who have successfully completed their institution's review for reappointment but have not yet been reviewed for tenure, who have made scholarly contributions that have advanced their fields, and who have well designed and carefully developed plans for new research.

ALSO NEW THIS YEAR are the ACLS/ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS FOR JUNIOR FACULTY. In response to increasingly rigorous expectations for tenure, funding will be available for an additional 22 fellowships for Assistant Professors or the equivalent with at least 2 years' teaching experience. Applicants to the ACLS Fellowship Program who met this criterion, and who satisfy all the requirements and provisions for the ACLS Fellowships, will be automatically considered for these junior faculty awards.

Offered again this year are the FREDERICK BURKHARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RECENTLY TENURED SCHOLARS. The Burkhardt fellowships this year will support scholars tenured since October 1, 1997, who are engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The $65,000 fellowships may be used in 2002-03, or in either of the two succeeding years, and provide for an academic year of residence at one of nine participating national research centers, plus support from the Fellow's institution for an additional period.

The central ACLS FELLOWSHIPS are being offered for tenure beginning in 2002-2003. Maximum stipends are $50,000 for Full Professors and career equivalent, $40,000 for Associate Professors and equivalent, and $30,000 for Assistant Professors and equivalent. This program requires 3 years to have elapsed between supported research leaves, but the 2-year Ph.D. requirement has been eliminated. NEW THIS YEAR, scholars may apply with a doctorate conferred by October 1, 2001.

The ACLS/SSRC/NEH INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS are again included in the ACLS Fellowship Program to encourage humanistic research on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, Near and Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, East Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

Also offered through the ACLS Fellowship Program are the joint ACLS/NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FELLOWSHIPS. This cooperative program provides residential fellowships at the Library's Center for Scholars and Writers to applicants whose research would be enhanced by such an affiliation.

This will be the second competition year for the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FELLOWSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. The stipend has been increased to $3,500 per month for 4-9 months' residence at the Library of Congress to pursue research using the foreign language collections of the Library, including books, images, films, legal materials, maps, manuscripts, music, prints, photographs, and rare books. A Ph.D. is required and preference will be given to scholars at an early stage of the career

The CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE FELLOWSHIPS will be available this year again, with a stipend of up to $20,000 for the summer or one semester to support individual or collaborative research leading to the development of courses and teaching materials that integrate an awareness of contemplative practice.

We are very pleased to continue to offer the HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION/ACLS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS IN AMERICAN ART. The stipend for these year-long fellowships has been increased to $20,000.

The COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA PROGRAMS offer fellowships for AMERICAN RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA for scholars in the humanities to do research in China for 4 to 12 months. The fellowships provide a monthly stipend and travel allowance.

CHINESE FELLOWSHIPS FOR SCHOLARLY DEVELOPMENT will be available for Chinese scholars who are nominated by an American host scholar.

The EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM will again offer POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS and DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS.

NEW THIS YEAR, the ACLS is reinstituting the program of individual support for intensive summer training in the languages of Eastern Europe (except those of the successor states of the Soviet Union).

NEW THIS YEAR!!! Application forms for most programs are available - or shortly will be - for completion online. Type or paste in your answers! Complete the application in multiple sessions! Print out your own record! Make changes anytime (until the program deadline)! No more trying to find a typewriter!

Alternatively, the application forms for most programs are also available in PDF format to be printed out from the ACLS site. Or, application packets may be ordered from ACLS by filling in an online registration form. (Applications may still be requested by e-mail, fax, or mail, of course.)

See: http://www.acls.org/fel-comp.htm