[URBANTH-L]ANN: 2006-07 ACLS Fellowships and Grants

Angela Jancius acjancius at ysu.edu
Thu Jul 27 16:55:45 EDT 2006


ACLS 2006-2007 Fellowship & Grant Award
see http://www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm

The ACLS is pleased to announce the opening of the 2006-2007 
competitions for fellowships and grants. [Grants of interest to SUNTA 
members are listed below.]

NEW PROGRAM FOR DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMPLETION

The ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION/ACLS DISSERTATION COMPLETION 
FELLOWSHIPS.  These year-long fellowships in support of Ph.D. 
dissertation completion in the humanistic disciplines are the first 
part of the MELLON/ACLS EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM.  These 
fellowships carry a stipend and benefits up to a total of $33,000.  
Under this program, ACLS will award 65 Fellowships to graduate 
students, who will be expected to complete their dissertations within 
the period of their fellowship tenure or shortly thereafter.

The second element of the program is the Mellon/ACLS Fellowships for 
Recent Doctoral Recipients.  This competition ­ to commence next year 
­will provide recent recipients of the doctorate with a stipend to 
support a year of research, within the context of an academic position 
(as new hires), in affiliation with a humanities research center, or 
independent of institutional affiliation.  These fellowships are fewer 
in number (25), and awardees will be selected from a pool that includes 
Fellows in the first part of the program, other highly ranked 
applicants from that earlier competition, and winners of other, similar 
awards such as the Whiting Fellowships.

NEW, HIGHER STIPENDS FOR FULL PROFESSORS 

The central ACLS FELLOWSHIPS.  This year's program features higher 
stipends for full professors (now $60,000) and an increased number of 
full professor fellowships (now 25).  Maximum stipends are $60,000 for 
full Professors and career equivalent, $40,000 for Associate Professors 
and equivalent, and $30,000 for Assistant Professors and equivalent.  
This program requires a Ph.D. conferred by September 2004 and the last 
supported research leave concluded by July 1, 2005.  Some central ACLS 
Fellowships awarded are designated as ACLS/SSRC/NEH INTERNATIONAL AND 
AREA STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS.  These encourage humanistic research on the 
societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America 
and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.  

NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

The SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM announces a NEWLY EXPANDED set 
of RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES FOR POSTDOCTORAL 
AND DISSERTATION RESEARCH.  Fellowships will be available for 
development/training, research, or writing related to Southeastern 
Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Former 
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, and 
Serbia.  Also NEW this year are CONFERENCE and TRAVEL GRANTS.

LANGUAGE-TRAINING GRANTS will be available for institutions and 
individuals in support of intensive summer training in the languages of 
Southeastern Europe, and for advanced-mastery language training that 
involves the professional use of language, such as reading 
comprehension of disciplinary/professional texts, translation of texts, 
interpretation of speech, or editing.

A NEW REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS seeks applications from an individual or 
collaborative team for conducting research in the United States on 
heritage speakers of a Southeast European language.

ONGOING ACLS FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT PROGRAMS

The CHARLES A. RYSKAMP RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS.  These fellowships, funded 
by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provide a stipend of $64,000 for an 
academic year of research, plus an allowance of $2,500 for research and 
travel, with the possibility of funding for an additional summer, if 
justified.  The fellowships support tenure-track Assistant Professors 
and untenured Associate Professors in the humanities and related social 
sciences whose reappointment reviews have been successfully completed 
but whose tenure reviews will not be completed before February 1, 2007, 
whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields, and whose 
plans for new research are well designed and carefully developed.

The FREDERICK BURKHARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RECENTLY TENURED 
SCHOLARS.  The Burkhardt fellowships this year will support scholars 
tenured no earlier than the fall 2002 semester or quarter, who are 
engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities 
and related social sciences.  Stipends will be $75,000.  Burkhardt 
fellowships may be used in 2007-2008, or in either of the two 
succeeding years.  They entail an academic year of residence at one of 
eleven participating national research centers, plus support from the 
Fellow's institution for an additional period.

The ACLS DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIPS.  The ACLS is pleased to 
announce the second competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation 
Fellowship, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  This 
program invites applications to pursue digitally based research 
projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related 
social sciences.  Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $55,000 
towards an academic year's leave and provides for project costs of up 
to $25,000.

The CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE FELLOWSHIPS.  These fellowships­tenable in 
summer 2007 or in one semester of the 2007-08 academic year­ provide 
support up to $10,000 for individual or collaborative research leading 
to the development of courses and teaching materials that integrate 
contemplative practices into courses.

Fellowships of the COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA 
PROGRAMS, including (1) fellowships for AMERICAN RESEARCH IN THE 
HUMANITIES IN CHINA, providing a stipend of up to $30,000, for scholars 
in the humanities for 4 to 12 months of continuous research in China; 
and (2) the CHINESE FELLOWSHIPS FOR SCHOLARLY DEVELOPMENT, for Chinese 
scholars nominated by an American host scholar to do 4 to 10 months of 
research in the US.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY grants, in support of 
planning meetings, workshops, and conferences leading to publications.  
This program, conducted in cooperation with the Chiang Ching-kuo 
Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, is intended to support projects that 
bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new kinds of 
information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and 
issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of 
Chinese culture and society.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

For further information, please visit the ACLS Fellowship Competitions 
site:  http://www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm



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