American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships 2025-2026 (up to $60,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 25, 2025

Applications are open for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships 2025-2026. ACLS invites analysis proposals from students in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. In the 2025-26 competitors cycle, this system will award up to 60 fellowships to students throughout all phases of the scholarly profession. Approximately half of this yr’s awards will help early-profession students.

ACLS invites functions from students pursuing analysis on matters grounded in any time interval, world area, or humanistic methodology. ACLS goals to choose fellows who’re broadly consultant of the variability of humanistic scholarship throughout all fields of study. ACLS is dedicated to inclusive excellence, which we outline because the pursuit of educational excellence that’s enriched by a plurality of backgrounds, experiences, and views.

The final purpose of the challenge needs to be a significant piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which may take the shape of a monograph, articles, publicly engaged humanities challenge, digital analysis challenge, essential version, or different scholarly sources. The fellowships help initiatives at any stage of improvement – starting, center, or finish. This program doesn’t fund works of fiction (e.g., novels or movies), textbooks, simple translation (with out vital scholarly interpretation and equipment), or initiatives which can be primarily pedagogical in focus.

Fellowship

• The fellowship stipend is ready at $60,000 for a 12-month fellowship. Awards of shorter period might be prorated at $5,000 monthly, with the minimal award set at $30,000. ACLS supplies award dietary supplements of between $3,000-$6,000 for impartial students, adjunct college, and school with instructing-intensive roles for prices incurred through the fellowship time period, together with analysis help, entry to manuscript improvement workshops, realized society convention attendance, medical insurance, or child- or eldercare.

Eligibility

Applicants should:

• be US residents, everlasting residents, Indigenous people residing within the United States via rights related to the Jay Treaty of 1794, DACA recipients, asylees, refugees, or people granted Temporary Protected Status within the United States. In addition, international nationals who’ve been residing within the United States or US territories for 3 or extra years earlier than the application deadline are additionally eligible, supplied that they don’t set up everlasting residence outdoors the United States through the interval of the fellowship.
• have earned a PhD within the humanities or interpretive social sciences no later than the application deadline. (An established scholar who can display the equal of a PhD in publications {and professional} expertise may additionally qualify).
• (for candidates who maintain a tenure-monitor place – tenured or untenured – on the time of application) have had a lapse of not less than two years between the tip of their final supported analysis depart of a semester or extra and September 1, 2026.
• commit six to twelve months to full-time analysis and/or writing through the award interval, to be initiated between July 1, 2026, and July 1, 2027, and to be accomplished by December 31, 2027.

Application

Applications should be submitted on-line and should embrace the parts:

• Completed application type.
• Proposal (not more than 5 pages, double spaced, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font, inclusive of any footnotes or endnotes).
• Up to two further pages of photographs, musical scores, or different related supporting non-textual content supplies (non-compulsory).
• Work plan (no a couple of web page, in double-spaced textual content or in a timeline/chart format, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font). The work plan ought to clearly define the work to be undertaken over the course of the fellowship time period and display how this work suits into the general trajectory of the challenge. Ideally, the work plan will give peer reviewers a way of which elements of the proposed work the applicant might be doing when, and the place.
• Bibliography (with out annotation, not more than two pages, single spaced, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font).
• Publications checklist (not more than two pages, single spaced, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font).
• A quick private assertion of up to one web page (double spaced, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font) describing your mental trajectory as a scholar.
• A quick writing pattern (not more than eight pages complete, double spaced, together with any footnotes or endnotes, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font), together with a quick description of context and the pattern’s relation to the proposed challenge. See FAQ for writing pattern formatting pointers.
• In the 2025-26 competitors yr, this program won’t settle for reference letters.

All uploads should have margins of one inch on all sides. Applicants could use any normal quotation type of their proposal narrative or writing pattern, though citations (footnotes or endnotes) are included within the web page depend for both doc. While textual content within the physique of the proposal and writing pattern should be double spaced and in 11-level Arial or Helvetica font, footnotes could also be in 10-level font and single spaced. Applications that don’t adhere to said formatting pointers might be excluded from evaluate.

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For extra info, see FAQ and go to ACLS Fellowship.