Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art 2026 (up to $42,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 29, 2025

Applications are open for the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art 2026. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites purposes for Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, which assist graduate college students pursuing analysis on the historical past of artwork and visible tradition of the United States, together with all facets of Native American artwork, and who’re at any stage of PhD dissertation analysis or writing.

ACLS believes that humanistic scholarship is strengthened by the inclusion of a variety of views, backgrounds, and experiences. They encourage purposes from PhD candidates from all diploma-granting establishments in the United States.

The program presents seven fellowships for a non-renewable, steady nine- to twelve-month time period to be held between July 2026 and May 2027. The fellowships could also be carried out in residence on the fellow’s home establishment or every other applicable website for the analysis. The fellowships is probably not used to defray tuition prices or be held concurrently with every other main fellowship or grant. The total fellowship time period should conclude earlier than the man receives the PhD.

Benefits

• The whole award of $42,500 features a stipend and extra funds for journey and analysis. This program is made potential by the beneficiant assist of the Henry Luce Foundation.

Eligibility

Applicants should:

• be a doctoral scholar at a college in the United States in artwork historical past or a associated subject, similar to Native American and Indigenous research, ethnic research, or African American research. (Students getting ready theses for the Master of Fine Arts diploma aren’t eligible.)
• have a dissertation targeted on a subject in the historical past of the visible arts of the United States, together with all aspects of Native American artwork. Projects ought to be targeted foremost on the artwork object and/or picture and make use of an artwork-historic or visible research strategy.
• have accomplished all necessities for the PhD besides the dissertation earlier than starting fellowship tenure.
• haven’t beforehand utilized for this fellowship greater than as soon as.
• be a US citizen, everlasting resident, Indigenous particular person residing in the United States via rights related to the Jay Treaty of 1794, DACA recipient, asylee, refugee, or particular person granted Temporary Protected Status in the United States.

Application

Applications have to be submitted on-line and should embody the next parts:

• Completed application kind.
• Proposal (not more than eight pages, double spaced, with one-inch margins, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font, inclusive of all photos and any footnotes or endnotes). Proposals should embody at the very least three photos. The proposal ought to clarify, briefly however particularly, the character and scope of your mission, approaches or methodologies used, and the importance of this work inside your particular and common fields. It should additionally embody a short assertion on progress already made and a tentative schedule of labor to be completed in the course of the grant interval. Please steadiness the outline of particular work plans towards an summary of your targets and the contribution this dissertation will make to the sector(s) it engages. Applicants who set up a transparent mental context for his or her work will likely be favored in the choice course of. Title your proposal in a short, descriptive means and label sections of your narrative as applicable to help readers.
• Annotated Bibliography (not more than 4 pages, double spaced, with one-inch margins, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font) of ten key secondary sources in your mission. The annotated bibliography is supposed to present an summary of an important references used to form your mission. For every reference, present a short description (two to 4 sentences) of the supply and its relevance to your mission. Primary sources ought to be listed individually, with out annotation, firstly or finish of the annotated listing of secondary sources.
• List of publications, exhibitions, displays, and scholarly/college service (no multiple web page, single spaced, with one-inch margins, in Arial or Helvetica 11-level font) [optional].
• Two reference letters, one in every of which should come from the applicant’s dissertation advisor.
• A press release from the applicant’s establishment (ideally from the applicant’s division chair, director of graduate research, or dean). The offered kind asks the institutional consultant to affirm that the applicant is a doctoral candidate in good standing and that each one necessities for the PhD besides the dissertation will likely be accomplished by the start of fellowship tenure. Most importantly, the institutional consultant ought to affirm that (1) the conventional educational yr tuition and costs for the awardee will likely be waived or will likely be offered by the awardee’s college, and that (2) the college will proceed to present the coed with applicable entry to its analysis sources and services. The particular person submitting the assertion shouldn’t be one of many reference letter writers.

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For extra data, go to Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art.