American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Leading Edge Fellowships 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 11, 2026

Applications are open for the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships 2026. The American Council of Learned Societies is happy to announce the eighth competitors of the Leading Edge Fellowship program, which demonstrates the potential of humanistic information and strategies to unravel issues, construct organizational capability, and advance justice and fairness in society.

Leading Edge Fellowships place latest humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations advancing justice and fairness of their communities. Fellows tackle substantive roles that draw on the talents and capacities honed within the course of incomes the humanities PhD, together with superior communication, analysis, undertaking administration, and inventive drawback fixing. This initiative is made attainable by way of the beneficiant assist of the Mellon Foundation.

Funding

• Stipend: For distant positions, $70,000 in yr one, and $72,000 in yr two; for in-individual positions, $72,000 in yr one, and $74,000 in yr two. All fellows could have entry to medical health insurance {and professional} improvement funding.
• Relocation: Up to $5,000 in relocation funds for fellows who relocate for in-individual positions.

Eligibility

• Applicants should have a PhD that may have been formally conferred by their college between September 1, 2021, and August 31, 2026. Applicants scheduled to graduate in Spring or Summer 2026 should be ready to confirm, with affirmation from their college registrar’s workplace, a PhD conferral date on or earlier than August 31. Applicants who do not need a PhD formally conferred by their college by August 31, 2026, won’t be able to take up the fellowship.
• Applicants’ PhDs should be in an eligible area of the humanities or interpretive social sciences.
• Applicants should be licensed to work within the United States for your entire period of the fellowship time period. This consists of Indigenous people residing within the United States by way of rights related to the Jay Treaty of 1794, and those that maintain DACA standing, Temporary Protected Status, or political asylee or refugee standing. Unfortunately, neither ACLS nor the host group can sponsor fellows for visas or present recommendation on visa purposes.

Selection Process

First spherical reviewers will consider purposes primarily based on:

• Demonstrated capacity to attach expertise and capacities to the {qualifications} and obligations of the applicant’s chosen place(s).
• Demonstrated curiosity in and dedication to contributing to options to issues in society.
• Intellectual and cultural humility and demonstrated capability to accomplice, collaborate, pay attention, and be taught from others.
• The capability of the award to advance the acknowledged targets and values of the Leading Edge Fellowship program.

Application

Applications should be submitted on-line and should embody:

• A accomplished application type, together with a brief reply part about making use of humanistic doctoral coaching to careers past the academy.
• A canopy letter tailor-made to every chosen place description and addressed to the host group (1-2 pages). Applicants making use of for 2 positions will submit two distinct cowl letters.
• A resume (1-2 pages), and an inventory of three references. Applicants making use of for 2 positions will submit two resumes and lists of references. No reference letters are required on the time of application.

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For extra info, go to ACLS Fellowships.