Apply! ACLS Fellowship 2017

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for:
Fellowship recipients may request residence at an institute for advanced study in sub-Saharan Africa.

Deadline
December

Eligibility
Candidates
-Dissertation applicants must be doctoral candidates in the final year of writing the dissertation.
-Postdoctoral candidates must be scholars who have obtained the PhD within the past five years.
-All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.
Projects
Proposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research.

The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, studies of the fine and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy.

Projects in social sciences such as economics, sociology, or political science, as well as in law or international relations, are not eligible unless they are clearly humanistic in content and focus.

Applications are welcome from all eligible scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Value
Stipends are $9,000 for dissertations and $16,000 for postdoctoral work. Fellowships are intended to release recipients from teaching and other duties for an academic year to permit full-time for research and writing. (They may be used to “buy time.”).

Application
ACLS Fellowships for Africans Website

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