African Humanities Program. American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Sep, 2008Fellowship competitions in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda (2008-2009 academic year)
Deadline for receipt of applications at ACLS: December 1, 2008.
With financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, ACLS announces competitions for:
- Dissertation-completion fellowships (Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda)
- Early-career postdoctoral fellowships for research and writing (Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda)
Fellowship recipients may request an allowance for residence away from the home
institution.
In future years, post-doctoral awardees who complete manuscripts under terms of
Carnegie/ACLS fellowships will be eligible to apply for publication subsidies.
Stipends will be $9,000 for dissertation and $16,000 for postdoctoral fellowships, with cost of living adjustments for each of the five countries. The fellowships are intended to release recipients from teaching and other duties for an academic year to devote full-time to research and writing. Approximately 40 fellowships will be awarded in all five countries combined during the first competition year. Applications will be evaluated by an international peer-review committee of distinguished humanities scholars.
Eligibility:
Applicants
Dissertation applicants must be doctoral candidates in their final year of
writing the dissertation.
Postdoctoral candidates must be scholars who have obtained the Ph.D. within the
past five years.
All applicants must be citizens of an African country residing in, and having
an institutional affiliation in, Ghana,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania,
or Uganda.
Eligibility:
Projects
Projects proposed must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history,
language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches. 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.
Selection
criteria
the intrinsic interest and substantive merit of the work proposed
the clarity with which the intellectual agenda is presented
the contribution the work is likely to make to scholarship in the region as
well as internationally
the feasibility of the workplan.
The ACLS African Humanities Program seeks to promote diversity (in terms of discipline, institution, region, gender, and historical disadvantage) for the sake of excellence in humanities scholarship. Applications are welcome from all eligible scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Application forms and instructions are available from September 2008 on the ACLS website: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=3210. For printed versions of application forms and instructions, please write to the African Humanities Program: ahp@acls.org
Deadline for receipt of applications at ACLS: December 1, 2008.
Thanks to Fareeda Jadwat for this.