Deadline- October 2, 2012
Countries/Region- U.S
American Council of Learned Societies(ACLS) seeks applications for eighth annual Digital Innovation Fellowships.This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works.
The aim of this program is to provide scholars the means to pursue intellectually significant projects that deploy digital technologies intensively and innovatively.
Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects may address a consequential scholarly question through new research methods, new ways of representing the knowledge produced by research, or both; create new digital research resources; increase the scholarly utility of existing digital resources by developing new means of aggregating, navigating, searching, or analyzing those resources; or propose to analyze and reflect on the new forms of knowledge creation and representation made possible by the digital transformation of scholarship.
Awards-
ACLS will award up to six Digital Innovation Fellowships in this competition year. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $60,000 towards an academic year’s leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. ACLS does not support creative works (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translations, or purely pedagogical projects.
Tenure-
This year’s successful applicants may take up the fellowship in 2013-2014 or at any time up to September 1, 2014, with tenure completed by June 30, 2015. Fellowship tenure may be one continuous year, or two semesters taken over two years, but candidates must commit themselves firmly to their preferred timeframe on their completed applications.
Eligibility–
- This program is open to scholars in all fields of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.
- Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to the application deadline. (An established scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify.)
- U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required as of the application deadline.
Application Requirements-
- Completed application form
- 10-page Proposal (double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font). The proposal should explain their research plan in relation to the objectives of the Digital Innovation Fellowship Program.
- Budget plan (not more than two pages)
- 3 reference letters
- Institutional statement from a senior official of applicant’s home institution or the institution hosting the project (dean, provost, president, or other appropriate person)
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