Excellent opportunity for recent PhDs in the humanities: ACLS Public Fellows.

The American Council of Learned Societies has announced its newest program, ACLS Public Fellows.  The program invites recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences to apply for two-year staff positions at partnering organizations and the nonprofit sector.  

 

The stipend is $50,000 to $65,000, depending on the position.  Tenure is two years.  The application deadline is March 21, 2012.  For more information, see http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/ . 

 

To learn about other faculty award programs, see http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/award-programs/ .

Newberry Library: Newberry Long-Term Fellowship applications, Due December 12

The Newberry Library is accepting Newberrry Long-Term Fellowship applications until December 12.  Fellowship topics include American history, late medieval and early modern history and literature; American Indian studies; and humanities.  Stipends are $4,200 per month; applicants must specify how many months they plan to be in residence. 

For more information, see The Newberry website, where this fellowship and eight other award opportunities are available: 
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/long-term.html

For more information on other individual faculty award programs, see
http://ncsu.edu/research/gateway/rd/awards/

Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State? Conference Announcement

The American Council of Colleges and Universities (AACU) has announced this conference, to be held on November 3-5 in Providence, Rhode Island. According to the announcement, the themes of the conference are

1. The arts and humanities engaged by big questions, both contemporary and enduring
2. The arts and humanities practiced extensively across the curriculum, engaging creativity, critical thinking, inquiry and analysis, and an array of literacies
3. The arts and humanities as human expression, anchored through active involvement in civic life, in local and global communities, addressing real-world challenges across people’s lives
4. The arts and humanities in synthesis and advanced accomplishment, demonstrated through application and performance, using new pedagogies and forms of assessment

Details are available at http://www.aacu.org/meetings/ah11/index.cfm

Interesting article on postdoctoral felllowships in the humanities

Sharlene Simon kindly shared a link to this Chronicle of Higher Education article on how postdocs are becoming more important to many future faculty. The article is available for the next five days at this link. 

Chronicle of Higher Education subscribers can always access this here.

Nominations for NEH Summer Stipend Program Now Being Accepted

The CHASS Research Office is pleased to announce we are accepting internal proposals for the nomination to the National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend Program.  Two nominees will be selected for submission to NEH.  Successful applications sent to NEH will receive an outright award of $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.  For the internal competition, please:

Submit a 1 page proposal describing your project.  (1 inch margins, double-spaced)

Selected individuals will have to register with grants.gov-The Research Office will be available to assist in the submission process, however, proposals will be submitted by the individual, not the institution.

Send to Joyce Christian - joyce_jones@ncsu.edu and/or Missy Seate - missy_seate@nscu.edu via email no later than 9:00 am September 9, 2011.  Decisions will be announced no later than 10:00 am, September 16, 2011.

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships

This announcement came in my email recently. Please share with your colleagues--these are important opportunities that support outstanding work.

Greetings from the American Council of Learned Societies!

We are pleased to let you know that the 2011-12 ACLS fellowship competitions are now open. You will find the most updated and comprehensive information on all our programs on the ACLS website: www.acls.org/programs/comps. As in previous years, the majority of competition deadlines are in the early fall.

ACLS awarded nearly $15 million in research support to over 350 scholars worldwide during the past year. Fellows' profiles, along with research abstracts, are accessible at: www.acls.org/fellows/new.

We are looking forward to an equally successful fellowships season in 2011-12.

With best wishes,
Nicole Stahlmann
Director of Fellowship Programs
American Council of Learned Societies
fellowships@acls.org


ACLS Fellowships Office
633 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017

From Carol Ashcraft, whose funding mailing list is a treasure trove of opportunities, comes this intriguing call for proposals:

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced a call for applications to its Guggenheim Fellows program, "fellowships to assist research and artistic creation."   The fellowships support all endeavors except the performing arts, and include natural sciences, social sciences, the humanities and the creative arts. Fellowships are awarded to selected individuals for a minimum of six months and a maximum of 12 months.  The number of applications per institution is unlimited.

Important dates:
Application deadline: September 15
November 2011:  Guggenheim will contact your references for recommendations.
November 22, 2011:  Work sample submission deadline.
Mid-December:  Acknowledgment of receipt of your application.
April 2012:  Notification of competition results sent to all applicants by email.
April-June 2012:  Return of all work samples to applicants.

The amount of the grant varies according to the project; funds are provided to the individual, not the institution, and are unrestricted.

For more information: See http://www.gf.org/ .

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington U., St. Louis

More details from COS at http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/fo2/getRec?id=53959. Please share with senior PhD students on the job market.

Washington University announces the tenth year of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. Beginning in September of 2001 the Fellowship Program has brought to Washington University new and recent Ph.D.'s who wish to strengthen their own advanced training and to participate in the university's ongoing interdisciplinary programs and seminars. 

Fellows will outline a plan for their own continuing research to be pursued with a senior faculty mentor from Washington University. Over the course of their two-year appointment, fellows will teach three undergraduate courses and collaborate during a spring term in leading a seminar in the theory and methods of interdisciplinary research.

Cornell University Society for the Humanities--Fellowships (fascinating topic!)

This opportunity is fascinating, because the theme for 2012-2013 is "RISK @ Humanities". See the details after the jump. I have some expertise in this field, so I would be pleased to provide substantive help with applications. More details at http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/9656

Alaska Humanities Forum: COS Funding Opportunities Search

This one is a long shot, I know, but I couldn't help sharing with CHASS colleagues because I grew up in Alaska, and am rather fond of the Alaska Humanities Forum. They are an important part of the cultural life of Alaskans, and I share this on the off chance that someone on our faculty has some familiarity with Alaskan culture. The range of topics is huge, and includes both social science and humanities disciplines, I'd be thrilled to see someone from CHASS apply to do some work in Alaska, and could help to the extent I can those who are less familiar with the state.


More information is at COS Funding Opportunities Search, or from


Laura Schue, Grants Officer

Address	Alaska Humanities Forum 421 West First Avenue, Suite 300
City	Anchorage
Province/State	AK
Zip	99501
Country	United States
Email	grants@akhf.org

Opportunities in the Humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies

Carol Ashcraft sent me this note, which should be of considerable interest to humanities scholars. Please share widely with your colleagues.


The American Council of Learned Societies has announced three currently active fellowship opportunities for faculty, listed below with links directly to the ACLS program pages. In addition, ACLS has announced an increase in its fellowship stipends in the 2011-12 competition:
Stipends awarded in 2011-12 will be $65,000 for full professors, $45,000 for associate professors, and $35,000 for assistant professors. 
http://www.acls.org/news/6-23-11/

title: Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars 
sponsor: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) 
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=480 
amount: $75,000.00 
deadline: September 28, 2011 

title: ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships 
sponsor: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) 
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=3154
amount: $140,000.00 
deadline: September 28, 2011 

title: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships 
amount: $85,000.00 
deadline: September 28, 2011 
http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=508

For more information on all ACLS opportunities and other faculty award opportunities, see this corrected link:  
http://ncsu.edu/research/gateway/rd/awards/ .

News from the National Humanities Alliance

As we all know, funding for the humanities is taking a beating in the federal budget. The latest news from the National Humanities Center has details.

But there is some good news in their latest news, in the form of Opportunities for Humanities Funding. Many of these opportunities will be attractive to humanities faculty

NSF: Documenting Endangered Languages

This just in from the folks at the Research Development Office. The next closest deadlines are September 20, 2011, September 15, 2012, and then September 15 annually thereafter. Of course, please contact the CHASS research office with any questions, or if you need assistance with preparing a proposal.


The full solicitation is available in these formats:
HTML: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11554/nsf11554.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
PDF: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11554/nsf11554.pdf?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
TXT: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11554/nsf11554.txt?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click


Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) 
Data, Infrastructure and Computational Methods


PROGRAM SOLICITATION 

New Opportunities in Humanities and Social Sciences (Mostly Fulbrights)

This post contains links to some opportunities in the social sciences and humanities. Please circulate broadly among your colleagues, or, better yet, invite your colleagues to subscribe to the blog using the box to the right on this page.

Funding Opportunities--June 20, 2011

Some new funding opportunities recently received, with a particular emphasis on humanities. Please contact the CHASS research office if you wish to apply for any of these opportunities, or if you know more about them than what is revealed in public announcements. We hope you are enjoying the summer!