American Council of Learned Societies

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program:  with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ACLS will make awards in the following two categories:

• Dissertation Completion Fellowships:  to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure or shortly thereafter.   ACLS will award 65 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2009 for the 2009-2010 academic year. The Fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the Fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. The Fellowships include funds for university fees and research support (together with stipend the award may total up to $33,000) but may not be held concurrently with any other major fellowship or grant.   See the program page for additional information regarding applicant and field eligibility and application requirements.
  

• Mellon/ACLS Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients:  eligibility for these 25 Fellowships will be limited to scholars who held Dissertation Completion Fellowships (or were ranked as Alternates in that fellowship competition) and who completed their dissertations within the period specified in their first fellowship application.  Also eligible will be scholars who held other national dissertation fellowships—such as the Whiting Fellowships—and who completed their dissertations within the period specified in their first application.  These Fellowships will carry stipends of $30,000 to allow the Fellow to devote an academic year to research.  Awardees will have up to two years from the date of the award to take up fellowship tenure.  For additional information, please refer to the program page on the ACLS site.

Deadline:  applications for the Dissertation Completion Fellowships program due by November 12, 2008; for the Mellon/ACLS Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients, by December 10, 2008.