The awards provide two-year postdoctoral fellowships designed to support departmental efforts to evolve with today’s students and curricular needs.
Now in its sixth year, the program awarded over $1.5 million to scholars based in North America, Asia, Europe, and Eurasia.
The 15 Project Development Grant recipients each receive $5,000 in seed funding to help advance their research projects.
The fellowships place recent humanities PhDs in two-year, full-time positions with top nonprofits and government agencies.
Thirty-Nine scholars embark on work in China Studies supported by over $750,000 in awards from ACLS
The awards of up to $150,000 enhance established digital projects and extend their reach to new communities of scholars.
The 26 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows receive $40,000 to conduct research on a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences.
The first Pauline Yu Fellow will be named in 2020, as part of the central ACLS Fellowship program.
Representing 42 universities, the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows receive $38,000 awards to support the completion of dissertation projects in the humanities and social sciences.
Fellows pursue publicly engaged humanities research while embedded in policy, cultural, and community organizations.
