The program supports digital humanities projects as they extend their reach to new communities of users.
Eleven PhD candidates and 43 early-career scholars from sub-Saharan Africa receive over $940,000 in fellowships in tenth year of African Humanities Program.
Deadlines vary by program, with the first falling on September 26, 2018.
The fellowships will allow tenured humanities faculty to pursue research in partnership with non-academic organizations.
The grants allow promising humanities scholars from teaching-intensive institutions around the country to pursue a range of research activities.
Now in its fifth year, the program awarded $1.9 million to institutions and scholars based in North America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Eurasia.
The fellowships place recent humanities PhDs in two-year, full-time positions with nonprofits and government agencies.
The Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundaion for International Scholarly Exchange provided over $720,000 to ACLS in 2018 to Fund Research in China Studies.
The awards of up to $150,000 enhance established digital projects and extend their reach to new communities of scholars.
Representing 34 universities, the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows receive $38,000 awards to support the completion of dissertation projects in a range of humanities and social science disciplines.
