Due Date: October 23, 2019
Applications for the Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship Program 2020/2021 are now open. The Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society program intends to enhance the broad capacity of doctoral education in the liberal arts by supporting doctoral professors as they pursue openly engaged scholarship and supporter for varied expert paths for emerging PhDs.
The program uses chances for professors with full-time visits in PhD-granting liberal arts departments or programs in the United States to engage considerable social concerns in their research study, act as ambassadors for liberal arts scholarship beyond the academy, and deepen their assistance for developments in doctoral education on their schools.
The objective of the fellowship year must be to perform a significant research study job in the liberal arts or humanistic social sciences that deals with a substantial problem or grand difficulty in society– such as democratic governance, technological modification, bigotry, environment modification, financial inequality, or migration and migration, among others possibilities. The program supports jobs at all phases of advancement, and invites applications that propose to deepen or broaden existing research study jobs in addition to those that propose brand-new jobs. While jobs must be notified by contemporary problems in the general public sphere, they need not be modern in focus. Certainly, it is presumed that the insights yielded by liberal arts research study concentrated on earlier period can notify deal with modern obstacles.
Goals
- To support liberal arts research study that is engaged with social concerns and notified by discussions occurring beyond the academy;-LRB- ***************).
- To valorize openly engaged scholarship and make it more noticeable at universities with doctoral programs in the liberal arts;-LRB- ***************).
- To promote the large flow of liberal arts research study and understanding of the concerns and techniques that stimulate liberal arts scholarship;-LRB- ***************).
- To gear up professors who teach and recommend doctoral trainees with a higher understanding of how sophisticated training in the liberal arts prepares PhDs for a variety of professions.
Fellowship
- Each fellowship brings a stipend of $75,000, plus funds of as much as $6,000 for research study, travel/optional moving, and associated job expenses
- ACLS likewise will cover the expenses of fellows’ presence at the workshops. Fellows need to devote themselves to transferring (if required) in order to be in house for the whole nine-month period of the fellowship
- The award likewise brings $10,000 in assistance for each fellow’s host company, and supplies extra financing of as much as $15,000 to sponsor on-campus and off-campus shows in the year following the fellowship.
Eligibility
Candidates need to:
- Be utilized in full-time professors positions in PhD-granting liberal arts departments or programs at a university in the United States, staying so throughout of the fellowship. United States citizenship or long-term residency is not needed.
- Devote to a nine-month residency off-campus and at the non-academic organization that they have actually proposed.
- Devote to get involved in-person in 2 multi-day workshops (in late summertime 2020 and late spring 2021) throughout the fellowship year.
Assessment Requirements
Peer customers in this program are asked to examine all qualified propositions on the following requirements:
- The capacity of the job to advance the discipline in which it is proposed and to deal with problems of public issue successfully.
- The quality of the proposition with regard to its approach, structure, and grounding in the pertinent literatures.
- The expediency of the job and the readiness of the candidate to undertake it.
- The reasoning for residency at the suggested website and probability that the cooperation with associates at the host organization will increase the candidate’s capability to bring the job forward.
- The capacity of the candidate’s work to engage with and make an effect on audiences beyond the academy.
Application
Applications need to be sent online and need to consist of:
- Finished application, that includes a short declaration of interest explaining the inspiration for public engagement and the candidate’s capability to perform such work
- Narrative proposition that consists of the following areas: research study goals and prepared results; a study of the field that describes how the proposed job articulates with present techniques to openly engaged liberal arts scholarship; required abilities, training, and logistical assistance; and a reasoning for residency that consists of a reflection on how the job and residency alike will be equally advantageous for the fellow and host company (no greater than 7 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 11- point typeface)
- As much as 3 extra pages of images, musical arrangements, or other comparable supporting non-text products [optional]
- Bibliography (no greater than 2 pages)
- Publications list (no greater than 2 pages)
- One-page job timeline
- One-page description of efforts by candidate’s department or organization to support varied professions for doctoral trainees. Candidates might likewise note their own method to broadening chances for PhDs
- 2 referral letters
- Declaration of assistance from the candidate’s proposed host company
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