LSA Bulletin
No. 189 October 2005

Grants

ACLS

The central ACLS FELLOWSHIPS, for tenure beginning in 2006-2007. Maximum stipends are $50,000 for full Professors and career equivalent, $40,000 for Associate Professors and equivalent, and $30,000 for Assistant Professors and equivalent. This program requires the Ph.D. conferred by September 28, 2003 and the last supported research leave concluded by July 1, 2003. Some of the central ACLS Fellowships awarded are designated as ACLS/SSRC/NEH INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS. These encourage humanistic research on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. In addition, the joint ACLS/NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FELLOWSHIPS are awarded to applicants chosen by both the central ACLS Fellowships program and the NYPL's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. These are residential fellowships for research that would benefit from residence at the Library and use of its collections.

The FREDERICK BURKHARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RECENTLY TENURED
SCHOLARS: The Burkhardt fellowships this year will support scholars tenured no earlier than the fall 2001 semester or quarter, who are engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Stipends will again be $75,000. Burkhardt fellowships may be used in 2006-2007, or in either of the two succeeding years, and entail an academic year of residence at one of eleven participating national research centers, plus support from the Fellow's institution for an additional period.

The CHARLES A. RYSKAMP RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS. These fellowships, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provide a stipend of $64,000 for an academic year of research, plus an allowance of $2,500 for research and travel, and the possibility of funding for an additional summer, if justified.The fellowships support tenure-track Assistant Professors and untenured Associate Professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose reappointment reviews have been successfully completed but whose tenure reviews will not be completed before February 1, 2006, whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields, and whose plans for new research are well designed and carefully developed.

The CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE FELLOWSHIPS, including (1) Contemplative Practice Fellowships, of up to $10,000, in support of individual or collaborative research leading to the development of courses and teaching materials that integrate contemplative practices into courses-tenable in Summer 2006 or in one semester of the 2006-07 academic year; and (2 Contemplative Program Development Fellowships, of up to $20,000, in support of groups of faculty and administrators developing formal or informal curricular initiatives in contemplative studies-tenable in the 2006-07 academic year. Examples of the Program Development Fellowships might include a concentration in contemplative studies at the applicants' university or a coordinated network of courses and faculty of a less formal nature, for the creation of an interdisciplinary
community of contemplative practice and inquiry.

The HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION/ACLS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS IN AMERICAN ART. The stipend for these year-long fellowships, in support of dissertations in the area of the history of visual arts of the US (focused on art objects), is $22,500.

Fellowships of the SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM, including FELLOWSHIPS FOR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES and DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES. Fellowships will be available for work related to Southeastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegro (including Kosovo). LANGUAGE-TRAINING GRANTS will also be available for institutions and individuals in support of intensive summer training in the languages of Southeastern Europe. A new program will offer institutional grants of up to $15,000 for support of newly designed courses in special skills involving the professional use of language, such as reading comprehension of disciplinary/professional texts, translation, interpretation, and editing.

Fellowships of the COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA PROGRAMS, including (1) fellowships for AMERICAN RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES IN CHINA, providing a stipend of up to $30,000, for scholars in the humanities for 4 to 12 months of continuous research in China; and (2) the CHINESE FELLOWSHIPS FO SCHOLARLY DEVELOPMENT, for Chinese scholars nominated by an American host scholar to do 4-10 months of research in the US.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY grants, in support of planning meetings, workshops, and conferences leading to publications. This program, conducted in cooperation with the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, is intended to support projects that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new kinds of information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society.

This is the third year in which the application process for most programs is entirely online, and the second year for the online reference system. The system continues to be improved and enhanced, and applicants and referees find the online process easy, efficient, and user friendly. To further facilitate the process, a series of Frequently Asked Questions for technical problems has been developed.

The Southeast European Language Training Grants for Individuals, the Committee on Scholarly Communications with China, and the Contemplative Practice programs will continue to use paper application forms, available in PDF format to be printed out from the ACLS Web site. (Applications for these programs may also be requested by e-mail or mail.) The New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society program does not use application forms. Application guidelines are available on the ACLS Web site. Application guidelines for the language-training grants to institutions are available from Olga Bukhina, Coordinator of International Programs, obukhinaacls.org.

For further information, please visit the ACLS Fellowship Competitions.

Advanced German and European Studies

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students who have completed all coursework required for the PhD and must have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian PhDs who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. Awards support 10-12 months of research. The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universität Berlin, one of the nation's leading research universities. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association. Deadline: 1 December 2005. For more complete information and an application, please go to: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or send an email to bprogramzedat.fu-berlin.de. Application forms are also available at: http://www.g-s-a.org/.

American Philosophical Society

APS offers short-term (one-three months) residential fellowships for conducting research in its collections located near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA. The fellowships are to encourage research in the library’s collections by scholars who reside beyond a 75-mile radius of Philadelphia. They are open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who hold the PhD or the equivalent, PhD candidates who have passed their preliminary examinations, and independent scholars. The stipend is $2,000/mo. The fellowship must be taken between 1 June 2006 and 31 May 2007. The application deadline is 1 March 2006. Contact: Lib Resident Res Fllwshps, APS Library, 105 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386; (215) 440-3443; (215) 440-3423 (fax); jjahernamphilsoc.org.

American School of Classical Studies in Athens (ASCSA)

ASCSA “serves the students and faculty of 155 affiliated colleges and universities in North America...Some 350 students and scholars from North American avail themselves of the school’s facilities each year” [ASCSA home page]. The school offers predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for study at the school. Contact: The Amer Sch of Classical Studies at Athens, 6-8 Charlton St., Princeton, NJ 08540-5232; (609) 683-0800; (609) 924-0578 (fax); ascsaascsa.org or go to: www.ascsa.edu.gr.

International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS)

The theme for the 2006-2007 fellowships is "Rethinking the Social". This is the third year of a larger project on The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age. Located at New York University, ICAS welcomes applications from scholars with PhDs at all career stages in any social science or humanities discipline from the U.S. and abroad. The project seeks to examine the production, circulation, and practical import of knowledge generated in the various disciplines of social inquiry. What are the costs of the growing divide between social science inquiry and humanistic scholarship? What are the implications of the growing dominance of U.S. based models of social inquiry for the understanding of other cultures and for the fundamental concepts of political experience and inquiry? The stipend is $35,000 for nine months and includes eligibility for NYU housing. Application deadline: 6 January 2006. See http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas for more information and application forms, or write to the center: (212) 995-4546 (fax); icasnyu.edu.

MLA Field Bibliography Fellowships

Field biographers examine scholarly materials and send citations and indexing information to the MLA office for inclusion in the bibliography. Fellowships are for a three-year period (1 July 2006 – 30 June 2009); 5-10 fellowships are awarded annually. The MLA seeks scholars of any level of seniority interested in training as field bibliography fellows and able to deliver 100 citations each year. Requirements: MLA membership, MA or PhD in a relevant field, and access to scholarly material for indexing. MLA provides materials and training. The application deadline is 1 March 2006. Contact: Helen Slavin, MLA Intl Bib, 26 Broadway, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10004-1789; hslavinmla.org.

Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities

The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, IL, invites applications for its 2006-2007 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the library. All proposed research must be appropriate to the collections of the Newberry Library. The fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry's collections and with the lively community of researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for periods of 6-11 months. Applicants for postdoctoral awards must hold the PhD at the time of application. The stipend for these fellowships is up to $40,000. Short-term residential fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or PhD candidates from outside the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. Scholars whose principal residence or place of employment is within the Chicago area are not eligible. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months. The amount of the award is generally $1200 per month. Applications for long-term fellowships are due 10 January 2006; applications for most short-term fellowships are due 1 March 2006. For information and application materials, go to: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html. If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to: Cte on Awards, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If you have questions about the fellowships program, contact: (312) 255-3666 or researchnewberry.org.

Social Science Research Council
Eurasia Program

The Eurasia Program is offering a number of fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for the 2006-2007 academic year. These fellowships are intended to support research, writing, training, and curriculum development on or related to the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire, regardless of the applicant’s discipline within the social sciences or humanities. These fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of State under the Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Online applications and supporting materials are now available on the SSRC website at www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia. The electronic application submission deadline is 15 November 2005, 9:00 PM for:

• Predissertation Training Fellowships—support the development of research skills and/or language training for graduate students in the early stages of their doctoral programs;
• Dissertation Write-up Fellowships— support for the 2006-2007 academic year to graduate students nearing the completion of their doctoral programs;
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowships—support for recent PhD recipients and junior faculty wishing to complete existing projects and/or undertake new research;
• Postdoctoral Language Training Fellowships, NEW—support postdoctoral scholars in acquiring requisite language competency that will allow them to broaden existing and/or advance new research projects.

The deadline for Teaching Fellowships—support for faculty members wishing to create and implement significantly revised or wholly new university courses—is 24 January 2006, 9:00 PM.

For further information, contact: eurasiassrc.org and http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia/.

Stanford Humanities Center

The center invites applications for residential research grants in the Humanities and International Studies Fellowships program. Applicants must be at least three years beyond receipt of the PhD by the beginning of the fellowship term. Eligible areas include, but are not limited to: history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archeology, ethics, comparative religion, and history and criticism of the arts. Proposals are welcome from the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches such as social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, and other subjects concerned with questions of values. Open to scholars who are not U.S. nationals. Proposals by applicants should focus on themes of international studies compatible with the mission of one of the five major research centers at the Stanford Institute for International Studies. The deadline for applications for the September 2006-June 2007 term is 5 December 2005. Address inquiries to: Fellowship Prog, Stanford Humanities Ctr, 424 Santa Teresa St., Stanford U, Stanford, CA 94305-4015; (650) 723-3054; (650) 723-1895 (fax); chiyumastanford.edu. Complete details are at: http://shc.stanford.edu; click on “Fellowships”.

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