ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

Applicants must have a PhD degree conferred prior to the application deadline

Not Mentioned

Permanent resident status (or U.S. citizenship)

U.S. citizenship (or permanent resident status)

This program is open to scholars in all fields of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.

Not required

Not required

10-page Proposal (double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font). The proposal should explain your research plan in relation to the objectives of the Digital Innovation Fellowship Program. The narrative statement should explain, briefly but specifically, what you plan to do and why, as well as describe progress already made, make clear the relevance of the project to your professional experience, and discuss the significance of this work within your specific and general fields. Please balance the description of specific work plans against an overview of your goals and the contribution this project will make to digital scholarship generally and to the particular scholarly field(s) it engages. Furthermore, proposals should explicitly state the means and tools (software, applications, interfaces) to be used to accomplish the project's goals. Proposals should present plans for how the project will be sustained and preserved over time, and how the applicant will disseminate notice of its availability. Please give your proposal a brief, descriptive title, and label sections of your narrative as appropriate to assist readers. In addition, if your project is part of a collaborative undertaking, it is essential to explain that context and describe your relationship to the other participants. Please also list the names of your colleagues and indicate whether or not those individuals are also applying for ACLS fellowships in the current competition.3-page Bibliography providing an overview of the publications central to advancing the project; annotation may be provided to accompany certain itemsPublications list (no more than two pages)Project plan (no more than three pages) providing a coherent plan for development of the project, including a description of tasks to be accomplished within the period of the fellowship. This plan should reflect a thoughtful approach to the project's sustainability, scalability, dissemination, and preservation, and include a statement addressing intellectual property issues.Budget plan (no more than two pages) providing a detailed account of the proposed use of the research funds.

3 reference letters

Institutional statement from a senior official of your home institution or the institution hosting the project (dean, provost, president, or other appropriate person). The provided form asks the institutional representative to confirm that the institution's existing cyberinfrastructure complements and supports the technologies to be developed for the specified project.