The new program continues funding for Early Career Fellowships. ACLS is pleased to resume the Travel Grants competition in the wake of the acute phase of COVID-19. A new Collaborative Grants competition for innovative pilot projects will begin in 2024. Finally, ACLS will develop a new mapping project to identify archives and collections related to China studies around the world.
Directly informed by the needs identified by scholars, administrators, journalists, librarians, curators, artists, and readers of research and writing on China, today’s Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies aims to:
- Foster more inclusivity in the field by supporting a wider diversity of scholars and institutions and funding a broader range of research topics and methods
- Support and sustain publicly engaged, creative, and responsive scholarship that will inform public understanding of Chinese cultures, histories, and societies
- Develop effective strategies for long-term change in China studies through collaborative working groups to research and pilot solutions to challenges and opportunities in the field
“ACLS is excited to continue its long history of advancing the study of China and Chinese history and cultures, broadly defined,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “The Luce/ACLS Program will continue to support early career scholars, while increasing funding for adjunct faculty and those at teaching-intensive institutions and building more opportunities for publicly engaged scholarship and professional development.”
“Today’s political, economic, and cultural landscape makes the study of China—its cultures, communities, histories, and influences—essential to understanding and navigating our world,” said Helena Kolenda, Henry Luce Foundation’s Program Director for Asia. “Investment in knowledge creation and the next generation through research, teaching and public facing initiatives will help expand the capacity of scholars and educators to present China in a more nuanced, multidimensional way.”
For the 2023-24 academic year, the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies will offer:
Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies
- Recent PhDs are awarded up to $45,000 for long-term fellowships (four-nine months away from teaching) or $15,000 for flexible fellowships for research and writing towards a scholarly text. All fellows will have the opportunity to participate in a public writing workshop. The long-term fellowships are made possible in part by the grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies
- Doctoral candidates and non-tenured faculty are awarded grants of up to $5,000 to visit research sites in China or China studies-related collections or archives anywhere in the world.
Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grants in China Studies
- Teams of up to six members are awarded up to $25,000 per member for pilot research activities that can initiate long-term transformative change in the field of China studies.
The competitions for Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships and Travel Grants in China Studies will open in August 2023 with applications due November 16, 2023, 9:00 PM EST. More details on the collaborative grants will be available in fall 2023.
Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 79 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS utilizes its $155+ million endowment and $37 million annual operating budget to expand the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices in support of racial and social justice.
The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to deepen knowledge and understanding in pursuit of a more democratic and just world. It does so by nurturing knowledge communities and institutions, fostering dialogue across divides, enriching public discourse, amplifying diverse voices, and investing in leadership development.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. Because democracy demands wisdom, NEH serves and strengthens our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans. The Endowment accomplishes this mission by awarding grants for top-rated proposals examined by panels of independent, external reviewers. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this announcement, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment of for the Humanities.
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