Leading Edge Fellowships
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the fourth competition of the Leading Edge Fellowship program, which demonstrates the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build capacity, and advance justice and equity in society. Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows take on substantive roles that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem solving. The fellowships are designed to foster mutually beneficial partnerships between fellows and their hosting organizations.
2 years
$127,500USD
- Stipend: $62,500 in year one, and $65,000 in year two, plus health insurance and professional development funding
- Tenure: 24 months beginning in September 2022
- Applicants must have a PhD that was/will be formally conferred by their university between September 1, 2017, and September 1, 2022. Applicants scheduled to graduate in Spring or Summer 2022 must be prepared to verify, with official university documentation, the successful defense of the dissertation by no later than May 31, 2022.
- Applicants’ PhDs may be in any field in the humanities or humanistic social sciences.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the US for the entire duration of the fellowship term. This includes Indigenous individuals residing in the United States through rights associated with the Jay Treaty of 1794, and those who hold DACA status, Temporary Protected Status, or political asylee or refugee status. Neither ACLS nor the host organization can sponsor fellows for visas.
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