ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Solicitation Title: ACLS Digital Extension Grants
Funding Amount: up to $150,000
Sponsor Deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Solicitation Link: https://www.acls.org/programs/digitalextension/
Overview
<p>ACLS invites applications for ACLS Digital Extension Grants, which are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will help advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research projects.</p> <p>This program aims to extend the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars. ACLS Digital Extension Grants support projects that have advanced beyond the start-up phase of development as they pursue one or more of the following activities:</p> <p>• Developing new systems of making established digital resources available to broader audiences and/or scholars from diverse institutions<br>• Extending established digital projects and resources with content that adds diversity or interdisciplinary reach<br>• Fostering new team-based collaborations between scholars at all career stages. Projects that convene, train, and empower communities of humanities faculty and/or graduate students around established digital research projects, as well as projects that allow scholars from institutions with limited digital infrastructure to exploit digital resources or to participate in existing labs or working groups, are especially welcome<br>• Creating new forms and sites for scholarly engagement with the digital humanities. Projects that document and recognize participant engagement are strongly encouraged.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>• Grants may support projects of 12-18 months in duration. Projects must be initiated between July 1 and December 31, 2020, and be completed no later than June 30, 2022.<br>• Project’s principal investigator must be a scholar in a field of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.<br>• Principal investigator must have a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to the application deadline. (An established scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify.)</p> Other Information:<p>ACLS will award up to five Digital Extension Grants in this competition year. Each grant carries a maximum possible award of $150,000. The funds support a range of project costs, including, where necessary, salary replacement for faculty or staff, software, equipment, travel, lodging, and meeting costs, and consultant fees. A portion of each proposed grant budget must be devoted to funding collaborations with and/or building networks among scholars of all career stages from US higher education institutions of diverse profiles.</p>Last Updated:
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