ACLS Fellowships - American Council of Learned Societies.

Dissertation Completion Fellowship One year fellowship in Visual Studies and one related field of study. The fellow teaches one course per semester and receives financial and administrative support to complete their dissertation by the end of the academic year, including research and travel funds.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for: Dissertation-completion fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Early career postdoctoral fellowships in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda South Africans may apply only for.

In addition to its defined grantmaking areas, the program provides funding for competitive fellowships and institutional awards. Two of these programs, the New Directions Fellowships and the Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures, are managed by Foundation staff. In addition, a number of Foundation-sponsored fellowships are administered by the following scholarly societies.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) The fellowship encourages timely completion of the PhD. It supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. The final competition for this program was held in 2014-15. The ACLS Digital Extension Grant program furthers ACLS support of digitally based research in the humanities and related social sciences. Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships.

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships provide one-year stipends for PhD candidates to devote full time to preparing dissertations. The fellowship period may be used for fieldwork, archival research, analysis of findings, or for writing after research is complete.

Funds provided by external fellowships are either directly paid to the student or paid to the University to be administered. Per Graduate School policy, Ph.D. students awarded an external fellowship must accept and utilize the award in the first year the external fellowship is available.

Funding Opportunites for Dissertation Writing and Completion Available to post-field research graduate students these programs are typically aimed at providing dissertation writers with financial support for one year in order to facilitate the completion of their dissertations.

Dissertation completion fellowships provide advanced doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences with an academic year of support to write and complete their dissertation. Eligible students in the humanities and social sciences are guaranteed a GSAS dissertation completion fellowship (DCF) between the G4 and G7 years and must apply for the DCF in advance of the dissertation.

ACLS will award 65 fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2015 for the 2015-16 academic year. The fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the fellow’s home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research.