Fellowships

2013–2014 African Humanities Fellowship Programme for Africans

September 1, 2013

Application Deadline: 1 November 2013

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,Tanzania,Uganda,and South Africa

Stipends are $10,000 for dissertation-completion Fellows and $17,000 for postdoctoral Fellows, plus an additional $1,000 per Fellow for books and media at both award levels.Fellowships release recipients from teaching and other duties for an academic year to permit full-time research and writing. (They may be used to “buy time.”)

Recipients of both kinds of fellowship are also eligible for further support in the

form of a residency at a participating research center in Africa for a sustained period of writing.

Approximately forty fellowships will be awarded annually in all five countries combined.

Awards will be decided by an international committee of distinguished scholars in the humanities .

The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to reinvigorate the humanities in Africa through fellowship competitions and related activities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which has generously provided funding, AHP offers African scholars an integrated set of opportunities to develop individual capacities and to promote formation of scholarly networks. The African Humanities Program supports the Carnegie Corporation’s efforts to develop and retain African academics at universities in Africa.

Goals of the African Humanities Program

to encourage and enable the production of new knowledge and new directions for research
to strengthen the capacity of early career researchers and faculty at African universities
to build the field of humanities by establishing networks for scholarly communication across Africa and with Africanists worldwide.

Eligiblity

Applicants Dissertation applicants must be doctoral candidates in the final year of writing the dissertation.(No dissertation fellowships are available in South Africa.)

Postdoctoral candidates must be scholars who have obtained the Ph.D.

within the past eight years .

All applicants must be citizens of a sub-Saharan African country residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.

Eligible Projects

Proposed projects must be in the humanities, defined by the study of history, language, and culture, and by qualitative approaches in research. The list of humanities disciplines includes anthropology, archaeology, studies of the fi

ne and performing arts, history, linguistics, literature studies, studies of religion, and philosophy. Projects in social sciences such as economics, sociology, or political science, as well as in law or international relations, are not eligible unless they are clearly humanistic in content and focus.

Selection Criteria

The intrinsic interest and substantive merit of the work proposed
The clarity of the intellectual agenda
The feasibility of the work plan
The record of achievement of a postdoctoral scholar and the promise of a Ph.D. candidate
The contribution the work is likely to make to scholarship on the continent and worldwide

The African Humanities Program seeks to strengthen humanities scholarship in Africa. By promoting diversity in terms of gender and historical disadvantage, along with diversity in disciplines, institutions, and regions. Women are especially encouraged to apply.

By making research opportunities available to staff at African universities.

Application forms and instructions for the 2013–2014 competition

Applications must be submitted by email to [email protected].

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the African Humanities Programme