Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies

Sponsor

American Council of Learned Societies

Sponsor deadline:

Award Details

In 2024-25, ACLS is offering fellowships and grants to support research, writing, and publicly engaged and creative scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. There are no restrictions regarding methodological approach or time period.

  • Fellowship competitions:
    • Flexible, short-term fellowships for early career scholars (without tenure and within eight years of the PhD) with no leave requirements. The stipend is $15,000.
    • Long-term research fellowships for early career scholars that will enable recent PhDs (without tenure and within eight years of the PhD) to take leaves from university responsibilities for four to nine months to carry out research and writing towards a scholarly text. The minimum stipend is $20,000 and the maximum is $45,000.

Program Goals
The redesigned Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies has three goals:

  1. To shift the standard for China studies as a field to be more capacious and inclusive, both in terms of research funded (from multidisciplinary and multimethod approaches to Sinophone/graph studies and Global China) and support for a wider diversity of scholars and institutions.
  2. To foster and sustain publicly engaged, creative, and responsive scholarship that will inform public understanding of cultures, histories, and societies in China and their influence and impact on communities, countries, and cultures around the world.
  3. To initiate effective strategies for long-term change, through collaborative working groups and network- and community-building activities.

Previous Award Winners

2025

  • Shoufu Yin (History), Long-term Fellowship


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