Thanks to the generous assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the availability of a small number of Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social
sciences. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, art and architectural history, economic history, film, geography, history, languages and literatures, legal studies, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, rhetoric and communication, sociology, and theater studies.
Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political philosophy). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or
linguistic group. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant that will take the form of a monograph or other equally substantial form of scholarship. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers partecipating in the program, including Villa I Tatti, Florence. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ACLS will award up to 10 Burkhardt Fellowships, depending on the avilability of funds, in this competition
year. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $75,000. For further information, please visit the ACLS website
Applicants for the Burckhardt Fellowship who are interested in using it at the Harvard Center in Florence should apply simultaneously both to the ACLS and to the regular I Tatti fellowship competition.
DEADLINE
Application Deadline October 3
Further information can be obtain at
http://www.itatti. it/menu3/ fellow_burkhardt .html
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