ACLS Project Grants for HBCU Faculty - American Council of Learned Societies
Supports HBCU faculty in developing innovative humanities or social science research projects, fostering scholarly, pedagogical, and community-engaged outcomes with mentorship and professional development.
Funder: American Council of Learned Societies
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2026: Draft applications for ACLS feedback (projected) | November 2026: Full application deadline (projected)
Funding Amounts: Up to $10,000 per project (12–15 months); $2,500 additional to home institution; $500 for finalists
Summary: Supports early-stage or smaller-scale humanities/social science projects by HBCU faculty, fostering research, teaching, and public engagement.
Description
This program supports faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in designing, piloting, or developing research-grounded projects in the humanities or social sciences over a 12- to 15-month period. The grant encourages a broad range of outcomes, including monographs, scholarly articles, pedagogical tools, community-engaged works, and innovative or digital scholarship. Awardees benefit from networking, mentorship, and tailored professional development opportunities. The initiative is part of ACLS’s commitment to fostering diverse, inclusive, and impactful humanistic scholarship and teaching by HBCU faculty, and encourages interdisciplinary, cross-institutional, and community-engaged approaches.
