Deadline: 15 December 2023
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is seeking applications for the Digital Justice Development Grants to address inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects.
It promotes inclusion and sustainability by extending the opportunity to participate in the digital transformation of humanistic inquiry to a greater number of humanities scholars and projects at the beginning stages of development.
The Digital Justice Development Grants support projects that have advanced beyond the prototyping or proof-of-concept phase. The proposals for such projects should be able to provide evidence of significant preliminary work already completed, as well as articulate the next financial, technological, and intellectual phases of project development.
Grant Information
- Amount: between $50,000 and $100,000
- Duration: Grant terms must begin between July 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024, with a work plan that lasts from 12-18 months.
Eligible Activities
- Projects funded by ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants pursue the following activities:
- Engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities; people with disabilities; and queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people.
- Advance beyond the prototyping or proof-of-concept phase and articulate the next financial, technological, and intellectual phases of project development.
- Cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge and strategic approaches to content building and knowledge dissemination.
- Engage in capacity building efforts, including but not limited to: pedagogical projects that train students in digital humanities methods as a key feature of the project’s content building practice; publicly engaged projects that develop new technological infrastructure with community partners; trans-institutional projects that connect scholars across academic and cultural heritage institutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project’s principal investigator must be a scholar in the humanities and/or the interpretative social sciences.
- Projects must demonstrate evidence of significant preliminary work as well as a record of engagement and impact with scholarly and/or public audiences.
- Projects must be made as widely available as intellectual property constraints allow, ideally with the most liberal open-source and creative commons license that is appropriate for the underlying content.
- An institution of higher education in the United States must administer any awarded grant funds.
- ACLS grants do not support projects whose sole or primary focus is the sole production of creative works (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translations, or purely pedagogical projects. Institutional indirect costs will not be covered.
For more information, visit ACLS.
