Deadline: 15 December 2023
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to invite applications for the Digital Justice Seed Grants to promote and provide resources for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.
This program especially supports projects that 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. In this way, the Digital Justice Seed and Development Grants seek to address the inequities in the distribution of 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.
The Digital Justice Seed Grants support projects at the earliest stage of development, those that explore or experiment with new materials, methodologies, and research agendas by way of planning workshops, prototyping, and/or testing products. The Digital Justice Seed Grants promote 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, and especially those based at institutions that do not regularly provide funds or staff support for digital work.
Grant Information
- Amount: between $10,000 and $25,000
- 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 Seed Grants pursue the following activities:
- 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.
- Project must be within the start-up or prototyping phase of development.
- 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 awarded grant funds.
- ACLS grants may not support projects whose sole or primary focus is the 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.
