African Humanities Program
Course(s) Offered: Humanities, related fields
Course Level: Graduate (PhD, postdoc, fellowships)
Provider: ACLS / Carnegie Corporation of New York
Country to Study in: Africa
Scholarship Description
The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to revitalize the humanities inwards Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, in addition to Republic of Uganda through companionship competitions in addition to meetings associated amongst them.
Through the activities of the African Humanities Program, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) promotes local in addition to international cooperation amid humanities scholars at all stages of career, amongst the aim of developing a self-sustaining continent-wide network of African humanities scholars.
The African Humanities Program is inspired yesteryear a commitment to the humanities equally a essence element of higher pedagogy in addition to query inwards Africa, essential to progress in addition to development. The AHP companionship Program is funded yesteryear the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), amongst fiscal back upwards from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions yearly for the AHP.
Eligibility
Fellowship Details:
Course(s) Offered: Humanities, related fields
Course Level: Graduate (PhD, postdoc, fellowships)
Provider: ACLS / Carnegie Corporation of New York
Country to Study in: Africa
Scholarship Description
The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to revitalize the humanities inwards Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, in addition to Republic of Uganda through companionship competitions in addition to meetings associated amongst them.
Through the activities of the African Humanities Program, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) promotes local in addition to international cooperation amid humanities scholars at all stages of career, amongst the aim of developing a self-sustaining continent-wide network of African humanities scholars.
The African Humanities Program is inspired yesteryear a commitment to the humanities equally a essence element of higher pedagogy in addition to query inwards Africa, essential to progress in addition to development. The AHP companionship Program is funded yesteryear the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), amongst fiscal back upwards from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions yearly for the AHP.
Eligibility
Fellowship Details:
- Applicants must live on nationals in addition to residents of a province inwards sub-Saharan Africa, amongst a electrical current affiliation at an establishment inwards Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.
- Funding is available for dissertation completion in addition to for postdoctoral query in addition to writing.
- Applicants for Dissertation-Completion Fellowships should live on inwards the terminal twelvemonth of writing the dissertation at a academy inwards Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, or Uganda.
- Dissertation-Completion Fellowships are non available inwards South Africa.
- Applicants for Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowships must live on working inwards Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Republic of Uganda in addition to must convey completed the PhD no to a greater extent than than 8 years ago.
- Projects must live on inwards the humanities in addition to must live on carried out inwards sub-Saharan Africa. AHP fellowships may non live on used for locomote exterior the continent.
Citizens in addition to residents of a province inwards sub-Saharan Africa
Participating Institutions
Recognized institutions inwards Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda. The AHP organizes meetings inwards Africa inwards cooperation amongst host institutions to publicize the companionship programme in addition to to hash out novel trends inwards humanities research.
In the past, meetings were held at universities in:
- Ghana (University of Ghana-Legon),
- Nigeria (University of Ibadan, Bayero University Kano, in addition to Ahmadu Bello University inwards Zaria),
- South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand in addition to the University of Johannesburg inwards Johannesburg, the East London campus of Ft. Hare University, the University of the Western Cape in addition to University of Cape Town inwards Cape Town),
- Tanzania (the University of Dar es Salaam), and
- Uganda (Makerere University inwards Kampala).
The ACLS defines the humanities equally the written report of human cultures, languages, in addition to histories through the exercise of qualitative approaches. Among the disciplines contributing to humanities scholarship are anthropology, archaeology, history, studies of the fine in addition to performing arts, musicology, languages in addition to linguistics, literature studies, religious studies, in addition to philosophy.
Sponsorship duration
Whole duration of program
Scholarship benefits
Stipends are $9,000 for dissertations in addition to $16,000 for postdoctoral work. Fellowship awards to promising African scholars are the centerpiece of the African Humanities Program.
Fellowship stipends allow recipients an academic twelvemonth gratuitous from teaching in addition to other duties for completion of the PhD dissertation, for revising the dissertation for publication, or for the kickoff major query projection subsequently the PhD. Fellows are likewise eligible for additional benefits such equally residential stays for writing, manuscript evolution workshops, in addition to publication support.
Method of Application
ACLS encourages the submission of applications via email. Application forms in addition to instructions are available on the ACLS website. Application must live on submitted yesteryear e-mail to ahp@acls.org.
It is of import to reckon 2017-18 Competition Announcement (PDF) in addition to likewise take in the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data on applying for the AHP companionship program.
DEADLINES:
Completed applications must live on submitted yesteryear the announced deadline engagement which is unremarkably early on Nov of each year. The adjacent deadline engagement is 2nd Nov 2017.
PLEASE NOTE:
Applicants volition live on notified of contest results inwards May 2018.
ACLS continues to live on the leading mortal establishment supporting scholars inwards the humanities in addition to related social sciences at the doctoral in addition to postdoctoral levels. Fellows in addition to grantees inwards all programs are selected yesteryear committees of scholars appointed for this purpose.
Application Deadline: 2 Nov 2017
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans equally above)
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