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ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at http://ofa.acls.org http://ofa.acls.org/ ; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006).
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This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward humanistic scholarship in the digital sphere, and to help establish standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such research. Many scholars have been working in the humanities for years with such tools as digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, and innovative databases-and now the ACLS sees an important opportunity to start identifying and providing incentive for distinctive work, on a national basis. "Information technology can be the means for scholars to answer new and old questions that have so far resisted our curiosity and our effort. This program will support a rising generation of scholars in making exactly that kind of progress," says James O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University, Chair of the ACLS Executive Committee of Delegates, and author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (1998).
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Up to five Digital Innovation Fellowships will be awarded in this competition year, for tenure beginning in 2006-2007. As this program aims to provide the means for pursuing digitally-based scholarly projects, the fellowship includes a stipend of up to $55,000 to allow an academic year's leave from teaching, as well as project funds of up to $25,000 for purposes such as access to tools and personnel for digital production, collaborative work with other scholars and with humanities or computing research centers, and the dissemination and preservation of projects.
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The ACLS criteria for judging applications include the project's intellectual ambitions and technological underpinnings, likely contribution as a digital scholarly work to humanistic study, satisfaction of technical requirements for a successful research project, degree and significance of preliminary work; potential for promoting teamwork and collaboration (where appropriate), and articulation with local infrastructure at the applicant's home institution.
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Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States as of the application deadline date and must hold a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to the application deadline. However, established scholars who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify.
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Applications for the 2005-06 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship Program
Deadline: November 10, 2005
Contact: American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 697-1505
E-mail: sfisher@acls.org
Web: www.acls.org/difguide.htm
Pity it's only for residents or citizens of the United States.
Now we need to persuade Canadian granting agencies to do the same, and at the same level op generosity.
Bill
**EXTRA! THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE ACLS**=20
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ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at http://ofa.acls.org http://ofa.acls.org/ ; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006).
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This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward humanistic scholarship in the digital sphere, and to help establish standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such research. Many scholars have been working in the humanities for years with such tools as digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, and innovative databases-and now the ACLS sees an important opportunity to start identifying and providing incentive for distinctive work, on a national basis. "Information technology can be the means for scholars to answer new and old questions that have so far resisted our curiosity and our effort. This program will support a rising generation of scholars in making exactly that kind of progress," says James O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University, Chair of the ACLS Executive Committee of Delegates, and author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (1998).
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Up to five Digital Innovation Fellowships will be awarded in this competition year, for tenure beginning in 2006-2007. As this program aims to provide the means for pursuing digitally-based scholarly projects, the fellowship includes a stipend of up to $55,000 to allow an academic year's leave from teaching, as well as project funds of up to $25,000 for purposes such as access to tools and personnel for digital production, collaborative work with other scholars and with humanities or computing research centers, and the dissemination and preservation of projects.
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The ACLS criteria for judging applications include the project's intellectual ambitions and technological underpinnings, likely contribution as a digital scholarly work to humanistic study, satisfaction of technical requirements for a successful research project, degree and significance of preliminary work; potential for promoting teamwork and collaboration (where appropriate), and articulation with local infrastructure at the applicant's home institution.
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Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States as of the application deadline date and must hold a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to the application deadline. However, established scholars who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify.
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Applications for the 2005-06 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship Program
Deadline: November 10, 2005
Contact: American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 697-1505
E-mail: sfisher@acls.org
Web: www.acls.org/difguide.htm
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP: Sponsored by the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006
Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in medieval scholarship. Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the development of such technologies. Possible subject matter might include, but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc.
Send abstracts or queries to Dot Porter by email at dporter@uky.edu, or by surface mail at the following address:
Dorothy Carr Porter Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456
If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email address so we can confirm receipt of your submission. Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2005.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP: Sponsored by the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006
Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in medieval scholarship. Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the development of such technologies. Possible subject matter might include, but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc.
Send abstracts or queries to Dot Porter by email at dporter@uky.edu, or by surface mail at the following address:
Dorothy Carr Porter Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456
If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email address so we can confirm receipt of your submission. Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2005.
Please find attached to this message a proposal for the session "Advanced Technology in Medieval Scholarship"
thanks,
Sean Pollack
On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Dot Porter wrote:
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP: Sponsored by the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2006
Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in medieval scholarship. Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the development of such technologies. Possible subject matter might include, but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc.
Send abstracts or queries to Dot Porter by email at dporter@uky.edu, or by surface mail at the following address:
Dorothy Carr Porter Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456
If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email address so we can confirm receipt of your submission. Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2005.
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Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506
dporter@uky.edu 859-257-9549
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