Job Type: Fellowship
Application Deadline: March 14, 2018
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the eighth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program. This initiative places humanities PhDs in substantive roles in diverse nonprofit and government organizations, demonstrating that the knowledge and capacities developed in the course of earning a doctoral degree in the humanities have wide application beyond the academy. The fellowship carries an annual stipend of $67,500, health insurance coverage for the fellow, a relocation allowance, and up to $3,000 in professional development funds.
In 2018, ACLS will place up to 25 PhDs as Public Fellows in the following organizations and roles:
- Center for Popular Democracy (Brooklyn, NY) – Strategic Research Associate
- Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) – Digital Engagement Manager
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Chicago, IL) – Research Associate, Global Cities
- Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (Madison, WI) – Global Programs Manager
- Council of Independent Colleges (Washington, DC) – Development Officer
- Environmental Law & Policy Center (Chicago, IL) – Senior Research Analyst, Transportation Innovation
- Innocence Project (New York, NY) – Content Strategist
- Lapham’s Quarterly (New York, NY) – Digital Producer
- Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Los Angeles, CA) – Cross Sector Analyst
- Los Angeles Review of Books (Los Angeles, CA) – Associate Executive Editor and Assistant Director, LARB Books
- MinnPost (Minneapolis, MN) – Audience Development and Engagement Manager
- The Moth (New York, NY) – Impact and Evaluation Officer
- National Immigration Law Center (Washington, DC) – Research Program Manager
- National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington, DC) – Manager of Curatorial Innovation
- Participatory Budgeting Project (Brooklyn, NY) – Participatory Design Strategist
- PolicyLink (Oakland, CA) – Associate, Equitable Economy Research
- Public Radio International (Minneapolis, MN) – Associate Editor, Global Nation
- Race Forward (Oakland, CA or New York, NY) – Narrative Impact Analyst
- Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY) – Outreach Program Manager
- Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (Washington, DC) – Program Manager for Cultural Disaster Analysis
- Smithsonian Institution Office of International Relations (Washington, DC) – Global Science Officer
- Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, NY) – Program Officer, Media and Democracy Project
- Stockholm Environment Institute – US Center (Seattle, WA) – Climate Policy Associate
- United Negro College Fund (Washington, DC) – Policy Analyst
- United Neighborhood Houses (New York, NY) – Policy Analyst
Further information about the application process, eligibility criteria, and this year’s fellowship positions is available at www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/. All applications must be submitted through ACLS’s online application system (ofa.acls.org) by 9 pm EDT on March 14, 2018.
Posted: January 17, 2018