American Council For Learned Societies

Request for Proposals for Research on Heritage Speakers of East European Languages

Deadline: January 15, 2010
Amount: $20,000

A grant of $20,000 will be made to an individual or collaborative team for a research project on heritage speakers of an East European language in the United States. Heritage speakers constitute an untapped national resource for academic and policy research, but there has been little study of their special needs for bringing their linguistic skills up to a professional level. The project receiving the grant must report preliminary results by January 15, 2011 and must be completed before December 31, 2011. The project should culminate in 1) an analytical paper and 2) a proposal for an advancedmastery course for community of heritage speakers that was studied.

Travel Grants

Deadline: January 29, 2010
Amount: $1,000 - $2,500

The American Council of Learned Societies offers travel funding for presentation of papers at scholarly conferences taking place between June 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011 (up to $1,000 for travel within North America; up to $2,500 for intercontinental travel). The purpose of these grants is to build the East European field and to encourage comparative study that includes East European studies.

Topics of papers must be related to Eastern Europe, but applications are welcome from East European specialists proposing to attend conferences whose general theme lies outside Eastern Europe as well as from scholars whose area expertise lies outside Eastern Europe who propose to attend an East European-focused event.

Applicants must be a citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Funds may not be used in Western Europe.

Conference Grants

Deadline: January 29, 2010
Amount: up to $25,000; up to $12,500 for workshops

The American Council of Learned Societies offers grants of up to $25,000 for conferences and up to $12,500 for workshops to support events to be held between June 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011. These grants will support academic conferences and workshops for the presentation and critical evaluation of new research on Eastern Europe.

Conferences should present papers in a formal, academic setting and should be open to the public. Conference papers should be of publishable quality, pointing new directions for scholarship.

Workshops are conceived as smaller events at which scholars discuss work in progress less formally with the intention of developing collaborations and planning conferences. A workshop should hold at least one public session such as a panel of paper presentations, a roundtable, or a lecture with discussion.

Applications must specify a principal organizer who is affiliated with a university or research institution and must hold a Ph.D. Organizers must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

For more information about grants from ACLS, go to: http://www.acls.org/programs/comps/



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