The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for the ninth competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. In 2019, the program will place up to 21 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year positions at participating nonprofits and government agencies. This career-launching initiative aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application beyond the academy. The fellowship carries a stipend of $68,000 per year, as well as individual health insurance, a relocation allowance, and up to $3,000 in professional development funds.
This year, Public Fellows have the opportunity to join one of the following organizations:
- Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA) – Community Engagement & Audience Development Manager
- American Public Media (St. Paul, MN) – Senior Research Analyst
- Center for Court Innovation (New York, NY) – Communications Project Manager
- Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, IL) – Program Manager
- Citizens Committee for the Children of New York (New York, NY) – Policy & Budget Analyst
- Committee to Protect Journalists (New York, NY) – Research Manager
- Community Change (Washington, DC) – Policy Advisor
- Data & Society Research Institute (New York, NY) – Editor
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States (Washington, DC) – Program Officer
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT) – Grants Manager
- Library of America (New York, NY) – Outreach Programs Manager
- National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, CO) – Legislative Policy Specialist
- National Low Income Housing Coalition (Washington, DC) – Research Analyst
- Natural Resources Defense Council (Washington, DC) – Campaign Advocate, Latin America Project
- PEN America (New York, NY) – Festival Programs Manager
- Public Books (New York, NY) – Associate Editor
- Rare (Arlington, VA) – Community Engagement Manager
- Reinvestment Fund (Philadelphia, PA) – Policy Analyst
- Seattle Office for Civil Rights (Seattle, WA) – Senior Researcher
- San Francisco Arts Commission (San Francisco, CA) – Community Impact Analyst
- World Justice Project (Washington, DC) – Program Manager
Applicants to the Public Fellows program must have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between September 1, 2015 and June 21, 2019 and possess US citizenship or permanent resident status. Applicants must have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than April 5, 2019.
Further information about the application process and this year’s positions is available at www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/. Please do not contact any of the host organizations directly. All applications must be submitted through ACLS’s online application system (ofa.acls.org) by 9 pm EDT on March 13, 2019.