The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.
ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D. or equivalent to devote a full year to research and writing in such fields as Literatures and Languages, History, Anthropology, Political Theory, Philosophy, Classics, Religion, Biblical Studies, Archeology, the History of Art, Linguistics, Musicology.
The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code.
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