Join CHAT as we welcome John Paul Christy, the Director of Public Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), for our first professional development workshop of the year.

The American Council of Learned Societies, a nonprofit federation of 74 national scholarly organizations, is a major funder of research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. In 2015-16 competition year, ACLS awarded a total of $18.1 million in fellowships and grants to more than 300 scholars worldwide. ACLS offers a variety of fellowship programs for predoctoral scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences as well as postdoctoral opportunities in both the academic and non-academic realms. In this presentation, program officer John Paul Christy will provide an overview of ACLS's fellowship competitions and peer review system and will offer suggestions about how to write a strong application.