Second Competition of the ACLS Public Fellows Program

Application Deadline: March 21, 2012

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the second competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. The positions and organizations are listed below. The program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.

In 2012, the ACLS Public Fellows will be appointed to the following positions:

Carnegie Mellon University: Assistant Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation
Consumers Union: Policy Analyst
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC): Global Projects Manager
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
Forum on Education Abroad: Associate Director
German Marshall Fund of the United States: Program Officer, Leadership and Alumni Development
Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Researcher/Advocate
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Associate Development Officer
National Conference of State Legislatures: Legislative Studies Specialist
Newberry Library: Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
New York Public Library: Special Projects Coordinator
Oxfam America: Policy and Research Advisor
Union of Concerned Scientists: Democracy Analyst

Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for complete position descriptions and application information.

Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences. Applicants must possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status; have a Ph.D. in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between January 2009 and the application deadline; and not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2011-2012 competition year, including the New Faculty Fellows program.