The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

In cooperation with the Foundation, ACLS offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions to expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought in scholarship and society, to strengthen international networks of buddhist studies, and to increase the visibility of innovative currents in those studies.

• Dissertation Fellowships.- One-year stipends to PhD candidates for full- time preparation of dissertations

• Postdoctoral Fellowships.- Two-year stipends to recent recipients of the PhD for residence at a university for research, writing, and teaching.

• Collaborative Research Fellowships.- Support for teams of two or more scholars working on interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary projects.

• Research Fellowships.- One-year stipends for scholars who hold a PhD degree, with no restrictions on time from the PhD

• New Professorships.- Multi-year grants to colleges and universities to establish or expand teaching in Buddhist studies

• These are global competitions. There are no restrictions as to the location of work proposed, the citizenship of applicants, or the languages of the final written product. Applications must be submitted in English. Program information and applications are available here [2].

• Deadline for applications for Fellowships: November 15, 2016

• Deadline for institutional applications for New Professorships: January 11, 2017

• For more information please email BuddhistStudies@acls.org. [3]

The American Council of Learned Societies, a private, nonprofit federation of 74 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and strengthening relations among learned societies is central to ACLS's work. This year, ACLS awarded more than $18 million to over 300 scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines.

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