Program Supports 17 Digital Humanities Projects that Advance
Social and Digital Equity
NEW
YORK, May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce
the recipients of the 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Grants. This
program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
This year's projects offer critical
perspectives that name how systems of power and privilege function,
creatively mobilizing digital tools to imagine–and actualize–more
ethical, intentional, and just ways of producing knowledge,
fostering collaborations, and advancing social equity.
The ACLS Digital Justice Grants Program supports digital
projects across the humanities and interpretative social sciences
that critically engage with the interests and histories of people
of color and other historically marginalized communities through
the ethical use of digital tools and methods. This year's
competition, which had an 140% increase in applications, introduced
the new priority of capacity building, seeking to fund projects
that bolster the local ecosystem of digital humanities at their
respective academic, community, or cultural heritage institutions.
This addition furthers the program's broader redistributive aim of
supporting scholars based at institutions with fewer resources
available for this type of work.
For 2024, ten start-up projects have been awarded ACLS Digital
Justice Seed Grants of up to $25,000,
and seven established and ongoing projects have been awarded ACLS
Digital Justice Development Grants of up to $100,000. All grantees will have the opportunity
to collaborate with the Nonprofit Finance Fund on developing a
long-term financial plan for their projects.
This year's grantees span a range of methodologies and themes,
including data sonification efforts that advance environmental
activism, digital archives featuring intergenerational oral
histories of Black, Brown, and Queer communities, and machine
learning practices that undergird equitable transnational
collaboration. The awarded digital humanities projects engage
audiences both inside and outside of academic institutions, and
count among their grantees librarians, independent scholars, and
cultural heritage institution workers.
"This year's awarded projects go above and beyond simply
centering marginalized communities in their digital outputs," said
Keyanah Nurse, ACLS Program Officer
of IDEA Programs. "They offer critical perspectives that name how
systems of power and privilege function, creatively mobilizing
digital tools to imagine–and actualize–more ethical, intentional,
and just ways of producing knowledge, fostering collaborations, and
advancing social equity."
Learn more about the 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grantees and
ACLS Digital Justice Development Grantees.
Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies
(ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As
the leading representative of American scholarship in the
humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core
principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member
organizations, ACLS utilizes its endowment and $37 million annual operating budget to expand the
forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our
commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS
collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to
strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all
aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices
in support of racial and social justice.
The Mellon Foundation is the nation's largest supporter of the
arts and humanities. Mellon believes that the arts and humanities
are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone
deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there.
Through its grants, Mellon seeks to build just communities enriched
by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and
imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core
program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in
Place; and Public Knowledge.
Media Contact
Anna Polovick Waggy, American
Council of Learned Societies, 6468307661, awaggy@acls.org,
https://www.acls.org/
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