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The 2024 Digital Justice Grant Program submission deadline has passed. The next competition will be announced in summer 2025.

The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.  This 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. In this way, the program seeks to address the inequities in the distribution of access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects.   

The program offers two kinds of grants: Digital Justice Seed Grants for projects at early stages of development; and Digital Justice Development Grants for projects that have advanced beyond the start-up or early phases of development. All grantees will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Nonprofit Finance Fund on developing a long-term financial plan for their projects. 

The program is made possible by a grant from The Mellon Foundation.

  • ACLS Digital Justice Grantees Apply Machine Learning Models to Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Letters

    Stephen Davis, William Mattingly, and Stanley Sello G’22, G’24 share their research using machine learning to uncover the history of Black women in South Africa during apartheid.

    News Article
    September 9, 2024
  • ACLS Grantees Meet at 2024 Digital Humanities Conference in Virginia

    ACLS hosted digital humanities scholars, librarians, and archivists for workshops alongside the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

    News Article
    August 21, 2024
  • Scholar Spotlight: Ned Benton G’22 and Judy-Lynne Peters G’22

    ACLS Digital Justice Grantees Ned Benton G’22 and Judy-Lynne Peters G’22 discuss their work on the Northeast Slavery Records Index.

    News Article
    July 29, 2024
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