The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS) announces three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships funded by Gale.
The Gale-ANZSECS Fellowship will support research or teaching projects that rely on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online and use digital humanities methodologies. Awarded fellows will be given free access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab and a selection of relevant Gale archives for the duration of the fellowship.
Applicants must make clear how they will use digital methods such as text mining and the corpus of materials in Eighteenth-Century Collections Online and other relevant Gale resources to further their research or teaching.
Gale has offered free access to all ANZSECS members who are interested in applying, open until the submission deadline.
You can also access Gale’s text mining platform, Gale Digital Scholar Lab, designed for researchers new to digital humanities methods or with no coding experience. The fellowships do not require prior experience with text mining.
A link and password will be provided upon subscribing as an ANZSECS member.
When submitting your project proposal, please briefly note which Gale archives/collections, including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, you think would be relevant to your project.
There will be three non-residential Fellowships available. Each award will be US$2,500 (or local equivalent). Fellowships will be announced in early December 2026 and must be completed by May 31st 2027.
Recipients of the Fellowship will be invited to present their work to ANZSECS members and at ISECS (Zaragoza, Spain, July 2027). In addition, Fellows will receive an additional US$750 (or local equivalent) stipend from Gale to present their work, to assist with their travel and accommodation expenses.
The application deadline is Friday 2nd October 2026, 11:59 pm AEST.
Who is eligible?
Applicants must be members of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS). To join, visit us at: https://anzsecs.org/membership/.
The fellowship is open to postgraduate students and early career scholars (within 5 years of PhD conferral).
How to apply
Please submit a CV (maximum 3 pages) and a project proposal (maximum 1000 words) via the link below. The project proposal should include a research question, a discussion of proposed methods and the sources the applicant plans to use. Please discuss how the primary source database will help advance the project.
For more details about the fellowship, ANZSECS, and GALE, please watch this recorded webinar below:
Prospective fellows can submit applications using our online form, embedded below.