The American Council of Learned Societies is a private nonprofit federation of sixty-eight national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its Constitution, is “the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.”
ACLS offers fellowships and grants in over one dozen programs for research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Particularly relevant to students associated with REEI is the ACLS East European Studies Program.