Greetings Colleagues,
Here is a descriptive list of grants available from the National Endowment of the Humanities up until mid-October. Full descriptions, links, etc. below. I’ve included some fall deadlines for summer planning purposes.
Please contact me if I can provide you with any further information or assistance.
Thank you,
Iwan
Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
https://www.neh.gov/program/humanities-initiatives-colleges-and-universities
Contact the Division of Education Programs Team
(202) 606-2324
Humanities Initiatives strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new or enhancing existing programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses that explore,
interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present.
Projects must address a core topic or set of themes drawn from humanities areas such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, or humanities-informed composition and writing skills.
NEH welcomes applications for projects that are modest in scope, duration, and budget, as well as applications for expansive, long-term projects.
Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-initiatives-hispanic-serving-institutions
Contact the Division of Education Programs Team
202-606-2324
Humanities Initiatives strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new or enhancing existing programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses that explore,
interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present.
Projects must address a core topic or set of themes drawn from humanities areas such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, or humanities-informed composition and writing skills.
NEH welcomes applications for projects that are modest in scope, duration, and budget, as well as applications for expansive, long-term projects.
Cultural and Community Resilience
https://www.neh.gov/program/cultural-and-community-resilience
Contact the Division of Preservation and Access Team
The Cultural and Community Resilience program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting,
and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the United States or its jurisdictions, and NEH encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.
Preservation and Access Education and Training
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training
Contact the Division of Preservation and Access Team
202-606-8570
This program supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections. Such materials include but are not limited to paper-based, photographic, archaeological, ethnographic,
artistic, audiovisual, digitized, and born-digital collections. Advancing long-term access to these materials for scholars, students, and the public requires skilled professionals from varied backgrounds and communities working in organizations large and small.
NEH makes awards in this program to organizations that offer national, regional, or statewide education and training programs across the pedagogical landscape for current or emerging professionals. Projects may be at any stage, from early curriculum development
to advanced implementation, and projects may include partnerships with academic or non-academic institutions.
Project activities must support one or a combination of the following programmatic areas:
Research and Development
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/research-and-development
Contact the Division of Preservation and Access Team
202-606-8570
The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.
These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and
to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials.
This program supports projects at all stages of development, from early planning and stand-alone studies to advanced implementation.
Research and Development projects contribute to the evolving and expanding body of knowledge for heritage practitioners, and for that reason, outcomes may take many forms.
Projects may produce any combination of laboratory datasets, guidelines for standards, open access software tools, workflow and equipment specifications, widely used metadata schema, or other products.
Research and Development supports work on the entire range of humanities collection types including, but not limited to, moving image and sound recordings, archaeological artifacts, born digital and time-based media, rare books and manuscripts, archival records,
material culture, and art.
Applicants must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access through a Research and Development project would benefit the cultural heritage community by supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming.
Research and Development projects are encouraged to address one or more of the following areas of special interest:
What’s new for 2022-2023:
Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/infrastructure-and-capacity-building-challenge-grants
Contact the Office of Challenge Programs Team
(202) 606-8309
The purpose of the program is to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. Awards of federal matching funds aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and
expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials.
Capital Projects support the purchase, design, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities for humanities activities. This includes costs related to planning as well as the purchase and installation of related moveable and permanently affixed equipment
for exhibiting, maintaining, monitoring, and protecting collections (whether on exhibit or in storage), and for critical building systems, such as electrical, heating ventilation and air conditioning, security, life safety, lighting, utilities, telecommunications,
and energy management.
Fundraising is a critical part of NEH Challenge grant awards: up to 10 percent of total funds (NEH federal matching funds plus certified gifts) may be used for fundraising costs during the period of performance.
What’s new in 2023
Digital Projects for the Public
https://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public
Contact the Division of Public Programs Team
The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual
environments.
All Digital Projects for the Public projects should
All projects should demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general, nonspecialist audience, either online or in person at venues such as museums, libraries, or other cultural institutions. Applicants may also choose to identify particular communities
and groups, including students, to whom a project may have particular appeal. There will be a prerecorded webinar posted by April 26, 2023.
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-advancement-grants
Contact the Office of Digital Humanities Team
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public
programming in the humanities.
DHAG is one of many grant programs at the NEH that funds digital humanities projects.
In support of its efforts to advance national information infrastructures in libraries and archives, and subject to the availability of funds and agency discretion, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) anticipates providing funding through this
program. These funds may support DHAG projects that further the IMLS mission to advance, support, and empower America’s libraries, archives, museums, and related organizations. IMLS funding supports innovative collaborations between library and archives professionals,
humanities professionals, information scientists, and relevant public communities that advance the preservation of, access to, and public engagement with, digital collections and services. IMLS encourages DHAG applicants to work in collaboration, and employ
the expertise of, library and archives staff at your institution or across the country to strengthen knowledge networks, empower community learning, foster civic cohesion, advance research, and support the traditionally underserved.
What’s New for 2023
Fellowships Open Book Program
https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP
Contact the Office of Digital Humanities Team
The Fellowships Open Book Program is a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. By taking advantage of low-cost e-book technology, the program will allow teachers,
students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that can be downloaded or redistributed for no charge.
This program is open to publishers who have published within the last seven years (or will publish during the period of performance) a book supported by one of the following NEH programs:
Fellowships
Grants
Each e-book will be released under a Creative Commons license, making those books free for anyone to download. The book could be a forthcoming title (to be open access upon first release) or it could be a book that was first released at any time during or after
calendar year 2016.
New for 2023
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources
Contact the Division of Preservation and Access Team
202-606-8570
HCRR advances scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs,
sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. The program strengthens efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible. Awards
also support the creation of reference resources that facilitate the use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.
Projects may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve partnerships between organizations. Collaboration between humanities experts and information professionals is essential to broaden the scope of, and audiences for, proposed
collections or reference resources. You should design a project that facilitates sharing, exchange, and the interoperability of humanities information and products, as well as ensures their long-term availability. Projects should expand participation in cultural
heritage and promote engagement with primary sources.
Public Humanities Projects
https://www.neh.gov/grants/public/public-humanities-projects
Contact the Division of Public Programs Team
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming.
Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings
in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.
Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum
exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.
Project topics may be international, national, regional, or local in focus, but locally focused projects should address topics that are of regional or national relevance by drawing connections to broad themes or historical questions. Projects that don’t address
issues of concern to wider regional or national audiences might consider local sources of funding, such as their state humanities councils. Award amounts offered to successful applicants will reflect the project’s scope and the size of its expected audiences.
Media Projects
https://www.neh.gov/program/media-projects
Contact the Division of Public Programs Team
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and
appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production.
Humanities Connections
https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-connections
Contact the Division of Education Programs Team
The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions. Awards support innovative curricular approaches that foster partnerships among humanities
faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs (such as business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science, and other technology-driven fields), in order to encourage and develop new
integrative learning opportunities for students.
Humanities Connections projects must include:
Competitive applications will demonstrate:
The Humanities Connections program includes two funding levels: Planning and Implementation.
Dialogues on the Experience of War
https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/dialogues-the-experience-war
Contact the Division of Education Programs Team
The Dialogues on the Experience of War program supports the study and discussion of humanities sources that address the experiences of military service and war from a wide variety of perspectives. In recognition of the importance
of the humanities in helping Americans to understand the meaning and experiences of military service and war, Dialogues projects encourage veterans and civilians to reflect collectively on such topics as civic engagement, veteran identity, the legacies of
war, service, and homecoming. Project teams should include humanities scholars, military veterans, and individuals with relevant experience.
Dialogues projects may take a wide variety of forms, including:
Dialogues projects must include:
Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research
https://www.neh.gov/program/archaeological-and-ethnographic-field-research
Contact the Division of Research Programs Team
202-606-8200
The Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program makes awards to institutions and organizations conducting empirical field research to answer significant questions in the humanities. Archaeology and ethnography are important
methodologies utilized by many disciplines across the humanities and social sciences that provide observational and experiential data on human history and culture.
Archaeological methods may include field survey and field-based remote sensing, documentation or visualization, and/or excavations in support of answering research questions in all aspects of the human past, including but not limited to ancient studies, anthropology,
art history, classical studies, regional studies, epigraphy, and other related disciplines. Ethnographic methods may include participant observation, surveys and interviews, and documentation or recording in pursuit of research questions in anthropology, sociology,
ethnolinguistics, oral history, ethnomusicology, performance studies, folklore studies, and related disciplines.
Projects may be led by individuals with institutional affiliation or by teams of collaborating scholars from the same or multiple eligible institutions. Awards provide up to three years of support for fieldwork and data processing. While the ultimate expectation
of such awards is the dissemination of results through publications and other media, this program supports costs related to fieldwork such as travel, accommodation, and equipment as well as compensation for field staff and salary replacement for the project
director and collaborating scholars. Applicants interested in publishing the results of field research are encouraged to apply to one of NEH’s individual fellowship programs or Collaborative Research.
Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/program/dangers-and-opportunities-technology-perspectives-humanities
Contact the Office of Digital Humanities Team
The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. NEH is particularly interested in projects
that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology. The DOT program is part of the NEH’s new initiative, American Tapestry.
Technology has had an enormous impact on modern society, affecting how we work, communicate, learn, engage in the political process, and live. The relationship between technology and culture continues to have dramatic impacts, both positive and negative, on
our health, the environment, our social interactions, our government, cultural and educational institutions, the arts, and nearly all other aspects of life.
The program supports projects led by individual researchers (up to $75K) and by collaborative teams (up to $150K).
Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education
https://www.neh.gov/program/spotlight-humanities-higher-education
Contact the Division of Education Programs Team
The Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education program supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities. Eligible applicants include small- to medium-size
two- and four-year institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations whose work advances the humanities at these institutions and among their faculty and students. NEH especially welcomes applications from Native American and Indigenous institutions,
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, minority-serving institutions, community colleges, rural colleges and universities,
schools that have a majority-minority undergraduate enrollment, and those that serve significant numbers of first-generation and nontraditional students.
The Spotlight program supports activities such as curricular or program development, expert consultations, speakers’ series, student research, creation of teaching resources, and community engagement. Projects may benefit students, faculty, the institution
or organization, and/or the community.
The Spotlight program features a simplified application and streamlined application process. You may request support at one of two levels: Exploration or Development.
Mr. Iwan Notowidigdo
Senior Grant Development Manager
The University of Texas at San Antonio
College of Education & Human Development (COEHD)
iwan.notowidigdo@utsa.edu
(Mobile: 347-231-5931)
Regular Office Hours
Mondays at 3 PM CST
No advanced registration necessary
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