Understand the NEH

Are you interested in developing innovative humanities curricula or helping teachers at all levels understand the humanities more fully?

The NEH Division of Education Programs offers programs in humanities curriculum development and/or professional development opportunities for
K-12 and higher education teachers. Current funding opportunities available are:

This program supports discussion groups focused on various humanities sources about war; the intended
audience is military veterans but programs may also serve current military personnel and their families as
well as the general public.

• Application Deadline: October 14, 2021
• Start Date: May 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $100,000 over 1 or 2 years

HUMANITIES CONNECTIONS PLANNING GRANTS:
NEH seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education by fostering partnerships among
humanities faculty and their colleagues in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional
programs (e.g., business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science).  Planning Grants allow 
involved faculty to draw together a planning committee, organize the planning process and begin the
curriculum development process.

• Application Deadline: September 14, 2021
• Start Date: June 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $35,000 for one year

HUMANITIES CONNECTIONS IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS:
Proposed projects must show evidence of a prior planning process, either as a previously funded Humanities
Connections Planning Grant or other collaborative efforts and allows recipients to build on their partnership,
refine and then implement the new curricula.

• Application Deadline: September 14, 2021
• Start Date: June 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $100,000 for 18-36 months

HUMANITIES INITIATIVES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES:
The goal of this program is to allow faculty to develop new humanities programs, resources and courses as
well as enhance existing ones.

• Application Deadline: May 19, 2022
• Start Date: February 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
• Funding Range: $150,000 for one to three years

HUMANITIES INITIATIVES AT HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS:
The program purpose is to strengthen humanities teaching and study at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
by developing new humanities-related programming, resources or courses or by enhancing existing versions.
Proposals compete against those submitted by other HSIs.

• Application Deadline: May 19, 2022
• Start Date: February 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
• Funding Range: $150,000 for one to three years

INSTITUTES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY:
Faculty across the US are provided with professional development opportunities to explore recent
developments in scholarship, teaching and/or curriculum through study of a variety of humanities
topics. Institutes accommodate 25-36 participants. Note NEH is not offering seminars in 2022.

• Optional Draft Deadline: January 10, 2022
• Application Deadline: February 15, 2022
• Start Date: October 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $235,000 over 15 months for Level I and over 24 months for Level II awards

Is your interest in preserving cultural heritage materials and making them more accessible to scholars and the public?

The NEH Division of Preservation and Access works with grantees - most often libraries, archives and museums - to insure preservation of
source materials such as book collections, sound recordings, still and moving images, art works and digital collections; and to make such
collections available to users in helpful formats. Current funding opportunities are:

Projects are designed to extend the life of important collections and makes them widely accessible,
often through digital technologies 

• Application Deadline: July 19, 2022
• Start Date: June 1, 2023
• Funding Range: $50,000 for 2 years for Foundation Projects (pilot projects) and $350,000
  over 3 years for Implementation Grants

Because both NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have linguistics as part of their
agency responsibilities, the two agencies have teamed up to address the fact that about one-half of
the 7000 languages currently in use in the world are in imminent danger of loss. Supported research
will involve language description, infrastructure and computational methods through research
grants, fellowships and conference grants.

• Application Deadlines: February 15, 2022; September 15, 2021
• Start Date: NSF indicates successful proposals are funded in about 6 months
• Funding Range: Up to $450,000 for 1-3 years (note while NSF publishes the program solicitation
  and runs the review process, NEH and NSF make separate awards)

Projects that address major challenges associated with preserving or providing access to humanities collections
and resources are welcome here. Preserving fragile artifacts, manuscripts, analog recordings and digital assets that
are subject to technological obsolescence are all within scope of this program along with developing better ways
to organize, search, discover and use such materials. Projects at any stage of development are eligible for support
from the early planning process to advanced implementation.

• Application Deadline: May 17, 2022
• Start Date: March 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
• Funding Range: Up to $75,000 over 2 years for Tier 1 (planning) Grants and $350,000 for 3 years for Tier 2
  (implementation) Grants
  

Helping cultural institutions (e.g., libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations) preserve humanities
collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for lifelong learning is
the goal of this program.

• Optional Draft Deadline: December 9, 2021
• Application Deadline: January 13, 2022
• Start Date: October 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $50,000 for up to 2 years for Planning Grants and $350,000 for up to 5 years for
  Implementation Grants

Are you interested in bringing the humanities to public audiences?

The NEH Division of Public Programs supports programs with a variety of outcomes that bring humanities programming to the general public -
through historic site interpretation, TV and radio productions, museum exhibits, short videos, digital games, museum exhibits, websites, mobile
apps and other innovative outreach efforts. Current funding opportunities are:

DIGITAL PROJECTS FOR THE PUBLIC:
With the ultimate goal of creating and making available project outcomes such as games, simulations, mobile apps,
virtual/augmented reality and websites, this program supports projects that bring the humanities to life for a general
audience. Outcomes may live on the internet or be featured in venues such as museums, libraries or other cultural
institutions.

• Application Deadline: June 8, 2022
• Start Date: March 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
• Funding Range: $30,000 for Discovery Grants; $100,000 for Prototyping Grants;
  $400,000 for Production Grants; grants range from 1-3 years

MEDIA PROJECTS - DEVELOPMENT GRANTS:
NEH would like to encourage media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and prepare documentary film, 
television, radio and podcast productions that engage public audiences with humanities ideas. Development Grants should
result in a script for documentary or TV projects or a detailed treatment for radio programs and podcasts. Additional products
may include a plan for outreach and public engagement.

• Application Deadline: January 6, 2021; August 11, 2021
• Start Date: October 1, 2021; May 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $75,000 for 6-12 months
  

MEDIA PROJECTS - PRODUCTION GRANTS:
Again with the idea of engaging general audiences with humanities ideas, this program supports production and distribution
costs associated with radio, podcast, television and documentary film projects. Productions may be for single programs
or a series, and will address significant figures, events or ideas.

• Application Deadline: January 6, 2021; August 11, 2021
• Start Date: October 1, 2021; May 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $700,000 for 12-36 months (note Chairman's Special Awards are up to $1 million)

PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECTS:
Bringing ideas and insights from humanities disciplines to life for the general public is the overall goal of this program.
Three categories of projects are supported: 1) Exhibitions (permanent, temporary or traveling); 2) Interpretive Programs
(at historic sites); and 3) Humanities Discussions (discussions must be related to the "A More Perfect Union" NEH special
initiative. Both Planning and Implementation Grants are available. 

• Optional Draft Due: July 7, 2021 (for August deadline)
• Application Deadline: January 6, 2021; August 11, 2021
• Start Date: September 1, 2021; May 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $75,000 for up to 2 years for Planning Grants; $400,000 for up to 4 years for Implementation Grants
  (plus an additional $100,000 to support a full-time position to work on the proposed Implementation project)

SHORT DOCUMENTARIES:
Through this program, NEH supports production and distribution of documentary films up to 30 minutes. These films must be
grounded in humanities scholarship in disciplines such as history, art history, literature, religious studies, philosophy and
anthropology. Projects may be for a single film or a series of short films that address significant figures, events or ideas
related to the NEH Special Initiative "A More Perfect Union" that celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the US. 

• Optional Draft Due: July 7, 2021 (for August deadline)
• Application Deadline: January 6, 2021; August 11, 2021
• Start Date: October 1, 2021; May 1, 2022
• Funding: $300,000 over 6-24 months

Are you interested in conducting humanities research either as an individual scholar or as a member of a research team?

The NEH Division of Research Programs supports scholarly research and houses the most grant programs of any NEH division. Starting with
their Fellowships Program, begun over 50 years ago, NEH continues to offer individual projects as well as projects that involve multidisciplinary
research teams - all focused on advancing knowledge and understanding of the humanities. Current funding opportunities are:

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH:
This program funds investigators to conduct archaeological and ethnographic research by supporting the necessary fieldwork,
travel costs, equipment and salary support. Both individuals and research teams are eligible to apply. While NEH expects results
to be disseminated broadly, PIs who obtain these fieldwork grants are then encouraged to seek support from one of NEH's 
Fellowship or Collaborative Research Grants programs to write and publish their results.

• Application Deadline: September 29, 2021
• Start Date: June 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $150,000 for up to 3 years

AWARDS FOR FACULTY AT HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS:
These awards support individuals pursuing scholarly research and is meant to strengthen the humanities at Hispanic-Serving
Institutions (HSIs). Eligible activities include 1) humanities research in primary and secondary materials that will lead to
publications, digital materials, etc.; 2) humanities research related to institutional or community goals or interests; and
3) humanities research leading to improvement of an existing undergraduate course. This program is open to all faculty and
staff members at HSIs including full-time, part-time, adjunct and retired faculty members.

• Application Deadline: April 13, 2022
• Start Date: January 1, 2023
• Funding Range: $5,000 per month for 2-12 months

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:
This program supports sustained collaboration by two or more scholars on projects that advance humanities knowledge through 
interpretive humanities research no possible by researchers working on their own. Proposed fields of study may represent one
discipline or may be interdisciplinary. Collaborators may come from one institution or several with up to one-half the project team
consisting of collaborators outside of the US. Expected research outcomes include books, born-digital publications, themed
issues of peer-reviewed journals, peer-reviewed articles and open-access digital resources (Publication Grants). NEH also offers 
Convening Grants.

• Application Deadline: December 1, 2021
• Start Date: October 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $250,000 for 1-3 years for Publication Grants; $50,000 for one year for Convening Grants

DYNAMIC LANGUAGE INFRASTRUCTURE - DOCUMENTING ENDANGERED LANGUAGES FELLOWSHIPS:
New this past year, these Fellowships are part of the joint funding program offered by NEH and the National Science Foundation.
The Fellowship Program supports individual junior or senior linguists, linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists. Relevant
activities include scholarly analysis and publication, fieldwork and other activities relevant to digital recording, documenting 
and sustainable archiving of endangered languages.

• Optional Draft Deadline: July 14, 2021
• Application Deadline: September 15, 2021
• Start Date: May 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $5,000 per month for 6-12 months

FELLOWSHIPS:
NEH Fellowships are highly regarded individual awards to provide scholars with the time needed to pursue research, analysis
and writing in their humanities-related research specialty. Expected outcomes include books, monographs, peer-reviewed
articles, e-books, and digital materials. Projects may be at any stage of development.

• Application Deadline: April 13, 2022
• Start Date: January 1, 2023
• Funding Range: $60,000 ($5,000/month) for 6-12 months

FELLOWSHIPS FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON JAPAN:
This program is jointly sponsored by NEH and the Japan-US Friendship Commission, and functions to promote Japan studies 
in the US, encourage US-Japan scholarly exchange and support the next generation of Japan scholars in the US. Appropriate
disciplines for this program include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, political
science, psychology and sociology. Early career scholars, defined as those who have earned their terminal degree in
the last 7 years, are especially welcome to apply.

• Application Deadline: April 27, 2022
• Start Date: January 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024
• Funding Range: $5,000 per month for 6-12 months

NEH - MELLON FELLOWSHIPS FOR DIGITAL PUBLICATION:
Individual fellowships funded through this program support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and
digital publication. Anticipated digital products include monographs, peer-reviewed articles, websites, virtual exhibitions,
translations or editions. Projects may be at any development stage.

• Application Deadline: April 27, 2022
• Start Date: January 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024
• Funding Range: $5,000 per month for 6-12 months

PUBLIC SCHOLARS:
This program supports creation of well-researched books in the humanities written for the broad public. Open to both
academic and non-academic writers, this program is an individual (vs. institutional) grant.

• Application Deadline: December 15, 2021
• Start Date: September 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $5,000 per month for 6-12 months

SCHOLARLY EDITIONS AND SCHOLARLY TRANSLATIONS:
Preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities is supported through this grant
program. Typically the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical and historical materials, but
other types of work such as musical notation may also be the subject of an edition. These are collaborative projects
supporting two ore more scholars.

• Optional Draft Deadline: September 30, 2021
• Application Deadline: December 1, 2021
• Start Date: October 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $300,000 for one to three years; proposals responding to the NEH "A More Perfect Union"
  Special Initiative are eligible for up to $450,000

SUMMER STIPENDS:
With the overall goal of supporting new research in the humanities and seeing it published, NEH offers small awards
to support projects at any stage of development (agency preference is for early stage research and late stage writing).
Recipients are provided funding support for full-time work for two consecutive months. Funds provided can support
compensation, travel and other research-associated costs. While the program is applied for as an individual, faculty
members must be nominated by their institution. Institutions are limited to two such nominations per year. Our internal
selection process runs through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.

• Application Deadline: September 22, 2021 (this is the date the application is due to NEH;
  the University's internal deadline is several months earlier)
• Start Date:  May 1, 2022
• Funding Range: $6,000 for two summer months