Updated July 23, 2014
INSTITUTIONAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO FACULTY
IN THE HUMANITIES
It is our hope that this list of institutional grant opportunities for faculty in the humanities will help you
to determine which external agencies might fund your project.
To navigate, keep the document in layout view, scroll to the table of contents, then click on the page
number for the program you wish to review. This will take you directly to that entry. If you then wish
to learn more, click on the agency’s website address (URL), which you will find near the bottom of the
entry. If clicking doesn’t work, copy the URL, paste it into the address line of your web browser, and
type return.
Before starting any application, check the agency website. Humanities and area studies centers
sometimes have shifting themes and agency programs; application requirements, deadlines, and focus
areas are subject to change. Verify deadlines and other critical information by visiting the sponsoring
institution’s website or contacting the agency via e-mail or telephone prior to beginning an application.
This is especially true for agencies that had not posted new deadlines when we updated this list (we’ve
noted such cases on the list).
Most agencies have deadlines only once each year and take from three to six months to announce
results. Therefore, think long-term when planning your grant/fellowship application strategies.
Preparing a viable proposal takes effort, organization, and effective time management, so please do
give yourself the time you will need to develop a competitive proposal. For fellowships, that means
starting the process at least eight weeks before the deadline, preferably longer; for institutional
proposals it is at least six months before the deadline. Please also keep in mind that the internal
deadline is one workweek (five working days) prior to the agency’s deadline.
This opportunities list is not exhaustive. If you know of sources we have not included that you believe
will appeal to a broad spectrum of your colleagues, please let us know. We’re always seeking to add
viable new funding sources to this list.
Please contact us to discuss the funding possibilities that seem to meet your needs. We will be happy to
work with you to develop a personal grant development plan and application timeline. We look
forward to helping you to develop your external fellowship and grant applications.
Humanities Grant Development Office
Kathy Porsch, Grant Development Officer
kporsch@ku.edu • 785/864-7834
John Biersack, Research Development Specialist or
Scott Knowles, Research Development Specialist
hgdo@ku.edu • 785/864-7887
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office
TABLE OF CONTENTS
KANSAS HUMANITIES COUNCIL .......................................................................................................................... 1
EMC HERITAGE TRUST CONTEST ....................................................................................................................... 1
FORD FOUNDATION ............................................................................................................................................. 1
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ................................................................................................. 1
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants ............................ 1
Media Projects: Development and Production Grants ................................................................................... 2
Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics ................................................................................... 2
Enduring Questions ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources .......................................................................................... 3
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities .............................................................................. 3
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers ............................................ 4
Preservation and Access Education and Training .......................................................................................... 4
Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers and K-12 School Teachers............... 4
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections ....................................................................................................... 4
Collaborative Research Grants ....................................................................................................................... 5
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections........................................ 5
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants ............................................................................................................... 6
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants .................................................................................................... 6
Documenting Endangered Languages ............................................................................................................ 6
Preservation and Access Research and Development .................................................................................... 6
Scholarly Editions and Translations ............................................................................................................... 7
National Digital Newspaper Program ............................................................................................................ 7
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities .............................................................................. 7
Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development ..................................... 8
Preservation and Access Research and Development .................................................................................... 8
Scholarly Editions and Translations ............................................................................................................... 8
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION .................................................................................. 9
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION .................................................. 9
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INSTITUTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARS
Kansas Humanities Council
The Kansas Humanities Council funds programs aimed at sharing the humanities within communities
across the state. Projects may include a short film, museum exhibit, a plan to preserve a collection of
historic photographs or quilts, a series of podcasts, or oral history projects to capture the voices. Programs
include Humanities Grants, which support projects that connect people to ideas, places, or history–such as
lecture series, panel discussions, book discussions, film discussions, interpretive museum exhibitions,
outdoor heritage signage, and media projects; Heritage Grants, which assist in the preservation and
interpretation of local and regional cultural resources as a way of better understanding what it means to be
a Kansan over time and across generations; and Short Film Grants, which are available for in-state
filmmakers in partnership with a non-profit community organization. The grant supports short films
(under 15 minutes) that tell a unique Kansas story.
URL: http://kansashumanities.org/kansas-grants/
DEADLINE: Various, check the website.
EMC Heritage Trust Contest
The EMC Heritage Trust Project is intended to support digital stewardship of information heritage in
local communities. EMC seeks people and projects that practice and inspire stewardship locally. The
awards consist of cash grants from $5,000 to $15,000. Award recipients are selected based on the
potential size of the audience that would benefit from access to this information, the at-risk status of the
information, why it is urgent to digitize it, and how beneficial the EMC grant would be to the project.
URL: https://apps.mmb580.com/HeritageTrustV2/app/rules/official_rules_english.pdf
DEADLINE: June 20 (Last known deadline)
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation offers grants to institutions in the following areas of interest: Democratic and
Accountable Government, Human Rights, Social Justice and Philanthropy, Economic Fairness,
Metropolitan Opportunity, Sustainable Development, Educational Opportunity and Scholarship, Freedom
of Expression, and Sexuality and Reproductive Health Rights. Interested applicants are asked to submit an
online grant inquiry. Large-scale, sustainable, collaborative projects are encouraged by the foundation.
URL: http://www.fordfoundation.org/
National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH Institutional Program Grants
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects in the humanities that
explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. Grants for
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic
engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that end, the Division of
Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to
the public. NEH offers two categories of grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations:
Planning and Implementation Grants. Planning grants are available for projects that may need
further development before applying for implementation. This planning can include the identification
and refinement of the project’s main humanities ideas and questions, consultation with scholars in
order to strengthen the humanities content, preliminary audience evaluation, preliminary design of the
proposed interpretive formats, beta testing of digital formats, development of complementary
programming, research at archives or sites whose resources might be used, or the drafting of
interpretive materials. Implementation grants support the final preparation of a project for
presentation to the public. Applicants must submit a full walkthrough for an exhibition, or a prototype
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or storyboard for a digital project, that demonstrates a solid command of the humanities ideas and
scholarship that relate to the subject. Applicants for implementation grants should have already done
most of the planning for their projects, including the identification of the key humanities themes,
relevant scholarship, and program formats. For exhibitions, implementation grants can support the
final stages of design development, but these grants are primarily intended for installation. Applicants
are not required to obtain a planning grant before applying for an implementation grant. Applicants
may not, however, submit multiple applications for the same project at the same deadline.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/americas-historical-and-cultural-organizations-planninggrants
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/americas-historical-and-cultural-organizationsimplementation-grants
DEADLINE: August 13
Media Projects: Development and Production Grants
NEH’s Division of Public Programs supports activities that engage millions of Americans in
understanding significant humanities works and ideas. At the center of every NEH-funded public
humanities project is a core set of humanities ideas developed by scholars, matched to imaginative
formats that bring those ideas to life for people of all ages and all walks of life. Projects must be
analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship in a discipline such as history, religion,
anthropology, jurisprudence, or art history. NEH is a national funding agency, so the projects we
support must demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general audience. We welcome humanities
projects tailored to particular groups, such as families, youth (including K-12 students), teachers,
seniors, at-risk communities, and veterans, but they should also strive to cultivate a more inclusive
audience. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop
humanities content and to prepare programs for production. Grants should result in a script and
should also yield a detailed plan for outreach and public engagement in collaboration with a partner
organization or organizations. Production grants support the production and distribution of films,
television programs, radio programs, and related programs that promise to engage the public. URL:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/media-projects-development-grants
http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/media-projects-production-grants
DEADLINE: August 13
Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
This program supports projects that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities
through documentary films. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the
broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed
documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship. It encourages the
exploration of innovative nonfiction storytelling that presents multiple points of view in creative
formats. The proposed film should range in length from a standard broadcast length of thirty minutes
to a feature-length documentary. Projects are strongly encouraged to demonstrate international
collaboration by enlisting scholars based both in the United States and abroad, and/or by working
with an international media team. Such collaborations should bring broader cross-cultural
perspectives to the proposed topics. Development funds support filmmakers for a wide range of
activities that include but are not limited to collaboration with scholars to develop humanities content,
research, preliminary interviews, travel, and the creation of partnerships for outreach activities (public
engagement with the humanities). Applicants must have obtained the commitment of humanities
scholars to serve as advisers to the project prior to applying for a development grant. Projects
receiving development funds should culminate in a script and must identify the producer, director,
and writer for the production phase. Funds may also be applied to the production of a trailer.
Production funds support filmmakers in various stages of production and post-production.
Applicants must submit a script for a production grant. This script should demonstrate a solid
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command of the humanities ideas and scholarship related to the subject matter. Applicants must have
consulted with appropriate humanities scholars about the project and must have obtained their
commitment to advise the project.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/bridging-cultures-through-film-international-topics
DEADLINE: June 10
Enduring Questions
The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports the development of a new course that will
foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage
undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and
to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers
over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline,
field, or professions can lay an exclusive claim. In many cases they predate the formation of the
academic disciplines themselves. They are questions that have more than one plausible or compelling
answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for an intense dialogue across
generations. The Enduring Questions grant program helps promote such dialogue in today’s
undergraduate environment. The course is to be developed by one or more (up to four) faculty
members, but not team taught. Enduring Questions courses must be taught from a common syllabus
and must be offered during the grant period at least twice by each faculty member involved in
developing the course. The grant supports the work of a faculty member in designing, preparing, and
assessing the course.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
DEADLINE: September 11
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
This program supports projects that provide an essential foundation for scholarship, education, and
public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical
organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts,
photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and
material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life
of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of
digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate 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.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources
DEADLINE: July 17
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced
graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these
programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their
research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies
relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to
different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks and held at
multiple locations or at a single site. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough
treatment of the topic. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for multidisciplinary
teams of collaborators that will offer the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical
expertise. This program is designed to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate
students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools, approaches, and technologies and to
foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and collaborators may be
drawn from the private and public sectors and may include appropriate specialists from within and
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outside the United States. NEH particularly encourages projects that seek to introduce digital
humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html
DEADLINE: March 11
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
This program supports one-week, residence-based workshops for a national audience of K-12
educators. NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops use historic sites to address
central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art, music, and other related
subjects in the humanities. Landmarks Workshops are held at or near sites important to American
history and culture (e.g., presidential residences or libraries; colonial-era settlements; major
battlefields; historic districts; parks and preserves; sites of key economic, social, political, and
constitutional developments; and places associated with major writers, artists, or musicians).
Applicants should make a compelling case for the historical significance of the site(s), the material
resources available for use, and the ways in which the site(s) will enhance the workshop. Workshops
are academically rigorous and focus on key primary sources, documents, and scholarly works relevant
to major themes of American history and culture. Leading scholars should serve as lecturers or
seminar leaders to help participants enhance their teaching.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshopsschool-teachers
DEADLINE: March 10
Preservation and Access Education and Training
This program is central to NEH’s efforts to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage
collections. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the
country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and
moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections,
electronic records, and digital objects. These grants are intended to help staff of cultural institutions,
large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities
collections and to support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and
preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new
information and advances in preservation and access practices.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html
DEADLINE: May 5
Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers and K-12 School Teachers
This program supports faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for
college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks
or as long as five weeks. The duration of a program should allow for a rigorous treatment of its topic.
The host site must be appropriate for the project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial
interaction. These programs are designed for a national audience of teachers. They are intended to
extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics,
texts, and issues; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants;
build a community of inquiry and provide models of civility and excellent scholarship and teaching;
and promote effective links between teaching and research in the humanities.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
DEADLINE: February 24
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
This program supports preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the
useful life of collections. A growing body of research suggests that institutions can develop effective,
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energy-efficient, and environmentally sensitive preservation measures, particularly for managing the
environmental conditions under which collections are stored or exhibited. NEH therefore invites
proposals that explore and implement sustainable preservation measures that are designed to mitigate
the greatest risks to collections rather than to meet prescriptive targets. Planning Grants of up to
$40,000 are offered to support activities such as site visits, planning sessions, monitoring, testing,
project-specific research, and preliminary designs for implementation projects. Planning grants
focused on exploring sustainable preventive conservation strategies are especially encouraged.
Planning projects must involve an interdisciplinary team appropriate to the goals of the project. The
team may consist of consultants and members of the institution’s staff and might include architects,
building engineers, conservation scientists, conservators, curators, and facilities managers, among
others. Implementation Grants of up to $400,000 are offered to help an institution implement a
preventive conservation project. It is not necessary to receive an NEH planning grant to be eligible for
an implementation grant. Grants may also cover costs associated with renovation required to
implement preventive conservation measures. Because SCHC grants may not fund new construction,
the costs of installing climate control, security, and fire protection systems in a building under
construction are not eligible. However, grants may support the purchase of storage furniture and the
rehousing of collections that will be moved into a new building. Applicants may request support for
cataloging, documenting, and digitizing collections only when these activities are integral to the
proposed project.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/SCHC.html
DEADLINE: December 3
NEH Institutional Research Grants
Collaborative Research Grants
These institutional grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or
research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires
additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. Eligible projects include research that
significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; conferences on topics of major
importance in the humanities that will benefit ongoing research; archaeological projects that include
the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials
analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); translations into
English of works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements
of other cultures; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities
to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. These grants
support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for
various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel;
fieldwork; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees
are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public
audiences.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/collaborative-research-grants
DEADLINE: December 9 (last known deadline)
DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections
These grants offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding
for up to three years of development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot
projects; the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects; and the development of
tools and infrastructure to enhance the use of digitized resources and support international digitization
work. Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category.
Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at
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least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program
DEADLINE: September 25
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Projects funded under these grants may be either programmatic or research oriented. These grants are
intended to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching,
learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as well as scholars, scientists,
educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for these grants and to collaborate
when appropriate. Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category. All applicants must propose an
innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before in the humanities. These
grants are modeled, in part, on the “high risk/high reward ” paradigm often used by funding agencies
in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some risks in the pursuit of
innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes, or
proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to implementation. Two levels of
awards are made in this program. Level I awards are small grants designed to fund brainstorming
sessions, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial planning. Level II awards are larger
grants that can be used for more fully-formed projects that are ready to start the first stage of
implementation or the creation of working prototypes.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants
DEADLINES: September 11
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants
Projects funded under this grant may be either programmatic or research oriented. The grants are
intended to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully
completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our
understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or
develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The program can support
innovative digital-humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers,
librarians, and the public. Applications from recipients of NEH’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
are welcome. Successful projects must make digital innovations and be significant to the humanities.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-implementation-grants
DEADLINES: February 18
Documenting Endangered Languages
This program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the
National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered
human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000
currently used languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology. Awards
support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered
languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. DEL
funding is available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for six to
twelve months. At least half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/documenting-endangered-languages
DEADLINES: October 6
Preservation and Access Research and Development
These grants support 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
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manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to
develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. Applicants should
define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and explain how they would
evaluate their projects and disseminate their findings. Project results must serve the needs of a
significant segment of humanists. NEH especially encourages research projects that address how to
preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog
counterpart; how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in
these formats; and how to protect humanities collections and slow their deterioration through the use
of sustainable preservation strategies.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-research-and-development
DEADLINES: May 1
Scholarly Editions and Translations
These institutional grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and
documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. These grants support
full-time or part-time activities for periods of at least one year up to a maximum of three years.
Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member.
Grants typically support editions and translations of significant literary, philosophical, and historical
materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants
DEADLINES: December 9
National Digital Newspaper Program
NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper
Program (NDNP). NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers
published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database
will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the
Internet. NEH intends to support projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient
funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory
will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded
projects will be eligible for continued support, but the program will give priority to new projects.
Applications that involve collaboration between previously funded and new projects are welcome.
Such collaborations might involve, for example, arranging with current awardees to manage the
creation and delivery of digital files; offering regular and ongoing consultation on managing aspects
of the project; or providing formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop.
Successful applicants will select newspapers—published in their state or territory in English
between 1836 and 1922—and convert, primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years,
approximately 100,000 pages into digital files.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html
DEADLINE: January 15
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
These institutional grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs on approaches
in humanities computing. NEH strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for
multidisciplinary teams of co-applicants, partners, and collaborators that will offer the necessary
range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. This program is designed to bring together
humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, computer scientists, and others to learn new tools
and technologies and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. Partners and
collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and include appropriate specialists
from within and outside the US. The purpose is to increase the number of humanities scholars using
digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology
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applications relevant to the humanities. The objectives are to: bring together humanities scholars and
digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance
humanities research through the use of digital technologies, reflect on, interpret, and analyze new
digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies and integrate these into humanities
research, prepare current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use
cyber-based tools and environments for research, and devise new and creative uses for technology
that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities. The projects
may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of
a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/institutes-advanced-topics-in-the-digital-humanities
DEADLINE: March 10
Preservation and Access: Education and Training and Research and Development
These grants help staff members of cultural institutions obtain the knowledge and skills needed to
serve as effective stewards of humanities collections and educational programs that prepare the next
generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff
of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or
providing access to humanities collections and resources, including 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 searching, discovering, and using such materials.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training
(Education and Training)
http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-research-and-development
(Research and Development)
DEADLINE: May 5 for Ed. & Training; May 1 for R&D
Preservation and Access Research and Development
Preservation and Access Research and Development grants support 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 searching,
discovering, and using such materials. Project results must serve the needs of a significant segment of
humanists.
URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-research-and-development
DEADLINE: May 1 (last known deadline)
Scholarly Editions and Translations
These grants support the preparation of editions of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently
inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Projects teams must include at least one editor and
one other staff member. Grants typically support editions of significant literary, philosophical, and
historical materials. Collaborations can involve faculty members from the same or multiple campuses.
Applicants must demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for
Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions.
Editions must contain scholarly and critical apparatus appropriate to the subject matter and format of
the edition, typically introductions and annotations that provide essential information about the form,
transmission, and historical and intellectual context of the texts and documents involved. Proposals
for editions of foreign language materials in the original language are eligible for funding. Proposals
for editions of translated materials should be submitted to the Collaborative Research program.
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URL: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/editions.html
DEADLINE: December 9 (last known deadline)
National Archives and Research Administration
Digitizing Historical Records
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals that use cost-effective
methods to digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely
available online. Projects must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and consist of
entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and
described so that projects can re-use existing information to serve as metadata for the digitized collection.
A grant normally is for 1 to 3 years and up to $150,000.
URL: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digitizing.html
DEADLINE: April 1 (draft deadline) June 11 (last known final deadline)
U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Programs
FIPSE offers both the Comprehensive Program and several International Programs. The Comprehensive
Program supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models for improving
the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student access. International Program areas include:
U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, European Union-United States Atlantis Program,
Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education, and the United States-Russia Program.
URL: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html
DEADLINE: Various, please see website for specific program information
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