Julia Nguyen
Senior Program Officer
Division of Education Programs
202-606-8213
jnguyen@neh.gov
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Humanities Magazine
Organization of the NEH
Special
Initiatives
Office of
Digital
Humanities
Division of
Education
National
Endowment
for the
Humanities
Federal/State
Partnership
Office of
Challenge
Grants
(Matching)
Division of
Public
Programs
Division of
Research
Division of
Preservation
& Access
• Expand scholarly and public discussion of diverse countries,
peoples, and cultural and intellectual traditions worldwide.
• Gain a deeper understanding of our own rich and varied
cultural heritage, as well as the history and culture of
other nations
• Investigate how Americans have approached and attempted
to surmount cultural divides; examine the ideals of civility
and civic discourse that have informed this quest.
How can I find NEH grant opportunities?
Division of Education Programs
Grants to strengthen
teaching and learning
in the humanities in
schools and colleges
across the nation
Division of Education Programs grants
TITLE
DEADLINE
DIVISION/OFFICE
Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges
August 27,
2013
Division of Education
Programs
Enduring Questions
September
12, 2013
Division of Education
Programs
Humanities Initiatives
June 26, 2014
Division of Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History and
Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
March 4, 2014
Division of Education
Programs
Summer Seminars and Institutes
March 4, 2014
Division of Education
Programs
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
• Intensive two-to-five week programs that reach a national audience
of college and university faculty or school teachers
• Collegial study of significant texts and topics in the humanities
• Use the academic resources of libraries, museums, and cultural
sites
March 4, 2014:
• Apply to attend a
summer 2014
project
• Apply to direct a
summer 2015
project
Summer Seminars and Institutes
• Can be held in the US or abroad
• Can require language proficiency
• Areas of special emphasis:
• foreign language projects designed to strengthen
instruction at the advanced level through the use of
humanistic sources
• projects intended primarily for community-college faculty
• projects that respond to NEH's Bridging Cultures initiative
Examples of NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs
Encountering Brazil through its Contemporary Urban Literature (Brazil)
Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento - New Perspectives (Italy)
India’s Past and the Making of the Present (India)
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Humanities Initiatives
at HSIs, TCUs, HBCUs
• Deadline: June 2014
• Grant Amount: Up to
$100,000
• Duration: 12 to 36
months
• Designed to improve
humanities
instruction
Some types of supported activities
• Faculty development study series
• Curriculum development
• Summer bridge programs
• Creation of curricular materials
• Collaborations with other
institutions (museums, etc.)
Areas of emphasis
• Humanities connections to
professional fields
• Foreign languages
• Bridging Cultures
Sample Grant: Creating a New Minor in Middle Eastern
and Islamic Studies at CSU-Northridge
• Workshop with language experts and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
faculty/program directors from Southern California.
• Second workshop brings representatives from local Muslim and Middle
Eastern organizations to campus to offer their perspectives.
• Faculty create new courses on topics such as Arabic, Sufism, and women
in Islamic literature.
Bridging Cultures at Community
Colleges RFP
• Grants of up to
$120,000 to
improve
humanities
education at
community
colleges
• Community
colleges partner
with other orgs.
• August 2014
deadline
NEH THINKING THROUGH CULTURAL
DIVERSITY SUMMER SYMPOSIUM
Thinking Through Cultural Diversity: Bridging
Cultural Differences in Asian Traditions
Dates: July 12-20, 2012
Location: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
NEH Challenge Grants
• Support long-term or
permanent endeavors
• May be invested in
endowments or spenddown funds
• Challenge grants are all
matching funds
• Next deadline: May 2014
What can challenge grants be
used for?
• Direct acquisitions of equipment, computer hardware
and software, bibliographic collections
• Endowments for faculty and staff positions, fellowships,
research funds, library acquisitions funds, computer
upgrades and maintenance funds
• Development and fundraising costs
• Renovation or construction
Digital Humanities
• New methods of conducting humanities research,
conceptualizing relationships, presenting scholarship
• Focus on use of digital technologies to explore
humanities subjects; impact of digital technologies on
the humanities; digitization of important materials.
TITLE
DEADLINE
DIVISION/OFFICE
Digging Into Data Challenge
May 15, 2013
Office of Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants February 19, 2014
Office of Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
September 12, 2013 Office of Digital Humanities
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the
Digital Humanities
March 11, 2014
Office of Digital Humanities
The NEH Grant Review Process
Peer Review Panels:
Invited scholars and experts review applications
and identify exemplary proposals
National Council for the Humanities:
Review and Recommend
Chairman:
Funding decisions based on
recommendations of panelists, staff, and
Council
Remember …
Outstanding humanities subjects, texts,
scholars, and scholarship are at the
center of all successful NEH grants