The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Research typically results in articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.

An outright award of $6,000 is provided for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. In accordance with NEH guidelines, Ball State may nominate two faculty proposals.

Ball State internal application deadline is September 3, 2015. 
Deadline for final submission to the NEH is October 1 for projects beginning May 2016.

Click here for full guidelines. 

Materials to submit for the September 3 internal review: 
 1. The Ball State NEH Summer Stipend Internal Application Coversheet **This form is in lieu of ATTACHMENT 1: Supplemental Information for Individuals Form

2. A single copy of the application, including:

• a. 3-page (single-spaced) narrative 
• b. 2-page (single-spaced) resumé 
• c. 1-page (single-spaced) bibliography 
• d. 1-page appendix (graphical materials or edition/translation sample, if applicable) 

You do not need to include reference letters at this time.
You do not need to have processed a Ball State clearance sheet.

Selected proposals will be submitted electronically through grants.gov by the October 1 deadline. Please submit your completed internal application to Augusta Wray by September 3.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Research typically results in articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.

An outright award of $6,000 is provided for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. In accordance with NEH guidelines, Ball State may nominate two faculty proposals.

Ball State internal application deadline is September 3, 2015. 
Deadline for final submission to the NEH is October 1 for projects beginning May 2016.

Click here for full guidelines. 

Materials to submit for the September 3 internal review: 
 1. The Ball State NEH Summer Stipend Internal Application Coversheet **This form is in lieu of ATTACHMENT 1: Supplemental Information for Individuals Form

2. A single copy of the application, including:

• a. 3-page (single-spaced) narrative 
• b. 2-page (single-spaced) resumé 
• c. 1-page (single-spaced) bibliography 
• d. 1-page appendix (graphical materials or edition/translation sample, if applicable) 

You do not need to include reference letters at this time.
You do not need to have processed a Ball State clearance sheet.

Selected proposals will be submitted electronically through grants.gov by the October 1 deadline. Please submit your completed internal application to Augusta Wray by September 3.

Ball State University Educators Publish Book to Promote Japanese Education

Dr. Kazumi Matsumoto, Assistant Professor of Japanese at Ball State University, and her colleagues within the Department of Modern Languages and Classics have published the book, Embracing the New Phase in Japanese Education in the United States. After the cancellation of the annual conference of Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) in 2011, Dr. Matsumoto and her colleagues were able to resume the event in 2012.

 With additional funding received from the National Endowment for the Humanities through Indiana Humanities and the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association of Asian Studies, they were able to host the 23rd CATJ Conference in 2012 with the theme of "Embracing the New Phase in Japanese Education in the United States," which spurred the creation of the likewise titled book.

The book presents a collective volume of conference proposals in hopes of providing valuable information to Japanese educators and educational agencies around the nation.

NEH Summer Stipend Deadline and Information

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Research typically results in articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.

An outright award of $6,000 is provided for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. In accordance with NEH guidelines, Ball State may nominate two faculty proposals.

Ball State internal application deadline is August 29, 2013.
Deadline for final submission to the NEH is September 26, 2013 for projects beginning May 2014.

Click here for full guidelines.

Materials to submit for the August 29 internal review:

• The Ball State NEH Summer Stipend Internal Application Coversheet
**This form is in lieu of ATTACHMENT 1: Supplemental Information for Individuals Form
• A single copy of the application, including:
  • 3-page (single-spaced) narrative
  • 2-page (single-spaced) resumé
  • 1-page (single-spaced) bibliography
  • 1-page appendix (graphical materials or edition/translation sample, if applicable)
• You do not need to include reference letters at this time.
• You do not need to have processed a Ball State clearance sheet.
• Proposals will be submitted electronically through grants.gov.

Please submit your completed internal application to Augusta Wray by August 29, 2013.

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants from the NEH

The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities.

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve

• research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities;
• planning and developing prototypes of new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources, including libraries’ and museums’ digital assets;
• scholarship that focuses on the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society;
• scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications and impact of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines;
• innovative uses of technology for public programming and education utilizing both traditional and new media; and
• new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels.

Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category, which incorporates 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.

The deadline for application is September 12, 2013.
To view the full announcement visit: http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants
If you are interested in applying for this opportunity please contact the Sponsored Programs Office at 5-1600 or SPO@bsu.edu.

NEH Offers New Enduring Questions Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has released a solicitation for the new round of Enduring Questions grants. The grants offer funding to faculty to develop new courses that will encourage undergraduates and teachers to use the humanities to grapple with a fundamental concern of human life. Through a deep and sustained program of reading, students will encounter influential thinkers from across previous centuries to the present day.

In its last five annual competitions, the Enduring Questions program received approximately 193 applications per year. The program made an average of nineteen awards per year, for a funding ratio of 10 percent. Award descriptions from previous grantees can be found here, including examples from GRC members: University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Wheaton College; Cheyney University of Pennsylvania; State University of New York, The College at Brockport; and Saginaw Valley State University.

Applications are due by September 12, 2013 for awards of up to $38,000. The award amount is dependent on the number of project directors indicated in the application. The grant period may last between 18 and 36 months.

If you are interested in applying for this grant please contact the Sponsored Programs Office at 285-1600 or spo@bsu.edu or your area proposal manager.

Matching Project Ideas to NEH Grant Programs

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has developed an online resource to help faculty members target the funding opportunities best suited to their project ideas. Users can identify the appropriate NEH program by selecting from options such as these:

• I want to host a program for faculty, scholars, or practitioners to expand their knowledge of a topic
• I am organizing a scholarly conference
• I want to develop or refine a humanities course or curriculum
• I want to create a scholarly edition or reference volume
• I am seeking support for an archaeological project
• I want to preserve a collection and/or make it easier for people to access
• I want to develop or put on an exhibition or cultural program
• I want to combine digital technology with the humanities
• I want to create a website with humanities content
• I want to develop or produce a reading and discussion program.

Because NEH program officers are so willing to speak with prospective applicants, discuss project ideas, and, in almost all cases, review draft proposals, faculty members can also make real use of the NEH office and division contact list. Attendees at the GRC 2013 Conference on Funding Competitiveness will receive insight into NEH proposal development during a mock panel review led by Wilsonia Cherry, deputy director of the Division of Education Programs, on February 22, 2013.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends program supports research that contributes to the scholarship, the public's understanding, or the advancement of teaching of the humanities. Projects may be completed during the award period or may be part of a longer-term undertaking. Recipients' work often results in articles, books, databases, or other scholarly tools.

An outright award of $6,000 is provided for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. In accordance with NEH guidelines, Ball State may nominate two faculty proposals.

Ball State internal application deadline is August 27, 2012.
Deadline for final submission to the NEH is September 27, 2012 for projects beginning May 2013.

Click here for full guidelines.

Materials to submit for the August 27 internal review:

• The Ball State NEH Summer Stipend Internal Application Coversheet
  **This form is in lieu of ATTACHMENT 1: Supplemental Information for Individuals Form
• A single copy of the application, including:
• 3-page (single-spaced) narrative
• 2-page (single-spaced) resumé
• 1-page (single-spaced) bibliography
• 1-page appendix (graphical materials or edition/translation sample, if applicable)
• You do not need to include reference letters at this time.
• You do not need to have processed a Ball State clearance sheet.
• Proposals will be submitted electronically through grants.gov.

Please submit your completed internal application to Justin Miller by August 27, 2012.

Questions about this program may be directed to Justin Miller.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends program supports research that contributes to the scholarship, the public's understanding, or the advancement of teaching of the humanities. Projects may be completed during the award period or may be part of a longer-term undertaking. Recipients' work often results in articles, books, databases, or other scholarly tools.

An outright award of $6,000 is provided for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. In accordance with NEH guidelines, Ball State may nominate two faculty proposals.

Ball State internal application deadline is September 2, 2011.
Deadline for final submission to the NEH is September 29, 2011.

Click here for full guidelines.

Materials to submit for the September 2 internal review:

• Click to access the Ball State NEH Summer Stipend Internal Application Coversheet (This form is in lieu of ATTACHMENT 1: Supplemental Information for Individuals Form, submitted at the final round)
• A single copy of the application, including
1. 3-page (single-spaced) narrative
2. 2-page (single-spaced) resumé
3. 1-page (single-spaced) bibliography
4. 1-page appendix (graphical materials or edition/translation sample, if applicable)
• You do not need to include reference letters at this time.
• You do not need to have processed a Ball State clearance sheet.

Please submit your completed internal application to Justin Miller by September 2, 2011.

Proposals will be submitted electronically through grants.gov.

Questions about this program may be directed to Justin Miller.

NEH ODH: Digging into Data 2.0: June 16, 2011

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities has announced the second round of competition for its Digging into Data Challenge, which calls for cutting-edge humanities and social science research driven by advanced computation and data analysis. Applications are due by June 16, 2011.

Interested BSU Researchers, please contact your unit or department's Proposal Manager.

Teams of researchers are asked to consider how advanced computation can be used to change the nature of humanities and social science research methods and how advanced computation and data analysis techniques might help researchers ask new questions about the world.

Eligibility is open to groups of researchers in the information, library, archival, and computational sciences as well as the humanities and the social sciences. Each proposed project must include collaboration among two to four national teams, with each team representing one of the competition's participating countries (Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.). If multiple institutions from the same country are participating in a team, they must work together and designate one of the institutions as the team lead. Teams can only receive grants from a funder from their own country. For U.S. teams, awards will range from $25,000 to $125,000, or up to $175,000 if the team consists of two or more institutions.
The first Digging into Data competition, held in 2009, was so popular that funding was available for just eight percent of the 90 teams that applied. This round will be underwritten by four new sponsors, for a total of eight organizations contributing funding: NEH, the Institution of Museum and Library Services, and National Science Foundation in the U.S.; the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and Joint Information Systems Committee in the United Kingdom; the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

NEH Fellowships: Deadline May 3, 2011

Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.

Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months.

Fellowships may not be used for:

• projects that seek to promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view;
• projects that advocate a particular program of social action;
• specific policy studies;
• research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program;
• the preparation or revision of textbooks;
• curriculum development;
• the development of pedagogical tools (including teaching methods or theories);
• educational or technical impact assessments;
• the creation or enhancement of databases, unless part of a larger interpretive project;
• empirical social science research, unless part of a larger humanities project;
• inventories of collections; or
• works in the creative and performing arts, i.e., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.

More information & full guidelines: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html

While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply. Graduate students seeking support for a degree in the humanities should consider the Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program.

Interested? Please contact your department or unit's Proposal Manager in the Sponsored Programs Office.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Regional Seminar

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Regional Seminar

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Purdue University

March 30-31, 2011

Purdue University

Stewart Center, Room 214

West Lafayette, IN

The featured speaker is Jane Aikin, director of the Division of Research Programs at the NEH. Panelists will include Purdue faculty members experienced with the NEH proposal process.  This is an excellent opportunity for faculty from area colleges and universities to learn more about funding opportunities with the primary federal funder of research and scholarship in the humanities!

Day one sessions include:

• Overview of NEH mission and programs
• NEH review process, including a panel discussion on successful applications
• Individual meetings with attendees to discuss their research as it relates to NEH (on day one, priority for these sessions will be given to out-of-town participants)
• An evening reception that will allow participants to network with colleagues from Purdue and other institutions who conduct research in areas funded by NEH

Click here for full agenda.
Day two will be devoted to more individual meetings with faculty members.

NEH America's Media Makers Production & Development Grants

Grants for America’s Media Makers support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs in order to deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. Grants for America’s Media Makers should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages.

NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects, development grants and production grants.

• Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production.
• Production grants support the preparation of a program for distribution.

Applications that respond to NEH’s new Bridging Cultures initiative are welcome. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally, or within the United States. International projects might seek to enlarge Americans’ understanding of other places and times, as well as other perspectives and intellectual traditions.

Applications may be submitted for any phase of a project. Applicants are not required to obtain a development grant before applying for a production grant. Applicants may not, however, submit multiple applications for the same project at the same deadline.

Deadline: January 12, 2011 (projects beginning October 2011)

The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics initiative—a separate grant program—supports documentary films 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.

Digital Humanities Institutes Seek Summer Participants

The 2011 institutes sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities have been announced and are beginning to accept participant applications (check for updated links as information comes available).

• University of Denver's Institute for the Digital Humanities will host a series of three workshops held over 18 months for faculty and advanced graduate students on the use of digital media in scholarship and teaching.
• Computer Simulations in the Humanities will be hosted by the University of North Carolina, with a focus on computer simulations and modeling techniques in the humanities for twenty four humanities scholars.
• Brown University will lead an Advanced Text Encoding Seminars to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics.
• The SUNY Research Foundation of Albany’s Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities will include a capstone conference on developing international team taught courses in the humanities.
• The Digital Institute for Archaeology will support advanced training in geospatial technologies critical to the practice of modern archaeology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
• The University of Southern California Los Angeles will support a month-long summer institute, “Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors CTS Summer Institute on Digital Approaches to American Studies.”
• The University of Virginia will host “Summer Workshops: Emerging Issues in Digital Scholarship,” a two-year series of summer workshops engaging scholars and institutional administrators in concerns relating to peer review and evaluation of digital scholarship.

These institutes bring together scholars, librarians, scientists, museum officials, technologists, and advanced graduate students for intense learning experiences at various institutions. If accepted as a participant, most of the institutes will cover travel costs. Information on hosting an institute is available online.

NEH Teaching Development Fellowships: September 30

The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Teaching Development Fellowships to support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving an existing undergraduate course that has been taught in at least THREE different terms prior to the application deadline. The research undertaken as a part of the project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning.

The program has three broad goals:

1. to improve the quality of humanities education in the United States;
2. to strengthen the link between research and teaching in the humanities; and
3. to foster excellence in undergraduate instruction. Research in any area of the humanities is welcome.

Teaching Development Fellowships cover periods lasting from three to five months and carry stipends of $4,200 per month. Thus the maximum stipend is $21,000 for a five-month award period.

The application deadline is September 30, 2010.

For more information and instructions, please see the grant guidelines.

NEH Enduring Questions: September 15

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.

What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate.

• What is the good life?
• What is good government?
• Is there such a thing as a just war?
• What is friendship?
• What is beauty?
• What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?
• What is evil?
• Are there universals in human nature?
• What are the origins of the universe?

Enduring questions are questions to which no discipline, field, or professions can lay an exclusive claim. They are questions that have more than one plausible or compelling answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment. New this year: An Enduring Questions course may be developed by up to four faculty members.

The application deadline is September 15, 2010.

NEH Enduring Questions grants can provide up to $25,000 in outright funds for projects serving a single institution. The grant period may run between eighteen and thirty-six months. Recipients may begin their grants as early as May 1, 2011, but must begin no later than January 1, 2012.

Please contact your department's Proposal Manager for more information.