1. NEH Grant Opportunities
Old Post Office Building
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506
800/NEH-1121

2. Rebecca Boggs
Senior Program Officer
Division of Education Programs
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3. American History
World History
Economic History
Political Science
Philosophy
Ethics
History of Art
History of Music
Classical Studies
Religious Studies
Theology
English Literature
American Literature
Foreign Language
World Literature
History of Science
History of Mathematics
The Humanities
carry the voices of one generation to the next through the records of human civilization
are the ideas that shape our world and define our roles as citizens
ask big questions

4. Visit our website:

5. Office of Digital Humanities
Education
Research
Preservation
& Access
Public
Programs
Challenge Grants
NEH Divisions and Offices

6. What do you want to do with your grant?

7. Bridging Cultures
The NEH Bridging Cultures Initiative is designed “to help American citizens gain a deeper understanding of our own rich and varied cultural heritage, as well as the history and culture of other nations.”
- NEH Chairman Jim Leach

8. Note: All deadlines listed in this presentation or in other materials distributed at this workshop should be verified against the official current listing well in advance of applying. This listing can be found on the NEH website under “Apply for a Grant”:

9. Humanities Initiatives at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
NEH Humanities Initiatives may:
create opportunities for faculty members to study together while improving their capacity to teach the humanities
help faculty members and administrators develop new humanities programs (may include but not limited to: academic writing programs, foreign language programs, new humanities minors, first-year seminars, capstone courses, or summer bridge programs for at-risk high school students)
help institutions take advantage of humanities resources, especially in the digital humanities
enhance or develop areas of basic need in an institution’s core humanities programs
build ties among faculty at more than one institution of higher learning; among college teachers, secondary school teachers, and students; or among faculty members at institutions of higher learning and colleagues in museums, libraries, or other organizations such as historical and cultural societies

10. Humanities Initiatives at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
Deadline: June 30, 2011
Grant Amount: Up to $100,000
Duration: 12 to 36 months
Division of Education Programs

11. Examples of Humanities Initiatives Grants
Integrating Area Studies and Humanities: Bridging Cultures in an Era of Internationalization California State University, San Bernardino A two-year project to support the linking and integration of programs in three interdisciplinary areas: Asian, Latin American, and Islamic and Arabic studies.
Programs in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Art History Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean A series of public lectures and faculty development seminars in anticipation of the creation of a new master’s program in Puerto Rican and Caribbean art history.
Hartford Heritage: History, Literature, and Writing Capital Community College A two-year project for twelve faculty members at Capital Community College to investigate the history, literature, and culture of Hartford, Connecticut, and to reframe the institution’s first-year writing courses as writing-intensive humanities studies.

12. Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
Awards for Faculty at
Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
Awards to individual faculty members for:
conducting research in primary and secondary materials;
producing articles, books, digital materials, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources; or
pursuing research to improve an existing undergraduate course or to achieve institutional or community research goals.

13. Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
Awards for Faculty at
Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment
Deadline: April 14, 2011
Grant Amount: $4,200 per month (or full-time equivalent) — maximum $50,400 (12 months full-time)
Duration: 2 to 12 months full-time (4 to 24 half-time)
Division of Research Programs

14. Examples of Awards for Faculty at IHHEs
Christina Bueno
Northeastern Illinois University
The Allure of Antiquity: Archeology and the Making of Modern Mexico,  
Ethan Bumas
New Jersey City University
Colonial Appropriations
Barry Levitt
Florida International University
Laughing at “Lo Politico”: Mass Media Political Humor in Contemporary Latin America
Julie Weise
California State University, Long Beach Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1910–2010

15. Division of Education Programs
Grants to strengthen teaching and learning in the humanities in schools and colleges across the nation

16. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
Provide opportunities to:
Create intensive two-to-five week programs that reach a national audience of college and university faculty or school teachers
Engage in collegial study of significant texts and topics in the humanities
Use the academic resources of libraries, museums, and cultural sites
Deadline to propose a project for summer 2013: March 2012
(Award amounts vary based on the length and type of project.)
Deadline to apply to attend a project in summer 2012: March 2012 (Participants apply directly to individual projects.)

17. Examples of NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers:
Mexican Literature and Culture in Context (CSU East Bay; held in Mexico City)
Latino Identity in New York (Hunter College)
Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Iberia (U. of Virginia; held in Spain)
Reading “Don Quixote” (SUNY-Binghamton)
Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers:
Brazilian Literature and Culture (Ohio State U.; held in Brazil)
American Immigration Revisited (American University)
Revisioning the Maya World(Community Coll. Humanities Ass’n; held in C. Amer.)

19. NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops
Provide opportunities to:
Create intensive one-week programs that reach national audiences of school teachers or community college faculty
Engage in collegial study of significant texts and topics in the American experience at historic sites
Integrate the use of archival sources and material evidence into school curricula
Deadline to propose a project for summer 2013: March 2012
(Award amounts vary.)
Deadline to apply to attend a project in summer 2012: March 2012 (Participants apply directly to individual projects.)

20. Examples of NEH Landmarks of American History & Culture Workshops
University of New Mexico
Contested Homelands: Knowledge, History and Culture of Historic Santa Fe
Two one‑week workshops for eighty school teachers on the history of interactions between Native Americans and European settlers in Santa Fe.
California State University, Northridge
The Spanish and Mexican Influences on California,
Two one-week workshops for eighty school teachers on the Spanish and Mexican influence in California, using sites in the Los Angeles area.
CUNY: NYC College of Technology (“CityTech”), Brooklyn, NY
Along the Shore: Preserving the Landmarks of Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront
Two one‑week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on selected Brooklyn waterfront landmarks.

22. Enduring Questions Offer opportunities to:
Design a new course for undergraduate teaching and learning that promotes engagement with fundamental issues in the humanities
Focus on an explicitly stated question drawing upon significant readings from a range of historical periods
Stimulate inquiry beyond vocational or specialized areas (not limited to those trained in or teaching in humanities disciplines)
Engage in deep, sustained programs of reading to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day
Deadline: September 15, 2011
Awards up to $25,000, including $15,000 stipend for the project director or project team 22

24. Enduring Questions Sample Grants
Wilbur Wright College (City Colleges of Chicago, IL)
Enduring Questions: What Is Freedom?
The development of a community college course that examines the question “what is freedom?” through philosophy, psychology, political science, religion and literature.
SUNY-Brockport (Brockport, NY) NEH Enduring Questions Course on “What is Forgiveness?” The development of a junior level undergraduate seminar that explores the concept of forgiveness through literature, philosophy, religion, criminal justice, and international relations.
Morehead State University (Morehead, KY) NEH Enduring Questions Course on Good and Evil The development of a course that examines the nature of good and evil through the study of philosophy, literature, sociology, psychology, and film.

25. EDSITEment edsitement.neh.gov
Peer-evaluated educational websites with outstanding humanities content (including Best-of-the-Web Spanish Language Websites)
Organized by humanities fields
Includes grade-level K-12 lesson plans developed specially for EDSITEment and other resources for teachers
Materials can also be used in undergraduate teaching
Includes the Picturing America images and teaching materials

29. Division of Research Programs
Grants to facilitate research and original scholarship

30. Fellowships and Summer Stipends
Grants to support uninterrupted study for 6-12 months
$4,200 per month
University Teachers, College Teachers, Independent Scholars
Deadline: May 3, 2011
Summer Stipends
Grants to support uninterrupted study for 2 months ($6,000 total)
Two nominees per institution
Deadline: September 29, 2011

31. Also from the Division of Research Programs
Collaborative Research
Original research requiring the participation of two or more scholars or resources beyond one scholar. Collaborative scholarship, archaeology projects, scholarly conferences, etc.
Deadline: December 8, 2011
Scholarly Editions and Translations
Preparation by a team of editors of authoritative and annotated texts, documents, and translations of value to humanities scholars and general readers

32. … More from the Division of Research Programs
Fellowships Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Fellowships for post-degree scholars
Deadline: August 17, 2011 for institutions applying for support of their programs
Individual scholars: check listing on NEH website;
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research in Japan
Deadline: May 3, 2011

33. Office of Challenge Grants
Grants to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities

34. CHALLENGE GRANTS CAN PROVIDE FUNDS FOR:
Institution building, long-term benefits to humanities
Fellowships, research funds, library acquisition funds, computer upgrades and maintenance funds, higher education scholarships, endowments
Construction and renovation
Acquisitions of equipment, computer hardware and software, bibliographic collection
Development and fund-raising costs
Deadlines: Regular Challenge Grants, May 4, 2011
Challenge Grant Initiative for Two-Year Colleges, February 2012

35. CHALLENGE GRANTS ARE MATCHING AWARDS…
NEH Challenge Grants help institutions increase their fund-raising capacity
Recipients raise $3 in private funds for each $1 in federal matching funds
$2/$1 ratio for HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, and Two-Year Colleges
Recipients must match an NEH challenge grant with nonfederal gifts only

36. Office of Digital Humanities
Funds innovation in the digital humanities

37. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Small grants designed to spark experiments, innovation, new ideas.
Often used for basic, experimental research, that is investigating new methods and techniques of value for humanities scholarship.
Can be used to fund small workshops to bring the right people together to address an important technology issue in the Academy (e.g. scholarly communications, open access).

38. Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
A DH summer institute program (but doesn’t have to be in the summer).
A great way to share institutional expertise in the digital humanities.
Consider attending an institute as a participant or hosting one yourself.

39. INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED TOPICS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

40. INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED TOPICS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship

41. Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities
INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED TOPICS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
2010 Institutes
Networks and Network Analysis
for the Humanities

44. Division of Preservation and Access
Grants to preserve and provide access to humanities resources

45. Division of Preservation and Access Grants
Grants for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources:
Grants to preserve and create access to humanities collections
Grants to create research and reference tools such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, historical atlases, databases, and bibliographies
Deadline: July 20, 2011

46. More Preservation and Access Grants
Research and development projects
Education and training grants
National digital newspaper program
Preservation assistance grants for smaller institutions
Grants to document endangered languages
Grants to sustain cultural heritage collections
For deadlines, please consult the NEH website

47. Sample Preservation Assistance Grants
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
Archival supplies and storage furniture to preserve and make accessible for research a collection of 3,400 posters and prints on paper spanning 31 years of printmaking from Mission Grafica and La Raza Graphics. The prints document the social, political, and community history of Latinos in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and California; they were created using a method of silkscreen employed by artists with little formal training or access to more expensive methods of creating art.
Mexic‑Arte Museum, Austin, TX
The museum’s first preservation assessment, which would include a site visit, report, and one day of staff training. Approximately 90 percent of the permanent collection consists of works on paper of 20th‑century Mexican and Mexican‑American art.
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
The purchase of storage furniture and materials to house the museum’s textile collection, which includes a variety of clothing, accessories, household textiles, headdresses, and processional objects from Mexico. The collection is used in research, exhibitions, and educational programming.

48. Division of Public Programs
Grants to provide opportunities for lifelong learning

49. Division of Public Programs Grants
Projects designed to connect humanities scholarship and the general public
Core Programs:
Projects in Historical and Cultural Organizations
Grants to America’s Media Makers
Exhibitions, discussion series, lectures and symposia, site interpretation, television, radio, film, websites
For deadlines, please consult the NEH website

50. Sample Public Programs Grants
America’s Media Makers: Development Grants
The Latino Americans
GWETA, Inc.
Washington, DC
Development of two one-hour scripts for an eight-part film series to be broadcast nationally, with a companion radio series on National Public Radio and an accompanying website that would examine the history of Latino Americans through the lens of immigration.

51. Sample Public Programs Grants
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations
Planning Grants
The Ancient Maya City
University of Pennsylvania
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a web exhibition, a publication, and programs on the Maya city of Copán.
Implementation Grants
Coming to California: The Gallery of California History
Oakland Museum/Museum of California Foundation
Implementation of a permanent exhibition, docent tours, a website, and public programs on the history of California.

52. . . . and don’t forget
The NEH Federal-State Partnership
State Humanities Councils

53. Application Strategies and Other Information

54. Remember …
Outstanding humanities subjects, texts, scholars, and scholarship are at the center of all successful NEH grants

55. Who Can Apply? Who is the applicant?
Individual or institutional grant?
Please consult the "Eligibility" section of specific program guidelines for further information.

56. Grants for Individuals
If you are a citizen of the United States or a U.S. territory, or are a foreign national who has lived in the United States or a U.S. territory for at least three years immediately preceding an application, you are eligible to apply for a grant.
Examples: Fellowships & Stipends

57. Grants for Institutions
U.S. nonprofit institutions (public agencies or private nonprofit organizations) are eligible for funding; state and local governments are also eligible.
Examples: Most NEH grants other than Fellowships & Stipends

58. How do I apply?
Step One: Visit the NEH website and READ THE GUIDELINES

59. How do I apply?
Step Two: Talk to an NEH program officer. Get samples and/or ask questions
Step Three: Talk to your sponsored research office and let them know you plan to apply. If it is an institutional grant, make sure your institution is registered with Grants.gov. If it is an individual grant, then you will need to make sure you are registered!

60. How do I apply?
Step Four: Draft your application and get someone to read it. If the NEH grant program reads drafts, take advantage of it!
Step Five: Submit your application by the deadline and wait…these things take time.

61. 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

62. How will my application be evaluated?
Intellectual quality of the project
Significant humanities topics and texts
Clear and persuasive rationale
Quality of the project design
Potential for significant results

63. Other Tips
Talk with NEH staff prior to sending in a grant application.
Write for a general audience – it will be read by people from multiple backgrounds.
Whether or not you get the grant, ask the NEH to send you a “why” or “why not” letter that contains verbatim comments by the panelists.
Consider serving as a panelist yourself.

64. Thank You! Rebecca Boggs Senior Program Officer
Division of Education Programs
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