Past Humanities Funding Opportunities
Browse funding opportunities with deadlines that have passed to identify upcoming application cycles and resources to keep an eye on.
2024
Organization |
Description |
Application Due Date |
| Supports the development, production and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films and series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways | Jan 10. 2024 | |
| Help bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book | Jan. 10, 2024 for LOI | |
| Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching and public programming in the humanities | Jan. 11, 2024 | |
| Develop and assess environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies in collection spaces | Jan. 12, 2024 | |
| Supports pre-tenured faculty members for research projects about Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions and religion and social issues | Jan. 15, 2024 | |
| Improve the health, well-being and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma as well as their families and caregivers through experiences of art or art making | Jan. 17, 2024 | |
| ArtsHERE invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities | Jan. 19, 2024 | |
| Increases arts participation for underserved groups/communities | Jan. 19, 2024 | |
| Invests in organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity within their practices and programming, with the goal of increasing arts participation for underserved groups/communities | Jan. 19, 2024 for LOI | |
| Supports research in such areas as art and art history, Afro-Latin American research, design and the history of design, education, hiphop, African studies, the African diaspora, African American studies, literature, journalism and creative writing | Jan. 22, 2024 | |
| Solicits grant applications for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other works of academic and/or public health importance to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences | Jan. 26, 2024 | |
| Supports scholars and artists using their intellect, creativity and compassion to build a deeper understanding of human–animal relationships and a greater respect for animal rights | Jan. 31, 202 | |
| Supports promising sociological research on women in religion or on the intersection between religion and gender or religion and sexualities | Feb. 1, 2024 | |
| Contemporary and traditional artists from the United States apply for a unique collaborative artistic residency | Feb. 1, 2024 | |
| Supports journalists, scholars, filmmakers and public policy analysts who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day | Feb. 1, 2024 | |
| Expandx participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching diverse histories, cultures and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions | Feb. 14, 2024 | |
| Creates new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence | Feb. 14, 2024 | |
| Supports training programs for scholars, humanities professionals and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities | Feb. 15, 2024 | |
| Provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem | Feb. 15, 2024 | |
| Provides time, space and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent | March 1, 2024 | |
| Offers grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement | March 13, 2024 | |
| Places recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities | March 13, 2024 | |
| Recognizes one book annually that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal | March 15, 2024 | |
| Supports the production and publishing of nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture and design; cultural history, the city and related public issues and conservation and preservation | March 15, 2024 | |
| Supports research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life | March 25, 2024 | |
| Supports efforts to advance knowledge, tools and techniques in communication sciences and disorders | April 17, 2024 | |
| Supports a diverse cohort of journalists that are deeply committed to exploring some of society’s biggest mental health challenges | April 24, 2024 | |
| Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships | April 30, 2024 | |
| Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology | Sept. 12, 2024 |
2020-2023
Organization |
Description |
Application Due Date |
| Preserve nationally significant historic properties and collections that convey our nation’s rich heritage to future generations | Dec. 19, 2023 | |
| Provides funding and data training for up to five scholarly projects that draw upon the newly available database | Dec. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that address inequities in access to tools and support for digital work among scholars across various fields, those working with under-utilized or understudied source materials, and those in institutions with less support for digital projects | Dec. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports scholarly projects with the potential to enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century | Dec. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional and continental boundaries and who propose to analyze the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological, political and demographic—among world societies | Dec. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports the incorporation of transformative texts into the general education curriculum | Dec. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research | Dec. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports legal scholars actively engaged in research and writing on topics related to contemporary issues in law and public policy | Dec. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports an American scholar who wishes to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Institute in Munich | Dec. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports early-career faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture and society and are focused on building inclusive campus communities through their teaching, scholarship and service | Dec. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on Cultures of US Democracy, Environmental Justice Studies and Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge | Nov. 30, 2024 | |
| Provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts | Nov. 29, 2023 | |
| Aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting teams of scholars working on a joint endeavor | Nov. 29, 2023 | |
| Offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities | Nov. 29, 2023 | |
| Provides stipends to PhD candidates for full time preparation of dissertations in Buddhist Studies | Nov. 16, 2023 | |
| Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies offers fellowships and grants to support research, writing, and publicly engaged and creative scholarship | Nov. 16, 2023 | |
| Awards publishers a $5,500 grant to release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by an eligible NEH fellowship or grant | Nov. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports a significant project currently in progress (a book, film, oral history archive, podcast series, museum exhibition or similar work) which addresses the history and/or legacy of the U.S. founding era and/or the nation’s founding ideas | Nov. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions | Nov. 9, 2023 for LOI | |
| Supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities and native-born whites | Nov. 7, 2023 | |
| Utilize health communication research to better understand the impact that messaging about the continuum of risk for tobacco products may have on various segments of the population | Nov. 6, 2023 | |
| Supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities and native-born whites | Nov. 7, 2023 | |
| Seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records | Nov. 2, 2023 | |
| Provides long-term and flexible research fellowships to support research, writing and curriculum development in China studies | Nov. 2, 2023 | |
| Supports scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval and/or early modern periods before 1700 | Oct. 26, 2023 | |
| Supports outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences | Oct. 20, 2023 | |
| Supports the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological and other cultural sites, museum objects and collections and forms of traditional expression such as indigenous languages and music in participating countries | Oct. 19, 2023 | |
| Supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities at small and medium-sized colleges and universities | Oct. 18, 2023 | |
| Supports the documentation of endangered languages | Oct. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports visiting scholars from a wide range of fields, notably political theory, economics, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy and literature | Oct. 15, 2023 | |
| Recognizes early and mid career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work | Oct. 11, 2023 | |
| Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology | Oct. 11, 2023 | |
| Supports individual faculty members or small, local teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention or career readiness of undergraduate students | Oct. 10, 2023 | |
| Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center | Oct. 5, 2023 | |
| Supports efforts to advance the knowledge of the arts and humanities and producing cutting-edge scholarship that contributes to the understanding and preservation of cultural heritage, focused around 2023's theme of Extinction | Oct. 2, 2023 | |
| Supports teams of two or more individuals working together to create a new or expand an existing public-facing project with creative representation and interpretation of erased, suppressed or threatened stories and histories | Oct. 2, 2023 | |
| Supports ethicists, humanities faculty, scientists, social scientists, policy scholars and artists with projects that advance our understanding of human flourishing | Oct. 2, 2023 | |
| Supports researchers in advancing knowledge of the arts and humanities and producing cutting-edge scholarship that contributes to the understanding and preservation of cultural heritage | Oct. 2, 2023 | |
| Invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Japan through cultural and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation | Sept. 30, 2023 | |
| Supports untenured scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any period, world region, or humanistic methodology who are working towards a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant | Sept. 28, 2023 | |
| Invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars and artists | Sept. 20, 2023 | |
| The Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication | Sept. 20, 2023 | |
| Supports comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate | Sept. 14, 2023 | |
| Develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages | Sept. 13, 2023 | |
| Supports artists and writers of exceptional promise as they pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year | Sept. 12, 2023 | |
| Strengthen cultural ties between the U.S. and Hong Kong and the U.S. and Macau through cultural and exchange programming that highlight shared values and promote bilateral cooperation | Sept. 10, 2023 | |
| Supports initiatives that address the unique needs of self-identified women and girls through a ‘social change’ lens | Sept. 8, 2023 | |
| Supports the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science and other technology-driven fields | Sept. 7, 2023 | |
| Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war and military service, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues that they raise | Sept. 7, 2023 | |
| Supports scholarly research projects about Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions and religion and social issues | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports specific publication components as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography and printing and binding for nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture and design; cultural history, the city and related public issues; and conservation and preservation | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Recognizes and rewards the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative and open humanities scholarship | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that can contribute to or influence discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports investigations of key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Inaugural open access book prizes, funded by Arcadia | Sept. 1, 2023 | |
| Conduct research and testing activities related to the development of new data collections that will measure persons’ access to justice for their civil legal needs and research on additional data sources to define and measure key indicators of access to justice for civil legal needs | Aug. 22, 2023 | |
| Supports fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability | Aug. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person, hybrid or virtual programming | Aug. 9, 2023 | |
| Supports collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop content grounded in humanities scholarship and prepare documentary films, radio and podcasts | Aug. 9, 2023 | |
| Support Eastern European civil society organizations to enhance their ability to identify and respond to (including through publicly released analytical products) Kremlin disinformation in their local information environments | Aug. 9, 2023 | |
| Provides opportunities for internships and fellowships at American Latino museums for students | Aug. 7, 2023 | |
| Supports activities that integrate arts, culture and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term | Aug. 3, 2023 | |
| Supports research partnerships that empower those who have historically been the subjects of anthropological research, rather than researchers themselves | Aug. 1, 2023 | |
| Help create a diverse, multi-stakeholder system for the arts that responds to the needs of different audiences across Ukraine and promotes cooperation between arts organizations, ministries, NGOs and private sector companies | July 31, 2023 | |
| Support Ukrainian performing arts by fostering Ukrainian – American collaborations and/or presenting American content in theatrical plays, musical, dance and literature performances | July 31, 2023 | |
| imited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience | July 14, 2023 | |
| Offer literary arts programming and services that focus on local, regional, and/or national activities designed to promote and develop practitioners of, and audiences for, the literary arts | July 6, 2023 | |
| Supports initiatives that foster the development of civil society and democratic governance by improving the quality of English language education in Ukrainian schools | July 5, 2023 | |
| Assist in the preservation of Afghanistan’s diverse cultural heritage and brings attention to the cultural traditions that are shared among people in Afghanistan irrespective of linguistic or ethnic distinctions | July 3, 2023 | |
| Support regional investigative journalism in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia | June 30, 2023 | |
| Supports projects designed to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy | June 30, 2023 | |
| Develop digitally-enabled comprehensive, assessable teaching project-based creative arts driven curricula programs focused on using the digitized primary sources of the Library of Congress related to history, civics and democracy | June 30, 2023 | |
| Supports research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations and normative practices that may limit equality in the United States | June 30, 2023 | |
| Establishes a small grants mechanism that will provide funded support for independent media organizations serving populations in Ukraine, Belarus, and Eurasia | June 23, 2023 | |
| Support media literacy in Europe | June 19, 2023 | |
| Supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects | June 15, 2023 | |
| Issuing an award for a period of at least 12 months to teach English language and personal development skills to a diverse audience of Afghan youth | June 15, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats | June 14, 2023 | |
| Funds a research center to lead and support investigation of the needs of Hispanic populations served by ACF and promising approaches to promote social and economic well-being among Hispanic children and families with low-incomes | June 7, 2023 | |
| Supports proposals from independent organizations for nonpartisan programs that seek to promote and defend human rights and the rule of law | June 7, 2023 | |
| Seeks proposals for its planning grant program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic America and Native American History and Ethnic Studies | June 7, 2023 | |
| Strengthen people-to-people ties between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and increase local PRC audiences’ understanding of the United States’ foreign policy, values and culture through direct or virtual engagement | June 1, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that explore adaptations to accommodate the economic and social disruptions from re-alignments in generational cohorts and/or incentives which serve to moderate extreme consumerism in our culture | June 1, 2023 | |
| Supports literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place or movement | June 1, 2023 | |
| Supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research | June 1, 2023 | |
| Make a nomination for the Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship to recognize artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage | May 30, 2023 | |
| Conduct research to adapt programs and policy engagement to emerging challenges and priorities for LGBTQI+ communities | May 29, 2023 | |
| Cooperative agreement to serve as an implementation partner for Foreign Press Centers' International Media Reporting Programs | May 22, 2023 | |
| Aims to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials | May 17, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources | May 16, 2023 | |
| Supports training programs that develop knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections | May 16, 2023 | |
| Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience | May 16, 2023 | |
| Supports scholars who have received their Ph.D. within the past 10 years who wish to conduct research on Russian history and culture | May 15, 2023 | |
| Recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year | May 15, 2023 | |
| Conduct research, studies or surveys, or to develop specialized instructional materials, to improve and strengthen instruction and enrollment in modern foreign languages and related area studies | May 12, 2023 | |
| Supports students to advance and deepen their engagement in gender studies under the Tomorrow’s Leaders undergraduate program | May 10, 2023 | |
| Accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives program | May 9, 2023 | |
| Supports emerging scholars in anthropology and related fields whose work has the potential to transform our understanding of what it means to be human | May 1, 2023 | |
| Supports the work of postdoctoral scholars who hold a doctorate in the history of technology or a related field | Apr. 30, 2023 | |
| Offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved | Apr. 28, 2023 | |
| Supports transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation and social justice | Apr. 28, 2023 | |
| Open competition for projects that support Freedom of Expression in Central Asia | Apr. 27, 2023 | |
| Accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program | Apr. 26, 2023 | |
| Supports original and ambitious non-fiction projects that require intense research | Apr. 25, 2023 | |
| Supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and publication | Apr. 19, 2023 | |
| Supports exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age | Apr. 14, 2023 | |
| Recognizes a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal | Apr. 12, 2023 | |
| Awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis and clear writing | Apr. 12, 2023 | |
| The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship Program provides opportunities for doctoral students to engage in dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies | Apr. 11, 2023 | |
| Seeks applications that identify and implement evidence-based practices to meet the academic needs of the highly mobile military-connected students and establish, improve or expand world language programs targeting elementary and secondary students | Apr. 7, 2023 | |
| Supports high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors | Apr. 6, 2023 | |
| Supports excellence in research and publication on the Japanese visual arts | Apr. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports a richly illustrated book that contributes to the arts, history and/or natural/built environment fields; and demonstrates high production standards | Apr. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports artists of Cuban citizenship or direct descent as they pursue excellence in architecture & design, creative writing, music composition and the visual arts | Apr. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports scholarly use of the Latin American and Iberian collections, focusing on objectives with specific relevance to the UNM Library collections | Mar. 31, 2023 | |
| Supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States | Mar. 29, 2023 | |
| Supports research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life | Mar. 27, 2023 | |
| Funds transdisciplinary research teams grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, yielding empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike | Mar. 27, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that address the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa region | Mar. 27, 2023 | |
| Provides opportunities for faculty, teachers and undergraduate and graduate students to conduct group projects overseas in foreign languages | Mar. 27, 2023 | |
| Supports Indigenous artists and artist partnerships/cooperatives to imagine, design, and create projects that propose solutions to our most intractable societal problems | Mar. 21, 2023 | |
| Supports new civic science journalism collaborations and projects | Mar. 17, 2023 | |
| Supports progressive social change activities that expand and protect civil liberties and civil and human rights, and promote and strengthen community involvement in, and control over, the decisions that affect their lives, giving priority to projects with budgets of less than $300,000 | Mar. 15, 2023 | |
| Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities | Mar 15, 2023 | |
| Offers $25,000 grants in prose and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement | Mar. 8, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that have the goal to provide LGBTQI+ communities with the tools to (1) empower local movements and communities; (2) prevent, mitigate, and recover from violence, discrimination, stigma, and human rights abuses; (3) promote full social inclusion or (4) address critical issues of justice | Mar. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century | Mar. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding of nonfiction books about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties | Mar. 1, 2023 | |
| Submit proposals for English teacher training projects to improve the communicative English language teaching skills of Japanese elementary school teachers in Japan | Feb. 19, 2023 | |
| Promotes U.S. graduate schools by providing informative sessions and workshops nationwide, creating links between prospective students and alumni, and, therefore, increasing the number of Japanese who pursue U.S. graduate studies to include PhD in hard sciences. | Feb. 19, 2023 | |
| Supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities | Feb. 15, 2023 | |
| Aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media | Feb. 15, 2023 | |
| Supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector | Feb. 9, 2023 | |
| Seeks to publish and promote literary content by contemporary writers and translators in such genres as poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction | Feb. 9, 2023 | |
| Supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities | Feb. 2, 2023 | |
| Professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching | Feb. 1, 2023 | |
| Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities | Feb. 1, 2023 | |
| Responds to critical gaps in refugee assistance in Ukraine by funding durable solutions to the problems refugees and other displaced persons face | Jan. 23, 2023 | |
| Aims to make a difference in military-connected communities by supporting arts engagement programming designed to cultivate creative expression, increase social connectedness, strengthen resilience, and to support independence and successful adaptation to civilian life | Jan. 19, 2023 | |
| Broaden our understanding of our world, our neighbors, and ourselves through the power of a shared reading experience | Jan. 18, 2023 | |
| Supports basic scientific research on the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability | Jan. 17, 2023 | |
| Supports comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate | Jan. 17, 2023 | |
| Produce and administer the 2024 Poetry Out Loud National Finals | Jan. 17, 2023 | |
| Supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry or drama from other languages into English | Jan. 12, 2023 | |
| Create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions | Jan. 12, 2023 | |
| Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects | Jan. 12, 2023 | |
| Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience | Jan. 12, 2023 | |
| Helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures | Jan. 12, 2023 | |
| Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person, hybrid or virtual programming | Jan. 11, 2023 | |
| Places recent recipients of the PhD in professional positions at museums and publications that present and interpret knowledge of Buddhist traditions | Jan. 11, 2023 | |
| Supports research to develop a predictive forecasting model that identifies new or reemerging misinformation narratives that are likely to disseminate widely and have a high potential for impact on vaccine confidence | Jan. 6, 2023 | |
| Provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections | Dec. 20, 2022 | |
| Address stabilization challenges in northeast Syria as well as parts of the northern Aleppo countryside outside of the control of the Syrian regime | Dec. 20, 2022 | |
| Carry out an individual project to preserve cultural heritage in Brazil | Dec. 20, 2022 | |
| Advance inclusive participation, training, education, dialogue and collaborative exchange amongst a diverse and growing community of academic and non-academic practitioners in the editing and publishing of historical records | Dec. 8, 2022 | |
| Two-week residential fellowship, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe the opportunity to undertake local fieldwork in Bulgaria | Dec. 1, 2022 | |
| Offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public | Nov. 30, 2022 | |
| Supports groups of two or more scholars seeking to increase humanistic knowledge through convenings, manuscript preparation for collaborative publications and the creation of scholarly digital projects | Nov. 30, 2022 | |
| Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible | Nov. 30, 2022 | |
| Fellowships in Buddhist Studies provide stipends to PhD candidates for full time preparation of dissertations | Nov. 16, 2022 | |
| Supports translations of important Buddhist texts for the benefit of contemporary audiences who currently do not have access to them in their own languages | Nov. 16, 2022 | |
| Award publishers a $5,500 grant to release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by one of the NEH programs | Nov. 15, 2022 | |
| Aims to deepen public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship in international contexts and equipping scholars with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media | Nov. 15, 2022 | |
| Document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens from the transatlantic slave trade forward | Nov. 8, 2022 | |
| Supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities | Nov. 2, 2022 | |
| Fellowships (long-term and flexible research fellowships) support research, writing, and curriculum development in China studies | Nov. 2, 2022 | |
| Supports graduate students pursuing research on the history of art and visual culture of the United States, including all aspects of Native American art, and who are at any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing | Oct. 27, 2022 | |
| Supports doctoral research focusing on building dynamic language infrastructure | Oct. 14, 2022 | |
| Supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages | Oct. 14, 2022 | |
| Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center | Oct. 6, 2022 | |
| Seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections | Oct. 6, 2022 | |
| Use LoC digital materials to create projects that center on the lives, experiences and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and other communities of color in the US | Sept. 30, 2022 | |
| Conduct archaeological and ethnographic field research to answer significant questions in the humanities | Sept. 28, 2022 | |
| Fellowships are intended to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing | Sept. 28, 2022 | |
| Carry out a program to implement a 15-day exchange program to the United States for up to 10 participants representing digital content creators, targeting youth audiences from the Republic of Korea | Sept. 23, 2022 | |
| Summer Stipends stimulate new research and publication in the humanities | Sept. 21, 2022 | |
| Supports individuals who are junior or senior linguists, linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists to conduct research on one or more endangered or moribund languages | Sept. 14, 2022 | |
| Supports composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts" to spend one academic year at Princeton University engaged in "studious leisure" | Sept. 13, 2022 | |
| Supports scholars in the above disciplines proposing work relevant to the Institute's focus areas, including: law, education, and justice; climate change; legacies of slavery; and women, gender, and society | Sept. 8, 2022 | |
| Supports innovative curricular approaches that foster partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs | Sept. 1, 2022 | |
| Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war and military service | Sept. 1, 2022 | |
| Supports statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts | Aug. 26, 2022 | |
| Increase Palestinian groups' English language skills, understanding of American cultures, values, society and/or current issues through exposure to information on those topics | Aug. 22, 2022 | |
| Combat disinformation and malign narratives spread via social and traditional media in Ukraine | Aug. 19, 2022 | |
| Address the spiritual yearnings, existential concerns and search for meaning of spiritually curious but nonreligious individuals and communities | Aug. 19, 2022 | |
| Supports research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the United States and its territories; and also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions | Aug. 16, 2022 | |
| Analyze how Mandarin language disinformation works on Youtube | Aug. 12, 2022 | |
| Supports institutions that provide fellowships for advanced humanities research in the U.S. and abroad, foster communities of intellectual exchange among participating scholars and provide access to resources that might otherwise not be available to the participating scholars | Aug. 10, 2022 | |
| Supports collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare documentary films, radio and podcasts | Aug. 10, 2022 | |
| Select a cooperator to administer the NEA's Independent Film and Media Arts Field-Building Initiative | Aug. 9, 2022 | |
| Supports activities that integrate arts, culture and design into local efforts that strengthen communities | Aug. 4, 2022 | |
| Foster the development of online English language learning and teaching in Ukraine | Aug. 3, 2022 | |
| Supports partnerships that empower those who have historically been among those researched in anthropology, rather than researchers themselves | Aug. 1, 2022 | |
| Supports contemporary cultural documentation focusing on the culture and traditions of diverse, often underrepresented communities in the US | Aug. 1, 2022 | |
| Supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education and public programming in the humanities | July 19, 2022 | |
| Supports innovative research on violence against women and violence against children in low- and middle-income countries and to encourage debate in the field | July 19, 2022 | |
| Identify and implement innovative strategies to enhance language access services in healthcare | July 15, 2022 | |
| Develop a global campaign to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression | July 15, 2022 | |
| The Fulbright-Hays FRA Fellowship Program funds faculty members seeking to improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research abroad | July 13, 2022 | |
| Administer a high-quality, coherent online professional development program for selected instructors at pedagogical colleges and universities in Ukraine | July 11, 2022 | |
| Supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation | July 7, 2022 | |
| Supports projects aiming to increase the presence and participation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people of low socioeconomic status, and other underrepresented groups at all levels of philosophy | June 30, 2022 | |
| Recognizes outstanding individual contributions to humanities, social sciences, law, and theology | June 15, 2022 | |
| Supports emerging and established Puerto Rican writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s literature | June 13, 2022 | |
| Seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections | June 8, 2022 | |
| Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats | June 8, 2022 | |
| Develop a toolkit for the field that will inform organizations on how to better serve transgender people, in a culturally responsive and trauma-informed way | June 1, 2022 | |
| Provides grants for planning, developing and carrying out projects to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages in the US | May 31, 2022 | |
| Recognizes artistic excellence, lifetime achievement and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage | May 31, 2022 | |
| Provide program support for peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the form of administrative and logistics support and coordination of activities for the sustained dialogue | May 30, 2022 | |
| Better enable civil society and human rights defenders to promote and defend democracy and human rights through evidence-based advocacy | May 23, 2022 | |
| Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collection | May 17, 2022 | |
| Supports the design, purchase, construction, restoration or renovation of facilities for humanities activities | May 17, 2022 | |
| Arts-based, international people-to-people exchanges that support and further U.S. Department of State foreign policy and the Interim National Security Strategy goals of strengthening democratic values around the globe by demonstrating the power of creative free expression | May 16, 2022 | |
| Carry out programs in support of activities that forge and/or strengthen connections between the people of China and the United States | May 16, 2022 | |
| Recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year | May 15, 2022 | |
| Strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs | May 9, 2022 | |
| Supports scholarly loan exhibitions that significantly advance the study and understanding of art of the United States, including all facets of Native American art | April 30, 2022 | |
| Defend the online freedom of expression of anticorruption activists, whistleblowers and investigative journalists in Ukraine and Moldova | April 29, 2022 | |
| Accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program | April 27, 2022 | |
| Establish, strengthen and operate centers that serve as resources for improving the Nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages | April 25, 2022 | |
| Supports small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved | April 21, 2022 | |
| Supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and digital publication | April 20, 2022 | |
| Supports a more resilient media ecosystem and builds capacity to mitigate the suppression of independent media and democratic values in select foreign countries | April 18, 2022 | |
| Awards several prominent U.S. - Japan Fullbrighters with an "Ambassador's Award" | April 15, 2022 | |
| Manage and administer programs designed to increase the number of Japanese students studying in U.S. undergraduate schools | April 15, 2022 | |
| Supports activities that showcase US-based performing artists to arts presenters based outside of the US | April 15, 2022 | |
| Awarding grants to translate books by American authors for U.S. Mission to Georgia | April 13, 2022 | |
| Supports individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis and clear writing | April 13, 2022 | |
| Distributing grants to journalists and nonfiction media producers who approach the topic of intellectual humility from a variety of angles and across a range of media | Mar. 31, 2022 | |
| Cultivates a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts practitioners | Mar. 28, 2022 | |
| Supports research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts | Mar. 28, 2022 | |
| Places recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities | Mar. 28, 2022 | |
| Offers grant funding for longer-term research agendas | Mar. 28, 2022 | |
| Supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice in these professions to strengthen library and archival services for the American publics | Mar. 25, 2022 | |
| Enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement in poetry | Mar. 10, 2022 | |
| Provides funding for the preservation of collections | Mar. 10, 2022 | |
| Supports national or regional training programs for scholars, humanities professionals and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities | Mar. 2, 2022 | |
| Supports lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, researchers, and others with unique perspectives to undertake full-time criminal justice reform projects at the local, state, and national levels (Advocacy); or writers, print and broadcast journalists, artists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues | Mar. 2, 2022 | |
| Supports writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding of nonfiction books about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day | Mar. 1, 2022 | |
| Supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history and the creation of important online resources in art history, including both textual and visual resources | Mar. 1, 2022 | |
| Accepting applications for professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching | Feb. 22, 2022 | |
| Supports fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples and databases | Feb. 15, 2022 | |
| Supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues | Feb. 15, 2022 | |
| Establish, strengthen and operate comprehensive and undergraduate centers that will be national resources for the modern language field | Feb. 14, 2022 | |
| Allocates academic year and summer fellowships to assist meritorious undergraduate and graduate students receiving modern foreign language training in combination with area studies, international studies or the international aspects of professional studies | Feb. 14, 2022 | |
| Funds arts projects in a range of disciplines | Feb. 10, 2022 | |
| Promotes, improves and develops the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States | Jan. 26, 2022 | |
| Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching and public programming in the humanities | Jan. 14, 2022 | |
| Help improve the ability to preserve and care for significant humanities collections |
Jan. 13, 2022 |
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| Create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions | Jan. 13, 2022 | |
| Supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry or drama from other languages into English | Jan. 12, 2022 | |
| Supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming | Jan. 12, 2022 | |
| Take up two-year positions at select institutions in ACLS's Research University Consortium for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years | Jan. 12, 2022 | |
| Offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions supporting work that will expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought | Jan. 11, 2022 | |
| Supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public |
Dec. 15, 2021 |
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| Supports scholarly projects with the potential to enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture from antiquity to the early nineteenth century | Dec. 15, 2021 | |
| Supports innovative projects and original ideas that have the potential to advance scholarship in the arts and provide promising insights into the fields of art that the foundation collects, including Art of the Spanish Americas, Digital & Media Art, Japanese Bamboo, and Post-War Painting & Sculpture | Dec. 15, 2021 | |
| Repair the damage done to publicly engaged humanities projects and programs by the social and economic disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic | Dec. 7, 2021 | |
| Aims to advance humanistic knowledge through sustained collaboration between two or more scholars |
Dec. 1, 2021 |
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| Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations |
Dec. 1, 2021 |
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| Will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including: architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans and physical preservation to structures | Dec. 1, 2021 | |
| Will document, interpret and preserve the sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens as well as the transatlantic slave trade | Dec. 1, 2021 | |
| The Library will fund an Artist in Residence or a Scholar in Residence in 2021, 2022 and 2023 | Nov. 22, 2021 | |
| Open competition for projects that support Religious Freedom and combat antisemitism | Nov. 22, 2021 | |
| Supports writers from underrepresented groups who have a big idea for a non-fiction book for general readers that engages with health and being human | Nov. 22, 2021 | |
| Supports an E-Learning community and peer learning platform that uses multiple communication channels to build and strengthen violence prevention systems for the Division of Violence Prevention's funded recipients, sub-recipients and prevention practitioners nationally | Nov. 17, 2021 | |
| Program aims to award publishers a $5,500 grant to release open access digital editions of books whose underlying research was funded by one of the six NEH programs listed |
Nov. 15, 2021 |
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| Supports interdisciplinary or cross-institutional collaborations that connect scholarship on religion to journalistic training and practice | Nov. 15, 2021 | |
| Supports outstanding writing on American history and culture by both scholars and nonacademic authors | Nov. 15, 2021 | |
| Provides financial assistance to organizations and entities working preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history | Nov. 9, 2021 | |
| Supports early mid-career individuals, who have completed at least one major project and demonstrate potential to be future leaders in their fields as they focus on advancing new work in Film Studies or Photography | Nov. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of North America, and research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition | Nov. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas | Nov. 1, 2021 | |
| Recognizes outstanding scholars and practitioners engaged in exploring any aspect of the human past | Nov. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports research, writing, and curriculum development in China studies | Nov. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods before 1700 | Oct. 28, 2021 | |
| Supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing | Oct. 27, 2021 | |
| Supports the increase in presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities through 6 to 12 month sabbatical grants | Oct. 22, 2021 | |
| Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service | Oct. 14, 2021 | |
| Seeks projects that encourage public engagement with historical records, including the development of new tools that enable people to engage online | Oct. 6, 2021 | |
| Seeks projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections | Oct. 6, 2021 | |
| Supports the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses | Oct. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports the growth and recovery of the humanities in Pennsylvania through planning, capacity building and creative programming | Oct. 1, 2021 | |
| Provides funding to conduct empirical research in the United States or abroad in order to answer questions of importance to the humanities | Sept. 29, 2021 | |
| The Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication |
Sept. 22, 2021 |
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| Supports fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples and databases |
Sept. 15, 2021 |
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| Supports individual scholars for six to twelve months to pursue research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages | Sept. 15, 2021 | |
| Supports critical and historical studies related to painting, sculpture and allied arts from 1940-1991, with a preference shown to Abstract Expressionism | Sept. 15, 2021 | |
| Supports production-related expenses that are necessary to take a Fine Arts project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation OR seed money for research-related expenses such as travel, documentation, materials, supplies, and other development costs | Sept. 15, 2021 | |
| Expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions | Sept. 14, 2021 | |
| Selecting an organization to assist the Arts Endowment with the 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Awards program | Sept. 3, 2021 | |
| Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months |
Sept. 2, 2021 |
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| Supports scholarly exhibitions at museums; curatorial research; visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations; artist residencies and commissions; arts writing and efforts to promote the health, welfare and first amendment rights of artists | Sept. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture | Sept. 1, 2021 | |
| Identify or develop evidence-based literacy assessment tools and professional development activities for students at risk of not attaining full literacy skills due to a disability or developmental delay | Sept. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports proposals aimed at investigating key challenges that face literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs | Sept. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports the projects of early-career researchers with the potential to contribute to or affect discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education | Sept. 1, 2021 | |
| Aims to develop a podcast that meets the corrections-specific information needs of state and local governments and their stakeholders | Aug. 23, 2021 | |
| Invites submissions for proposals aimed at giving theologians, philosophers of religion and scholars in religious studies who work in Christian theology the opportunity to cross-train in psychological sciences | Aug. 20, 2021 | |
| Intended to support day-to-day business expenses/operating costs, and not specific programmatic activities | Aug. 12, 2021 | |
| Supports collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare documentary films, radio and podcasts that engage public audiences with humanities ideas |
Aug. 11, 2021 |
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| Supports documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways |
Aug. 11, 2021 |
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| Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming | Aug. 11, 2021 | |
| Plan and carry out an English Lounge Series program at American Spaces in South Korea | Aug. 6, 2021 | |
| Supports proposals that address this primary research question: How can social media be best utilized to better understand and increase vaccination confidence and uptake? | Aug. 6, 2021 | |
| Our Town projects lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture and design into local strategies for strengthening communities | Aug. 5, 2021 | |
| send email to limited-submissions @andrew.tdcpw.com | Supports contemporary cultural documentation focusing on the culture and traditions of diverse, often underrepresented communities in the United States | Aug. 4, 2021 for Email of Intent |
| Carry out a Journalism, Media Literacy and Countering Disinformation program to provide training to build journalist and blogger capacity in Niger through programs at the u.S. Embassy's American Spaces | Aug. 1, 2021 | |
| Supports BIPOC artists in southwestern Pennsylvania through operating dollars to be spent at the artist’s discretion | July 23, 2021 | |
| Supports conception and design of empirical and statistical studies of the cognitive significance of the arts with respect to spiritual realities and the discovery of new spiritual information |
July 19, 2021 |
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| Strengthens efforts to extend the life of humanities collections and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology |
July 15, 2021 |
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| Supports basic science in the domain of human language encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general |
July 15, 2021 |
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| Seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections |
July 13, 2021 |
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| FY2022 Grants for Arts Projects | July 8, 2021 | |
| Supports community-based archives that represent and serve marginalized communities | July 2, 2021 | |
| Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles |
June 24, 2021 |
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| Open competition to carry out media activities that support the current peace process and future reconciliation efforts in Kabul, Afghanistan |
June 22, 2021 |
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| Fellowship supporting exemplary emerging and established Puerto Rican writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and children's literature | June 20, 2021 | |
| Submit proposals to develop and implement a 10-day reporting tour to the United States for up to five program participants representing a UK-based journalism training organization | June 15, 2021 | |
| Recognizes outstanding individual contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law, and theology | June 15, 2021 | |
| Seeks proposals for its new program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and Native American History |
June 9, 2021 |
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| Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats |
June 9, 2021 |
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| Open competition for projects that support Religious Freedom globally |
June 7, 2021 |
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| Seeks to use the Library of Congress collections to connect with those representing diverse communities, beliefs and endeavors to engage, inspire and inform Congress and the American people |
May 28, 2021 |
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| Selects an organization to administer a program that brings U.S. mayors together with design professionals in workshops to assist mayors with urban design challenges, to promote design excellence and to enhance the livability of communities across the country |
May 24, 2021 |
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| Accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives programs |
May 20, 2021 |
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| Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections |
May 18, 2021 |
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| Supports the design, purchase, construction, restoration or renovation of facilities for humanities activities, or the maintenance, modernization and sustainability of existing digital scholarly projects and platforms |
May 18, 2021 |
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| Assist institutions and organizations working in the humanities that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic |
May 14, 2021 |
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| Seeking applications for promoting gender equality by addressing gender disparities in popular Indian films and the film industry |
May 4, 2021 |
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| Provides general operating support for organizations with established track records sparking robust engagement with the humanities among US high-school students |
May 3, 2021 |
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| Combat the scourge of fake news and disinformation for a secure Indo-Pacific region by promoting a robust and responsible media environment |
Apr. 30, 2021 |
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| Supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and digital publication |
Apr. 28, 2021 |
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| Accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program |
Apr. 28, 2021 |
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| Lead a series of workshop introducing Japanese participants to contemporary American online work environments |
Apr. 28, 2021 |
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| Offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved |
Apr. 22, 2021 |
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| Supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources |
Apr. 18, 2021 |
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| Supports Black artists and Black-led organizations as they help create a vibrant cultural life in Pittsburgh and the region |
Apr. 16, 2021 |
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| Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research |
Apr. 14, 2021 |
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| Open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support and strengthen independent media outlets in Moldova |
Apr. 5, 2021 |
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| Provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies |
Apr. 5, 2021 |
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| Open competition for organizations to submit proposals for English teacher training projects to improve the communicative English language teaching skills of Japanese elementary and secondary school teachers |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
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| Manage and administer programs designed to increase the number of Japanese students studying in the United States and to foster English learning opportunities |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
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| Invites proposals for programs that strengthen cultural ties between the United States and Italy through cultural and exchange programming that highlight shared values and promote bilateral cooperation |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
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| Invites applicants to engage with the agency's five-year research agenda through two funding opportunities for research projects |
Mar. 29, 2021 |
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| Supports in-person exchanges such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that advance scholarship in the field of American art (circa 1500–1980), with at least one third of the participants coming from outside the United States |
Mar. 16, 2021 |
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| Limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience |
Mar. 15, 2021 |
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| Promote, improve and develop the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States |
Mar. 15, 2021 |
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| Offers $25,000 grants in prose and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career |
Mar. 10, 2021 |
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| Accepting applications for professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching |
Mar. 9, 2021 |
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| Supports a series of one-week workshops for K-12 educators across the nation to enhance and strengthen humanities teaching at the K-12 level |
Mar. 9, 2021 |
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| Supports national or regional (multi-state) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities |
Mar. 2, 2021 |
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| Supports projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, the development of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogs and publications, and technical and scientific studies about European art and architecture, from antiquity to the early nineteenth century |
Mar. 1, 2021 |
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| Supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-Modern era, including archival projects, the development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focused on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies |
Mar. 1, 2021 |
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| Supports writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and/or printing and binding of nonfiction books about art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city and related urban issues; and conservation and preservation |
Mar. 1, 2021 |
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| Supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of excellent art, learning in the arts at all stages of life and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life |
Feb. 11, 2021 |
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| In a documentary film format, projects will take a historical look at interstate compact |
Jan. 21, 2021 |
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| Supports innovative, experimental and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability |
Jan. 15, 2021 |
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| Create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1960 and 1963 from all the states and U.S. territories | Jan. 14, 2021 | |
| Accepting applications for the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program | Jan. 14, 2021 | |
| Supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry or drama from other languages into English | Jan. 13, 2021 | |
| Supports the development, production and distribution of radio, podcast, television and long-form documentary film projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways |
Jan. 6, 2021 |
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| Supports the production and distribution of documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways |
Jan. 6, 2021 |
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| Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming | Jan. 6, 2021 | |
| Select an organization to establish and administer the National Folklife Network |
Dec. 17, 2020 |
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| Supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public by offering grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to publication |
Dec. 16, 2020 |
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| Limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience - open to publishers who have published a book within the last three years whose research was supported by a one of the six designated NEH fellowship programs |
Dec. 15, 2020 |
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| Supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research projects |
Dec. 15, 2020 |
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| Supports historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire and/or for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture |
Dec. 15, 2020 |
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| Supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations |
Dec. 2, 2020 |
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| Supports groups of two or more scholars seeking to increase humanistic knowledge through convenings, research, manuscript preparation for collaborative publications and the creation of scholarly digital projects |
Dec. 2, 2020 |
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| Graduate student MLA members, non-tenure-track faculty members and unemployed members are eligible to apply for grants that cover the full registration fee for the 2021 MLA convention |
Dec. 1, 2020 |
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| $1,000 grants to part-time faculty members to help them pay for expenses associated with their professional development |
Nov. 16, 2020 |
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| Become a member, pursue research and participate in seminars on "Political Mobilizations and Social Movements" |
Nov. 1, 2020 |
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| Amplifies the broad potential of doctoral education in the humanities by supporting doctoral faculty as they pursue publicly engaged scholarship and advocate for diverse professional pathways for emerging PhDs |
Oct. 28, 2020 |
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| Deepens public understanding of religion by advancing innovative scholarship on religion in international contexts and equipping individual scholars and institutions of higher education with the capacities to connect their work to journalism and the media and to engage audiences beyond the academy |
Oct. 28, 2020 |
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| Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service |
Oct. 14, 2020 |
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| Apply for a residential fellowship - fellows are given the freedom to work on projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center |
Oct. 8, 2020 |
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| Supports developing a diverse workforce of librarians to better meet the changing learning and information needs of the American public by enhancing the training/professional development of library and archives professionals; developing faculty and library leaders and recruiting, educating and retaining the next generation of library and archives professionals |
Oct. 2, 2020 |
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| Supports individual scholars for six to twelve months to pursue research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages | Sept. 30, 2020 | |
| Expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions | Sept. 30, 2020 | |
| Provide funding to conduct empirical research in the United States or abroad in order to answer questions of importance to the humanities | Sept. 30, 2020 | |
| The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the academic year 2021/22 - they ask that candidates explain the relevance of a stay in Berlin to the development of their work. They will also award a Richard C. Holbrooke fellowship for a project that explores diplomatic approaches to resolving major global issues, from armed conflicts to environmental challenges to the impact of new technologies | Sept. 25, 2020 | |
| Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication | Sept. 23, 2020 | |
| Supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects under contract for publication. NB: Applications must be made by publishers, not authors |
Sept. 15, 2020 |
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| The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers more than 400 different opportunities to teach, research and conduct professional projects in over 135 countries |
Sept. 15, 2020 |
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| Review, update, and revise the following publications incorporating contemporary information, relevant research and data, best and promising practices, and modern graphics to prepare for release on a web-based platform |
Sept. 3, 2020 |
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| Supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century |
Sept. 1, 2020 |
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| Supports projects that contribute to or affect discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education |
Sept. 1, 2020 |
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| Supports investigation of key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs |
Sept. 1, 2020 |
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| Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming | Aug. 31, 2020 | |
| Open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to provide digital education to African journalists | Aug. 25, 2020 | |
| Advance digital scholarship in cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, galleries, and archives | Aug. 18, 2020 | |
| Competition to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience - open to publishers who have published within the last three years (or will publish during the period of performance) a book whose research was supported by one of six NEH fellowship programs | Aug. 17, 2020 | |
| Support documentary films up to 30 minutes that engage audiences with humanities ideas in appealing ways | Aug. 12, 2020 | |
| Development, production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and long-form documentary film projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways | Aug. 12, 2020 | |
| Projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming, analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history | Aug. 12, 2020 | |
| Creation of video vignettes that focus on brilliance in several of the fundamental aspects of correctional work will highlight the "Expected Practices" that have profound implications on an agency's culture and professional climate | Aug. 4, 2020 | |
| Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, initiatives must be dignified and show a sensitivity and appreciation for the solemnity of war and the losses suffered by many | July 31, 2020 | |
| Proposals to produce innovative content at the intersection of public history and digital media, highlighting Ukrainians’ personal stories of the country’s recent history | July 17, 2020 | |
| Open competition for a cooperative agreement to manage and develop an online interactive platform for the FY 2020 Sudanese Folktale Project which supports English Language teaching through a series of short radio shows, and a series of complementary online activities | July 17, 2020 | |
| Strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources including those in digital format, or courses, or by enhancing existing ones | July 16, 2020 | |
| Create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities | July 15, 2020 | |
| Project that will build the capacity of journalists in South Asia | July 2, 2020 | |
| Innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging projects at different stages throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability | June 30, 2020 | |
| Interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments | June 10, 2020 |