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Provost Nomination Requests are Due Monday, August 19; Applications are due September 18, 2024

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its annual Summer Stipends fellowship competition for 2024. The NEH deadline for eligible proposal submissions is Wednesday, September 18. The maximum award amount is $8,000 for projects beginning between May 1, 2025 and September 1, 2026.

The Summer Stipend program “aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
Funding a wide range of individuals, including independent scholars, community college faculty, and non-teaching staff at universities

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.”

ELIGIBILITY
Individual Applicants. An individual who has 1) Not previously held an NEH award in any of its programs for individuals; 2) Does not require the nomination of their institution (see “Faculty Nomination” below); and 3) Is either a U.S. citizen residing domestically or abroad, or a foreign national who has lived in the U.S. (or its jurisdictions) for at least three years prior to the application deadline, are welcome to apply.

Faculty Nomination. If you are tenured or on a tenure track and teach full time at an institution of higher education that is not exempt from nomination, your institution must nominate you to apply for a Summer Stipend. Institutions of higher education in the United States and its jurisdictions may each nominate one faculty member per deadline. Faculty members of any rank, who have not held a previous award for individuals, are eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are not allowed.

Exceptions to the faculty nomination requirement. You may apply without a nomination if you are:

non-tenure-track faculty at an institution of higher education
a staff member, but not faculty, at an institution of higher education
emeritus faculty

For information on applying for the Provost’s NEH Summer Stipend applicant nomination please refer to “Emerson Faculty Nomination Process” below.

EMERSON FACULTY NOMINATION PROCESS
This year, Emerson may nominate one full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty to apply for a Summer Stipend. The Provost serves as the College’s Nominating Official.

On or before Monday, August 19, potential applicants must complete the Application Form for Provost’s Nomination via Google Forms. Applicants must include a one-paragraph summary of their proposed project for review by the Provost.

By September 1, after review by the Provost, the nominee will be notified by the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship. The nominee will then have the opportunity to complete their proposals in time for submission to the NEH by its September 18 deadline.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Applications to NEH are submitted via Grants.gov directly by the individual. ORCS will assist the nominees with this process.

FURTHER INFORMATION
On August 21, 2024, NEH staff will host a webinar for applicants offering an overview of the program, describing the review process and application components, and offering tips for writing a strong proposal. A live Q&A will be included. To join the webinar, click here. Closed captioning will be available

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Diana Potter or Eric Asetta.

National Endowment for the Humanities Funding Opportunities – Fall 2023

By Eric Asetta

On October 5, 2023

In External Funding Opportunities, Federal Agency Announcements, Federal Funding, Scholarship and Research

Dear Faculty:

The National Endowment for the Humanities currently has two open grant opportunities that may be of interest to faculty. Emerson College may submit more than one application to each program, so long as the applications do not contain overlapping activities or costs. If you are interested in applying, please contact Diana Potter or Eric Asetta. All applications must be submitted by Emerson College via ORCS.

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Media Projects (Deadline: January 11, 2024)

The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series  that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production.

Development awards (up to $75,000 total funds; $48,077 after overhead) enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and other program elements. Awards must result in a script or detailed treatment(s). You may also use a Development award to plan for outreach and public engagement.

Production awards (up to $700,000; $448,718 after overhead) must result in the production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and documentary film projects.

Projects may include supplementary components such as discussion programs or websites.

All Media Projects proposals should be intended for national or regional distribution, and must:

build on sound humanities scholarship
deepen public understanding of significant humanities questions
approach a subject analytically, presenting a variety of perspectives
involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and production
involve appropriate media professionals
employ appealing and accessible formats that will actively engage the general public in learning

A pre-recorded webinar on the program can be viewed here. Additionally, a draft proposal may be submitted to NEH for feedback by November 29, 2023.

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Public Humanities Projects (Deadline: January 11, 2024)

The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States.

Public Humanities Projects supports projects in three categories (Exhibitions, Historic Places, and Humanities Discussions), and at two funding levels (Planning and Implementation). Proposed projects may include complementary components: for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website or mobile app.

Project topics may be international, national, regional, or local in focus, but locally focused projects should address topics that are of regional or national relevance by drawing connections to broad themes or historical questions.

Planning awards ($40,000 total; $25,641 after overhead) are available only to Exhibitions and Historic Places applicants. These awards provide up to 24 months of support for projects that have completed preliminary work resulting in the identification of possible analytical themes and interpretive methods that you will further explore during the planning period.

Implementation awards support projects that are in the final stages of preparation to “go live” before the public. Activities may include final scholarly research and consultation, design, production, and installation of a project for presentation to the public. The period of performance must include the required minimum exhibition time. Implementation awards range from $50,000 to $400,000 ($32,051 to $256,410 after overhead) with a period of performance from 12 to 48 months.

You can watch the Applying for Public Humanities Projects webinar here. Additionally, a draft proposal may be submitted to NEH for feedback by November 29, 2023.

Limited Submission Funding Opp: NEH Summer Stipend

By Eric Asetta

On June 2, 2022

In External Funding Opportunities, Federal Agency Announcements, Federal Funding, Fellowship Opportunities, Limited Submission Competition

Pre-Approval due Aug 19; Applications due Sept. 21

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its annual Summer Stipends fellowship competition for 2022. The NEH deadline for eligible proposal submissions is Wednesday, September 21. The award amount is $6,000 beginning May 1, 2023.

From the NEH web site:
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
Furthering the NEH’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the humanities by encouraging applications from independent scholars and faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and community colleges

NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS

For those of you who may be considering applying, please note that Emerson may nominate two tenured and/or tenure-track facultymembers to apply for the award. Because of this limitation, it is necessary for Emerson to review all potential submissions in an internal limited submission process. Applications submitted by tenured/tenure-track faculty without a nomination will automatically be rejected by the sponsor.

THE LIMITED SUBMISSION PROCESS
On or before Friday, August 19, potential applicants must complete the Application Form for Provost’s Nomination via Google Forms. Applicants must include a one-paragraph summary of their proposed project for review by the Provost.

By September 2, after review by the Provost, nominations will be announced by the Office of Academic Affairs. The nominees will then have the opportunity to complete their proposals in time for submission to the NEH by its September 21 deadline.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Applications to NEH are submitted via Grants.gov. ORCS will assist the nominees with this process.

FURTHER INFORMATION: To find more information about the program, including a previously recorded webinar in which NEH staff answer questions from potential applicants, click on this link. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Eric Asetta or Diana Potter.