NEH 101: Opportunities and Initiatives Boston University 28 February 2014 Daniel Sack

NEH 101:Opportunities and Initiatives

Boston University28 February 2014

Daniel SackProgram Officer, Division of Research Programs

National Endowment for the Humanities

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“The practice of art and the study of the humanities require constant dedication and devotion. While no government can call a great artist or scholar into existence, it is necessary and appropriate for the

Federal Government to help create and sustain not only a climate encouraging freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry but also the material

conditions facilitating the release of this creative talent.”

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965

NEH 101

• NEH is funded by you

• NEH is run by people like you

NEH 101

• NEH is funded by you

• NEH is run by people like you

• NEH makes awards in all areas of the humanities

What are the Humanities?Art History

Literature

History

EthicsandLaw

Language,Literature

andLinguistics

Archaeology

PhilosophyandReligion

Social Sciences

NEH 101

• NEH is funded by you

• NEH is run by people like you

• NEH makes awards in all areas of the humanities

• Grant programs offered by 7 divisions

Division of ResearchGrants support individuals and teams of scholars pursuing advanced research in the humanities that will contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities.

Grants that support research and creation of: •Articles•Books•Digital materials•Archaeological site reports•Translations•Editions•Other scholarly resources in the humanities

Fellowships and Awards for Faculty

Summer Stipends

Collaborative ResearchScholarly Editions and Translations

For Individual ScholarsNEH Fellowships (6-12 months) – May 1

Awards for Faculty at HBCUs, HSIs, TCUs – April 15Summer Stipends (8 weeks) –September 30

For Teams of ScholarsCollaborative Research – December 9

Scholarly Editions & Translations – December 9

• Lakshmi Srinivas, University of Massachusetts, Boston: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience: An Ethnographic Study (Fellowships)

• Nina Silber, Boston University: The Civil War in American Life, 1929-1941 (Summer Stipend)

• Julia Flanders, Northeastern University: Cultures of Reception: Transatlantic Readership and the Construction of Women's Literary History (Collaborative Research)

• Walter Fluker, Boston University: The Howard Thurman Papers Project (Scholarly Editions

Division of Education

Grants strengthen teaching and learning through new or revised curricula and materials, collaborative study, seminars, and institutes.

Summer Seminars and Institutes

Summer Seminars and Institutes – March 4

Landmark Workshops for School and Two-Year College Teachers – March 4

Humanities Initiatives at HBCUs, IHHEs, and TCUs – June 26

Enduring Questions – September 11

•Mary Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: English Encounters with the Americas, 1550-1610: Sources and Methods (Seminar)•Peter Gibbon, Boston University: Philosophers of Education: Major Thinkers from the Enlightenment to the Postmodern Era (Institute)•Evgenia Cherkasova, Suffolk University: "What Is the Meaning of Life?" (Enduring Questions)•John Partridge, Wheaton College: "What is the Good Life?" (Enduring Questions)

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Division of Preservation and Access

Grants to preserve archival holdings (including digitization); enhance access to materials; train preservationists; and produce reference works for scholarly research, education, and public programming.

Preservation Assistance Grants – May 1

Research and Development Project Grants – May 1Education and Training Grants – May 1

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources – July 17Documenting Endangered Languages (with NSF) – September

15Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections – December 3

National Digital Newspaper Program – January 15

• Emerson College: Archives Preservation Assessment (Preservation Assistance)

• Boston Symphony Orchestra: Archives Content Digitization and Accessibility Project (Humanities Collections)

• Historic New England: Haverhill Center Environment and Storage Project (Sustaining Cultural Heritage)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Digital Preservation Management (Preservation Education and Training)

Division of Public Programs

Public humanities programs reach large and diverse audiences through a variety of formats—interpretation at historic sites, television and radio productions, museum exhibitions, Web sites and other digital media.

Media Projects – August 13Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations –

August 13NEH on the Road Exhibitions – December 31

• Worcester Center for Crafts: NEH on the Road: Carnaval

• WGBH: American Experience: Murder of a President

• Peabody Essex Museum: Asia in Amsterdam Exhibition Planning Grant

Office of Digital Humanities

Encourages innovations in the digital humanities through research that brings new approaches or documents best practices; creation of digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible digital resources; and examination of the philosophical implications and impact of emerging technologies.

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants—September 11

Digital Humanities Implementation Grants—February 19

Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities—March 11

• Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers (Start-Up)

• James Paradis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Annotation Studio: Multimedia Annotation for Students (Implementation)

• Tufts University: Working with Text in a Digital Age (Institute)

• Peter K. Bol, Harvard University: Automating Data Extraction from Chinese Texts (Digging Into Data)

Office of Challenge Grants

Institution-building grants to improve humanities programs and carry out long-term plans for strengthening basic resources, and enhance financial stability.

Deadline–May 1

•U.S.S. Constitution Museum: Sharing the Stories: Research and Interpretation•Bentley University: The Humanities in a Business University•Peabody Essex Museum: Endowment of Curator of Photography

Office of Federal/State Partnership

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• Interesting scholarship• The latest deadlines

NEH 101

• NEH is funded by you

• NEH is run by people like you

• NEH makes awards in all areas of the humanities

• 7 divisions make awards

• All grant information is at neh.gov

Application information

Grant database

Match your

project to a

program

Applications For Individual Grants

Application schedule: • Annual grant cycle (Fellowships in early May,

Summer Stipends in late September) for the following academic year.

• Results announced eight months later (i.e. if you want funding sometime in the next 1-2 years, you should start thinking about it now).

Requirements: •3 page single-spaced narrative,•1 page bibliography,•2 page c.v.,•2 letters of recommendation.

Applications For Individual Grants

Fundable: • Research, • writing, • scholarly monographs, • synthetic works, • translation, • preparation of

research tools (e.g., editions, databases),

• archaeological work.

Not fundable: •Projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view, or a particular program of social action; •pedagogical tools (e.g., textbooks); •creative or performing arts; •doctoral dissertations or theses.

*Rarely support revisions for readers’ reports.

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NEH 101• NEH is funded by you

• NEH is run by people like you

• NEH makes awards in all areas of the humanities

• 7 divisions make awards

• All grant information is at neh.gov

• All applications are peer reviewed

Stages of Review

Peer Review Panels

• We group applications by field• Each set is assigned to a 4 or 5 member panel• Panelists are recruited for regional,

institutional, career diversity• Panelists are experts and generalists• Recruit panelists most likely to give an

application a sympathetic read• Panelists rate 30-40 applications, and

generally discuss the top-rated 15 or 20

NEH Funding Rates

Fellowships (FY 2014):Received 1085 applications, funded 72 (7%)

Awards for Faculty (FY 2014):Received 101 applications, funded 10 (8%)

Summer Stipends (FY 2013):Received 920 applications, funded 78 (8%)

Questions?

Daniel SackDivision of Research Programs1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room

318Washington, DC [email protected] 202-606-8459

Also: [email protected] / 202-606-8200