July 29, 2010 – The application period is currently open for several grant opportunities with late Summer/Fall, 2010 deadlines offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). A partial list is provided below, corresponding to notifications posted by the agency this summer. Applicants should refer directly to the NEH web site to verify all detail, including deadlines and available grants.
August deadlines include fellowship grants managed by the NEH Research Division and two NEH Public Program competitions:
Deadlines for September include summer research stipends, and two relatively new programs supporting undergraduate course development under the NEH Education and Research Divisions (see below for additional detail):
Applications for Documenting Endangered Languages grants (a joint partnership between NSF and the NEH Preservation Division) are due 9/15/10.
Updated guidelines for some (but not all) October/November deadlines have been released by the NEH Education, Research, and Preservation Divisions, respectively:
NEH is also inviting applications for scholarly conferences on Bridging Cultures: Humanities Scholarship in Mexico and the United States through the Collaborative Research program (due 10/28/10).
Award ceilings reflect amounts posted on Grants.gov and may differ from recent award ranges. For a comprehensive listing of all NEH grant programs and deadlines, see the NEH web site: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html.
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NEH Grants for Undergraduate Teaching - September Deadlines
[Excerpt from the NEH Grant Notification]
The National Endowment for the Humanities supports undergraduate course development through:
Enduring Questions Course Grants (up to $25,000)
What is the good life? What is beauty? What is friendship? What is the relationship between humans and the natural world? Enduring questions such as these have long held interest to college students and allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations.
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Enduring Questions course grants, which support up to four college faculty members from any disciplines with up to $25,000 to develop a new humanities course at the undergraduate level on a question of enduring significance, to be taught at the sponsoring institution at least twice during the grant period. The application deadline is September 15, 2010. For more information and instructions, please see the grant guidelines at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html.
Teaching Development Fellowships (up to $21,000)
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Teaching Development Fellowships to support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving an existing undergraduate course that has been taught in at least THREE different terms prior to the application deadline. The research undertaken as a part of the project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning. Research in any area of the humanities is welcome.
Teaching Development Fellowships cover periods lasting from three to five months and carry stipends of $4,200 per month. Thus the maximum stipend is $21,000 for a five-month award period. The application deadline is September 30, 2010. For more information and instructions, please see the grant guidelines at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html.
