Semester-end greetings. I wanted to let you know that the National Endowment for the Humanities will again be receiving applications for the NEH Summer Stipends program. The deadline for this year’s competition is September 25, 2019, for grants for summer 2020. The guidelines will not be posted until early June, but you can start now publicizing this opportunity to your faculty.

Now is also the time to also think about nominations from your faculty. As you may know, this program requires all tenured or tenure-track applicants to be nominated by an official on their campus; each institution is allowed to nominate two people. (Non-tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, retired faculty, community college faculty, and independent scholars are exempt from nomination). We ask that each institution designate one person—usually an academic vice-president or dean—to coordinate the nomination process for its faculty. Please make sure that there is only one nominating official for your institution. We strongly suggest that prospective applicants, the nominating official, and others involved in choosing your institution’s two nominees familiarize themselves with the guidelines and application instructions located on the NEH website. Until the new guidelines are posted you can refer colleagues to last year’s instructions, posted at:

The only substantial difference for this year is clarifying that non-tenure-track faculty are now exempt from nomination.

I will send you another message when the guidelines have been posted. In the meantime, if you or your faculty have questions, please contact a member of the Summer Stipends program staff, at stipends@neh.gov or 202-606-8200.

If you no longer serve as your institution’s nominating official, please forward this message to the appropriate person.

Thank you for your support of the Summer Stipends program.

Daniel Sack

Program Officer, Division of Research Programs

National Endowment for the Humanities 202-606-8459 dsack@neh.gov