National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Connections Program

The Humanities Connections program encourages faculty members within the humanities department and their counterparts within the social and natural sciences to create partnerships that support new and innovative approaches to learning.

The program will fund in two levels: Planning and Implementation.

“Humanities Connections projects must include:

  • substantive and purposeful integration of the subject matter, perspectives, and pedagogical approaches of two or more disciplines (with a minimum of one in and one outside of the humanities)
  • collaboration between faculty from two or more departments or schools at one or more institutions
  • experiential learning as an intrinsic part of the proposed curriculum
  • long-term institutional support for the proposed curriculum innovation(s)

Competitive applications will demonstrate:

  • that the proposed curricular project expands the role of the humanities in addressing significant and compelling topics or issues in undergraduate education at the applicant institution(s)
  • that these projects develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind cultivated by the study of the humanities
  • that faculty and students will benefit from meaningful collaborations in teaching and learning across disciplines as a result of the project”

Maximum Award Amount

Planning: $35,000
Implementation: $150,000

Open To

Organizations

Period of Performance

Planning: 12 months
Implementation: 18 – 36 months

Application Available

June 23, 2021

Application Due

September 14th, 2021

Expected Notifcation Date

April 1, 2022

Project Start Date

June 1, 2022 – September 1, 2022

For more information regarding this grant, please visit the grant page.

NEH Summer Stipends Program – Summer 2019

Receipt Deadline September 26, 2018 for Projects Beginning May 2019

Brief Summary

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

Eligible projects usually result in articles, monographs, books, digital materials and publications, archaeological site reports, translations, or editions. Projects must incorporate analysis and not result solely in the collection of data.

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months.

Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.

Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.

The NEH Summer Stipends webpage contains additional information on the program, including application guidelines, and recent awards.

Program Statistics

In the last five competitions the Summer Stipends program received an average of 834 applications per year. The program made an average of 77 awards per year, for a funding ratio of 9 percent.

The number of applications to an NEH grant program can vary widely from year to year, as can the funding ratio. Information about the average number of applications and awards in recent competitions is meant only to provide historical context for the current competition. Information on the number of applications and awards in individual competitions is available from stipends@neh.gov.

Application and Program Information

NEH strongly encourages prospective applicants to familiarize themselves with the guidelines and application instructions located on the NEH website.  All applicants must submit their applications through grants.gov by the deadline of September 26,2018.

This program requires all tenured or tenure-track applicants to be nominated by an official of their campus; The University of Akron’s nominating official is Kathryn Watkins (kwatkin@uakron.edu or 330-972-6764).  Each institution may nominate up to 2 faculty members for the NEH Summer Stipends program.

If you wish to apply or nominate a colleague, please contact ORA for additional information.