6/29/20 - this submission is closed and the two nominees have been selected.
Are you planning on working on a humanities project next summer? The National Endowment for the Humanities supports summer projects. NEH Summer stipend recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences, and it encourages submissions from junior scholars.
The program pays a total of $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing on projects of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Colleges and universities may nominate two faculty members to compete for the award.
Disciplines that are eligible: History; Philosophy; Languages (both modern and classical); Linguistics; Literature; Jurisprudence; Archaeology; Comparative religion; Ethics; The history, theory and criticism of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study of application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.
Consult the program announcement for additional details on the program: https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
Webinar: NEH has scheduled a webinar for this program:
Date: Wednesday, May 20
Time: 2-3 PM (Eastern time)
To watch the presentation, click on this link.
The webinar will be recorded so people can watch it later. It will be posted on the program information page, at http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
NOMINATION PROCEDURE
Applicants must submit a project abstract to Sponsored Research Services for internal review by Friday, June 26, 2020. If more than two abstracts are received, then a peer review committee will evaluate the proposals and submit recommendations to the Vice President for Research, who will select the two nominees. Applications are due to NEH on September 23, 2020. The abstract should contain the following information:
Cover Sheet
Name
Department
Rank
Highest Humanities Degree, Discipline (see list above)
Dates for proposed research
Narrative
(one page max. in 11 point or higher font, one inch margins):
Objectives, methods, and significance of the project. Describe your plan to complete the project in two months.
Bibliography
(one page max. in 11 point or higher font)
Supplementary Material
If you have reviews or feedback from NEH from a prior submission, you may attach them to your project abstract.
Please submit your abstracts through https://www.rit.edu/research/srs/node/1887 by 5:00 pm on Friday, June 26, 2020. Contact Charlie Bush (cebsrs@rit.edu) if you have any questions.