Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Grant: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Division: Office of Digital Humanities
Deadline: The deadline was March 7, 2013 for projects beginning October 2013.
Description: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through the Institutes for Advance Topics in the Digital Humanities grant competition, seeks to support national or regional training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. The goal is to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.
The Institutes can take place at any time during the year, and funding supports workshops hosted as a single opportunity as well as those offered multiple times to different audiences. Each program should enable humanities scholars in the United States to incorporate digital humanities advances into their scholarship and teaching. In order to do so NEH encourages applicants consider including participants from multiple disciplines to discuss and share ideas on the use of digital technologies in teaching, as well as to teach current and future generations of scholars on using and integrating these digital resources in their practices. Possible topic areas that could be addressed include:
- Immersive and virtual environments in multimedia research, including those for mobile platforms.
- Scholarly communication and publishing.
- Digital image and sound analysis.
- Computer gaming and simulations as applied to the humanities.
Be sure to reference the program notice for greater detail on workshop expectations, as well as additional guidelines on acceptable topic areas and program requirements.
Fit for Public Broadcasting: Stations can apply directly to this program, but may find greater success as a partner given the resources necessary to host the workshops. University licensees, especially those with an interest in developing and integrating advanced technology in education related activities, should consider partnering with their host University on this project. NEH strongly encourages the collaboration of partners with intellectual, technical and practical expertise. This may include public broadcasting stations in addition to humanities scholars, librarians, archivists, museum staff, computer scientists, and others eager to learn new tools, approaches and technologies in the humanities.
Eligibility: Any U.S. nonprofit organization is eligible to apply, as are state and local governmental agencies and federally recognized Indian tribal governments.
Anticipated Funding: Awards typically range from $50,000 to $250,000 and last anywhere from one to three years. In previous competitions, NEH received an average of 14 applications, and awarded roughly five grants per competition. Cost sharing is not required.
How to Apply: Prior to submitting a proposal, applicants are encouraged to contact program officers who can offer advice about preparing the proposals, provide samples of recently funded projects and review draft proposals. If you wish to submit a draft proposal for comment, program staff recommends you do so at least six weeks before the deadline. You can contact a program officer by email, here.
Applications must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov. Online submission requires registration, a process that usually takes three to five business days but can take as long as four weeks. Be sure to visit Grants.gov and begin registering well in advance of the grant deadline.
Resources:
Program notice
Program webpage
Past grantees
