NOFO: NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication (US)

Deadline: 19-Apr-23

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication program.

This program supports individual scholars pursuing significant humanities projects that require digital expression and publication. It provides recipients time to conduct research, prepare publications, and develop and incorporate multimedia or interactive components using existing technologies and platforms. Recipients must publish their products in digital form. Outcomes include, but are not limited to, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, websites, virtual exhibitions, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, and critical editions.

Purpose

Purpose Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation jointly support competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and publication. To be considered under this opportunity, your plans for digital publication must be integral to your project’s research goals. That is, you must conceive the project as a digital publication because the research topics and methods demand presentation beyond traditional print. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication provide recipients time to conduct research and develop digital publications. Successful projects will likely incorporate images, video, audio, manipulatable elements, datasets, and/or other multimedia materials or flexible reading pathways not possible in traditionally published books. Successful projects also typically have an active dissemination plan. Products must be published digitally and could include monographs, peer-reviewed articles, websites, virtual exhibitions, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, and critical editions. Projects may be at any stage of development.
NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related subfields of the social sciences, and it encourages submissions from independent and junior scholars.

Funding Information

Anticipated FY 2024 Funding Approximately $300,000
Estimated Number and Type of Awards Approximately 5 grant(s)
Award Amounts $30,000 to $60,000
Period of Performance 6 to 12 months starting between January 1, 2024, and September 1, 2024.

Eligibility Criteria

U.S. citizens, whether they reside inside or outside the United States, are eligible. Foreign nationals who have lived in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline are also eligible. Foreign nationals who take up permanent residence outside the United States any time between the application deadline and the end of the period of performance will forfeit their eligibility. Leaving the U.S. on a temporary basis is permitted.
If you have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral, you are eligible, but you must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or your department chair attesting to your status.
This program is designed for individual researchers; awards may not be divided. If you are seeking funding for more than one scholar in a collaborative project, each individual must:
- submit a separate application specifying their individual contribution
- independently meet the eligibility requirements
- clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s)
Applicants who are seeking funding only for themselves but who are working as part of a collaborative team are also eligible. If more than one member of a collaborative project applies for this individual award, NEH will consider each application separately.
Organizations may not apply on behalf of scholars and NEH will not transfer awards to a recipient’s institution.
You may not submit multiple applications under this notice.
You may not hold NEH individual awards (for example, an NEH-Mellon Fellowship and a Public Scholars award, or an NEH-Mellon Fellowship and a Summer Stipend) with overlapping periods of performance or in support of the same activities.
If you accept an NEH-Mellon Fellowship, any pending Summer Stipends, Public Scholars, or DLI-Documenting Endangered Languages program application you have submitted for the same project will be automatically withdrawn.
You may not serve as the project director or key personnel on an NEH institutional award while working full time on an NEH individual award.
NEH does not make awards to other federal entities. If your project is so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities, it is ineligible.