Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is soliciting applications for Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Program to support innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.
The program also supports research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, and philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society.
Priorities
DHAG applicants must respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:
- research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
- enhancement or design of digital infrastructure, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms, that contribute to and support the humanities
- research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, or philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society, including racial, religious, and/or gender biases
- evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement
Types of Funding
Awards are available at three funding levels. Applicants should carefully choose the level appropriate to the scope and maturity of the proposed project. You are not required to obtain a Level I award prior to applying for a Level II project, nor are you required to have received a Level I or II award prior to applying for a Level III award.
When applying for a Level III award, you must have completed some earlier phase of work.
- Level I: Level I awards (up to $50,000 and up to 24 months) support small research projects or earlym,stages of larger projects, such as the following activities:
- developing a research agenda or strategy
- identifying appropriate methodologies or technologies for new and existing digital humanities projects
- planning sessions with stakeholders, or audience research to determine user needs and priorities
- designing experimental alpha-level prototypes
- convenings to address field-wide questions
- planning to revitalize and/or recover an existing digital project
- Level II: Level II awards (from $50,001 to $150,000 and up to 24 months) support projects that have completed an initial planning phase and are poised to scale up based on prior research and development with a well-defined work plan including activities such as:
- technical development and/or user experience design for beta-stage prototypes of opensource tools or software
- data curation
- meetings with advisory board members or community collaborators
- evaluation and refinement of a project’s methods, workflows, or tools to teachm humanities concepts or to support humanities research
- development of virtual/in-person workshops or tutorials to disseminate project results
- Level III: Level III awards (from $150,001 to $350,000 and up to 36 months) support the expansion of mature projects with an established user base and strong dissemination plans beyond the applicant institution. Level III applicants must have completed a planning or prototyping phase prior to submitting an application and must demonstrate prior success. Earlier phases of the project’s development may or may not have been supported by NEH or other funding sources. Level III awards may support multiple activities such as:
- technical and user experience design, including transformation of a prototype into a usable resource
- user testing with targeted user communities
- code review and bug fixing
- development of training materials and documentation to promote wide use of project
- preparation of presentations and publications to disseminate project results
- preparation of data, software, or websites for future preservation
- accessibility compliance review
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, public and 501(c)(3) accredited institutions of higher education, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments.
- An eligible entity may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. The lead applicant would be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
- Individuals, foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335586