Deadline: 15-Jun-23
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program.
The program supports 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.
Priorities
The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their lifecycles that 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 that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms
- evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement
Funding Levels
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Level I
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Level I awards (up to $75,000 and up to 24 months) support small research projects or early stages of larger projects, including activities such as:
- developing a research agenda or strategy identifying appropriate methods or technologies for new and existing digital humanities projects
- convening planning sessions with stakeholders or conducting audience research to determine user needs and priorities
- designing experimental alpha-level prototypes
- facilitating convenings to address field-wide questions
- planning to revitalize and/or recover an existing digital project
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Level I awards (up to $75,000 and up to 24 months) support small research projects or early stages of larger projects, including activities such as:
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Level II
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Level II awards (from $75,001 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 collaborators
- evaluation and refinement of the project’s methods, workflows, or tools to teach humanities concepts or to support humanities research
- development of virtual/in-person workshops or tutorials to disseminate project results
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Level II awards (from $75,001 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:
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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. If you apply to Level III, you must complete a planning or prototyping phase prior to applying and you must demonstrate prior success. Earlier phases of the project’s development may or may not have been supported by NEH or other funders.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, you must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- an accredited institution of higher education (public or nonprofit)
- a state or local government or one of their agencies
- a federally recognized Native American Tribal government
For more information, visit NEH.
