Deadline: 13-Feb-2025
The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training opportunities for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities.
Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.
This program aims to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, librarians, archivists, museum staff, computer scientists, information specialists, and others to learn about new tools, approaches, and technologies, and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities.
The IATDH program funds institutes that:
- share ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies by bringing together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines
- introduce digital humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise, resources, or capacity in their home institutions
- encourage reflection on, and the interpretation and analysis of, new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies, as well as their integration into humanities scholarship and teaching
- build inclusive communities of inquiry and contribute to participants’ intellectual vitality and professional development
- teach current and future generations of humanities scholars to ethically design, develop, and use digital tools and environments for scholarship
- devise and apply new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models for research in the humanities and sharing these methodologies and approaches with scholars and teachers
- consider how digital scholarship and tools can enhance access and create more equitable and inclusive approaches to community engagement, including for people of color and others who have been historically underserved and marginalized
Topics
- Institutes may address a wide range of topics, such as, but not limited to:
- digital scholarly communication and publishing
- advanced geospatial applications
- artificial intelligence and its appropriate use in text, sound, or image analysis
- physical computing, such as three-dimensional printing and wearable computing, and its implications for humanities research and public engagement
- immersive and virtual environment design for humanities research, or for computer gaming or simulations as applied to the humanities
- data design and visualization of humanities topics and research
- creative approaches to implementing digital humanities methods at institutions with specific needs, such as community colleges, liberal arts colleges, or minority-serving institutions
- innovative approaches for engaging public audiences with digital humanities
- high-performance computing or supercomputing applicable for humanities research and teaching
- critical algorithm studies
- analysis of and research on the impact of digital media and culture on society, including the intersection of digital methodologies and race, gender, class, and ability
Funding Information
- You may request up to $250,000. This includes the sum of direct and indirect costs.
- NEH anticipates awarding approximately $850,000 among an estimated 5 recipients.
Duration
- You may request a period of performance up to 36 months with a start date between October 1, 2025, and September 1, 2026.
Program Outputs and Outcomes
- The outputs of a successful Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities award may include, but are not limited to:
- A cohort of humanities scholars and practitioners trained to use digital technology in their research
- Related curriculum and open educational resources that were developed for and used in the professional development opportunity
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following:
- 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
- To be eligible to apply, your organization must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following:
For more information, visit Grants.gov.