NEH Collaborative Research Program – United States

Deadline: 29-Nov-23

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Collaborative Research program.

This program supports groups of two or more scholars seeking to increase humanistic knowledge through convenings, manuscript preparation for collaborative publications, the creation of scholarly digital projects, or the planning of an international collaboration. Projects must pursue significant research questions and lead to a tangible interpretive product.

The collaborative work can be rooted in a single field or cross disciplines. NEH encourages collaboration with scholars working in the natural or social sciences, but projects must focus on humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.

Funding Categories

The Collaborative Research program has four funding categories that support different types of collaborative projects and collaborative projects at different stages of development:

• Planning International Collaboration
  • Planning International Collaboration supports initial meetings to brainstorm, plan, and establish new scholarly collaborations. This category is for early-stage projects involving at least one collaborator based in the U.S. and at least one collaborator based in a foreign country. The scholar or scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project.
• Convening
  • The Convening category supports a single scholarly conference, symposium, or seminar that is open to members of an intellectual community broader than the invited attendees, or up to two working group meetings that advance a single project and may be restricted to primary collaborators.
• Manuscript Preparation
  • The Manuscript Preparation category supports the completion of collaborative manuscripts in preparation for print publication.
• Scholarly Digital Projects
  • The Scholarly Digital Projects category supports the preparation of born-digital scholarly publications, resources, or tools designed to address explicitly stated humanities research questions. The digital project must include significant, integral humanities interpretation or advance an argument. The project must serve an intellectual community beyond the collaborators. Proposals may involve one or more lead scholars collaborating with digital humanities specialists, librarians, or archivists to prepare a digital publication or project using preexisting platforms, programs, or other technological infrastructure.

Funding Information

• Planning International Collaboration
  • Planning International Collaboration awards are up to $25,000 with a period of performance of between six and twelve months.
• Convening
  • Convening awards are up to $50,000 with a period of performance of between six months and twelve months.
• Manuscript Preparation
  • Manuscript Preparation awards are up to $250,000 with a period of performance of one to three years. You may request up to $100,000 per year for the first and second year and up to $50,000 for the third year. If your period of performance includes partial years, you must prorate your request by month. For example, if your proposed period of performance is 18 months, you could request up to $150,000. If your proposed period of performance is 30 months, you could request up to $225,000.
• Scholarly Digital Projects
  • Scholarly Digital Projects awards are up to $250,000 with a period of performance of one to three years. You may request up to $100,000 per year for the first and second year and up to $50,000 for the third year. If your period of performance includes partial years, you must prorate your request by month. For example, if your proposed period of performance is 18 months, you could request up to $150,000. If your proposed period of performance is 30 months, you could request up to $225,000.
• Period of performance
  • You may begin your period of performance between October 1, 2024, and September 1, 2025.

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
• Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
• If your organization is eligible, you may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If NEH selects your proposal for funding, you will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
• The recipient may not function solely as a fiscal agent but should make substantive contributions to the success of the project.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.