Deadline: 15-Feb-23
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.
Purpose
- The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs 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.
- Today, digital resources and other complex data—their form, manipulation, and interpretation— are as important to the humanities as traditional research materials. With advances like these in mind, 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 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
Aims
- 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. NEH encourages you to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams that include the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise.
- You may draw partners and collaborators from the private and public sectors and may include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States. You should consider not only the practical applications of the institute topic, but also address ethical implications of its subject for humanities research, teaching, or public programming.
- You must host your institutes in the United States or its jurisdictions and must provide facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. Host organizations include, but are not limited to, colleges, universities, learned societies, centers for advanced study, libraries or other repositories, as well as cultural or professional organizations.
- There is wide latitude in the form and content of institutes. They may focus on a particular computational method, such as network or spatial analysis, or target the needs of a particular humanities discipline or audience. You could offer it only once or multiple times to different audiences or cohorts. They may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks. You may host it at a single site, multiples sites, or virtually, but the format and duration should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic and be appropriate for the intended audience and all participants must be engaged in the same format simultaneously unless modifications are needed for accessibility accommodations.
- You may schedule your institutes before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. You may include compensation and travel expenses for the institute faculty and staff as well as stipends and/or travel expenses to the participants in your budget, as appropriate.
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 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
- NEH anticipates awarding approximately $850,000 among an estimated five recipients per deadline.
- You may request up to $250,000.
- You may request a period of performance up to 36 months.
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
- If you are an eligible applicant, 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.
- To be eligible, you must make substantive contributions to the success of the project and must not function solely as a fiscal agent for another entity.
- Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
For more information, visit NEH.