Deadline: 5 March 2020
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program to support 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.
Applicants may apply to create institutes that are a single opportunity or are offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days or as long as six weeks and held at a single site or at multiples sites; virtual institutes are also permissible. Training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic; it should also be appropriate for the intended audience.
These professional development programs may focus on a particular computational method, such as network or spatial analysis. They may also target the needs of a particular humanities discipline or audience.
With advances like these in mind, the IATDH program aims to:
- bring together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines to share ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies
- introduce digital humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise or lack resources and 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 the integration of these into humanities scholarship and teaching
- build inclusive communities of inquiry and contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants
- to teach current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use digital tools and environments for scholarship
- devise new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models that can be applied specifically to research in the humanities and to allow those methodologies and approaches to be shared with humanities scholars and teachers
This program is designed 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 strongly encourages applicants to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams of collaborators that will offer the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. Partners and collaborators may be drawn from the private and public sectors and may include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States.
Topics
Possible topics and areas that institutes might address include, but are not limited to:
- digital scholarly communication and publishing
- advanced geospatial applications
- textual image or sound analysis
- immersive and virtual environment design for humanities research, or for computer gaming or simulations as applied to the humanities
- information aesthetics and approaches to visualizations of humanities topics and research
- innovative approaches for engaging public audiences with digital humanities
- high-performance computing or supercomputing applicable for humanities research and teaching
- linked open data and its applications to humanities research and teaching
- analysis of and research on the impact of digital media and culture on society
Award Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $850,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $1
Eligible Applicants
- Eligible applicants include U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, accredited institutions of higher education, state and local governmental agencies, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments.
- Foreign and for-profit entities and individuals are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=322632