Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
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The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities 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.
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.
What’s New for 2021:
- Applicants must submit the Research and Related Budget Form and attach a budget justification. The Research and Related Budget is available in the Grants.gov application package. Budgets in other formats will not be accepted.
- The narrative includes new questions for applicants to address, such as describing more fully the publicity plans for recruiting participants and providing additional details for risk assessment and risk mitigation.
Reminders:
- Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not include all required sections and components (i.e., Research and Related Budget and budget justification).
- Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not comply with all requirements indicated with a “must” outlined in the NOFO, including page limits.
Begin by reading the Notice of Funding Opportunity below to ensure you understand the expectations and restrictions for projects delivered under this grant and are prepared to write the most effective application.
Application Materials
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Notice of Funding Opportunity (PDF)
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities application
Program Resources
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Frequently Asked Questions, 2020 (PDF)
List of Recently Funded Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grants
Sample Application Narratives
George Mason University, Digital Methods for Military History
Folger Shakespeare Library, Institute on Early Modern Digital Agendas
University of California, Los Angeles, Institute on Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities
University of Texas, Institute for High Performance Sound Technologies
Vanderbilt University, Advancing XML-Based Scholarship
To apply for this grant, you will be need to be registered for a D-U-N-S® number, with the System for Awards Management (SAM), and with Grants.gov. If you have registered with these systems previously, confirm that your registrations are current and up to date. If you fail to allow ample time to complete registration with SAM or Grants.gov, you will not be eligible for a deadline extension or waiver of the online electronic submission requirement.
Be sure to follow the instructions outlined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity and in the Grants.gov instructions.
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