The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) is offering competitive seed grants for research initiatives in the humanities that seek to capitalize on the collaborative network and potential of the consortium. Applications seeking to sustain, and build on, previously funded NEHC initiatives that demonstrated success are also welcome. Awards of up to $5,000 will be made. Deadline: October 1, 2023.
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The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance are pleased to announce the 2023 National Humanities Conference, to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 25-29, 2023. The 2023 National Humanities Conference invites proposals that examine this year’s theme “Crossroads”. We especially encourage proposals that engage humanities practitioners, professionals, and scholars/academics to discuss shared or aligned destinations and crossroads as well as proposals that explore and delineate how and why we diverge. The deadline for proposal submission is April 9, 2023. For questions regarding the online submission form, please contact events@statehumanities.org.
More informationIn the fall of 2018, BIPOC faculty from the New England region formed the Faculty of Color Working Group (FOCWG) to advocate for our collective success and wellbeing. Given the challenges facing BIPOC scholars and educators in the academy, we came to acknowledge the urgent need to build our own community systems of support. The first of three annual symposia was held shortly after, in spring of 2019, with generous support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New England Humanities Consortium, and University of Connecticut. FOCWG invites applications for this year’s virtual symposium on Friday, May 12, 2023. The following day, on Saturday, May 13, symposium goers will have a special in-person opportunity to break bread in community at one of three regional hubs. Applications due March 15.
The Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) invites proposals for Global Humanities Institutes to take place in 2024. Global Humanities Institutes (GHIs) are multi-year projects devoted to a research theme, method, practice, or problem in the humanities that will benefit directly from a sustained international and collaborative approach. CHCI encourages teams of scholars representing three or four humanities centers, preferably located in at least three different world regions, to develop a research program that is a model for inclusive collaboration in the humanities and addresses matters that are of compelling importance today. The centerpiece of each project will be an in-person, ten to fifteen-day institute, flexible in format, of twenty-five to thirty-five participants to be held during June-August 2024. With generous support from the Mellon Foundation, the CHCI expects to fund two institutes at the level of $200,000 each. The application deadline is December 15, 2022.
What is it about deep study in the arts and humanities that fosters such a wide range of career options and leadership potential? Amherst College has the Arts and Humanities in Action (AHA) program that is designed to help students interested in those areas of study see a path forward that leads to a rewarding career. All first-year students are invited to apply! Deadline: October 28, 2022.
The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) is offering competitive seed grants for research initiatives in the humanities that seek to capitalize on the collaborative network and potential of the consortium. Applications seeking to sustain, and build on, previously funded NEHC initiatives that demonstrated success are also welcome. Awards of up to $5,000 will be made. (For projects whose total budgets exceed $5,000 applicants must list additional committed funding sources and amounts.) Priority will be given to applications demonstrating concrete plans for consortium membership involvement. Such involvement can take different forms, but will typically involve, e.g. direct collaboration between two or more member institutions and/or active solicitation of faculty, staff, or students exclusively from member institutions. Applications are welcome from individuals or teams, but the PI must be on the faculty of a NEHC member institution.
Deadline: October 14, 2022
Each year, the National Humanities Center welcomes up to forty scholars from across the humanities and all over the world. During their time in residence, Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center. The stunning Archie K. Davis building offers private studies, light-filled common areas, and verdant grounds. The Center also provides scholars with exceptional library services, breakfasts, and lunches in the dining area, and administrative support in organizing seminars and study groups.
This year's application deadline is October 6, 2022.
The Center for Humanistic Inquiry offers up to $2,500 to support seminars for humanities-oriented research at Amherst. Seminars include between four and fifteen participants and meet periodically throughout the school year. Activities include guest speakers, writing workshops, reading groups and the like. Proposals for 2022-23 are due by Friday, September 9 at 4:30 p.m.
The Faculty of Color Working Group (FOCWG) invites applications for participation in the 2022-2023 cohort of the FOCWG Mellon Mentors program. The FOCWG Mellon Mentors Program aims to partner early-career BIPOC faculty with trained senior mentors to create enduring professional relationships that will provide guidance, resources, and support to early career scholars as they cement their foothold in academia. The goal of the FOCWG Mellon Mentors Program is the creation of mentoring cohorts that offer multiple models of mentoring and expands the network of support for program participants. Applications due May 31.
Through a unique collaboration between ten peer colleges, Digital Humanities: Social Justice Collections and Liberal arts Curricula uses college archives and collections, and curricular data, as a multi-campus corpus to be interrogated as a basis for historically and socially relevant digital research. Students will apply different lenses – history, language, culture, religion, solo/ensemble works of art, “digital making” to formulate and address a research question through digital means. Contact us at chi@amherst.edu to request a seat.
Over the last two years, higher education institutions across North America have responded to the very public assaults on Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous life by making renewed commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, suggesting a sea change for our futures as faculty of color. To what extent can we take these commitments in good faith, and what steps do we take toward our own successes and futures? This year’s theme of "Renewal" offers an opportunity for faculty of color to take stock of what we value about our teaching, research, service, advocacy, and personal lives. Symposium takes place May 13-14, 2022. Applications due April 1.
The Mellon Faculty of Color Fellowship program provides resources to reduce many of the barriers that make it difficult for faculty of color to research, think, and engage in their transformative work at their home institutions. These fellowships will reward recipients with a salary supplement and logistical resources that will allow them the time and space to focus on their scholarship away from the typical demands on their own campuses. Fellows will spend their fellowship year at a NEHC host institution with opportunities to interact with a broad and relevant intellectual community. Applications are due by March 15th, 2022.
The Amherst-Folger Postbaccalaureate Fellowship provides one Amherst College graduate with nine months of professional development at two world-class institutions—the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Designed to support career exploration in the humanities, the opportunity offers project-based work that will be responsive to both the skills and potential of the selected candidate, and the work of their mentors at the Folger and Dumbarton Oaks. All fellows will have the opportunity to work closely with staff in the Folger’s collections, research, or exhibitions teams, and departmental assignments at Dumbarton Oaks may include hands-on work in curation and exhibit preparation, research and publication, collection development or conservation, marketing and communication, or education and public outreach initiatives. Application deadline: December 6, 2021.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.
These stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Recipients must work full-time on their projects for two months and may hold other research grants supporting the same project during this time. Summer stipends normally support work carried out during the summer months, but arrangements can be made for other times of the year.
Contact Lisa Stoffer or Mary Elizabeth Strunk in the Grants Office for more information and tips for preparing a competitive NEH proposal.
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) Global Humanities Institutes (GHI) are multi-year projects devoted to a research theme, method, practice, or problem in the humanities that would benefit directly from a sustained international and collaborative approach. CHCI supports teams of scholars representing three or four humanities centers or institutes, preferably located in at least three different world regions to develop a research program and model for inclusive collaborative work in the humanities. The centerpiece of each collaboration will be an in-person meeting (a summer or winter institute), flexible in format, that will last a maximum of two weeks and include both members of the convening research team and additional participants from other organizations that are affiliated with CHCI member centers. Expressions of interest due September 30, 2021.