Arts & Humanities

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Only one application will be accepted per organization. Higher education applicants must partner with a library that is not directly affiliated with their institution.

About Big Read
The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read is a program that awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to organizations. 

These grants support community reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book. As our nation moves into its 250th year, the goal of this program is to honor America’s rich artistic and cultural heritage, inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections in each community. 

Grantees will receive funding for their programming and purchasing books, and tools to support them in working with local partners, developing public relations strategies, and leading meaningful book discussions.

NEA Big Read programs vary and can be as short as a week or as long as several months. Beyond discussions of the book, organizations may choose to include a kick-off event, invite the author for a visit, or have other events inspired by the content and themes of the book. These may include panel discussions, lectures, film screenings, art exhibitions, theatrical and musical performances, poetry slams, writing workshops and contests, and community storytelling events.

In total, Arts Midwest will be awarding $1,090,000 in project grants through NEA Big Read this year. We anticipate making approximately 75 grants. 

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Applicant organizations may submit only one application per cycle.

Program Overview
Recordings at Risk is a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of public value through digital reformatting. 

Eligible media may include but are not necessarily limited to, magnetic audio and video tape, grooved discs, wax cylinders, wire recordings, and film (with or without sound).

Recordings at Risk encourages professionals who may be constrained by limited resources and/or technical expertise to take action against the threats of degradation and obsolescence. The program aims to help organizations identify priorities and develop practical strategies for digital reformatting, build relationships with partners, and raise awareness of best practices.

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J. Duran (Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry)
E. White (Public and Applied Humanities)
J.P. Jones (School of Geography, Development and Environment) 

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Each institution may submit no more than three applications to Mellon for consideration. 

Eligibility
The Principal Investigator (PI), or applicant, must be a faculty member and/or dean in a program or department in the humanities or humanistic social sciences at the applicant institution. The PI may also be the institution’s provost/chief academic officer. Applications that do not include a CV for the PI will be disqualified from consideration. 

Overview
Full sponsor guidelines are linked here.

In the interest of maintaining a grantmaking portfolio that supports inquiry into issues of vital social, cultural, and historical import, the Higher Learning program at the Mellon Foundation invites eligible institutions of higher education to submit ideas for research and/or curricular projects focused on either of the two areas listed below. Projects should engage teams of scholars and/or students, and have visible, enduring impact at the institution. The two topical areas for the call are:

• Unruly Intelligences
• Normalization and Its Discontents

The Mellon Higher Learning team will review all eligible submissions and invite a small number of the most promising concepts to be developed into full proposals for potential grant funding. In consideration of the anticipated volume of concept submissions, we are unable to provide feedback on preliminary concepts.

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A. Josephson (Agricultural and Resource Economics)

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Institutions are expected to run their own internal competitions and may only forward one nomination to the Foundation

Overview 
One of the core aims of Mellon's Higher Learning Program is to elevate the knowledge that informs fuller narratives of the human experience. Supporting the expansion and evolution of humanities disciplines through investing in the range and productivity of exceptional faculty is crucial to this objective. New Directions Fellows undertake systematic training outside their fields of specialization to acquire the competencies required for advanced cross-disciplinary research – research that goes beyond traditional boundaries and offers innovative and effective ways of bringing humanistic knowledge to bear on social challenges. 

With this objective in view, Higher Learning invites nominations of highly qualified scholars in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who received their doctorates between 2013 and 2019. This by-invitation competition will provide grants of up to $300,000 over three years. We anticipate allocating up to $4 million for this call; the final number of proposals selected will depend on the number and substance of the submissions. 

Eligibility
Eligible candidates will be faculty members who were awarded a doctorate in the humanities or humanistic social sciences within the last six to twelve years (2013-2019) and whose research interests call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are an expert. Terminal degree holders, such as MFAs, are ineligible. 

The proposed field of study must be a foray into a new area of intellectual inquiry and not just an enhancement to go further into the primary field. Language study, technical writing, or skill acquisition such as GIP mapping do not, by themselves, constitute as a new direction. 

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An organization may submit only one application under this notice.

Executive Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is
accepting applications for the National Digital Newspaper Program. This program creates a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions. The Library of Congress (LOC) maintains this freely accessible, searchable online database.

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An organization may submit one application per deadline under this notice. 

Executive Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition program. The purpose of this program is to preserve and improve access to primary source materials that document the history of America’s founding era and of American government in federal, state, and local contexts. Supported activities include conservation treatment and rehousing, digitization and description, transcription and translation, and updating existing digital resources to ensure longterm public availability. This program is offered in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.

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Tenured Scholar - F. Gonzalez (Government and Public Policy) 
Untenured Scholar - D. Alharthi (Information Science) 

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The University of Arizona may nominate two scholars - one tenured and one non-tenured.

Program Overview 
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program was established in 2015 to provide philanthropic support for high-caliber research in the humanities and social sciences.

The program asks scholars to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion in our society. Political polarization is characterized by threats to free speech, the decline of civil discourse, disagreement over basic facts, and a lack of mutual understanding and collaboration.

Carnegie anticipates that the work of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program will explore the many ways political polarization in the United States manifests itself in society and suggest ways that it may be mitigated. Studies of polarization in other countries are welcome, provided they offer lessons that can be applied to the United States. Projects based in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences are welcome.

Candidates who have been nominated for the Fellows Program since the change of focus to polarization (i.e., who were nominated for the 2024 or 2025 fellowships) may not be nominated again during the current three-year period, regardless of who nominated them.

For more information, please see the program website: https://www.carnegie.org/awards/award/andrew-carnegie-fellows/ 

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M. Mars (Public & Applied Humanities - competitive resubmission)

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Each institution may submit only one application under this notice. For the purposes of this limitation, branch campuses are considered separate institutions. Current recipients of this program are not eligible to apply.

Executive Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research is accepting
applications for the Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program. The
purpose of this program is to support the establishment of new collaborative humanities
research centers focused on gaining a clearer understanding of AI and its implications for the United States. A center is a sustained collaboration among multiple scholars focused on exploring the humanities implications of AI through two or more related scholarly activities.

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An organization may submit one application per deadline under this notice. 

If you submit multiple applications (including submitting to the wrong funding opportunity or making corrections/updates), NEH will accept only your last validated submission prior to the deadline under the correct Grants.gov funding opportunity. Per 2 CFR § 200.403(f), NEH does not permit overlapping costs.

Executive Summary
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition program. The purpose of this program is to preserve and improve access to primary source materials that document the history of America’s founding era and of American government in federal, state, and local contexts. Supported activities include conservation treatment and rehousing, digitization and description, transcription and translation, and updating existing digital resources to ensure long- term public availability. This program is offered in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.

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Only one proposal will be considered by ECA from each applicant organization. In cases where more than one submission from an applicant appears in grants.gov, ECA will only consider the submission made closest in time to the NOFO deadline; that submission would constitute the one and only proposal ECA would review from that applicant.

Executive Summary
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Office of Citizen Exchanges, Cultural Programs Division (ECA/PE/C/CU) is announcing an open competition for the FY 2025 Arts and Music Envoy Program. This program will send American artists and arts experts of high artistic merit overseas in programs developed in partnership with U.S. Missions to support foreign policy goals and advance American interests. Programs will showcase American artistic and cultural excellence to build strategic partnerships to enhance American global competitiveness, promote freedom of speech, and foster regional stability through cultural exchange and person-to-person diplomacy.