National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

FY25 Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

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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.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
10/1/2025

Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition - September 2025 deadline

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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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Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
9/4/2025

2025 NEH Summer Stipends

RDS was notified that NEH will not be running a competition for the Summer Stipends program this fall. 

Faculty are encouraged to consider the NEH Fellowships (not a limited submission) as an alternative option. 

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Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
3/28/2025

National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

S. Swayden (Museum of Art) 

Eligibility: 
You may submit only one application under this notice. However, distinct collecting entities within a larger organization, such as a university’s library and museum or two historic sites within a historical society, may each apply separately. 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program. The purpose of this program is to help small and mid-sized institutions improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. The program encourages applications from small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant. 

 

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External Deadline
January 9, 2025

NEH 20240214-RAI: 2024 Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

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M. Mars (Department of Public and Applied Humanities)

 

 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs has released a solicitation for the second competition of the Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Launched last year in response to the White House Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, NEH seeks to leverage outputs from their centers to spur and advance innovative and high-level research in the humanities or humanistic social sciences that will expand public knowledge about and engagement with discourse surrounding AI and the societal impacts of AI.  The program supports NEH’s desire to further explore “the ethical, legal, or societal implications [ELSI] of AI,” and the solicitation specifically states interest in proposals that examine the intersections and interactions of AI-related technologies with salient social issues such as civil rights, privacy, and equity.  NEH is also interested in proposals that explore the potential implications and impacts of AI-related technologies on “truth, trust, and democracy.”

 

Competitive applications will include detailed plans outlining the development, sustainment, and dissemination of the results of two research activities to advance research on ELSI for artificial intelligence, such as:

 

  • “collaborative research and writing efforts;
  • Workshops or lecture series;
  • education and mentoring and;
  • digital tools to increase or advance scholarly discourse about AI”

 

Additional deliverables that the Center should produce can be found in the full solicitation.  NEH is especially interested in projects that continue to advance ongoing programs/Initiatives the NEH has already undertaken including, and not limited to, the Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence; American Tapestry Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future; and United We Stand: Connecting Through the Culture.

 

NEH announced the awardees for the first Humanities Research Centers on AI competition in August. Although the agency had originally planned to make two awards under that competition, five grants were awarded. Topics included AI democratization, Indigenous protocol for AI, AI and ethics, generative AI and creativity, and legal implications of visual AI.

 

Eligibility/Application Information: Eligible applicants include institutions of higher education and other 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.  Only one submission per institution is allowed.  Applications must be led by humanities/humanistic social sciences scholars, though contribution and collaboration of multiple scholars and researchers is expected.  While centers are not required to have a physical location, proposals should still include a detailed organization structure, mission statement/goals, and a strategy to sustain the center following the conclusion of the period of performance.  NEH places priority and emphasis on U.S. Institutions, though international collaboration is accepted.  Existing centers and institutes are not eligible to apply to this program.

 

Award Info: NEH plans to issue five awards of up to $500,000, plus an additional $250,000 in federal matching funds, for a three-year period.  Applicants may propose up to a maximum of $200,000 per year.

 

Deadlines: Applications are due December 11, 2024.  NEH program officers will review and provide feedback on draft proposals emailed to AICenters@neh.gov by October 2, 2024.  Draft reviews are optional.

 

Sources and Additional Information:


 

NEH National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) 2024-2025

U of A may submit one proposal.

This notice solicits applications for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress (LOC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions. LOC will permanently maintain this freely accessible, searchable online database (Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers). An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During its partnership with NEH, LOC will digitize and contribute a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections to Chronicling America.

If your application is successful, you will select newspapers—published in states or jurisdictions between 1690 and 1963—and over a period of two years, convert approximately 100,000 pages into digital files (preferably from microfilm), according to the technical guidelines outlined by LOC. You may select titles published in any language with a valid ISO 639-2 language code (or ISO 630-3, if appropriate). For newspapers published after 1928, you may select only those in the public domain (i.e., published without copyright or for which the copyright was not registered or renewed by 1963). If you wish to select titles for digitization published after 1928, you must indemnify LOC and NEH.

 

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Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
01/10/2025

NEH 20240912-CLI : FY2025 Climate Smart Humanities Organizations

No Applicants  // Limit:  1  // Tickets Available: 1 

 

An organization may submit only one application under this notice.

 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Challenge Programs is accepting applications for the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations program. This program strengthens the institutional base of the humanities by funding operational assessments and strategic planning efforts to sustain and protect historical, cultural, educational, intellectual, and physical assets from the risks of climate change. Projects will result in a climate action, resilience, or adaptation plan including detailed assessments, measurable actions, and expected outcomes. Proposals must address how strategic planning for climate change will increase the organization’s resilience and support its work in the humanities over the long term. Projects are financed through a combination of federal matching funds and gifts raised from third-party, non-federal sources.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
09/18/2024

NEH 2024o806-CHC: 2024 Graduate Education in the Humanities: A National Convening

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 An organization may submit only one application under this notice. 

Graduate Education in the Humanities: A National Convening will support the design, development, and implementation of a national convening on the state of, and prospects for, higher education in the humanities. Under the direction of a steering committee and related working groups, the national convening will provide participants the opportunity to explore current challenges and share best practices; offer guidance for graduate programs, departments, and other interested stakeholders; and help develop a strategic vision for graduate education in the humanities. In addition, the recipient will publish and disseminate a report based on the findings of the steering committee, working groups, and national convening.

The cooperative agreement will be awarded with federal matching funds. The recipient will be required to match the NEH financial contribution by raising an equivalent amount from third-party, non-federal sources.

 

Areas of Interest:

  • American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future
  • United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture
  • NEH’s Support for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
08/06/2024

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2024 Summer Stipends

 Limit: 1 // I. Romano (School of Art)

 

The program continues to focus on stimulating new research in the humanities and its publication by supporting the work of individual scholars doing research or writing. We are, however, introducing changes in eligibility requirements expected to bolster support for new applicants. We are also pleased to announce that we are increasing the award amount to $8000 and expect to maintain similar funding rates as in past years, even as NEH limits submissions to one per institution for those subject to the nomination requirement. The new program guidelines will be posted by June 18, 2024 on our website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends  

 

 

Institutions of higher education in the United States and its jurisdictions may each nominate two faculty members per deadline.

  • Application available (anticipated): June 18, 2024
  • Next deadline (anticipated): September 18, 2024

Due to the competitive nature of this funding program, the internal competition is run based on the anticipated September 18, 2024, deadline.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:

  • Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
  • Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
  • Funding a wide range of individuals, including independent scholars, community college faculty, and non-teaching staff at universities

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months.  NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.

Research Category
Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
09/18/2024*

NEH 20240214-RAI: 2023 Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

Limit: 1 // PI: C. Laskowski (College of Law)
 

The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions. Centers must focus their scholarly activities on exploring the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI.  

A Center is a sustained collaboration among scholars focused on exploring a specific topic. Successful applicants will examine the humanities implications of AI through two or more related scholarly activities. Centers must be led by scholars in the humanities or humanistic social sciences, but should include scholars from multiple disciplines. Scholars may come from one or more institutions. NEH welcomes international collaboration, but scholars at U.S. institutions must contribute significantly to the project. This program is for establishing new Centers; existing Centers and Institutes are not eligible in this competition.

In addition to the establishment of a sustainable Center, your project should engage in at least two activities that support research into the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI. Appropriate activities may include but are not limited to: collaborative research and writing efforts; workshops or lecture series; education and mentoring; and the creation of digital tools to increase or advance scholarly discourse about AI.  

Funding Type
Internal Deadline
External Deadline
02/14/2023