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.
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.
Limit 1: Available 0
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:
- The full solicitation can be found on grants.gov under the opportunity number “20241211-RAI”
- Additional information on the program can be found here: https://www.neh.gov/program/humanities-research-centers-artificial-intelligence.
- Information on awarded projects from the first competition can be viewed here: https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-awards-272-million-create-ai-research-centers.
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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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.
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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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
Limit: 1* // PI: B. Carter (Center for Digital Humanities)
*UArizona may submit only one application. However, the University’s library and museums may each apply separately.
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized organizations preserve and manage humanities collections, ensuring their significance for a variety of users, including source communities, humanities researchers, students, and the public, by building their capacity to identify and address physical and intellectual preservation risks. The program encourages applications from institutions that have never received an NEH grant as well as community colleges, minority serving institutions (Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities), Native American tribes and tribal organizations, and Native Alaskan and Native Hawaiian organizations. Furthermore, NEH encourages applicants whose organizations or collections represent the contributions of historically excluded communities.
The Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program focuses on foundational activities in preservation and management of collections. Collections may include archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic items, tribal collections, material culture, historical objects, special collections of books and journals, and digitized and born-digital materials. Supported activities should fall into the following general categories, though the lists of possible activities are not exhaustive:
Preservation Assessments and Planning
General preservation assessments
Digital preservation assessments
Conservation assessments
Assessing environmental impacts of lighting systems or aging mechanical systems
Assessing collection documentation needs to identify an appropriate collection management system
Foundational conversations and/or consultations with source communities represented in collections to determine culturally appropriate preventive conservation practices and/or initiate or develop accurate vocabularies and/or descriptions of collection items resulting in a processing guide or written report with actionable recommendations
Consultations with scholars and subject matter experts to initiate or develop accurate vocabularies and/or descriptions of collection items resulting in a processing guide or written report with actionable recommendations
Development and revision of written plans, policies, and procedures such as emergency/disaster preparedness and response plans, digitization plans, storage plans, collection management plans, collecting plans, loan policies, and processing manuals
Preventive Care
Purchase, shipping, and installation costs of storage and preservation supplies, including durable furniture and supplies (e.g., cabinetry, shelving units, storage containers, boxes, folders, and sleeves) for the purpose of rehousing collections for long-term storage or display, digital storage (e.g., external hard drives, RAID, NAS, LTO systems, and cloud- based storage), and discrete and reversible units to improve the environment (e.g., portable dehumidifiers, air conditioning units, UV filtering shades, and HEPA vacuums). Project expenses such as storage furniture, UV filters, or discrete units for air conditioning must demonstrate that they will not make irreversible changes to buildings.
Implementing and improving environmental monitoring and/or integrated pest management programs, including the purchase of necessary monitoring supplies and related tracking software
Implementing and/or piloting environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies, which may have been recommended in previous preservation assessments or by a consultant, such as addressing water runoff systems to prevent moisture impacts on collections spaces or creating preservation microclimates for vulnerable collections
Workshops and/or training for staff and volunteers that address preservation topics, which might include preservation and care of specific material types, care and handling of collections during rehousing and/or digitization, preservation standards for digital collections, disaster preparedness and response, integrated pest management, or an overview of the agents of deterioration
Collections Management
Initial steps that improve the management of collections and knowledge of the contents of collections, such as location and format surveys, inventories, updating condition reports, and/or other preparatory steps toward description of collections
Workshops and/or training courses for staff and volunteers that address intellectual control topics such as best practices for arrangement, description, and cataloging of collections
We encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to hire a consultant to support and further develop your organization’s capacity. Staff can also lead project activities, especially if they are implementing recommendations from a previous assessment or established frameworks. In all cases, you must demonstrate that project staff and consultants have the necessary background, skills, and training to perform the requested activities. For more information on how to select a preservation or information consultant, applicants may wish to consult the FAQs and resources included in H. Other Information.
Applications can focus on discrete activities, such as an assessment or the development of a written plan, or a combination of connected activities, such as rehousing and updating collection inventory. If you have previously received a Preservation Assistance Grant, you may apply for another one to support the next phase of your preservation efforts. For example, after completing a preservation assessment, you might apply to purchase storage supplies and cabinets to rehouse a collection identified as a high priority for improved storage. NEH will not give these proposals special consideration and will judge them by the same criteria as others in the competition.
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The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress (LC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. jurisdictions. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at LC and will be freely accessible online (see the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website). The accompanying US Newspaper Directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During the course of its partnership with NEH, LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections.
NEH welcomes applications that involve collaboration between prior NDNP recipients and new partners. Such collaborations might involve arrangements to manage the creation and delivery of digital files; regular and ongoing consultation about project management; or formal training for project staff at an onsite institute or workshop. NDNP has supported such collaborations between the following partners: Arkansas and Mississippi; Florida and Puerto Rico; Louisiana and Mississippi; Minnesota and Iowa; Minnesota and North Dakota; Minnesota and South Dakota; Montana and Idaho; Texas and New Mexico; Texas and Oklahoma; and Virginia and West Virginia.
NDNP supports dissemination activities that engage the wider public in exploring the digitized content, within appropriate limits. Your budget may include staff time, consultation with outside experts, and other eligible expenses related to disseminating NEH-funded products, but the primary purpose of this program is to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers.