The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers fellowships and summer stipend opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities, or of primary or secondary schools, and scholars and writers.
Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients might eventually produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or other scholarly tools.
Fellowships and Summer Stipends support projects that can be completed during the tenure of an award or those that are part of a long-term endeavor.
Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but only scholars who have completed their formal academic training are eligible to apply. If an applicant has completed all of the official requirements for the degree and is awaiting only the formal award, certification that all requirements have been met by the application deadline must be submitted by the dean of the school awarding the degree.
Funds, tenure, and conditions for Summer Stipends
Each Summer Stipend provides $5,000 for two consecutive, uninterrupted months of full-time independent study and research. Summer Stipends recipients may hold other research grants during the tenure of their awards, but they must devote full time to their projects for the two months of their tenure.
Summer Stipends normally support work carried out during the summer months, but arrangements can be made for holding tenure at other times of the year. Persons planning to begin after April 30, 2002, should apply to the October 1, 2001 deadline.
For more information about nominations, applications, and restrictions, visit the website at http://www.neh.gov/grants/onebook/fellowships.html
