Brief Description:

Summer stipends from the NEH support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. Summer stipends support projects at any stage of development. Harvard University, as one institution, may submit two proposals from full time Faculty in consideration for 2016 funding.

Description:

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Recipients must work full-time on their projects for these 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.

Faculty members teaching full time at colleges and universities must be nominated by their institutions to apply for a Summer Stipend. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will run an internal competition to select two applicants to submit proposals to NEH for funding in 2016.

Application Information:

Please read the program announcement carefully and submit:

A proposal of not more than two (2) single spaced pages that provides an intellectual justification for the proposed project including the ideas, objectives, methods and work plan envisioned
A current CV (no preferred format)

Eligibility Criteria:

All applicants must have completed their formal education by the application deadline. While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply. Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral may apply, but such applicants need a letter from the dean of the conferring school, attesting to the applicant’s status as of September 30, 2015.

U.S. citizens, whether they reside inside or outside the United States, are eligible to apply.
Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline are also eligible.

Individuals who have held or been awarded a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the three academic years prior to the deadline are ineligible. A “major fellowship or research grant” is a postdoctoral research award that provides a stipend of at least $15,000. Sabbaticals and grants from an individual’s own institution and stipends and grants from other sources supporting study and research during the summer are not considered major fellowships. If you have received any fellowships or research grants within the three years prior to the deadline, please indicate on your résumé the total amount of each award or grant.

Individuals who have received Summer Stipends may apply to support a new stage of their projects. These applications do not receive special consideration and will be judged by the same criteria as others in the competition. However, NEH will ask evaluators to review the accomplishments from the prior Summer Stipends award and determine if the project warrants additional support.

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Autumn Bennett at autumn_bennett@harvard.edu

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Position

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Type of Competition

Limited Submission

Discipline

Humanities

Type of Award

Research