Brief Description:

Description:

Summer Stipends 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.

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 Harvard University must be nominated by their institution to apply for a Summer Stipend. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is running an internal application process in order to select and nominate two proposals in consideration of the NEH Summer Stipend funding opportunity in 2018.

Application Information:

Applicants are asked to 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)

The Summer Stipends program accepts applications only from individual researchers, teachers, and writers. Applicants with college or university affiliations must be nominated by their institutions.

Eligibility Criteria:

Citizenship
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 or at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline are also eligible.

Recent grants and fellowships held by the applicant
Individuals who have either held or been awarded a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the three academic years prior to the deadline are eligible. Everything else being equal, though, the program will give preference to applicants who have not received such support.
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.

Previously supported projects
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 b e 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.

Nomination of college and university faculty
Faculty members teaching full-time at colleges or universities must be nominated by their
institutions to apply for a Summer Stipend. Once faculty members are nominated by their institutions, they may submit their applications via Grants.gov

Additional Information, Related Websites, and Proxy Instructions:

The announcement from the NEH can be viewed here

Problems with HUFP should be directed to Autumn Bennett in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research

Contact Information:

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

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Institution

Harvard Business School
Harvard Divinity School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School of Design
Graduate School of Education
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Medical School (Quad)
Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM)

Type of Competition

Limited Submission

Discipline

Humanities