The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program to support innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/12/2023
Size of the Grant: $400,000
Grant Duration: up to 36 months
Details:
The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their lifecycles that respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:
- research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
- enhancement or design of digital infrastructure that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms
- evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.
Level I: Level I awards (up to $75,000 and up to 24 months) support small research projects or early stages of larger projects, including activities such as:
- developing a research agenda or strategy
- identifying appropriate methods or technologies for new and existing digital humanities projects
- convening planning sessions with stakeholders or conducting audience research to determine user needs and priorities
- designing experimental alpha-level prototypes
- facilitating convenings to address field-wide questions
- planning to revitalize and/or recover an existing digital project
- Outcomes for Level I projects may include:
- reports and position papers (especially for projects involving evaluative studies)
- new consortia or partnerships
- plans for future research and technical development, design documents, and/or data integration
- articles, essays, books, edited volumes, or reports
- testing and assessment reports from alpha-level prototypes
Level II: Level II awards (from $75,001 to $150,000 and up to 24 months) support projects that have completed an initial planning phase and are poised to scale up based on prior research and development with a well-defined work plan, including activities such as:
- technical development and/or user experience design for beta-stage prototypes of opensource tools or software
- data curation
- meetings with advisory board members or collaborators
- evaluation and refinement of the project’s methods, workflows, or tools to teach humanities concepts or to support humanities research
- development of virtual/in-person workshops or tutorials to disseminate project results
- Outcomes for Level II projects may include:
- release of add-ons, code libraries, or working prototypes of tools
- implementation of new workflows through humanities-based case studies
- training data or models
- workshops, online tutorials, and other forms of documentation
- publications or conference presentations to share project results
Level III: Level III awards (from $150,001 to $350,000 and up to 36 months) support the expansion of mature projects with an established user base and strong dissemination plans beyond the applicant institution. If you apply to Level III, you must complete a planning or prototyping phase prior to applying and you must demonstrate prior success. Earlier phases of the project’s development may or may not have been supported by NEH or other funders.
- Level III awards support activities such as:
- technical and user experience design, including transformation of a prototype into a usable resource
- testing with targeted user communities
- code review and bug fixing
- development of training materials and documentation to promote wide use of the project
- preparation of presentations and publications to disseminate project results
- preparation of data, software, or websites for future preservation
- accessibility compliance review.
- Outcomes for Level III projects may include:
- launch of the digital project
- public release of final software, code, or datasets
- publication and presentation of research and results
- community engagement and outreach events, including workshops
- documentation and tutorials in multiple formats
- implementation of data management and sustainability plans.
Funding Information
- Level I: up to $75,000
- Level II: $75,001 to $150,000
- Level III: $150,001 to $350,000
- Level III applicants may request an additional $50,000 per project in federal matching funds (for a total award of up to $400,000)
- Level I and II: up to 24 months
- Level III: up to 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply, you must be established in the United States or its jurisdictions as one of the following organization types:
- If you are an eligible applicant, you may apply on behalf of a consortium of collaborating organizations. If NEH selects your proposal for funding, you will be programmatically, legally, and fiscally responsible for the award.
- To be eligible, you must make substantive contributions to the success of the project and you must not function solely as a fiscal agent for another entity.
- Individuals and other organizations, including foreign and for-profit entities, are ineligible.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
