The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.
The IATDH program funds institutes that:
- share ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies by bringing together humanities scholars and digital technology specialists from different disciplines
- introduce digital humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise, resources, or capacity in their home institutions
- encourage reflection on, and the interpretation and analysis of, new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies, as well as their integration into humanities scholarship and teaching
- build inclusive communities of inquiry and contribute to participants’ intellectual vitality and professional development
- teach current and future generations of humanities scholars to ethically design, develop, and use digital tools and environments for scholarship
- devise and apply new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models for research in the humanities and sharing these methodologies and approaches with scholars and teachers
- consider how digital scholarship and tools can enhance access and create more equitable and inclusive approaches to community engagement, including for people of color and others who have been historically underserved and marginalized.
This program aims to bring together humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, librarians, archivists, museum staff, computer scientists, information specialists, and others to learn about new tools, approaches, and technologies, and to foster relationships for future collaborations in the humanities. NEH encourages you to develop proposals for multidisciplinary teams that include the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise. You may draw partners and collaborators from outside of your institution, from the private and public sectors, and may include appropriate specialists from within and outside the United States. You should consider the practical applications of the institute topic and the ethical implications of its subject for humanities research, teaching, or public programming.
Institutes may address a wide range of topics, such as, but not limited to:
- digital scholarly communication and publishing
- advanced geospatial applications
- artificial intelligence and its appropriate use in text, sound, or image analysis
- physical computing, such as three-dimensional printing and wearable computing, and its implications for humanities research and public engagement
- immersive and virtual environment design for humanities research, or for computer gaming or simulations as applied to the humanities
- data design and visualization of humanities topics and research
- creative approaches to implementing digital humanities methods at institutions with specific needs, such as community colleges, liberal arts colleges, or minority-serving institutions
- innovative approaches for engaging public audiences with digital humanities
- high-performance computing or supercomputing applicable for humanities research and teaching
- critical algorithm studies
- analysis of and research on the impact of digital media and culture on society, including the intersection of digital methodologies and race, gender, class, and ability.
Funding Information
- Anticipated FY 2025 Funding Approximately: $850,000.
- Award Amounts: Up to $250,000.
Grant Period
October 1, 2025, and September 1, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
