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Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

45.160

Program objective

Fellowships and Stipends provide support for individual scholars to produce humanities scholarship, including books, articles, and digital projects. Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Awards for Faculty offer flexible fellowships to those employed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. Summer Stipends offer two-month awards to pursue focused research. Public Scholar awards encourage writing books for a wide readership. Fellowships for Digital Publication support projects that require digital expression. Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships support individual scholars pursuing research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Almost 200 Research and Fellowships grants were awarded to Humanities Scholars, including Independent Research support in 2016.

  2. 2018

    From 1,872 grant applications 163 total awards were made.

  3. 2022

    Use the Funded Projects Query Tool on the NEH website to learn more about recently funded projects: https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity for the various Fellowships, Awards for Faculty, Summer Stipends, and Public Scholar are available online at http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#research. For assistance, contact the National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20506.

  1. National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, Public Law 89-209, 20 U.S.C., § 956, et seq.

Program details

Program types

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Artist/Humanist
  • Education (13+)
  • Education Professional
  • Graduate Student
  • Individual/Family
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization

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