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Promotion of the Humanities Research

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

45.161

Program objective

Humanities Research awards advance knowledge and understanding of the humanities and strengthen their intellectual foundations. The Collaborative Research program supports projects by two or more scholars. Scholarly Editions and Translations provides funding for time-intensive editing projects such as the Papers of George Washington. Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions provides American scholars access to American centers for humanities research around the world. Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Work supports field research utilizing archaeological and/or ethnographic methods to answer significant questions in the humanities.

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

    in 2016, 59 grants were awarded to both individual and institutional scholars, in excess of $10 million of humanities research funding.

  2. 2018

    See https://www.neh.gov/divisions/research

  3. 2023

    Use the Funded Projects Query Form available on the NEH website to explore 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.

45 CFR 1100 and 1105. NOFOs are available online at http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html and upon request from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 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

Categories & sub-categories

Cultural Affairs

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization

Additional resources