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Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

45.169

Program objective

The Office of Digital Humanities supports innovative humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports 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. The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students. The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. The Fellowships Open Book Program makes humanities books digitally available to a wide audience.

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. 2011

    No Current Data Available 309 applications were received and 66 grants awarded.

  2. 2012

    93 applications and 12 awards.

  3. 2013

    253 applications and 53 grants awarded

  4. 2016

    239 grants applications and 34 grants awarded/

  5. 2017

    292 applications and 41 grants awarded.

  6. 2018

    241 applications and 34 grants awarded.

  7. 2022

    You may find past recipients using NEH’s Funded Projects Query Form, found at: https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx

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 or by 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

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