NEH - Fellowship

Organization: National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowship awards support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Fellowships support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of six to twelve months. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges, universities, or primary or secondary schools, or they may be independent scholars or writers. Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards may not be used for: studying teaching methods or theories; surveying courses and programs; preparing institutional curricula; works in the creative and performing arts, i.e., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.; projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; projects that advocate a particular program of social action; or doctoral dissertations or theses (Fellowships only). The award period must be continuous, and award recipients must work full time on their projects. Teaching assignments or other major activities may not be undertaken during the fellowship period. In exceptional circumstances, NEH may permit part-time awards. Such circumstances might include unusual institutional administrative duties that cannot be relinquished or hardships unforeseen at the application deadline. Teaching is not considered an exceptional circumstance. An applicant should not include a request for part-time tenure in the application. Should an award be offered, recipients may present their request for part-time tenure to the NEH staff; arrangements will be made at that time. Applicants for Fellowships may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities, or of primary or secondary schools, or independent scholars or writers. All applicants must have completed their formal education by the application deadline. While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply.

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