NEH Summer Stipend Fellowships

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

 

Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.

 

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.

 

Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development.

 

Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.

 

 

Summer Stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Recipients must work full-time on their projects for these two months and may hold other research grants supporting the same project during this time. Summer Stipends normally support work carried out during the summer months, but arrangements can be made for other times of the year. 

 

Individuals who have held or been awarded a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the three academic years prior to the deadline are ineligible. A “major fellowship or research grant” is a postdoctoral research award that provides a stipend of at least 15,000. Sabbaticals and grants from an individual’s own institution and stipends and grants from other sources supporting study and research during the summer are not considered major fellowships. If you have received any fellowships or research grants within the three years prior to the deadline, please indicate on your résumé the total amount of each award or grant.

 

Faculty members teaching full-time at colleges or universities must be nominated by their institutions to apply for a Summer Stipend. Once faculty members are nominated by their institutions, they may submit their applications via Grants.gov. Each college and university in the United States and its jurisdictions may nominate two faculty members. Any faculty member is eligible for nomination. Each institution must announce its nominating procedures to all prospective applicants. Prospective applicants should become familiar with their institution’s nomination procedures before the September [30] application deadline. Each institution should designate a nominating official, usually an academic vice president or dean. Nominating officials will receive an e-mail message soon after the application deadline, asking them to confirm the status of all individuals who require nomination. Confirmation must be submitted online no later than October 16, 201[4].