Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | 20230215 HT

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Office of Digital Humanities, is offering the "Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities" grant program (Funding Opportunity Number 20230215 HT). This is a discretionary grant opportunity designed to fund intensive training institutes that help humanities scholars and professionals deepen their skills with digital methods. The central idea is to support structured, high-level learning experiences that move beyond introductory exposure and instead provide participants with advanced, practical, and research-relevant expertise in digital humanities tools, techniques, and approaches.

The program specifically supports national or regional (multistate) institutes, meaning the training should be designed to reach audiences beyond a single campus or local area and have broader field-wide impact. NEH is aiming to expand the community of humanities researchers and practitioners who can effectively use digital technologies in their scholarship, teaching, preservation work, public humanities initiatives, or cultural heritage practice. A key emphasis is not only building participant capacity, but also helping ensure that knowledge of advanced tools and methodologies is disseminated widely across the humanities, strengthening the overall digital humanities ecosystem.

Eligible applicants span a wide range of U.S.-based institutions and organizations, including state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education). This mix of eligible entities reflects the reality that digital humanities training can be effectively led by universities, libraries, cultural organizations, consortia, and other mission-driven institutions capable of convening participants and delivering specialized instruction.

The funding falls under the humanities activity category (CFDA/Assistance Listing 45.169). NEH anticipated making around five awards under this cycle, with an award ceiling of $250,000 per grant. The opportunity was originally posted with a creation date of November 21, 2022, and an original closing date of February 15, 2023. In practical terms, this scale of funding is typically intended to cover the major costs of planning and delivering an institute, such as curriculum development, instruction, participant support, digital infrastructure or instructional resources, and the administrative coordination needed to run a multi-day or multi-session training program that serves a regional or national cohort.

Overall, this opportunity is best understood as NEH support for advanced professional development in digital humanities: programs that convene scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students for focused training on sophisticated digital tools and methods, with the goal of increasing adoption of digital approaches in humanities work and spreading that expertise broadly across institutions and communities.

• The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.169.
• This funding opportunity was created on Nov 21, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 15, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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