Opportunity Information: Apply for 20170314 HT
The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities is a discretionary grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) designed to fund intensive training programs that help humanities scholars and professionals build deeper, hands-on expertise in digital humanities. The central idea is professional development at a national or regional (multistate) scale: institutes are meant to bring together scholars, humanities practitioners, and advanced graduate students for structured learning experiences that expand their ability to use digital technologies in humanities research, teaching, and public-facing work. NEH emphasizes two outcomes in particular: increasing the number of people in the humanities who can effectively use digital methods, and widely sharing knowledge about advanced tools, workflows, and methodologies that are becoming essential to modern humanities scholarship.
Funded projects take the form of institutes that can be offered once or repeated for different cohorts and audiences. The program is intentionally flexible in format and scheduling, as long as the design supports thorough treatment of the topic. Institutes can be short (a few days) and even occur across multiple locations, or they can run up to six weeks at a single site. Training can be scheduled around existing scholarly rhythms, such as being held before or after established academic conferences, during the summer, or at other times that make sense during the academic year. Regardless of timing, NEH expects the duration and structure to be long enough to provide meaningful instruction rather than a superficial overview, reflecting the reality that advanced digital humanities methods often require time for guided practice, iterative learning, and sustained engagement with tools and data.
The subject matter can focus on a specific computational approach or on the needs of a defined discipline or audience within the humanities. Examples of methodological focus include network analysis and spatial (GIS) analysis, but the scope is broader than any single technique. The program frames digital resources and complex data as increasingly central to humanities work, comparable in importance to traditional archival and textual materials. It highlights that humanities datasets might include digitized historical records, high-quality image collections, or multimedia materials, all of which are growing rapidly due to cheaper mass storage and large-scale digitization initiatives. At the same time, improved networking, sophisticated analytic software, and collaborative platforms are changing how scholars access, interpret, and share these resources. NEH positions the institute model as a way to help U.S.-based humanities communities keep pace with these changes and thoughtfully incorporate new technical capabilities into scholarship and pedagogy.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is listed under CFDA 45.169, with a funding instrument of a grant. The award ceiling is $250,000. Eligible applicants span a wide range of public and nonprofit entities, including state, county, and local governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and 501(c)(3) nonprofits that are not institutions of higher education. The opportunity information provided also includes an original closing date of March 14, 2017, and a creation date of January 10, 2017, indicating the specific cycle referenced in the source data. Overall, the program is geared toward building capacity in the humanities by funding well-designed, high-level training that helps participants confidently apply advanced digital methods and tools to humanities questions and teaching contexts.Apply for 20170314 HT
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities 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 2017-01-10.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-03-14. (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.
- 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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