National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipends for Projects Beginning May 2025
Program Summary:
NEH Summer Stipends support continuous, full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. Funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. Recipients must work full-time on their project and may hold other non-NEH sources of support or grants for the same project during your period of performance.
The program aims to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities by:
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providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both
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supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective
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funding a wide range of individuals, including independent scholars, community college faculty, and non-teaching staff at universities.
NEH awards Summer Stipends to individuals. Individual researchers, teachers, and scholars are eligible whether they have an institutional affiliation or not. However, applicants holding tenured or tenure-track full-time positions at institutions of higher education must be nominated by their institution to apply for a Summer Stipend.
Note: The program limits eligibility to individuals who have not previously held an NEH award in any of its programs for individuals (see the program guidelines for a list of applicable awards). You may compete concurrently in Summer Stipends and any of the listed programs. However, you may not accept two awards arising from applications submitted to programs with deadlines in the same calendar year. You may not hold two or more NEH individual awards with overlapping activities or periods of performance. You may not work on a project supported by an NEH institutional award as either a project director or participant during the period of performance of an NEH individual award that is held full time. Further restrictions apply – please review the solicitation.
Cornell Internal Selection Process:
Investigators should submit the following information in pdf format by the internal deadline of September 1, 2024. Extensions to this deadline will not be made.
- A 2-3 page project narrative conveying the ideas, objectives, methods, and work plan. It should also communicate the project's substance and potential contribution to the humanities; include a paragraph describing the intended audience and intended results of the project. If relevant, explain how the results will be disseminated and why these means are appropriate to the subject matter and audience.
- Current curriculum vitae.
Instructions for Electronic Submission of Nominations:
Email the above items in the order listed in one PDF file using this naming convention: PI last name-first initial_NEH-SS.pdf (Example: Smith-J_NEH-SS.pdf) to Amanda Brockner, alb448@cornell.edu, no later than September 1, 2024.
Note: Please follow the internal selection guidelines carefully, including adherence to page limits. Proposals not following the guidelines and/or not responsive to the interests of the sponsor may be rejected from the internal competition without review. PIs submitting applications for limited submission competitions are responsible for ensuring they meet the eligibility requirements of the program and funder.