NEH Office of Digital Humanities

Author:	Jason Rhody	Created:	2/28/2008 9:09 AM
Updates by Jason Rhody

Getting Started in the Digital Humanities

By Jason Rhody on 10/18/2011 8:53 AM

If you're interested in ways to get involved with the digital humanities, Lisa Spiro posted a comprehensive list of options, opportunities, and outlets that can help you do so. Check out her very informative "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities" at her blog, Digital Scholarship. If you're looking for additional tools or resources, the Digital Research Tools wiki (also edited by Lisa) provides links to many of the available tools that can facilitate your work, including several funded by NEH's grant programs.

NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting – Open to Public

By Jason Rhody on 8/31/2011 1:27 PM

Come learn about developing mobile app platforms for history, capturing dance notation using an iPad, using gaming technology to teach the history of medicine, or applying crowdsourcing to culinary history … all in just two minutes.

From 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on September 27th at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the recipients of the 2011 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants will give the public a sneak preview of 54 ground-breaking projects that apply cutting-edge technology to high quality research in the humanities. Recipients of Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grants will also present.

On September 27th, Start-Up and Institute grant recipients from around the country will assemble at NEH headquarters in Washington D.C. in room M-09 to present their projects in “lightning-round” format. Project directors will have just two minutes and three PowerPoint slides to introduce and explain their projects to the public.

Updates & Changes to ODH Grant Programs

By Jason Rhody on 4/4/2011 3:35 PM

[updated June 23, 2011]

The next deadline for the popular NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant (SUG) program will be September 27, 2011.

We also wanted to let you know that there is an important change to the SUG program. While in the past we have offered two deadlines per fiscal year (usually one in the Fall and one in the Spring), we are now moving to one SUG deadline per year. Applications will be due in September for projects beginning the following April. Get started now!

Why the change? Well, ~~we aren’t ready to share all the details yet~~, ~~but~~ in lieu of the second SUG deadline, we are preparing to offer a new grant program, ~~tentatively entitled Advanced Projects in the Digital Humanities (APDH)~~ called Digital Humanities Implementation Grants (DHIG) . This program is being designed to fund the implementation of major projects that have successfully completed an initial start-up phase and have demonstrated their value to the field. ~~Much more to come about this new program in the near future.~~ Read about the DHIG program here.

Meanwhile, get working on those Start-Up Grants. Remember that we’re always happy to read drafts submitted at least 6 weeks prior to the deadline, and we’re always here for advice. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.