By Jennifer Serventi on 6/15/2009 9:05 AM

I'm very happy to say that the NEH has just announced five new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.  These grants support national or regional training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. These awards are part of a larger group of 154 awards announced today by the NEH.  For a full state-by-state list of all the awards, please see today's press release. Awards in the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program: George Mason University -- Fairfax, VA One Week, One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising Tom Scheinfeldt, Project Director Outright: $249,221 To support: A one week institute for twelve participants on the principles of humanities-centered tool design, development, and implementation, followed by a year of development support. University of California, Irvine -- Irvine, CA Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute...

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By Brett Bobley on 6/1/2009 1:33 PM

This is Part II of a series of posts highlighting recent white papers (Part I also available). Numerous ODH programs (and some programs in other NEH divisions and offices) require the grantee to submit a "white paper" at the conclusion of the grant. In ODH, we publish these white papers in our Library of Funded Projects. In the white paper, the grantee provides a summary of the grant activities, what they learned, recommended best practices, and even what they might have done differently. By making these white papers freely available, members of the public -- including other prospective applicants -- can learn from what has already been done and build upon it.

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By Brett Bobley on 5/13/2009 3:38 PM

Numerous ODH programs (and some programs in other NEH divisions and offices) require the grantee to submit a "white paper" at the conclusion of the grant.  In ODH, we publish these white papers in our Library of Funded Projects.  In the white paper, the grantee provides a summary of the grant activities, what they learned, recommended best practices, and even what they might have done differently.  By making these white papers freely available, members of the public -- including other prospective applicants -- can learn from what has already been done and build upon it.    In a series of posts, I'll be highlighting some of the white papers we have recently added to the library. 

Update: Part II of this series is now available.

In each case below, just click the title and then scroll down to find the "download" button to access the full report:   Approaches...

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