Each year, NEH offers tuition-free opportunities for school, college, and university educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1,200-$3,900 help cover expenses for these one- to five-week programs.
For more information and application instructions, please visit the websites for individual programs. Links are provided below.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-29 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s):
Visiting Faculty: David Blight, Ed Baptist, Stacey Robertson, Judith Wellman
Location: Hamilton, New York
For more information: ghodges@colgate.edu (315) 228-7517 http://Colgate.edu/abolitionism/hodges.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 3-29 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Marty Gould
Visiting Faculty: Kate Flint, Sharon Weltman
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
For more information: DickensNEH@gmail.com (831) 459-2103 http://www.dickensneh2016.com.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 27- July 28 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Harvey Klehr
Visiting Faculty: Maurice Isserman, Lauren Wiener, Robert Gabrick
Location: Atlanta, GA
For more information: polshk@emory.edu (404) 727-6575 http://polisci.emory.edu/home/neh_2016/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 26-July 29, 2016 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Gerard Koot
Location: North Dartmouth, MA
For more information: gkoot@umassd.edu (508) 994-3145 http://www1.umassd.edu/euro/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 27-July 29 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Thomas Wartenberg
Location: South Hadley, MA
For more information: srusieck@mtholyoke.edu (413) 538-2249 http://existentialismseminar.com.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-29 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Peter Gibbon
Visiting Faculty: Leo Damrosch, Charles Glenn, Tim Seldin
Location: Boston, MA
For more information: peterhgibbon@comcast.net (781) 934-1524 http://nehphilosophersofeducationseminar.org.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 26- July 29, 2016 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Kathleen B. Jones
Location: University of California, Davis
For more information: sarias2@earthlink.net (858) 663-8827 http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~arendt/wp/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 27 – July 28, 2016 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Austin Sarat
Location: Amherst, MA
For more information: neh@amherst.edu (413) 542-2380 https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/ljst/neh.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-30 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Matthew Heaton
Visiting Faculty: King Davis III, Uzoma Esonwanne, Martin Summers
Location: Blacksburg, VA and Washington, DC
For more information: mheaton@vt.edu (540) 231-8361 https://raceandmentalhealthseminar.wordpress.com.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 18-August 5 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Matthew Panciera
Visiting Faculty: Rebecca Benefiel, Jeremy Hartnett, Beth Severy-Hoven
Location: Saint Peter, Minnesota
For more information: panciera@gac.edu (507) 933-7548 https://gustavus.edu/events/romandailylife/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-30, 2016 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Visiting Faculty: Frank X Walker, Silas House, Rachael Meads, Adam Booth, Ed Herendeen
Location: Shepherdstown, West Virginia
For more information: SShurbut@shepherd.edu (304) 876-3119 http://www.shepherd.edu/neh.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-July 29, 2016 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Scott Levi
Visiting Faculty: Carter Findley, Marianne Kamp, Adeeb Khalid, Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Morgan Liu, Timothy May, Douglas Northrop, Daniel Prior, Ron Sela
Location: Columbus, Ohio
For more information: kunkler.10@osu.edu (614) 292-8770 https://slaviccenter.osu.edu/outreach/training/central-asia-world-history-2016-summer-institute.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10 – July 22, 2016 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen and Joy Liu
Visiting Faculty: Julia Schiavone Camacho, Henry Yu, Craig S. Wilder, Beth Lew-Williams, Mae M. Ngai, Renqiu Yu, Heather Lee, Judy W. Yu, Thomas Bender
Location: New York, NY
For more information: SummerInstitute2016@mocanyc.org (212) 501-3047 http://chinese-exclusion-nehsummerinstitute.weebly.com/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-23, 2016 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Robert Baker and Chara Bohan
Visiting Faculty: Paul Finkelman, Jon Hale, Diana Hess, Peter Hoffer, and Stephen Middleton
Location: Atlanta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina
For more information: rwebb7@student.gsu.edu (770) 598-1545 http://sites.gsu.edu/nehcourtingliberty.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-29 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): William Watson
Visiting Faculty: Janet Monge, Frank Watson, Earl Schandelmeier, Tim Bechtel, Samantha Cox, Matt Patterson, Leslie Trimmer, Kate Oxx, Marian Makins, David Barnes, Gene Halus
Location: Immaculata, PA
For more information: wwatson@immaculata.edu (610) 647-4400 x3491 http://neh.immaculata.edu.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 18 - 29 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Emily Potter-Ndiaye, Franny Kent
Visiting Faculty: Deborah Gray White, Judith Wellman, Manisha Sinha, Martha Jones, Nancy Hewitt, Wanda Hendricks, Julie Gallagher
Location: New York, NY
For more information: nehinstitute@brooklynhistory.org (347) 381-3709 http://AbolitionSuffrage-NEHInstitute.org.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-August 5 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Cornelius L. Bynum, Chrystal S. Johnson
Visiting Faculty: James Grossman, Maureen Honey, Nicole Kong, Venetria Patton, Richard Pierce, Randy Roberts
Location: West Lafayette, IN
For more information: placeholder@purdue.edu (765) 494-4132 http://cla.purdue.edu/from-plessy-to-brown.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 17-31, 2016 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Matthew Spangler and David Kahn
Visiting Faculty: Maxine Hong Kingston, Luis Valdez, Ping Chong, Andrew Lam, Kinan Valdez, Donna Gabaccia, Kelly Lytle-Hernández, Judy Yung, Persis Karim, Glen Gendzel, Sara Zatz
Location: San Jose, California
For more information: CAimmigrationinstitute@gmail.com (408) 924-1373 http://immigrationtheatreinstitute.org/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-30 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Susan Shillinglaw, William Gilly
Visiting Faculty: Mary Adler, Pete Barraza, Vearl Gish, Persis Karim, Robert DeMott, Chris Fink, Scot Guenter, Anthony Newfield, Steve Palumbi, Matthew Spangler, Craig Strang, Tim Thomas
Location: Monterey/Pacific Grove, California
For more information: steinbecknehinstitute@gmail.com (408) 924-4487 http://www.steinbeckinstitute.org.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-July 22 (Two Weeks)
Project Director(s): Jamie S. Ross, Daniel S. Pierce
Visiting Faculty: Ron Eller, John Inscoe, Helen Lewis, Ron Rash, Timothy Silver, Ross Spears, James Veteto, and Crystal Wilkinson
Location: Asheville, NC
For more information: dpierce@unca.edu (828) 232-2996 http://appalachiafilm.org/neh.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-29 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Henry Goldschmidt
Visiting Faculty: Eva Abbamonte, Ali Asani, Whittney Barth, Hasia Diner, Sasha Elias, Charles Haynes, Kristen Looney, Elizabeth McAlister, Annabella Pitkin, Mary Katherine Sheena, Josef Sorett, John Thatamanil, J. Terry Todd, Marnie Weir, Kathy Wildman Zinger
Location: New York City, NY
For more information: hgoldschmidt@interfaithcenter.org (212) 870-3514 http://www.religiousworldsnyc.org.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 26-July 22, 2016 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Robert Johnston, Rachel Allmen
Visiting Faculty: James Barrett, Diane Dillon, Leon Fink, Maureen Flanagan, Daniel Greene, Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, Jeffrey Helgeson, Ben Johnson, Christopher Lamberti, Jeff Sklansky, Cecilia Tichi, Jonathan Zimmerman
Location: Chicago, IL
For more information: rallmen@chicagohistoryfair.org (312) 255-3661 http://www.gildedandprogressive.org/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 10-23 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Dr. Amanda Dargan, Sahar Muradi
Visiting Faculty: Dr. Bruce Lawrence,
Dr. Rafey Habib, Dr. Everett Rowson, Dr. Jawid Mojadeddi, Dr. Frances Pritchett, Dr. Kemal Silay, Dr. Stephen Blum, Amir Vahab, Zeba Rahman, Dr. Najwa Adra, Kewulay Kamara, Dr. Theodore Levin, Sylviane Diouf
Location: New York, NY
For more information: adargan@citylore.org (212) 529-1955 x14 http://citylore.org/grassroots-poetry/neh-institute/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 18 – 29 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Katie Miller
Visiting Faculty: Krista Apple-Hodge, Julie Crawford, Mario DiGangi, Claudia Zelevansky
Location: Brooklyn, NY
For more information: kmiller@tfana.org (212) 229-2819 x18 http://www.tfana.org/NEHSummerInstitute.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 26-July 23, 2016 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Peggy O'Brien
Visiting Faculty: Dr. Ellen MacKay, Dr. Christy Desmet, Dr. Stephen Dickey, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Michael Ellis-Tolaydo, Heather Lester, Sue Biondo-Hench, Stefanie Jochman, Greta Brasgalla
Location: Washington, DC
For more information: pobrien@folger.edu (202) 863-0372 http://www.folger.edu/teaching-shakespeare-institute-2016.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 6-30 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Christian Peterson, Tracy Busch
Visiting Faculty: Norman Saul; David Goldfrank; David Foglesong; Ronald Grigor; Steven Miner; Paul Josephson; Jack Segal; and John Beyrle
Location: Big Rapids, MI
For more information: peterc27@ferris.edu (231) 591-5846 http://faculty.ferris.edu/neh-institute.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 18 - August 13 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Susanna Fein, David Raybin
Visiting Faculty: Ardis Butterfield, Stephen Fliegel, Richard Firth Green, Robert J. Meyer-Lee
Location: Kent, OH
For more information: sfein@kent.edu (330) 221-8803 http://www.kent.edu/english/neh-chaucer.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 18-29, 2016 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Olivier Zunz, Arthur Goldhammer
Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
For more information: neh.tocqueville.seminar@virginia.edu (434) 924-6390 http://tocqueville.as.virginia.edu.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-August 12 (5 Weeks)
Project Director(s): James R. Akerman, Jordana Dym
Location: Chicago, IL
For more information: smithctr@newberry.org (312) 255-3541 https://www.newberry.org/07112016-mapping-text-and-travel.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-August 5 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Lori Branch, Mark Knight
Visiting Faculty: Misty Anderson, Colin Jager, Deidre Lynch, Regina Schwartz
Location: Iowa City, IA
For more information: postsecular-novel@uiowa.edu (319) 353-2466 http://www.uiowa.edu/postsecular-novel.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 17-31 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Laura Gardner, Laura Dufresne
Visiting Faculty: Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, Ellen Garvey
Location: Asheville, NC
For more information: nehseminar@winthrop.edu (803) 323-2654 http://www.winthrop.edu/neh-seminar.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 20-July 15 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Betül Başaran
Visiting Faculty: Virginia Aksan, Pınar Emiralioğlu, Eric Dursteler
Location: Washington, D.C.
For more information: bbasaran@smcm.edu (240) 895-2026 http://grants.smcm.edu/neh-summer-seminar-2016.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 27-July 29 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Glenn Gordinier, Eric Roorda
Visiting Faculty: Mary Bercaw Edwards, W. Jeffrey Bolster, James T. Carlton, John Hattendorf, John O. Jensen, Christine Keiner, Rod Mather, Matthew McKenzie, Lisa Norling, Christopher Pastore, Marcus Rediker, Helen Rozwadowski
Location: Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT 06355
For more information: munson@mysticseaport.org (860) 572-0711 x5 http://www.mysticseaport.org/munson-neh/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 5—July 27 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Eileen Julien, James Ogude
Visiting Faculty: Akin Adesokan, Grace A. Musila, Oana Panaïté
Location: Bloomington, IN and New Orleans, LA
For more information: ias@indiana.edu (812) 855-1513 http://ias.indiana.edu/neh-summer-2016/program-description/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 13-July 15 (5 weeks)
Project Director(s): Roger T. Ames, Peter Hershock
Visiting Faculty: Shana Brown, Donald Clarke, Hugh Kang, Thomas Kasulis, Yong-Hee Kim, Fred Lau, Stanley Murashige, Michael Nylan, Edward Shultz, Richard Smith, Xu Dongfeng
Location: Honolulu, HI
For more information: mineia@eastwestcenter.org (808) 944-7337 http://asdp-confucianasia.org/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: May 30-June 24, 2016 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Matthew Teutsch, Cheylon Woods, Sheryl Curry
Visiting Faculty: John Wharton Lowe, Gary Edward Holcomb, Richard Yarborough, Keith Eldon Byerman, Thadious M. Davis, Herman Beavers, M. Marcia Gaudet, Maria Herbert Leiter
Location: Lafayette, LA
For more information: gainescenter@louisiana.edu (337) 482-1848 https://ernestgaines.ucs.louisiana.edu/summerscholar/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 19-July 14, 2016 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Joan McGregor, Dan Shilling
Visiting Faculty: Mike Anderson, Elizabeth Brandt, Robin Morris Collin, Thomas Finger, Andrea Houchard, Michael Simone, Bron Taylor, Gioa Woods
Location:
For more information: ihr@asu.edu (480) 965-3000 https://humanities-sustainability.asu.edu.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: May 29-June 17 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Bruce Caldwell
Visiting Faculty: Angus Burgin, Bruce Caldwell, Duncan Foley, Craufurd Goodwin, Thomas Leonard, Steven Medema, Edward Nik-Khah, Maria Pia Paganelli, Nicholas Phillipson, Bart Wilson
Location: Durham, NC
For more information: az28@duke.edu (919) 660-1848 http://hope.econ.duke.edu.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 6-July 1, 2016 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): David Dettmann, Morris Rossabi
Visiting Faculty: Christopher Atwood, Pamela Crossley, William Fitzhugh, Elizabeth Endicott, Charles Krusekopf, Clyde Goulden, Nancy Steinhardt, Johan Elverskog, Susan Witte, Peter Marsh
Location: Philadelphia, PA
For more information: ddettmann@mongoliacenter.org (360) 356-1020 http://mongoliacenter.org/neh_summer_institute.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: May 30-June 24 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Deborah Mower, Phyllis (Peggy) Vandenberg
Visiting Faculty: Randall Curren, Justin D’Arms, Catherine Elgin, Owen Flanagan, Steven Fesmire, William Flesch, Michael B. Gill, Dan Johnson, Mark Johnson, Carlton Mackey, Margaret Moore, Deborah S. Mower, Shaun Nichols, Michael S. Pritchard, Richard Shusterman, Nancy E. Snow
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
For more information: nehinstitute2016@gvsu.edu (616) 331-2496 http://gvsu.edu/neh-institute.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 19-July 16 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): George Scheper, Laraine Fletcher
Visiting Faculty: Ned Blackhawk, Kathleen DuVal, C. Joseph Genetin-Palawa, Daniel K. Richter, John Rennie Short, Gray Whaley, Michael Witgen, John Wunder
Location: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
For more information: berry@essex.edu (973) 877-3204 http://NativeGrounds2016-NEH-CCHA.org.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 26-July 21 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Susanna Siegel, Nicholas Silins
Visiting Faculty: Michael Brownstein, Andy Clark, Jonathan Dancy, Kristie Dotson, Anil Gupta, Jonathan Kramnick, Rae Langton, Fiona Macpherson, Kate Manne, Matt McGrath, Eric Mandelbaum, Jessica Moss, Phia Salter, Jason Stanley, Winnie Wong
Location: Ithaca, NY
For more information: neh.perception@gmail.com (617) 495-1884 http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/neh_perception.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: May 31-June 17, 2016 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Charles Mathewes, Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Visiting Faculty: Edward Slingerland, Courtney Bender
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
For more information: amt6vr@virginia.edu (434) 924-6708 https://studyofreligionseminar.wordpress.com.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 20 - July 15 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Jana K. Schulman
Visiting Faculty: Robert Fulk, Dawn Hadley, Heather O’Donoghue, Gisli Sigurðsson, Kevin Wanner
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
For more information: Pamela.mottley@wmich.edu (269) 387-2574 http://wmich.edu/Beowulf.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-29 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): Karin Maag, Kate van Liere
Visiting Faculty: David Whitford (Lead Faculty), Katherine French, John Roth, Kristen Walton
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
For more information: kmaag@calvin.edu (616) 526-6089 http://www.calvin.edu/meeter/NEH/2016/.
Deadline: March 7, 2016
Dates: June 4-30 (4 weeks)
Project Director(s): Steven Heine, Hitomi Yoshio
Visiting Faculty: Masako Kubota, Matthew Marr, Amy Marshall, Eric Messersmith, Laura Nenzi
Location: Miami, FL
For more information: asian@fiu.edu (305) 348-1914 http://asian.fiu.edu/neh/.
Deadline: March 8, 2016
Dates: July 10-29 (3 weeks)
Project Director(s): James M. Dubinsky, Bruce Pencek
Visiting Faculty: Marc Brodsky, Benjamin Busch, David Cline, Edward Fox, Mariana Grohowski, Eric Hodges, Carlton Kent, James Marten, Peter Molin, Donna Musil, Heidi Nobles, Paul Quigley, Jaime Rand, Jonathan Shay, Nancy Short
Location: Blacksburg, VA
For more information: Dubinsky@vt.edu (540) 231-1939 https://veteransinsociety.wordpress.com/amvetsinsociety-neh2016.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: July 11-22 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Donna Thompson Ray
Visiting Faculty: Lynne Bassett, Joshua Brown, Sarah Burns, Keith Davis, Gregory Downs, Thavolia Glymph, Lauren Hewes, David Jaffee, Ari Kelman, Maurie McInnis, Megan Kate Nelson, Kirk Savage, Susan Schulten, Scott Manning Stevens
Location: New York, NY
For more information: DThompson@gc.cuny.edu (212) 817-1963 http://ashp.cuny.edu/civil-war-150/nehinstitute/.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
Dates: June 13-24 (2 weeks)
Project Director(s): Kevin Butterfield, Paul Gilje
Visiting Faculty: Andrew R. L. Cayton, Amy S. Greenberg, Peter J. Kastor, Peter S. Onuf, Lindsay G. Robertson, Alan Taylor, Fay A. Yarbrough
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
For more information: iach@ou.edu (405) 325-7697 http://cas.ou.edu/expansion.