Professional Development

Professional Development Programs

NEH supports professional development programs for K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals to study a variety of humanities topics. Programs are offered in residential, virtual, and combined formats. Participant stipends are based upon program format and duration. 

  • Institutes are one to four-week professional development programs that convene K-12 educators or higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. 

  • Landmarks of American History and Culture programs are one-week workshops held across the nation that enhance how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship. The video below features educators who have participated in various Landmarks programs over the past 20 years discussing the power of place.

Resources for Applicants and Participants

Application and Notification Dates for 2025-2026

  • December 8, 2025: Applications open for all 2026 programs  
  • March 6, 2026: Applications close for all 2026 programs at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time
  • April 6, 2026: All applicants are notified of their status
  • April 17, 2026: Deadline for applicants to accept or decline their offer

Questions regarding applications and program requirements should be directed to program project directors. 

276 Result(s)

Advanced Topics in TEI Encoding

Dates: Various dates in 2009 - 2011
Project Location: University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Maryland, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Network Analysis for the Humanities

Dates: August 15 - 27, 2010 and a reunion conference held October 20 - 22, 2011.
Project Location: UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (NSF Math Institute).

NINES Summer Workshops: Emerging Issues in Digital Scholarship

Dates: First institute held May 30 - June 3, 2011 and second institute held June 19 - 22, 2012. Final meeting held May 20 - 21, 2013.
Project Location: Institutes were hosted at the University of Virginia. A final meeting was held at the headquarters of the Modern Language Association in New York, NY.

Computer Simulations in the Humanities

Dates: First institute held June 1 - 17, 2011 and second institute held May 30 - June 1, 2012
Project Location: University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Digital Humanities Data Curation

Dates: Various dates in 2013 - 2014
Project Location: Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, University of Maryland, College Park, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities

Dates: Various Dates in 2013 - 2015
Project Location: A series of five two-day workshops to be held at Northeastern University, Emory University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice

Dates: June 17, 2013 – July 6, 2013
Project Location: Arkansas State University, Jonesboro campus in northeast Arkansas in the Mississippi Delta region, and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UAF), located in northwest Arkansas.

Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies

Dates: Workshop 1: June 29- July 1, 2016, Workshop 2: October 13-16, 2016, and Workshop 3: May 16-18, 2017
Project Location: Yale University, Northern Arizona University, and Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

Object Lessons Institutes

Dates: Four workshops offered in fall 2017 and spring 2018.
Project Location: Tempe, AZ; Washington, DC; New York, NY; Tampa, FL

Textual Data & Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom

Dates: A weeklong in-person session held July 16-20, 2018, at Mississippi State University. Virtual sessions and online communication will continue during the 2019 academic year.
Project Location: Mississippi State University and virtually

The Revolution in Books

Host Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Dates: June 6-24, 2022 (residential) and August 4-5, 2022 (virtual)
Project Location: Boca Raton, FL and Online
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