Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Office of Digital Humanities
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Maximum award amount
Level II: $150,000
Level III: $350,000, with an additional $100,000 in matching funds
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The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.
The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their lifecycles that respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:
• research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
• enhancement or design of digital infrastructure that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms
• evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement
DHAG is one of many grant programs at the NEH that funds digital humanities projects. Please consult these resources to help find the right program to support your work.
In support of its efforts to advance national information infrastructures in libraries and archives, and subject to the availability of funds and agency discretion, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) anticipates providing funding through this program. These funds may support DHAG projects that further the IMLS mission to advance, support, and empower America’s libraries, archives, museums, and related organizations. IMLS funding supports innovative collaborations between library and archives professionals, humanities professionals, information scientists, and relevant public communities that advance the preservation of, access to, and public engagement with, digital collections and services. IMLS encourages DHAG applicants to work in collaboration, and employ the expertise of, library and archives staff at your institution or across the country to strengthen knowledge networks, empower community learning, foster civic cohesion, advance research, and support the traditionally underserved.
What’s New for 2024
• Prospective applicants seeking expedited program officer feedback about the fit of their project to the DHAG program are invited to submit a brief inquiry.
• Applicants at all three funding levels may request funding for sustaining, revitalizing, or recovering digital projects.
• Level III applicants may request up to $100,000 in matching funds.
Reminders:
• Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not include all required sections and components (e.g., Budget form with a Budget Justification,
Biographies and not CVs).
• Applications will be declared ineligible for review if they do not comply with all requirements indicated with a “must” outlined in the NOFO, including page limits.
• Two or more applications for federal funding and/or approved federal award budgets are not permitted to include overlapping project costs.
• We no longer accept letters of support. Any letters submitted by individuals not participating in the project will be removed from the application.
Webinar:
A webinar recording and slides for the 2024 NOFO and deadline dates will be available by October 26, 2023.
Read the Notice of Funding Opportunity to ensure you understand all the expectations and restrictions for projects delivered under this program and that you are prepared to write the most effective application.
Application Materials
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Notice of Funding Opportunity 2024 (PDF)
Grants.gov application package for Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Program Resources
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Frequently Asked Questions 2024 (PDF)
List of recent awards in this program
Sample Application Narratives
Level I
- University of Georgia, Freedom's Movement: Mapping African American Space in War and Reconstruction
- Ball State University, Library Circulation Histories Workshop
- Shift Design, Redesigning Historypin for Open-Source Digital Humanities
- University of Virginia, The Development of Digital Documentary Editing Platforms
Level II
- Temple University, Developing the Data Set of Nineteenth-Century Knowledge
- University of Richmond, Distant Viewing Toolkit (DVT) for the Cultural Analysis of Moving Images
- College of William and Mary, Transkribus and the Georgian Papers Programme Tabular-Formatted Manuscripts
- James Madison University, Circulating American Magazines, Level II Grant
Level III
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, SnowVision: A Machine Learning-Based Image Processing Tool for the Study of Archaeological Collections
- St. John's University, Ensuring Access to Endangered and Inaccessible Manuscripts
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