Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
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This program supports individual faculty or staff members at Hispanic-Serving Institutions pursuing research of value to humanities scholars, students, or general audiences. Awards are designed to be flexible, allowing applicants to define the audience, type of research, award periods, and administrative arrangements that best fit their projects.
Awards can be used for a wide range of projects that are based on humanities research. Eligible projects include pursuing research in primary and secondary materials and producing articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources; conducting basic research leading to the improvement of an existing undergraduate course; or conducting basic research related to the goals and interests of the institution or community.
Common to all applications—regardless of their outcome—must be humanities research supporting the goals of the project.
What's New?
NEH has increased the Awards for Faculty monthly stipend from $4,200 to $5,000. As a result, the minimum award is now $10,000 (for two months of full-time work or the equivalent—for example, four months of half-time work). The maximum award is now $60,000 (for twelve months of full-time work or the equivalent—for example, twenty-four months of half-time work).
Important information about Determining Eligibility
The Department of Education has recently provided a link to the FY 2018 Eligibility Matrix data. You can check your institution's eligibility information in the FY 2018 Eligibility Matrix here: https://hepis.ed.gov/title3and5/login.cfm. To use the data from the FY 2018 matrix to establish your institution's eligibility for the NEH Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions program, provide a screen shot of your institution's eligibility information from this website and include it with your application in Attachment 4, "Statement of Eligibility."
As soon as you know you're ready to apply for this grant, make sure you register for a grants.gov account as this is vital to the grants process. If you already have registered for an account, make sure it is up to date.
Begin by reading the full grant guidelines and studying the application. The files are linked below. You want to ensure you understand all the expectations and restrictions for projects delivered under this grant and are prepared to write the most effective application.
Download Application Materials
Application Package for Awards for Faculty Programs
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions guidelines (PDF)
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions guidelines (DOC)
Program Resources
Awards for Faculty Frequently Asked Questions, 2018 (PDF)
Awards for Faculty Sample Projects, 2018
List of recent Awards for Faculty
Sample Application Narratives
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Be sure to follow the instructions outlined in the guidelines and in the grants.gov instructions.
You will receive a confirmation from grants.gov when you've successfully submitted your application.
After you submit your application, Grants.gov will send you up to five e-mail messages confirming receipt of your application. These messages represent different stages in the application acceptance process. You should verify that you have received all confirmation messages. Please note that email filters may send these messages to your spam or junk folder.
NEH requests letters of reference from your recommenders approximately seven to ten days after the application deadline. You will be notified by e-mail when each of your letters of reference has been received. After you have received the fifth message from Grants.gov (confirming that NEH received your application), you may check the status of your letters by logging in to the secure area of NEH’s website. Enter your NEH application number and your Grants.gov tracking number. You will be able to see the names and e-mail addresses of your letter writers and whether their letters have arrived. If necessary, you may send reminders to your letter writers (including the upload link) from this site. You are responsible for ensuring that your letter writers have received the solicitations from NEH and submitted their letters.
