Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Division of Research Programs
THE DEADLINE FOR THIS CYCLE HAS PASSED.
Updated guidelines will be posted in advance of the next deadline. In the meantime, please use these guidelines to get a sense of what is involved in assembling an application.
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The NEH Awards for Faculty program seeks to strengthen the humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions by encouraging and expanding humanities research opportunities for individual faculty and staff members. Awards support individuals pursuing scholarly research that is of value to humanities scholars, students, and/or general audiences.
This program offers applicants flexibility in project types and award periods. Common to all projects must be humanities research. Eligible projects include:
- humanities research in primary and secondary materials leading to the development of books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, critical editions, or other scholarly resources
- humanities research related to institutional or community goals or interests, such as projects that draw on institutional or community archival collections, or the development of materials in support of culture or language preservation and revitalization
- humanities research leading to the improvement of an existing undergraduate course, including the development of humanities resources (for example, oral histories, identification of previously unavailable primary sources, historical or literary collections)
The program is open to all faculty and staff members, including full time, part time, adjunct, and retired faculty and staff at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Awards support individuals who work between half time and full time on their projects. Projects may be at any stage of development.
A webinar about the program took place on January 27, 2021. To view a recording of the webinar, please click on the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4218492276520822544 You will be prompted to enter your name and email and then will be directed to the webinar recording.
Slides and a transcript from the January 27, 2021 webinar are posted below:
Begin by reading the Notice of Funding Opportunity, below. You want to ensure you understand all the expectations and restrictions for projects delivered under this program and are prepared to write the most effective application.
Application Materials
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Notice of Funding Opportunity 2021 (PDF)
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Grants.gov application package
Program Resources
Awards for Faculty Frequently Asked Questions, 2021 (PDF)
Awards for Faculty Sample Projects (PDF)
List of recent Awards for Faculty
Sample Application Narratives
Sample Application, The Abolitionist Movement's Involvement in American Politics, 1750-1865
Sample Application, Archaeology and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1877-1910
Sample Application, The Discourse of Sovereignty in American Indian Print Culture
Sample Application, A History of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal
Sample Application, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the U.S. South
Sample Application, The Mind of Eighteenth-Century British Writer Charlotte Lennox
Sample Application, Northern Cheyenne Ledger-Art Notebooks
Sample Application, Pre-Columbian Art of the Western and Northern Frontiers of Mesoamerica
Sample Application, Post-Reconstruction African American Literature
As soon as you know you're ready to apply, make sure you register for a Grants.gov, account as this is vital to the application process. If you already have registered, make sure it is up to date.
Follow the instructions outlined in the notice of funding opportunity and 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.
