Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Division of Research Programs
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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.
Staff provided a webinar about the program on January 26, 2022, and a recording is available here.
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
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Notice of Funding Opportunity 2022 (PDF)
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Grants.gov application package
Program Resources
Awards for Faculty Frequently Asked Questions, 2022 (PDF)
Awards for Faculty Sample Projects (PDF)
List of recent Awards for Faculty
Sample Application Narratives
The narrative samples below are not intended to serve as models, but to give applicants a sense of how a successful application might be crafted. Note that format has been changed since these applications were submitted. Follow the guidelines in the currently posted Notice of Funding Opportunity to insure that your application is complete and eligible.
Sample Application: Women of Leech Lake Nation: Historical Trauma and Colonization
Sample Application: Moroccan Director Moumen Smihi (b.1945): Arab Modernities and Cinema
Sample Application: Andean Cosmopolitans: Indigenous Journeys to the Habsburg Royal Court
Sample Application, The Abolitionist Movement's Involvement in American Politics, 1750-1865
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, 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
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. Subsequently, you will receive up to five more notices confirming different stages in the application process. Verify that you have received all confirmations. Note that email filters may send these messages to your spam or junk folder.
NEH will request letters of reference from your recommenders approximately seven to ten days after the application deadline. You will be notified by email when each of your letters of reference has been received. Once you receive final confirmation of receipt from Grants.gov, 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.
