Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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The Awards for Faculty program strengthens the humanities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities 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.

The program welcomes proposals in all areas of the humanities, regardless of geographic or chronological focus. This program offers applicants flexibility in project outcomes and award periods. Projects must be based on humanities research. Eligible projects include:

• 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
• research related to institutional or community goals or interests, such as projects that draw on archival collections, collection and interpretation of oral histories, or the development of materials in support of culture or language preservation and revitalization
• research leading to the improvement of a single existing undergraduate course, including the development of humanities resources (for example, oral histories, identification and preparation of previously unavailable archival sources, or newly compiled historical or literary collections)
• research leading to digital or web-based products intended to supplement a course revision or publication project

The program is open to all faculty and staff members, including full-time, part-time, adjunct, and retired faculty and staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Awards support individuals who work between half time and full time on their projects. Projects may be at any stage of development.

If you are awarded an Awards for Faculty at HBCUs or TCUs fellowship, your institution may be eligible to apply for funding to offset costs associated with your research leave, including funds to offset costs associated with hiring replacement instructors for humanities courses that the Awards for Faculty fellow would normally teach. Please visit Awards for Faculty Institutional Support – HBCUs and TCUs (neh.gov) for full details about this new program.

Watch a webinar about the program and NOFO:

Register to join NEH Staff for live Q&A sessions about the program. Submit questions in advance or bring them to the session:

Live Q&A session, January 25, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Registration link: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/WWSwk33HtkSvf-gTzdzcww,3c9X9dCp-EG-h1ajTaxtRA,L82laosWM0asovN0yP-OXg,YB7E1LSjEEK647QXJMMFXw,SP5R9H4FmUaYNw-OSRN5ww,BtB3D3dLr02WGR1_Lqt7lA?mode=read&tenantId=93b06459-c77d-44b6-af7f-e813cddcdcc3&webinarRing=gcc

Live Q&A session, February 27, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Registration link: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/WWSwk33HtkSvf-gTzdzcww,3c9X9dCp-EG-h1ajTaxtRA,L82laosWM0asovN0yP-OXg,hQZlb2-xfk6H7m-_BoRRRQ,EknzM0snFECu_Oog892vNQ,oSbnUi5670W0UGFrYTK-jg?mode=read&tenantId=93b06459-c77d-44b6-af7f-e813cddcdcc3&webinarRing=gcc

Note about Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

This grant program is one of ten NEH programs that are part of NEH’s Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence initiative, which is encouraging research on the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. To learn more about the initiative, please see our page about the AI initiative.