Attention innovators and scholars in the realm of digital humanities! The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is excited to announce the opening of applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) program. This program is a beacon of support for groundbreaking, experimental, and computationally intricate digital projects that have the potential to revolutionize scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.
Nurturing Innovation and Impact
The DHAG program embraces the spirit of experimentation, promoting reuse and extensibility of digital projects that can be scaled to enrich scholarly endeavors, education, and public engagement. Through DHAG, digital pioneers contribute to the advancement of humanities scholarship by creating projects that cater to specific audiences, ensure accessibility and usability, and establish projects that are equitable, open, replicable, and sustainable.
Grant Purpose and Programmatic Priorities
The DHAG program is designed to support projects at various stages of their lifecycle that align with these programmatic priorities:
- Innovative Methods and Techniques: Research and refinement of inventive, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques.
- Digital Infrastructure Enhancement: Enhancement, design, or maintenance of digital infrastructure that bolsters and sustains the humanities, such as open-source code, platforms, or tools.
- Impact Evaluation: Evaluative studies investigating the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement.
Areas of Interest: Making a Difference through the Humanities
The DHAG program seeks projects that contribute to two specific areas of interest:
- American Tapestry: Leveraging humanities to tackle pressing challenges such as strengthening democracy, promoting equity, and addressing climate change.
- United They Stand: Using humanities to combat hate-motivated violence, foster civic engagement, social cohesion, and cross-cultural understanding.
Funding Information
- Grant Amounts: Up to $75,000 for Level I, $75,001 to $150,000 for Level II, and $150,001 to $350,000 for Level III.
- Level III Matching Funds: If seeking Level III funding, you can also request up to $100,000 in federal matching funds for a total award of up to $450,000.
- Period of Performance: Up to 24 months for Level I and Level II, up to 36 months for Level III.
- Start Date: Between September 1, 2024, and November 1, 2024.
Activities and Outcomes: Driving Change
The DHAG program offers a spectrum of activities and outcomes based on the grant level:
- Level I: Research agenda development, method identification, user needs assessment, prototyping, convenings, and more.
- Level II: Technical development, data curation, refinement, workshops, documentation, and more.
- Level III: Usable resource creation, user testing, code review, outreach events, preservation, and more.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations: Nonprofit organizations, accredited higher education institutions, state/local governments or agencies, and federally recognized Native American Tribal governments.
- Ineligible: Individuals, foreign and for-profit entities.
- Role of Recipient: Recipient organizations must contribute substantively to the project's success.
Shape the Future with Digital Humanities
This is your chance to pioneer digital projects that can revolutionize humanities scholarship, education, and public engagement. To learn more about the application process and detailed guidelines, visit https://www.neh.gov.
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