The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by:
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.
NEH awards Summer Stipends to individuals. Organizations are not eligible to apply, although scholars who are tenured or on a tenure track who teach full time must be nominated by their institution of higher education unless otherwise exempt (see C. Eligibility).
Institutions of higher education in the United States and its jurisdictions may each nominate two faculty members per deadline.
Deadlines:
On May 18, 2022 NEH staff hosted a webinar describing the application and nomination processes and general tips for writing the application. You can view that recording, including the question-and-answer session here.
A webinar focused on application writing strategies was presented on August 17, 2022. You can view the recorded webinar here.
NOTE: If the internal deadline has passed and you are interested in this opportunity, please email fundopps@duke.edu to find out if it is still open.
Within the parameters listed below (see the next several headings), the Summer Stipends program accepts applications from individual researchers, teachers, and scholars, whether they have an institutional affiliation or not. Applicants holding tenured or tenure-track positions at institutions of higher education must, however, be nominated by their institutions. (See the “Faculty nomination section.") Organizations are not eligible to apply for Summer Stipends.
Faculty members with tenured or tenure-track positions who teach full-time at institutions of higher education must be nominated by their institutions to apply for a Summer Stipend. Each institution of higher education in the United States and its jurisdictions may nominate two faculty members. Any faculty member is eligible for nomination.
NEH expects to have approximately $600,000 available annually to fund approximately 100 recipients per deadline. Summer Stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of research and writing. You must work full-time on your project and may hold other non-NEH sources of support (for example, sabbaticals and supplementary funding) or grants for the same project during your period of performance.
Summer 2011
Fiona Somerset - Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Identity and Identification
Summer 2004
Leela Prasad - A Performed Poetic: Oral Narrative and Hindu Ethics in a South Indian Town
Summer 2003
Roberto Dainotto - Europe in Theory: Cultural Identity and the North-South Divide
Summer 2002
Maria G. Nouzellies - Cultural History of Modern Hysteria in Urban Argentina, 1875-1942
Summer 2002
Mary T. Boatwright - Tombstones, Romans, and Romanization of Rome's Northern Frontier (Pannonia)
Summer 2001
Monica H. Green - The School of Salerno: Medicine and Culture in the Twelfth Century
Summer 2001
Maurice O. Wallace - Escape to Istanbul: James Baldwin Abroad
Summer 2001
Kristine E. D. Stiles - Remembering Invisibility: Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age
Owing to the sponsor's restriction on the number of applications that may be submitted from Duke, anyone wishing to pursue nomination should submit the following materials as one PDF:
1) Project Description (part of the Project Information in a full application): Provide a brief description of your project. It should be written for a non-specialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. Also indicate your need for a Summer Stipend to complete your project (Summer Stipends expect full-time work on the project for 2 consecutive months). (1 page)
2) Resume: This should cover your current and past positions, education, publications, and other relevant professional accomplishments, activities, and language proficiencies. (2 pages)
Please submit internal materials through My Research Proposal. (Code ILN): https://www.grantinterface.com/sl/TBe3j7
Instructions for creating an account (if needed) and submitting your materials: https://ctsi.duke.edu/about-myresearchproposal
