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Opportunity Summary:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant is a discretionary grant program designed to fund interpretive humanities research carried out by teams rather than solo investigators. The core expectation is that two or more scholars work together on a unified research agenda, with projects structured as either full-time or part-time efforts. Grants are meant to support sustained collaboration over a meaningful period, with an allowable project length ranging from a minimum of one year to a maximum of three years. The opportunity sits within the humanities funding area (CFDA 45.161, Promotion of the Humanities Research) and emphasizes scholarly interpretation and analysis, not just data collection or preservation, while still allowing a wide range of research activities that often accompany humanities scholarship.

Funding can be used flexibly to cover many of the real costs of collaborative work. NEH indicates that support may include compensation and expenses for different combinations of project personnel, such as participating scholars, outside consultants, and research assistants. It also covers project-related travel, fieldwork, and the use of information technology as it relates to the research, along with technical support and services needed to carry out the project. In practice, this means applicants can propose budgets that reflect how collaborative humanities research is actually conducted: coordinating across institutions, traveling to archives or field sites, hiring assistants for language, transcription, or bibliographic work, and using digital tools or technical expertise when those tools directly advance the research goals.

The program places clear importance on dissemination and public value. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to appropriate scholarly and public audiences. This typically implies that projects should not end with internal findings only; instead, they should produce visible outcomes such as books, peer-reviewed articles, critical editions, digital research outputs, conference presentations, lectures, or other forms of public-facing scholarship suitable to the topic and audience. The emphasis on both scholarly and public audiences signals that NEH is looking for projects that can contribute to academic knowledge while also helping broader communities engage with humanities questions, histories, texts, cultures, or ideas.

In terms of award size, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of $300,000 and an award floor of $0, indicating that proposals may request varying amounts up to the maximum depending on scope and need. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which can reduce barriers for applicants who may not have access to institutional matching funds. The funding instrument type is a grant, reflecting standard NEH support for research activities rather than contracts for specific deliverables dictated by the agency.

Eligibility is broad and includes individuals and many types of organizations and governments. Eligible applicants include private and public institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions), and multiple levels of government entities such as state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. This range allows projects to be anchored in universities, museums or scholarly nonprofits, or public entities, and it also allows collaborative teams that may cross institutional boundaries, so long as the application meets NEH requirements and the project is firmly grounded in humanities interpretive research.

Key administrative details from the announcement include the funding opportunity number 20111208 RZ, with the original and current closing date listed as December 8, 2011, and an archive date of January 7, 2012, indicating this specific notice is historical rather than currently open. For the full program guidelines, the notice points to NEH's Collaborative Research page at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html. Applicants or interested parties were directed to contact NEH's Division of Research Programs by phone at 202 606 8200 or by email at collaborative@neh.gov, with a TDD option for hearing-impaired applicants at 1 866 372 2930.

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