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Opportunity Summary:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Office of Digital Humanities, offers the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant program to fund national or regional (multi-state) training programs that help humanities scholars and advanced graduate students deepen their skills in digital humanities. The central purpose is capacity-building: NEH wants to increase the number of humanities researchers who can confidently use advanced digital tools and methods in their scholarship and teaching, while also spreading practical knowledge about emerging technologies, analytical approaches, and research workflows that are increasingly important across humanities fields.

Funded projects are designed as intensive training experiences, commonly called "institutes," that can be structured in flexible ways depending on the topic and audience. An institute may be a single offering or repeated multiple times for different cohorts. Program length can range from a short, multi-day format (including possibilities that occur at more than one location) to a longer, immersive program lasting up to six weeks at a single site. NEH explicitly allows timing that matches how scholars work and travel, such as sessions scheduled around established scholarly conferences, during summer breaks, or at other points in the academic year when participants can realistically attend. Regardless of format, the expectation is that the institute is long enough to treat the topic thoroughly rather than offering only a high-level overview.

The opportunity is grounded in the idea that complex data and digital materials are now as essential to humanities research as traditional sources. Many humanities questions increasingly involve digitized historical records, high-resolution image collections, audiovisual and multimedia archives, and other large datasets that have grown rapidly thanks to cheaper mass storage and major digital content creation initiatives. NEH points to the broader ecosystem that makes this work possible: improved networking, more powerful analytical tools, and collaboration platforms that support shared access, interactive exploration, and sophisticated analysis. In practical terms, the institutes are meant to help participants learn how to work with these kinds of materials responsibly and effectively, including how to manipulate, interpret, and analyze digital data in ways that produce credible humanities scholarship.

This specific funding opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 20150310-HT) is a discretionary grant program under CFDA 45.169 (Promotion of the Humanities). Awards range from $50,000 to $250,000, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which can make the program more accessible to applicants that do not have large pools of external or institutional matching funds. Eligible applicants include a wide mix of organization types, including public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and certain nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status), and several levels of government (state, county, city/township, special district), as well as federally recognized Native American tribal governments. This eligibility breadth reflects the reality that strong digital humanities training programs can be hosted by universities, libraries, museums, research centers, consortia, and other mission-driven institutions with the capacity to convene scholars and deliver hands-on instruction.

Key dates listed for this announcement include a posted and creation date of December 18, 2014, with an application closing date of March 10, 2015. For further guidance, NEH directs applicants to the program webpage (listed as an additional information link) and provides a contact point through the Office of Digital Humanities at odh@neh.gov, with the option to request a phone call by emailing a preferred number and time.

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