Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Overview

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program. The program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. 

The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their lifecycles that respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:

• research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally challenging methods and techniques
• enhancement or design of digital infrastructure that contributes to and supports the humanities, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms
• evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement

The DHAG program values experimentation, reuse, and extensibility, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programs in the humanities. DHAG recipients contribute to humanities scholarship by serving carefully identified audiences, addressing issues of accessibility and usability, and designing equitable, open, replicable, and sustainable projects. If your project is funded, you must analyze your workflow and publish your results in a white paper that NEH will share widely. This body of work contributes to the digital humanities’ research base.

Awards are available at three funding levels. You should choose the level appropriate to the scope and maturity of your proposed project. You are not required to obtain a Level I award to apply for a Level II project, nor are you required to receive a Level I or II award to apply for a Level III project, but you must complete some earlier phase of work to be eligible for a Level III award.

Level I awards (up to $75,000 and up to 24 months) support small research projects or early stages of larger projects
Level II awards (from $75,001 to $150,000 and up to 24 months) support projects that have completed an initial planning phase and are poised to scale up based on prior research and development.
Level III awards (from $150,001 to $350,000 and up to 36 months) support the expansion of mature projects with an established user base and strong dissemination plans beyond the applicant institution.