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NEH Summer Stipends Deadline

Program Description

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipend program supports individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of the humanities.  Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, scholarly translations, critical editions or other scholarly tools.

Summer Stipends provide $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.  Recipients must work full-time on their projects for these two months, and may hold other research grants supporting the project during the same time.  Saint Xavier University can nominate up to two full-time faculty members’ applications for support during the summer of 2009.  Each can be either a junior  (instructor or assistant professor) or senior (associate professor or professor) faculty member.

Adjunct and part-time faculty and staff members may apply directly to NEH as independent scholars and do not require SXU’s nomination.

Requirements

Faculty members notify SXU of their interest by submitting an abstract of no more than 500 words to the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences by Wednesday, April 30, 2008.  Your application must give an overview of your project, how it fits into the 2-month time-frame, and how it advances scholarship in the humanities.  In the event that there are more interested parties than nomination slots, the dean will select the projects receiving SXU’s nomination.

Timeline

• April 30, 2008 – abstracts due to Office of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
• May 21, 2008 – notification of nomination status
• August 1 - October 1, 2008 – application period 
• March, 2009 – notification by NEH

The NEH estimates that the average time to complete the online application is 15 hours.  Once submitted online, applications will be verified by the nominating institution as part of the NEH’s evaluation process.

The Office of Foundation & Government Relations is available to review nominated applications prior to submission, and must receive a copy of the final documents, including any notes received back from the NEH.

Ineligible Projects

• Research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program
• Specific policy studies or educational or technical impact studies
• The preparation or publication of textbooks
• Studies of teaching methods or theories, surveys of courses and programs or curriculum development
• Inventories of collections
• Works in the creative or performing arts (e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.)
• Projects that promote a particular political, philosophical, religious or ideological point of view
• Projects that advocate a particular program of social action

For More Information

Contact Kathleen Alaimo (alaimo@sxu.edu) or Ruth Hansen (rhansen@sxu.edu) if you have questions on the program or the process.  More information is also available on the National Endowment for the Humanities Web site.