LS 11-064 NEH Summer Stipends
Funding Amount:$6,000 |
Project Duration:2 consecutive months |
UC Davis Pre- Proposal Deadline:Jul. 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm |
Letter of Intent Deadline:
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Sponsor Deadline:Sep. 29, 2011 |
Program Website: |
Funding Areas
**Please read Program Guidelines Carefully to Determine Application Requirements.** The Summer Stipends program welcomes projects that respond to NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally or within the United States. International projects might seek to enlarge Americans’ understanding of other places and times, as well as other perspectives and intellectual traditions. American projects might explore the great variety of cultural influences on, and myriad subcultures within, American society. These projects might also investigate how Americans have approached and attempted to surmount seemingly unbridgeable cultural divides, or examine the ideals of civility and civic discourse that have informed this quest. Summer Stipends may not be used for: -projects that seek to promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view; -projects that advocate a particular program of social action; -specific policy studies; -research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program; -the preparation or revision of textbooks; -curriculum development; -the development of pedagogical tools (including teaching methods or theories); -educational or technical impact assessments; -the creation or enhancement of databases, unless part of a larger interpretive project; -empirical social science research, unless part of a larger humanities project; -inventories of collections; or -works in the creative or performing arts (e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.).
Eligibility and Nomination Requirements
**Please read program guidelines carefully and/or contact the program officer to determine your eligibility.** All applicants must have completed their formal education by the application deadline. While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply. Graduate students seeking support for a degree in the humanities should consider the Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program. Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral may apply, but such applicants need a letter from the dean of the conferring school, attesting to the applicant’s status as of September 29, 2011. This letter must be received by the Summer Stipends program by October 19, 2011. The letter may be faxed to the program at 202-606-8204; alternatively, a PDF version of the signed letter may be included as an attachment to an e-mail message sent to stipends@neh.gov. Individuals who have held or been awarded a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent within the three academic years prior to the deadline are ineligible. A “major fellowship or research grant” is a postdoctoral research award that provides a stipend of at least $15,000. Sabbaticals and grants from an individual’s own institution and stipends and grants from other sources supporting study and research during the summer are not considered major fellowships. All U.S. citizens, whether they reside inside or outside the United States, are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline are also eligible.
Notes
The Summer Stipends program accepts applications from researchers, teachers, and writers, whether they have an institutional affiliation or not. Applicants with college or university affiliations must, however, be nominated by their institutions.
