Assistance program
Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends
$68.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 45.160
- What it does
- Fellowships and Stipends provide support for individual scholars to produce humanities scholarship, including books, articles, and digital projects. Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Awards for Faculty offer flexible fellowships to those employed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. Summer Stipends offer two-month awards to pursue focused research. Public Scholar awards encourage writing books for a wide readership. Fellowships for Digital Publication support projects that require digital expression. Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships support individual scholars pursuing research on documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages.
- Who benefits
- Fellowships and Summer Stipends: college and university faculty and staff; individuals affiliated with institutions other than colleges and universities; and independent scholars and writers. Awards for Faculty: faculty members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.
- Who applies
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. See C. Eligibility Information in the Notice of Funding Opportunity for additional program specific eligibility requirements.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 89-209; 20 U.S.C. § 951
- Program site
- https://www.neh.gov/divisions/research ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments