Assistance program
Promotion of the Humanities Research
$108.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 45.161
- What it does
- Humanities Research awards advance knowledge and understanding of the humanities and strengthen their intellectual foundations. The Collaborative Research program supports projects by two or more scholars. Scholarly Editions and Translations provides funding for time-intensive editing projects such as the Papers of George Washington. Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions provides American scholars access to American centers for humanities research around the world. Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Work supports field research utilizing archaeological and/or ethnographic methods to answer significant questions in the humanities.
- Who benefits
- U.S. citizens and residents, State and local governments, sponsored organizations, public and private nonprofit institutions/organizations, other public institutions/organizations, Federally recognized Native Amercan Tribal governments, Native American organizations, U.S. jurisdictions; non-governmental-general; minority organizations, other specialized groups; and quasi-public nonprofit institutions
- Who applies
- For Collaborative Research, Scholarly Editions and Translations, and Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research: U.S. public and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations (including institutions of higher education), state and local governments, and federally recognized Native American Tribal governments. For Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI): U.S. nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, a state or local governmental agency, or a federally recognized Native American Tribal government with existing fellowship programs. FPIRI applicant institutions must be financed, governed, and administered independently of institutions of higher education.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 89-209; 20 U.S.C. § 951
- Program site
- http://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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- Awards, counted once
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