Disciplines: All

NEH - State and Impact of the Humanities supports data-grounded research studies that investigate the state, impact, and value of the humanities in the United States. For the purposes of this program, the humanities are broadly defined as activities associated with exploring, interpreting, and preserving the diversity of human cultures, ideas, practices and experiences, past and present. See Section 2. Background for a more detailed legislative definition of the humanities.

 Proposed studies must seek to understand the state, impact, or value of the humanities in one or more of the following research categories. Note that projects should not primarily be conducting work within these categories, but rather about them. This program does not fund evaluation of a single humanities program, product, or event, such as an educational initiative, podcast, or exhibition.

1. Humanities Education: Elementary (K-5), middle (6-8), and secondary (9-12) education; post-secondary education (associates, undergraduate, and graduate programs); and educational programming outside of degree-granting learning environments.
2. Humanities Research: Scholarship (for academics, general audiences, or both) conducted within and across humanities disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary research involving humanities questions in the sciences, medicine, law, and other fields.
3. Public Humanities: Humanities work intended to engage with large and diverse public audiences through a broad range of public-facing and publicly accessible formats such as interpretive museum exhibitions, historic site interpretation, public dialogues, public facing projects led by educational or cultural organizations, and co-creative community collaborations.
4. Preservation and Access: Preserving and providing access to humanities collections, including community and grassroots preservation initiatives.
5. Humanities Infrastructure: Buildings, institutions, and communities and the financial and other resources that support them.

NEH welcomes applications that address topics such as:  

• trends in humanities research, teaching, and practice.
• economic, civic, and social impact of the humanities.
• labor and careers in the humanities.
• public perceptions of the humanities.
• humanities infrastructure and funding.
• the humanities and individual or collective well-being.
• broadening participation in the humanities.
• digital technology and the humanities; and
• the coronavirus pandemic and the humanities.

Deadline – April 16^th, 2025

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