Fellowships NOFO 2024.pdf

Notice of Funding Opportunity

Fellowships

Funding Opportunity Number: 20240410-FEL

Funding Opportunity Type(s): New

Federal Assistance Listing Number: 45.160

Application Deadline: April 10, 2024

Ensure your Grants.gov registration and password are current.

NEH will not grant deadline extensions for lack of registration.

Division of Research Programs Telephone: 202-606-8200 Email: fellowships@neh.gov Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1

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Executive Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Fellowships program. The purpose of this program is to support individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research.

Funding Opportunity Title Fellowships Funding Opportunity Number 20240410-FEL Federal Assistance Listing Number 45.160 Application Deadline April 10, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Anticipated Award Announcement December 2024 Anticipated FY 2025 Funding Approximately $4,800,000 Estimated Number and Type of Awards

Approximately 80 grant(s)

Award Amounts $30,000 to $60,000 ($5,000 per month) Cost Sharing/Match Required No Period of Performance The period of performance is 6-12 months.

Projects must start between January 1, 2025, and September 1, 2026.

Eligible Applicants Individuals; see C. Eligibility Information.

Program Resource Page https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships Pre-Application Webinar February 14, 2024, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time followed by Q&A https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/694c859b- 6aed-4cfe-80f8-dcf5989bb3e6@93b06459-c77d-44b6-af7f-e813cddcdcc3

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................ i Table of Contents ................................................................................................... ii A. Program Description

1. Purpose

2. Background

B. Federal Award Information

1. Type of Application and Award

2. Summary of Funding

C. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants

2. Cost Sharing

3. Other Eligibility Information

D. Application and Submission Information

1. Application Package

2. Content and Form of Application Submission

3. Grants.gov Registration Process

4. Submission Dates and Times

5. Intergovernmental Review

6. Funding Restrictions

7. Other Submission Requirements

E. Application Review Information

1. Review Criteria

2. Review and Selection Process

3. Assessment of Risk and Other Pre-Award Activities

4. Anticipated Announcement and Award Dates

F. Federal Award Administration Information

1. Federal Award Notices

2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements

3. Reporting

G. Agency Contacts H. Other Information

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A. Program Description

1. Purpose This notice solicits applications for the Fellowships program.

NEH Fellowships are granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to write, to travel, and to conduct research and other project-related activities.

Projects may be based on original research or provide a synthesis of ideas. They may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines, regardless of geographic or chronological focus, and encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars.

Program Outcomes and Outputs The outcomes and outputs of a Fellowship award may include, but are not limited to books, monographs, peer reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research, or research intended to be disseminated in one or more of those formats.

Describe your project purpose, outcomes and outputs in Attachment 1: Narrative.

See D6. Funding Restrictions for unallowable activities.

See E1. Review Criteria for the standards NEH will use to evaluate applications under this notice.

See H. Other Information for other individual research programs.

2. Background NEH offers this funding opportunity under the authority of 20 U.S.C. § 956. Awards are subject to the NEH Fellowships and Awards for Faculty Terms and Conditions.

Under Section 3(a) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following:

language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy;

archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods;

and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”

Use the Funded Projects Query Form to find examples of NEH-supported projects.

Learn more about NEH.

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NEH Areas of Interest NEH is especially interested in supporting projects that advance humanities-related work in the following areas. NEH will give all applications equal consideration in accordance with the program’s review criteria.

American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future is a wide-ranging special initiative at NEH that leverages the humanities to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time: strengthening our democracy, advancing equity for all, and addressing our changing climate. The initiative encourages humanities projects that elevate the role of civics in schools and public programs, advance knowledge of the country’s history and political institutions, and examine threats to its democratic principles. The initiative also encourages projects that explore the untold stories of historically underrepresented groups and build capacity at cultural and educational institutions to benefit underserved communities. Finally, the initiative welcomes projects that promote research into the historical roots and cultural effects of climate change and support the cultural and educational sectors in building climate resilience. By supporting humanities projects that align with these three themes—strengthening our democracy, advancing equity for all, and addressing our changing climate—the American Tapestry initiative seeks to tell our country’s history in all its complexity and diversity.

NEH also encourages projects that include Native American organizations and communities as applicants and project partners. NEH will give all applications equal consideration in accordance with the program’s review criteria.

United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture Hate must have no safe harbor in America – especially when that hate fuels the kind of violence we’ve seen from Oak Creek to Pittsburgh, from El Paso to Poway, and from Atlanta to Buffalo.

When ordinary Americans cannot participate in the basic activities of everyday life—like shopping at the grocery store or praying at their house of worship—without the fear of being targeted and killed for who they are, our security as well as democracy are at risk. In coordination with the White House “United We Stand” Summit in September 2022, NEH launched a new initiative titled United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture that uses the humanities to combat hate-motivated violence and promote civic engagement, social cohesion, and cross-cultural understanding. As a part of this initiative, NEH encourages humanities projects that further our understanding of the nation’s racial, ethnic, gender, and religious diversity; examine the sources of hate and intolerance in the United States; and explore progress towards greater inclusiveness. NEH especially welcomes projects that study the origins, history, and effects of antisemitism and/or Islamophobia in the United States.

NEH’s Support for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative As a part of NEH’s partnership with the Department of the Interior on the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, NEH encourages projects that further public understanding and knowledge of the Federal Indian boarding school system. From 1819 through the 1970s the government of the United States operated a system of schools for Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children premised on a policy of coerced cultural assimilation. Native children were forcibly separated from their families and sent to attend federal Indian boarding schools, where they were frequently subject to harsh treatment and abuse. A number of these students died, and others never returned to their families and communities. Many were also deprived of their cultural inheritance. NEH encourages projects https://www.neh.gov/news/american-tapestry-weaving-together-past-present-and-future https://www.neh.gov/unitedwestand https://www.neh.gov/bsi https://www.neh.gov/bsi

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that document and explore the history of the federal Indian boarding schools as well as projects that contribute to Native and Indigenous cultural and language revitalization.

B. Federal Award Information

1. Type of Application and Award NEH seeks new applications in response to this notice. You may revise and resubmit previously rejected applications.

NEH will provide funding in the form of grants.

2. Summary of Funding

Award amounts Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $5000 per month for full-time work. The minimum award is $30,000 for a six-month period of performance. The maximum award is $60,000 for a twelve-month period of performance.

NEH will award successful applicants outright funds, which are not contingent on additional funding from other sources.

NEH anticipates awarding approximately $4,800,000 to fund an estimated 80 recipients.

NEH will not determine the amount available until Congress enacts the final FY 2025 budget.

This notice is subject to the availability of appropriated funds and is a contingency action taken to ensure that, should funds become available for this purpose, NEH can process applications and issue awards in a timely manner.

Period of performance The period of performance is the span of time during which you are committed to working on your NEH-supported project. You should request a period of performance that suits your schedule and the needs of your project. Requesting a shorter period of performance will not improve your chances of receiving an award.

You may request a period of performance between six and twelve months with a start date between January 1, 2025, and September 1, 2026. Your period of performance must be continuous and must start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of a month.

During the period of performance, you must work full time on your project and forego teaching, administrative assignments, and other major activities.

C. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants NEH accepts applications to this program from individuals who meet the following requirements.

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Citizenship You must be one of the following to be eligible:

• A U.S. citizen residing domestically or abroad

• A foreign national who has lived in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline

Foreign nationals who take up permanent residence outside the United States any time between the application deadline and the end of the period of performance will forfeit their eligibility.

Leaving the U.S. on a temporary basis is permitted.

Currently enrolled students If you have satisfied the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral, you are eligible to apply, but you must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or your department chair attesting to your status as of the application deadline in Attachment 8: Degree conferral. All other individuals currently enrolled in a degree program are ineligible to apply.

Organizations Organizations are ineligible to apply.

If you, as an individual recipient, elect to have the award paid through your institution, your institution must remit all NEH funds to you. Your institution may not take an institutional allowance or claim indirect costs.

2. Cost Sharing Cost sharing is not required in this program.

3. Other Eligibility Information

Resubmissions and multiple submissions You may revise and resubmit previously rejected applications. Submissions are subject to the application requirements and review criteria of the current competition.

You may submit only one application under this notice.

If you submit multiple applications (including submitting to the wrong funding opportunity or making corrections/updates), NEH will only accept your last validated submission prior to the deadline under the correct Grants.gov funding opportunity.

Dissertation revisions You may seek funding for a project based on your completed dissertation only if the project moves beyond the original dissertation. You must state in your narrative that you intend to revise your dissertation and explain how the proposed project is expanded.

Concurrent NEH applications You may apply to only one of the following programs in a given federal fiscal year:

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• Fellowships

• Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and

Universities, or Tribal Colleges and Universities

• Fellowships for Digital Publication (previously NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital

Publication)

• Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

However, you may apply to the Fellowships program and compete concurrently in the following programs for individuals:

• Public Scholars

• Summer Stipends

• Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships

• NEH-funded Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions

Previously funded NEH applications

• Summer Stipends: You may apply for funding for a Fellowship project previously supported by a two-month NEH Summer Stipend. In such a case, NEH will review the accomplishments from the previous award to determine whether the project warrants additional funding. If the current application includes work proposed in the previously funded Summer Stipend, you must address this overlap in the work plan. NEH will not provide additional support for work that has already been completed.

You may not apply for funding for a project previously funded by any of the following programs:

• Fellowships

• Fellowships for Digital Publication (previously NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital

Publication)

• Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and

Universities, or Tribal Colleges and Universities

• Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

• Public Scholars

• Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships

Multiple Awards You may not hold two awards in support of the same activities.

You may not hold two or more NEH individual awards with overlapping periods of performance (for example, a Fellowship and a Summer Stipend; or a Fellowship and a Public Scholars award).

NEH will not delay the period of performance beyond the stated timelines of this NOFO to accommodate overlapping individual awards. See B2. Summary of Funding.

If you accept an NEH Fellowship, any pending Summer Stipends, Public Scholars, or DLI- Documenting Endangered Languages program application you have submitted for the same project will be automatically withdrawn.

You may not serve as the project director or key personnel on an NEH institutional award while working full time on an NEH individual award.

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Concurrent grants from other organizations You may simultaneously hold fellowships or grants from institutions other than NEH—including sabbaticals and grants from your own institution—in support of the same project during your period of performance.

Collaborative projects This program is designed for individual researchers; awards may not be divided. If you are seeking funding for more than one scholar in a collaborative project, NEH will consider each application separately. Each individual must:

• submit a separate application specifying their individual contribution (Peer reviewers will evaluate each application on its own merits.)

• independently meet the eligibility requirements

• clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s)

You are eligible to apply if you are working as part of a collaborative team but seeking funding only for yourself.

Collaborating scholars affiliated with an eligible institution may apply to the Collaborative Research program.

Other restrictions NEH does not issue awards to other federal entities. If your project is so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities, it is ineligible. You may use funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in your project.

Except for the rare cases covered by its late submission policy, NEH will not consider applications submitted after the deadline.

NEH will not consider incomplete, nonresponsive, or ineligible applications.

NEH will not consider applications that exceed page limits or deviate from formatting instructions. See the Application Components Table.

D. Application and Submission Information

1. Application Package You must apply using Grants.gov Workspace or a Grants.gov system-to-system solution. You can find this funding opportunity in Grants.gov under number 20240410-FEL. There is also a link on the program resource page.

Once you have located the funding opportunity in Grants.gov, you will find the application package under the “Package” tab. It includes a series of required and conditionally required forms. You will upload additional application components using the Attachments Form.

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You must complete a multistep registration process to submit your application. See D3.

Grants.gov Registration Process.

Contact fellowships@neh.gov to request a paper copy of this notice.

If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you can contact NEH using telecommunications relay at 7-1-1.

2. Content and Form of Application Submission Your application will consist of a series of forms included in Grants.gov Workspace and other components that you will prepare and upload to the Attachments Form. The Application Components Table below will help you prepare a complete application. You are not required to submit a budget.

You must submit all required and relevant conditionally required components. NEH will not review applications missing any required documents or relevant conditionally required documents.

Take note of the page limits and formatting instructions in this notice. NEH will not review applications that exceed mandatory page limits or deviate from formatting instructions.

Do not include attachments other than those required or conditionally required in this notice. If you do, NEH will reject your application.

Unless the instructions specify otherwise, your attachments must conform to the following formatting requirements:

• pages no larger than standard letter size (8 ½" x 11”)

• at least one-inch margins on all sides for all pages

• a font size no smaller than 11-point

• single-spacing

• a standard Roman font: (e.g., Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, or Times New Roman)

• any standard citation style is acceptable; citations are included in page counts

NEH has assigned each application component one of the following designations:

• Required: You must submit this component.

• Conditionally Required: You must submit this component if your proposal meets the specified conditions.

In addition, NEH has established page limits for some application components:

• Mandatory: You must not exceed the page limit.

• Suggested: NEH encourages, but does not require, you to abide by the page limit.

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Application Component Table Application Component File Name Designation Page limits Attachments Attachment 1: Narrative narrative.pdf Required 3 pages

(mandatory) Attachment 2: Work plan workplan.pdf Required 1 page

(mandatory) Attachment 3: Bibliography bibliography.pdf Required 1 page

(mandatory) Attachment 4: Résumé resume.pdf Required 2 pages

(mandatory) Attachment 5: Editions and translations translation.pdf Conditionally required

2 pages (mandatory)

Attachment 6: Visual materials visual.pdf Conditionally required

1 page (mandatory)

Attachment 7: Database sample database.pdf Conditionally required

1 page (mandatory)

Attachment 8: Degree conferral degreeconferral.pdf Conditionally required

Attachment 9: Explanation of delinquent federal debt delinquentdebt.pdf Conditionally required

Grants.gov forms SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance - Individual

Required

NEH Supplemental Information for Individuals Form

Required

Project/Performance Site(s) Location Form

Required

Attachments Form Required

Application Components: Attachments Each attachment must be a single PDF file. See the attachments form instructions for further guidance about file requirements. Read those instructions carefully, as Grants.gov will not accept files that do not meet the requirements.

Attachment 1: Narrative (required) Compose a comprehensive description of your proposed project. Your narrative should be succinct, well organized, and free of technical terms and jargon so that peer reviewers can understand the proposed project.

You must limit the narrative to three single-spaced pages. Do not include an executive summary, cover page, or a table of contents. You may include images, charts, diagrams, footnotes, and endnotes if they fit within the page limit.

Organize your narrative using the following headings (recommended).

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Significance and contribution (aligns primarily with review criterion 1) Describe the intellectual significance of the proposed project, including its value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Provide an overview of the project, explaining the basic ideas, problems, or questions examined by the study. Describe your research and state the project’s thesis or claim(s). Explain how the project will complement, challenge, or expand relevant studies in the field. Discuss how your scholarship will be presented to benefit the intended audiences.

If you are applying to translate a work into English, and other English translations already exist, provide a rationale for a new translation. If your project results in a work that will be written in a language other than English, provide a rationale for publishing in that language.

Organization, concepts, and methods (aligns primarily with review criterion 2) Explain how your proposed research will help you resolve the problems or questions you are examining. Describe the theoretical framework of your argument and explain how your proposed research will advance it. Explain your concepts and your terminology. Describe and discuss your method(s) and sources.

For books, if possible, provide a chapter outline with brief explanations of each chapter’s arguments. For other publications, explain how your final product will be organized.

For digital projects, in addition to explaining your project’s organization, describe the technologies that will be used and developed, and explain how the scholarship will be presented to benefit audiences in the humanities.

For editions and translations, describe the project’s scholarly apparatus (e.g., introduction, annotations, and paratextual material).

For dissertation revisions, state that your project is to revise a dissertation. You must explain how your project moves beyond the original dissertation, and how it will benefit from the additional research, materials, or chapter(s).

Competencies, skills, and access (aligns primarily with review criterion 4) Explain your competence or background in the area of your project. If the area of inquiry is new to you, explain your reasons for working in it and your qualifications to do so. Specify the level of competence in any language or digital technology needed for the study. Describe where the study will be conducted and what research materials will be used. If relevant, specify the arrangements for access to archives, collections, or institutions that contain the necessary resources.

Final product and dissemination (aligns primarily with review criterion 5) Describe the intended results of the project. Explain how the results will be disseminated and why these means are appropriate to the subject matter and audience. If the project has a website, provide the URL. If the final product will appear in a language other than English, explain how access and dissemination will be affected. NEH expects that any materials produced in digital form as a result of its awards will be maintained so as to ensure their long-term availability. To that end, describe how the project’s digital results, if any, will be sustained and supported beyond the period of performance. If the project involves materials under copyright, indicate your plans for securing the necessary permission to publish.

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Your narrative must not exceed three pages. It will be considered primarily under review criterion 1, 2, 4, and 5.

Name the file narrative.pdf.

Attachment 2: Work plan (required) Present a schedule for the period of performance (in increments of three months or fewer). This schedule can be in narrative form or by using a table. Indicate the current state of the project and identify what, if any, parts of the project you have already completed. Explain the tasks you expect to accomplish during the period of performance. If you will not complete the project during the period of performance, state when you expect to complete it. You should not include a chapter outline. Chapter outlines and descriptions, if applicable, should be part of your narrative.

Your work plan must be based on a full-time commitment to the project; part-time work is not allowed. It should reflect the major activities you described in your narrative and the project dates on your SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance - Individual.

Your work plan should not depend heavily on factors beyond your control, such as the receipt of outside reviewers’ reports from a publisher. If you plan to submit a manuscript for publication before the end of the period of performance, explain what additional work will be required and why it merits support.

Your timeline should include where you will work and, if you will be in more than one location, how long you will spend in each.

If you received an NEH Summer Stipend award for the same project, indicate what was accomplished during that award period and how the proposed work plan builds on your previous support.

If you and another researcher are seeking funds for the same project, identify them and state if they have received or submitted a proposal for NEH support. Clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other.

The work plan must not exceed one page. It will be primarily considered under review criterion 3.

Name the file workplan.pdf.

Attachment 3: Bibliography (required) Your bibliography should consist of the primary and secondary sources that relate most directly to the project. Include works that pertain to both the project’s substance and its theoretical or methodological approaches to give a well-rounded representation of your project. Evaluators will use the bibliography to assess your knowledge of the subject area.

Any standard bibliographic format is acceptable. Items referenced in the narrative need not appear in the bibliography if the citation in the narrative enables readers to identify the work.

The bibliography must not exceed one page. It will be considered primarily under review criterion 4.

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Name the file bibliography.pdf.

Attachment 4: Résumé (required) Submit your information in a CV or résumé format. Do not submit a narrative biographical statement. Include the following information:

• name

• current and past positions

• education: list degrees, dates awarded, and titles of theses or dissertations

• awards and honors: include dates. If you have received prior support from NEH, indicate the dates of these awards and the products that resulted from them

• publications: include full citations for publications and presentations

• other relevant professional activities and accomplishments, including your level of competence in any relevant languages other than English

Your résumé must not exceed two pages. It will be considered primarily under review criterion 4.

Name the file resume.pdf.

Attachment 5: Editions and translations (conditionally required) If you are creating an edition or translation, you must provide a sample of the original text (one page) and the edited or translated version (one page). If you plan to include annotations, your sample of the edited or translated version should include examples.

Do not exceed two pages total. Your translation or edition sample will be considered primarily under review criterion 2.

Name the attachment translation.pdf.

Attachment 6: Visual materials (conditionally required) If you are including visual materials, you must provide a sample saved as a PDF (do not use .jpg or other common graphic formats).

Do not exceed one page of visual materials. Your visual materials will be considered primarily under review criterion 2.

Name the attachment visual.pdf.

Attachment 7: Database sample (conditionally required) If you are developing a database project, provide a sample entry.

Do not exceed one page. Your sample will be considered primarily under review criterion 2.

Name the attachment database.pdf.

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Attachment 8: Degree conferral (conditionally required) If you have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral, you must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or the department chair attesting that you have satisfied all of the requirements for the degree by the application deadline.

Name the file degreeconferral.pdf.

Attachment 9: Explanation of delinquent federal debt (conditionally required) If you are delinquent in the repayment of any federal debt, provide explanatory information including evidence that you have entered into a repayment agreement with the Internal Revenue Service, and that you are current on all payments due. Examples of relevant debt include delinquent student loans, taxes, child support payments, and payroll taxes for household or other employees. See OMB Circular A-129.

Name the file delinquentdebt.pdf.

Each attachment aligns with one or more review criteria panelists will use to evaluate your proposal. Use the chart below as a reference point.

Guidance for Narrative, Bibliography, Résumé, and other attachments.

To ensure that you fully address the review criteria, this table provides a crosswalk between the application components and the review criteria.

Narrative Section Review Criteria

Significance and contribution 1

Organization, concepts, and methods 2

Competencies, skills, and access 4

Final product and dissemination 5

Other Attachments Review Criteria

Work plan 3

Bibliography 2

Résumé 4

Editions and translations, Visual materials, and Database samples

Application Components: Grants.gov Forms

SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance – Individual (Grants.gov form) This form requests basic information about you and your proposed project. Items 1, 2, and 4 will be automatically filled in; leave item 3 blank.

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5a-d. Applicant Information a.-c. Provide your name, telephone number, email address, and mailing address. You must include an email address in the “Email” field, even though it is not highlighted as a required field. NEH will use this address to notify you of the outcome of your application.

Provide your mailing address. Note: Your ZIP code must include the four-digit extension preceded by a hyphen. If you do not know your four-digit extension, use “-0000” (four zeros).

Indicate your citizenship status with an “X.”

Individual residence:

d. Provide your congressional district with your two-character state abbreviation followed by your three-character district number. For example, if you reside in the 5th congressional district of Alabama, enter “AL-005.” If you reside in a state or U.S. jurisdiction that does not have districts, enter “000” in place of the district number. If your institution is outside the U.S., enter “00-000.”

6. Project Information

a. Project Title: Provide your project’s title. It should be brief (no more than 125 characters, including spaces). Successful applications typically have titles that are descriptive of the project and easily understood by the general public. Avoid using a title that requires clarification by the subtitle. When possible, include places and dates indicating a project’s scope. NEH reserves the right to retitle funded projects for clarity when announcing its funding decisions and in its own reports and communications, but you may use your preferred title for any award products.

b. Project Description: Provide a brief description of your project. Write the description for a non-specialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed work to the humanities. This description will appear on your application cover sheet and will serve as a project abstract during the review process. Do not exceed one thousand characters, including spaces. If you exceed one thousand characters, including spaces, Grants.gov may reject your application or cut off your project description at the thousand-character limit.

c. Proposed Project: List the start and end dates for your project. Your period of performance must start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month. Because award amounts depend on the number of months of work that you specify, the dates that you enter here will determine the maximum amount of your award. For more information about allowable time periods and how NEH calculates awards, see B2. Summary of Funding. You may change your start and end dates if you receive an award, but you may not lengthen your period of performance.

7. Signature By clicking on the “I Agree” box, you certify the following:

1) You are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from participation in covered transactions by any federal department or agency, and have not—within the three years preceding the submission of this application— been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against you for commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with a public (federal, state, or local) transaction or a contract under a public transaction; for violation of federal or state antitrust statutes; for commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen property; had any public transactions terminated for cause or https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

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default; and are not presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with any of the preceding offenses. See 2 CFR 180 and 3369.

2) You are not delinquent in the repayment of any federal debt or you are providing explanatory information about any delinquency. Examples of relevant debt include student loans, delinquent taxes, delinquent child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees. See OMB Circular A-129.

3) You will comply with the NEH Fellowships and Awards for Faculty Terms and Conditions.

Click the “Save” button at the top of the form to save your work and return to the main menu.

NEH Supplemental Information for Individuals Form (Grants.gov form) This form requests additional information about you, your institution (if affiliated), and your references.

Field of Project Using the drop-down menu, indicate the field(s) of your project. You may select one, two, or three fields. If you select more than one, list the primary field first. Program staff will consider this information when assigning your application to a review panel.

Project Director Field of Study Using the drop-down menu, choose the field of study that best describes your area of expertise.

Address Information Indicate whether the address that you provided on the Application for Federal Assistance SF 424

– Individual form is your home or work address.

Institutional Affiliation If you are not affiliated with an institution of higher education, click “No” and continue to the Status section.

If you are affiliated with an institution of higher education, provide the information for that institution. Include your institution’s Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), omitting hyphens. You can request this number from your institution’s sponsored research office. NEH uses it to identify your institution to peer reviewers.

Status NEH does not require applicants in this program to be professional scholars. Even so, NEH categorizes all applicants as “junior scholars” or “senior scholars.” Please indicate your category as follows:

• You are considered a junior scholar if you received your highest formal degree fewer than seven years ago.

• You are considered a senior scholar if you are more than seven years beyond the day you received your highest degree.

Reference Letters Provide the names, email addresses, and affiliations of your two references. Enter only one email address for each. If you provide two email addresses for a reference, NEH will be https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-I/part-180?toc=1 https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=902a748402bef7d8543f27adaf553773&mc=true&node=pt2.1.3369&rgn=div5 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/circulars_a129_rev2013 https://nehemail.sharepoint.com/teams/nofo/Shared%20Documents/NOFOs/Research%20Programs/Fellowships/2024/NEH%20Fellowships%20and%20Awards%20for%20Faculty%20Terms%20and%20Conditions%20|%20The%20National%20Endowment%20for%20the%20Humanities

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unable to contact them. You are responsible for providing accurate email addresses. NEH’s grants management system will use the addresses exactly as you enter them.

See D7. Other Submission Requirements for instructions and deadlines for submitting reference letters and confirming NEH has received them.

Nominating Official Leave this section blank.

Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form (Grants.gov form) Provide the primary location and any other locations where you will conduct project activities during the period of performance. Include only sites where you are reasonably certain at the time of application that you will conduct project activities. It is possible to add sites later. For “Organization,” you may substitute a brief description of locations that do not have a formal organizational name (e.g., "Residence of applicant” or “Interview site in Chicago to be determined”).

Enter congressional districts using the two letter state abbreviation followed by your three-character district number. For example, if your work site is in the 5th congressional district of Alabama, enter “AL-005.” If it is in a state or U.S. jurisdiction that does not have districts, enter “000” in place of the district number. If it is outside the U.S., enter “00-000.

Attachments Form (Grants.gov form) You will upload your Attachments to Grants.gov using this form. This form accommodates up to fifteen attachments. Attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf).

Convert all non-PDF files (e.g., Word, Excel, images) to PDFs. If an attachment contains multiple documents, merge them into a single file. Occasionally, converting a document to PDF may alter its length. View all files after conversion to ensure that all attachments are within the mandatory page limits, if applicable. Do not attach files that have been password-protected, encrypted, or digitally signed. You must remove all such security features before attaching your files. Failure to do so may result in your application being rejected.

Do not attach portfolios containing multiple PDFs. Do not include any attachments beyond those on the Application Components Table.

Consult the Application Components Table to name and sequence your attachments so that NEH can easily identify them. Grants.gov may reject your application if:

• file names exceed 50 characters

• multiple files have the same name

• file names include characters other than the following: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore, hyphen, space, period, parentheses, curly braces, square brackets, ampersand, tilde, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, apostrophe, at sign, number sign, dollar sign, percent sign, plus sign, and equal sign

Grants.gov may accept and validate your application even if you are missing required components or have formatted them incorrectly. You must ensure that you have formatted, attached, and submitted all required components correctly. If you have not, NEH may reject your application as incomplete or nonresponsive.

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Learn about Adobe software compatibility with Grants.gov.

3. Grants.gov Registration Process

Login.gov You must create a Login.gov user account to register and log in to Grants.gov. Login.gov is a secure sign in service used by the public to sign in to participating government agencies. Create and link your account now.

Grants.gov Registration and Creation of Applicant Profiles You must submit your application via Grants.gov Workspace. Register with Grants.gov.

After registering, you must add an “individual applicant” profile to apply to programs for individuals. Click on the “My Account” link, then on “Manage Profiles” and “Add Profile.” Refer to Grants.gov’s instructions for adding a profile.

Grants.gov may assign a number for the Unique Entity Identifier. Do not change this number.

You will not be able to apply until you have added an individual profile. The “Apply” button on the Grants.gov opportunity page will be red after you have completed this step.

Otherwise, it will be grayed out.

If you previously registered with Grants.gov and created an “individual applicant” profile, you will not need to re-register. However, NEH encourages you to confirm that your account is active and that your password is current.

NEH strongly recommends that you complete your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline. If you fail to allow sufficient time to register with Grants.gov, NEH will not extend the deadline or waive the online submission requirement.

If you have problems registering with Grants.gov or adding an “individual applicant” profile, contact Grants.gov Applicant Support at 1-800-518-4726 or support@grants.gov.

4. Submission Dates and Times The deadline for applications under this notice is April 10, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Applications must be complete, follow length and formatting requirements, and be validated by Grants.gov under the correct funding opportunity prior to the deadline to be considered under this notice.

It is your responsibility to confirm that Grants.gov and subsequently NEH have received your application. Check your Grants.gov application status.

When NEH receives your application, the agency will assign it a tracking number beginning with FEL-. A tracking number does not guarantee that your application is free of technical problems (such as missing attachments or failure to convert attachments to PDFs). If your files are not correctly formatted, NEH’s electronic grants management system (eGMS), will reject your application and notify you at the email address you provided in your application. eGMS cannot https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/adobe-software-compatibility.html https://www.login.gov/ https://grantsgovprod.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/new-sign-in-to-grants-gov-with-your-login-gov-credentials/ https://grantsgovprod.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/new-sign-in-to-grants-gov-with-your-login-gov-credentials/ https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/register.faces https://www.grants.gov/help/html/help/index.htm?callingApp=custom#t=Register%2FAddProfile.htm mailto:support@grants.gov https://www.grants.gov/help/html/help/Applicants/CheckApplicationStatus/CheckApplicationStatus.htm

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detect other errors such as missing components or excess pages. NEH recommends you submit your application 48 hours prior to the deadline so that you have time to correct any technical errors. It is your responsibility to correct any errors prior to the deadline.

NEH will not comment on the status of your application except regarding matters of eligibility, completeness, and responsiveness.

5. Intergovernmental Review This funding opportunity is not subject to intergovernmental review under Executive Order 12372.

6. Funding Restrictions You may not use awards made under this notice for the following purposes:

• research by students enrolled in a degree program, including research for doctoral dissertations or theses

• the preparation or revision of textbooks

• curriculum development

• the development of teaching methods or theories

• educational impact, language impact, or technical impact assessments

• the writing of books for children or young adults

• works of graphic history

• creation or production of documentary films

• inventories of collections

• the writing of guidebooks, how-to books, and self-help books

• promotion of a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view

• advocacy of a particular program of social or political action

• support of specific public policies or legislation

• lobbying

• projects that fall outside of the humanities; the creation or performance of art; creative writing, autobiographies, memoirs, and creative nonfiction; policy studies; and social science research that does not address humanistic questions and/or utilize humanistic methods

7. Other Submission Requirements

Letters of Reference NEH asks you to solicit two letters of reference.