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NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Funding Opportunity Title:

Awards for Faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities

Funding Opportunity Number: 20210414-HB

Funding Opportunity Type: New

Federal Assistance Listing Number: 45.160

Application Due Date: April 14, 2021

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: FacultyAwards@neh.gov

TTY: 800-877-8399

OMB control number 3136-0134, expiration date June 30, 2021.

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Executive Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Awards for Faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities program. The purpose of this program is to strengthen the humanities at Tribal Colleges and Universities by encouraging and expanding humanities research opportunities for individual faculty and staff members. Awards support individuals pursuing scholarly research that is of value to humanities scholars, students, and/or general audiences.

Funding Opportunity Title: Awards for Faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities Funding Opportunity Number: 20210414-HB Federal Assistance Listing Number:

45.160

Application Due Date: April 14, 2021, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time Anticipated Announcement: December 2021 Anticipated Total Annual Available FY 22 Funding:

Approximately $1,000,000 across the three Awards for Faculty programs

Estimated Number and Type of Awards:

Approximately 20 grants across the three Awards for Faculty programs

Funding Range: Up to $60,000 Cost Sharing Required: No Period of Performance: 2 to 12 months, full-time equivalent. Applicants may work between half time and full time on a project, or in combination, starting as early as January 1, 2022.

Eligible Applicants: Individual faculty and staff members affiliated with a Tribal College or University.

See C. Eligibility Information.

Program Resource Page: https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/awards-faculty-tribal-colleges-and-universities

Pre-Application Webinar: February 2, 2021, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register here for the webinar.

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Table of Contents

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 The Awards for Faculty program seeks to strengthen the humanities at Tribal Colleges and Universities by encouraging and expanding humanities research opportunities for individual faculty and staff members. Awards support individuals pursuing humanities research that is of value to scholars, students, and/or general audiences. While the program welcomes proposals in all areas of the humanities, projects related to indigenous knowledge that sustain and strengthen tribal languages and/or cultural traditions are especially encouraged.

Research pursuits can be centered at the applicant’s home institution, but may also involve activities at another institution, such as an independent research center or library.

This program offers flexibility in project types and award periods. Awards may support faculty research that engages undergraduate students at the affiliated institution or members of the local community. Common to all projects must be research on humanities topics, such as languages or literature, history, philosophy, or religion. Examples of eligible projects include:

• research related to tribal or institutional priorities, goals or interests, such as projects that draw on cultural or institutional archival collections

• the development of materials in support of sustaining, preserving and revitalizing culture or language

• research leading to the improvement of an existing undergraduate or graduate course

• travel to and research in archival or cultural collections with significant holdings in the researcher’s area of expertise or in an area of tribal or institutional priority or interest

• research and preparation leading to the development of a humanities seminar for students at the affiliated institution and/or members of the local community. Research seminars must be prepared and led by an individual faculty or staff member and must engage participants with primary sources. Seminars should develop participants’ knowledge and skills with humanities research methodologies, such as the collecting of oral histories, indigenous research methods, language or linguistic methods, and/or archival research.

• the development of books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, critical editions, or other humanities resources

The program is open to all faculty and staff members, including full-time, part-time, adjunct, and retired faculty and staff at a TCU. Awards support individuals who work between half time and full time on their projects. Projects may be at any stage of development. Applicants may propose to complete their project by the end of the period of performance or may propose to do so by some later date. Applicants may seek support for the creation of digital or web-based products intended to supplement a course revision, research seminar or publication project.

Examples of previously funded projects may be found by using the NEH's Funded Projects Query Form. Examples of previously funded Awards for Faculty may be viewed here.

Unallowable activities are described in D6. Funding Restrictions.

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2. Background This program is authorized by 20 U.S.C. §956, et seq. Awards are subject to the NEH Fellowships and Awards for Faculty Terms and Conditions.

According to the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, “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.”

To learn more about NEH, visit https://www.neh.gov/about.

NEH Areas of Interest NEH is especially interested in supporting projects that advance humanities-related work in the following areas.

“A More Perfect Union”: NEH Special Initiative Advancing Civic Education and Commemorating the Nation’s 250th Anniversary As our nation approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, NEH encourages projects that promote a deeper understanding of American history and culture and that advance civic education and knowledge of our core principles of government. The agency-wide “A More Perfect Union” initiative will help Americans better understand the world’s oldest constitutional democracy and how our founding ideals are met in a modern, pluralistic society.

NEH welcomes consideration of diverse topics in American history, from Native American culture to rural life to the rise of the industrial city, from the Civil War to the Cold War to the Civil Rights movement, etc. We also seek projects that examine foundational documents in U.S.

history, as well as projects that examine historical objects, places, traditions, events, and individuals who collectively shaped our states and nation. Applications about the contributions of under-represented communities are highly encouraged.

Protecting our Cultural Heritage In response to the destruction of cultural heritage materials worldwide, NEH encourages applications for projects that study, document, or create digital representations of lost or imperiled cultural heritage materials. Proposed projects should be based on scholarly work and follow standards and best practices. Projects must demonstrate the capacity to be sustained and must be widely accessible to the public. Learn more about Protecting our Cultural Heritage.

B. Federal Award Information

1. Type of Application and Award NEH seeks new applications in response to this notice. Previously rejected applications may be revised and resubmitted.

NEH will provide funding in the form of grants.

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2. Summary of Funding Approximately $1,000,000 is expected to be available to fund approximately 20 recipients across the three Awards for Faculty programs.

The actual amount available will not be determined until enactment of the final FY 2022 federal budget. This program notice is subject to the appropriation of funds, and is a contingency action taken to ensure that, should funds become available for this purpose, applications can be processed and funds awarded in a timely manner.

The Awards for Faculty program supports individuals who work between half time and full time on their projects. The minimum period of performance is the equivalent of two months of full-time work; the maximum is the equivalent of twelve months of full-time work. Recipients must work at least half time on their projects during the period of performance. Recipients may combine part- and full-time work. The period of performance must be continuous. Recipients who work full time on their projects must forgo other major activities, including teaching.

Recipients combining a part-time award with teaching must carry a reduced class load during the period of performance. Awards will be reduced to reflect the smaller time commitment when recipients work part time or for fewer than the equivalent of 12 full-time months on the NEH project.

The amount of the award is $5,000 per full-time month (or part-time equivalent). The maximum award is $60,000 for the equivalent of twelve full-time months. The minimum award is $10,000, corresponding to the equivalent of two months of full-time work. Thus, an award to support 14 months of half-time work would be $35,000 (equivalent to 7 months of full-time work.)

The period of performance should be determined by the complexity of the project, the amount of work to be completed, and the commitment of the institution to the project. Requesting a period of performance shorter than the equivalent of twelve full-time months will not improve an applicant’s chances of receiving an award.

The period of performance may begin as soon as January 1, 2022 and as late as September 1, 2023.

Successful applicants will be awarded outright funds. Outright funds awarded by NEH are not contingent on additional funding from other sources.

C. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants Within the parameters listed below (see the next several headings), individuals who are full-time, part-time, adjunct, and retired faculty members and staff members affiliated with a Tribal College or University are eligible to apply. Only those institutions recognized by the Department of Education and listed at http://www.aihec.org/who-we-serve/TCUmap.cfm are eligible.

Citizenship U.S. citizens who teach at, serve on the staff of, or have retired from a Tribal College or University are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline are also eligible, provided that they teach at, serve on the staff of, or have retired from a Tribal College or University. Foreign nationals who take up permanent residence outside the United States any http://www.aihec.org/who-we-serve/TCUmap.cfm

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time between the application deadline and the end of the period of performance will forfeit their eligibility to hold an award. (Leaving the U.S. on a temporary basis is permitted.)

Currently enrolled students While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply. Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral are eligible for NEH Awards for Faculty. Such applicants must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or their department chair attesting to the applicant’s status as of April 14, 2021 in Attachment 7: Degree conferral.

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

Cost sharing or matching is the portion of the project costs not paid by NEH funds.

3. Other Eligibility Information Applicants may not submit multiple applications under this notice.

Applicants may apply to only one of the following programs in a given federal fiscal year:

• Awards for Faculty

• Fellowships

• NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publications

• Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

Applicants to one of the above programs may, however, compete concurrently in the following programs for individuals in a given year:

• Public Scholars

• Summer Stipends

• Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships

• NEH-funded fellowships at independent research institutions

Each competition has distinct application requirements. Follow the instructions in the relevant Notice of Funding Opportunity.

Projects previously supported by NEH Applicants may not apply for funding for a project previously supported by an NEH Fellowship, an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication, a Public Scholars award, or an Award for Faculty. Applicants may, however, apply for funding for a 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 proposal includes work proposed in the previously funded Summer Stipend proposal, this overlap in the work plans must be addressed and explained.

Dissertation revisions Applicants may seek funding for projects based on completed dissertations. You must state in your application narrative that the proposal is to revise a dissertation, and you must explain how the new project moves beyond the original dissertation.

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Concurrent grants from other organizations Recipients of NEH Awards for Faculty may simultaneously hold fellowships or grants from institutions other than NEH—including sabbaticals and grants from their own institutions—in support of the same project during their period of performance.

Collaborative projects This program is designed primarily for individual researchers. Awards may not be divided. If you are seeking funding for more than one participant in a collaborative project, each person seeking funding must submit a separate application, specifying the individual contribution.

Reviewers will be asked to evaluate each application on its own merits. Each application should clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s).

Applicants who are seeking funding only for themselves but who are working as part of a collaborative team are also eligible. In this case, too, the application should clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s). Applicants with an institutional affiliation proposing to work together may wish to apply instead or in addition to the NEH Collaborative Research program or the Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities program.

Other restrictions You may not hold two or more NEH individual awards (for example, an Award for Faculty and a Summer Stipend) with overlapping periods of performance, and you may not accept or hold two NEH individual awards in the same fiscal year. If you apply to the Summer Stipends program and subsequently accept an Award for Faculty in the same fiscal year, your application to the Summer Stipends program will be automatically withdrawn. You may not work on a project supported by an NEH institutional award as either a project director or participant during the period of performance of an NEH individual award that is held full time.

If for any reason an application is submitted more than once prior to the application due date (including submitting to the wrong funding opportunity number or making corrections/updates), NEH will accept your last validated online submission, under the correct funding opportunity number, prior to the Grants.gov application due date as the final and only acceptable application.

NEH does not make awards to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.

All application materials must be received by the application deadline. Applications that are late, incomplete, nonresponsive, or that violate the format requirements (including page limits) will not be considered for funding under this notice. See the Application Components Table.

D. Application and Submission Information

1. Application Package You are required to apply online through Grants.gov Workspace using the Standard Form 424 - Individual (SF-424 - Individual) application package associated with the funding opportunity and following the instructions provided by Grants.gov unless otherwise noted below.

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A link to the funding opportunity page on Grants.gov, including the application package, can be found on the program resource page.

To request a paper copy of this notice, contact FacultyAwards@neh.gov.

Applicants who are deaf or hard of hearing can contact NEH via Federal Relay at 800-877-8399.

2. Content and Form of Application Submission The Application Components Table below will help you prepare a complete application. In addition to the standard forms included in the Grants.gov application package, your application also consists of a narrative and other required attachments. You will upload these components into the Attachments Form. A budget is not required in this program.

Applications missing any required documents or conditionally required documents from this list will be considered incomplete and will be rejected from further consideration.

Applications that exceed page limits or violate format instructions will be considered nonresponsive and will be rejected from further consideration.

In addition to submitting these components through Grants.gov, you should also arrange for two letters of reference. Instructions for the letters of reference appear below under D7. Other Submission Requirements.

Application component Naming convention

Page limits

Notes

Application for Federal Assistance SF 424 - Individual

Grants.gov form Required

NEH Supplemental Information for Individuals

Grants.gov form Required

Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form

Grants.gov form Required

Attachments Form Grants.gov form Required Attachment 1: Narrative narrative.pdf 3 Required Attachment 2: Work plan workplan.pdf 1 Required Attachment 3: Bibliography bibliography.pdf 1 Required Attachment 4: Résumé resume.pdf 2 Required Attachment 5: Confirmation of institutional support confirmation.pdf 3 Required

Attachment 6: Appendices appendices.pdf Refer to instructions

Conditionally required

Attachment 7: Degree conferral degree.pdf 1 Conditionally required

Attachment 8: Explanation of federal debt delinquentdebt.pdf Conditionally required

Application for Federal Assistance – SF-424 - Individual This Grants.gov form is used to capture basic information about the applicant and the proposed project.

Fields 1, 2, and 4 will be filled in automatically; field 3 will be left blank.

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5a-d. Applicant Information 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 email 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.”

Enter the number (just the number, not the state) of your Congressional district. To find the number of your Congressional district, type your ZIP code into the “Find Your Representative” tool on the U.S. House of Representatives website. If you do not have a Congressional district (that is, you are in a state or U.S. territory that does not have districts or you reside in a foreign country), enter a “0” (zero). If you live in one district but your institution is in another, provide the number for the district in which you live.

6. Project Information

a. “Project Title.” Enter this, even though the field is not highlighted. The title should be brief (not more than 125 characters), descriptive, and informative to a nonspecialist audience.

Note that NEH reserves the right to change the titles of projects that receive awards. See the FAQ document for guidance on how to title your NEH proposal.

b. “Project Description.” Describe your project for a nonspecialist audience, stating 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.” Enter the starting and ending dates for your proposed period of performance. You must start your period of performance on the first day of the month and end it 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 on allowable award terms and how awards are calculated, see B. Federal Award Information.

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 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 parts 180 and 3369.

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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 on 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 This NEH form provides additional professional information about you, your institution (if affiliated), and your reference-letter writers.

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 take this information into account 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 have given on the Application for Federal Assistance SF 424 - Individual form is your home or work address.

Institutional Affiliation Complete the information for that institution. Applicants with an institutional affiliation must include their institution’s D-U-N-S® number, omitting hyphens. This number is generally provided by the institution’s sponsored research office and it ensures that NEH identifies your institution correctly in the materials we provide to external reviewers.

Status Indicate if you are a junior scholar or a senior scholar. Junior scholars are defined as those who are seven years or fewer beyond their terminal degree; senior scholars are defined as those who are more than seven years beyond their terminal degree.

Reference Letters Provide the names, email addresses, and affiliations for your two letter writers. Enter only one email address for each letter writer. If you provide two email addresses for a letter writer, NEH will be unable to contact him or her. (Applicants are responsible for providing accurate email addresses. The NEH grants management system will use the addresses exactly as they have been entered on this form.)

To ensure full consideration, letters should be submitted online not later than May 5, 2021.

See D7 Other Submission Requirements for additional instructions on the submission of reference letters and confirmation of their receipt by NEH.

Nominating Official Leave this section blank.

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Project/Performance Site Location(s) Form Provide the primary location and any other locations where the project activity will occur during the period of performance. This form allows for the collection of multiple performance sites. If you need to add more project/performance site locations than the form allows, enter the information in a separate file and add it to the "Additional Locations" section.

Instructions for each requested data element may be viewed by positioning your cursor over the blank field.

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.”) You may omit the D- U-N-S number for organizations other than that of the primary location, and for the primary location if it does not have a D-U-N-S number.

Attachments Form Attach your narrative, and the other application components to this form. Consult the Application Components Table to learn about the required application components, how to name each attachment, and the order in which to attach them. You must name and attach your files in the proper order so that NEH can identify them.

Your attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Make sure that all files in formats other than PDF (images, Word or Excel files, etc.) have been properly saved as PDF files. Do not simply rename your non-PDF files with PDF extensions. If an attachment contains multiple documents, you must merge those documents into a single PDF. Do not attach a zip file containing multiple PDFs.

Visit Grants.gov’s Adobe Software Compatibility page to verify the compatibility of your current software or to download the appropriate version. Even if you choose to complete the online webforms in Workspace, you will need to convert the files that you will attach (to the Attachments Form) into PDFs. If you have a problem installing Adobe Reader, it may be because you do not have permission to install a new program on your computer. Many organizations have rules about installing new programs. If you encounter a problem, contact your system administrator.

When you open the Attachments Form, you will find fifteen attachment buttons, labeled “Attachment 1” through “Attachment 15.” By clicking on a button, you will be able to choose the file from your computer that you wish to attach.

Note the following Grants.gov file naming conventions: limit file names to 50 or fewer characters. Do not attach any documents with the same name. All attachments should have a unique name. Use only the following UTF-8 characters when naming your attachments: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, underscore, hyphen, space, period, parenthesis, curly braces, square brackets, ampersand, tilde, exclamation point, comma, semi colon, apostrophe, at sign, number sign, dollar sign, percent sign, plus sign, and equal sign. Attachments that do not follow this rule may cause the entire application to be rejected or cause issues during processing.

Grants.gov may accept and validate your submission even if required components are missing.

This may result in NEH rejecting your application as incomplete. It is your responsibility to ensure that all required components are properly attached and submitted.

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Provide the following items in the order specified below to complete the content of the application. Each attachment must be saved as a PDF and named in accordance with naming conventions outlined in the Application Components Table.

Attachment 1: Narrative (required) The narrative provides a comprehensive framework and description of all aspects of the proposed project. It 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 with one-inch margins and a font size no smaller than eleven point. Note that the criteria can be relevant in more than one section and that, taken together, the parts of the narrative should form a coherent whole. Images, charts, diagrams, footnotes, and endnotes are allowed, if they fit within the three-page limit.

NEH has aligned each section of the narrative with a corresponding review criterion. Refer to E1. Review Criteria for full descriptions.

Successful applications will contain the information below. Use the following section headings for the narrative. Name the file narrative.pdf.

Significance and contribution (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 1) Describe your research and state your project thesis. Provide an overview of the project, explaining the basic ideas, problems, questions, texts, people, and/or events examined in the study. Describe the intellectual significance to the intended audience or audiences, including its value to humanities scholars, students, and/or general audiences. Explain how it will complement, challenge, or expand on relevant scholarship in the field. If appropriate, describe the contribution that the research will make to your students, institution, or broader community. Explain how your scholarship will be presented to benefit the intended audiences.

For humanities research projects in support of a community or institutional priority, goal or interest, or those leading to the development of materials in support of sustaining, preserving and revitalizing culture or language, explain the expected outcome of the project, and how it will be presented in order to reach the identified audience. If you plan to travel to cultural or archival collections to pursue research, explain what texts or objects you will consult, what will result from your findings, and how the results will be presented in order to reach the identified audience. If applicable, explain how the project may have broader impact beyond the community or institution.

For humanities research projects leading to the revision of an undergraduate or graduate course, explain how the research relates to revising the course, its readings, and its methodologies.

Discuss the importance of the course within your teaching portfolio and within the institution’s overall curriculum. Include relevant information such as the number of times the course has been offered, whether it is currently taught, and the number of students enrolled when it was most recently offered. Explain how the project may have broader impact beyond the individual course.

For projects leading to the development of a research seminar for students and/or members of the local community, explain how the seminar will engage participants with primary sources and develop participants’ knowledge and skills with humanities research methodologies. Explain any anticipated project outcomes, such as the collecting of oral histories, and how these will be preserved or disseminated.

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Organization and methods (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 2) Describe your proposed research, explaining how it will help you resolve the problems or questions you are examining. Explain your concepts and your terminology. Describe and discuss your method(s) and sources. Provide the scholarly context.

For projects designed to produce published scholarship, explain how the final product will be organized. For book projects, provide a chapter outline, if possible, with brief explanations of each chapter’s contents. For article projects, provide an overview of the article, including details about the argument, sources, and word count. For a dissertation revision, state that your project is to revise a dissertation. Explain how you plan to move beyond the original dissertation, and how the new project will benefit from the addition. For digital projects, describe the technologies that will be used and developed and discuss the sustainability of the project.

Explain how the scholarship will be presented to benefit audiences in the humanities. For course revision projects, explain the specific ways in which the proposed research will enhance the particular course. For research seminar projects, describe the specific primary sources, humanities activities, and methodologies that you plan to present to participants.

For a translation or edition, indicate your plans for including an introduction, annotations, or other scholarly apparatus. If you are applying to translate a work into English and other English translations already exist, provide a rationale for a new translation.

Applicants must provide a rationale for projects that will be written in a language other than English.

Competencies, skills, and access (corresponds primarily to Review Criterion 4) Explain your competence in the area of your project. If the topic is new to you, explain your reasons for working on it and your qualifications to do so. Specify your level of competence in any language, skills, or digital technology needed for the project. Describe where the project will be conducted and what research materials (primary and/or secondary) will be used. If relevant, specify the arrangements for access to archives, collections, or institutions that contain the necessary resources.

Final product and dissemination (corresponds primarily to Review Criteria 4 and 5) Describe the audience(s) you plan to reach and 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. For book projects, indicate possible publishers. For article projects, indicate potential journals for publication. If the project has a website, provide the URL. For course revision projects, indicate your plans (if any) to expand the number of sections offered, replicate the course on other campuses, or otherwise disseminate the results more broadly. For research seminars, explain any outcomes that will result (e.g., course syllabi, primary source materials, digital resources).

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 products, if any, will be maintained and supported beyond the period of performance.

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GUIDANCE on NARRATIVE AND OTHER APPLICATION COMPONENTS

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

NARRATIVE SECTION REVIEW CRITERIA

Significance and contribution 1

Organization and methods 2

Competencies, skills, and access 4

Final product and dissemination 4 and 5

APPLICATION COMPONENT

Work plan 3

Bibliography 2

Résumé 4

Confirmation of institutional support 4

Appendices (conditionally required) 2 and 4

Attachment 2: Work plan (required) Present a schedule for the period of performance. Explain the tasks you expect to accomplish and your timeline for them. Indicate how many months of support you are requesting and whether you propose full- or part-time work, or a combination of the two. If you are proposing part-time work, specify the fraction of time you will devote to the project (e.g., half-time or three-quarters time). Describe the part or stage of the project that will be supported by the award. Indicate what, if any, parts of the project have already been completed. If the project will not be finished during the period of performance, show when you expect to complete it. If you are proposing a publication (e.g., book or article), indicate when you plan to submit the project for publication and when you expect it to appear. If you are proposing a course revision or research seminar project, specify when you plan to offer the course and how the research results will be presented to students, community members and/or more broadly (e.g., website, course packet).

Indicate where you will work and, if more than one location is involved, how long you will spend in each place.

If you are seeking funds as part of a larger collaborative project, clearly explain how the work will be divided and the extent to which each collaborator’s contribution depends on that of the other(s).

Your work plan should not depend on factors outside your control, such as the receipt of outside readers’ reports from a publisher. If you plan to submit your manuscript to an editor or publisher before the end of the period of performance, explain what additional work the project will require after you submit the manuscript and why it merits support.

The work plan must not exceed one page. Use one-inch margins and a font-size no smaller than 11-point. You may present information in table form.

Name the file workplan.pdf.

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Your work plan will be considered primarily under Review Criterion 3.

Attachment 3: Bibliography (required) The bibliography should consist of primary and secondary sources that relate directly to the project. If you are proposing work with archival materials, indicate the archive(s) in which they are held. Include works that pertain to both the project’s substance and its theoretical or methodological approaches. Evaluators will use the bibliography to assess your knowledge of the subject area.

The bibliography must not exceed a single page. Leave one-inch margins and use a font size no smaller than eleven point. 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.

Name the file bibliography.pdf.

Your bibliography will be considered primarily under Review Criterion 2.

Attachment 4: Résumé (required) Your résumé must not exceed two pages and should provide the information listed below. Do not submit a narrative biographical statement instead of a résumé.

• 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: include your level of competence in any relevant foreign languages

Name the file resume.pdf.

Your résumé will be considered primarily under Review Criterion 4.

Attachment 5: Confirmation of institutional support (required) You must include a document on letterhead confirming institutional support, signed by an institutional representative, such as staff in the office of sponsored research, a vice president, or dean. This document is required to ensure that applicants seeking an award are supported by their institutions.

This document should indicate that the applicant would be allowed to accept an Award for Faculty if offered it, even though it might reduce the applicant’s teaching load.

Name the file confirmation.pdf.

Your confirmation of institutional support will be considered primarily under Review Criterion 4.

Attachment 6: Appendices (conditionally required) Applicants proposing editions, translations, database projects, proposals including visual materials, and proposals to improve existing undergraduate or graduate courses, must submit

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this attachment. The appendices should not exceed the page numbers per item, as described below.

• Undergraduate or graduate course revisions: provide the existing course syllabus— including a listing of the current course readings—in PDF format (no more than ten pages). Provide a list of courses taught within the last five years including the number of students taught, the number of courses offered, and the number of different preparations (no more than three pages).

• Editions or translations: 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 should give examples.

• Database projects: provide a sample entry (one page).

• Visual materials: provide a sample (one page) saved as a PDF (do not use .jpg or other common graphic formats).

Applications including any other appendices will be not be reviewed.

Name the file appendices.pdf.

If applicable, your appendices will be considered primarily under Review Criteria 2 and 4.

Attachment 7: Degree conferral (conditionally required) If you are awaiting conferral of a degree, provide a PDF version of a signed letter from the dean of the conferring school or the department chair, attesting that you have satisfied all of the requirements for the degree as of April 14, 2021.

Name the file degree.pdf.

Attachment 8: Explanation of delinquent federal debt (conditionally required) If you are delinquent in the repayment of any federal debt, provide explanatory information on a separate page or pages. Also provide 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 student loans, delinquent taxes, delinquent child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees benefit overpayments.

See OMB Circular A-129.

Name the file delinquentdebt.pdf

3. Grants.gov Registration Process All applicants to this program must submit their applications via Grants.gov Workspace.

If you are registering with Grants.gov for the first time, go to https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/register.faces.

Once you have registered at Grants.gov, you must add an “individual” profile in order to submit an application to this program or other programs for individuals. Do this by clicking on the “My Account” link, then on “Manage Profiles” and “Add Profile.” Instructions for adding a profile are available here:

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Only applicants whose Grants.gov accounts include an individual applicant profile will be able to submit applications to this program. If you have successfully created an individual applicant profile, the “Apply” button on the Grants.gov opportunity page will be red. Otherwise it will be grayed out.

When you create your “individual applicant” profile, Grants.gov will automatically fill in the box for the D-U-N-S® number with a default value. Do not change this number.

Applicants who have already registered at Grants.gov and created an “individual” profile need not re-register to submit their proposals. We encourage you, however, to check your account ahead of the deadline to confirm that it is still active and that your password has not expired.

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

Applicants who lose their username and password can request a reminder at https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/login.faces?userType=applicant&cleanSession=1.

Individuals do not need to register in the System for Award Management (SAM). Awards will not be processed for individuals with delinquent federal debt or for individuals who have been suspended, debarred, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from eligibility for covered transactions by any federal department or agency. To see if you have delinquent federal debt or other exclusions recorded in SAM, go to the SAM website; click on “Search Records,” and then on “Advanced Search - Exclusion.”

NEH may not make an award to an applicant until the applicant has complied with all applicable requirements and, if an applicant has not fully complied with the requirements by the time NEH is ready to make an award, NEH may determine that the applicant is not qualified to receive an award and use that determination as the basis for making an award to another applicant.

NEH strongly recommends that you complete your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline. If you fail to allow sufficient time to complete registration with Grants.gov, you will not be eligible for a deadline extension or waiver of the online submission requirement. All applicants must submit their applications for NEH funding via Grants.gov Workspace.

4. Submission Dates and Times

Drafts Applicants may submit a draft narrative for staff review. Drafts should be submitted by email to FacultyAwards@neh.gov; put “Draft Narrative” in the subject line of the message.

If you choose to submit a draft narrative, you must do so no later than March 3, 2021. Program staff will not review draft narratives submitted after that date. Staff members will read only one draft per individual per deadline. If you prepare a draft, use the format stipulated in the narrative instructions.

The comments provided by staff are not part of the formal review process and have no bearing on the evaluation of the proposal, but previous applicants have found them helpful in strengthening their applications. Applicants are not required to submit a draft narrative.

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