NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Optional Draft Deadline: Monday, November 15, 2021

Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2022

Amount: $50,000- $350,000; Depending on Level

*Please Note - If you are interested in applying for this grant or have any questions, please contact our Pre- Award Specialists Erika Wright at emw7@humboldt.edu, Pia Gabriel at pg12@humboldt.edu, or Kaz Wegmuller at jkw77@humboldt.edu

The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. The program also supports research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, and philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society. 

The DHAG program supports projects at different phases of their life cycles that respond to one or more of these programmatic priorities:

• Research and refinement of innovative, experimental, or computationally-challenging methods and techniques
• Enhancement or design of digital infrastructure, such as open-source code, tools, or platforms, that contribute to and support the humanities
• Research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, or philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society, including racial, religious, and/or gender biases
• Evaluative studies that investigate the practices and the impact of digital scholarship on research, pedagogy, scholarly communication, and public engagement

DHAG recipients contribute to humanities scholarship by serving carefully-identified audiences, addressing issues of accessibility and usability, and designing equitable, open, replicable, and sustainable projects. All projects funded in this program must analyze their workflows and publish their results in white papers that are shared widely. This body of work contributes to the research base of the digital humanities.

For a detailed program description, sample narratives, and the Notice of Funding Opportunity, please see the NEH website.