Most recent content update: October 1, 2024
Program Snapshot
The National Endowment for the Humanities' Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG) program supports work that is innovative, experimental, and contributes to the critical infrastructure that underpins scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. In addition to the program’s emphasis on experimentation and innovation, DHAG values extensibility, reuse, replicability, and accessibility.
If your project is funded, you must analyze your workflow and publish your results in a white paper that NEH will share widely. This body of work contributes to the digital humanities’ research base.
The DHAG program often receives proposals outside of their scope, so RDO suggests contacting program staff to request feedback about whether your project is a good fit for the program if you have any concerns. To do so, email a brief project description (no more than 2 pages) to odh@neh.gov. NEH's Office of the Digital Humanities also curates resources to assess program fit.
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Funding categories & levels:
- Level I: Up to $75,000
- For smaller-scale projects or experimental/ exploratory stages of larger projects
- Level II: $75,001 to $150,000
- For projects that can demonstrate completion of an initial planning phase but are not yet ready for Level III; should include plans for extending work beyond the applicant institution
- Level III: $150,001 to $350,000
- For scaling up and expanding mature projects; must document completion of a planning or prototyping stage, current user statistics, and dissemination plans beyond the applicant institution
- Level I: Up to $75,000
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Period of performance:
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Levels I & II: 1-2 yrs
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Level III: 1-3 yrs
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Examples of expected outputs: Report, curriculum project, digital infrastructure (software, website, etc.), workshop
Timeline
(Accurate as of last content update)
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Fall/Winter Cycle
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Nov. 13, 2024 by 9pm PST: Optional Draft
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Jan. 10, 2025*: Funder Deadline
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Spring Cycle
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Mar. 24, 2024 by 9pm PST: Optional Draft
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May 22, 2025*: Funder Deadline
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*The full proposal is due to Stanford’s Office for Sponsored Research (OSR) five full business days before the draft deadline. Because the university, not the individual PI, is the lead applicant for such awards, OSR must submit the application on the PI’s behalf.
Eligibility
- This award supports organizations, including institutions of higher education.
- To apply through Stanford, project directors must have PI eligibility.
- Project personnel do not need to be U.S. citizens or U.S. residents, so long as the applicant institution is eligible.
- Collaborators may come from one or more institutions.
- An individual may be designated as the project director or co-director on only one application to the DHAG program per deadline.
- You may have concurrent DHAG awards; however, you must not include the same project costs in two or more federal awards.
Resources
RDO Proposal Writing Resources
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