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6 months of stipend support (1 fellowship) per year for two years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

Founded in 1968 to facilitate work in and the study of Jordan and the Middle East by American scholars, the American Center of Research (“ACOR”; formerly American Center of Oriental Research) runs thriving fellowship programs for scholars at all stages of their careers. During the past 54 years, we have awarded more than 1,000 fellowships, with 33 opportunities available in 2022–2023. Through the ongoing support of NEH’s Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions, ACOR is able to support significant scholarly research and publication in the humanities regarding Jordan and the Middle East. ACOR requests a three-year grant to award ten-person-months of fellowship per year.

16 months of stipend support (2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The American Academy in Rome requests a grant from the NEH in the amount of $345,000 for partial support of six 11-month post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities over three academic years (2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27) and partial support for the costs of the juries convened to evaluate and select winners. The NEH has supported fellowships at the Academy since 1976. These fellowships continue to stand at the heart of the Academy’s mission to support innovative scholars, writers, and artists living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Academy fosters cross-disciplinary exchange and enriches American scholarship and culture by attracting scholars of exceptional caliber and giving them the resources to advance their work and create new insights in the humanities.

12 months of stipend support (1 fellowship) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Center for Jewish History cultivates multilingual, interdisciplinary scholarship by providing access to the world’s largest collection on Jewish culture and history held outside of Israel and maintaining a vibrant community of Fellows. The NEH Scholar in Residence Fellowship supports high-level original research resulting in collections-based scholarship and offers Fellows opportunities to form meaningful connections with their fellow cohort, other scholars, and with the Center. The Center has hosted NEH Scholars since 2011 thanks to generous previous NEH funding. This fellowship has consistently attracted distinguished scholars who have produced significant publications. The Center respectfully requests renewed support for three further NEH Scholar in Residence Fellowships, one 12-month fellowship each year for three years. Renewed NEH support would ensure that the Center can continue to offer an intellectual home to accomplished scholars through its most prestigious fellowship.

12 months of stipend support (1–2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Science History Institute seeks 34 months of stipend support to create an NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship and requests a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. The Institute is home to the Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library, the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, and an award-winning museum showcasing how science is embedded in our everyday lives. As the Institute’s Beckman Center fellowship program celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary, we recognize that we have outgrown our ability to award enough fellowships to qualified applicants through exclusive use of our restricted endowment funds. NEH funding would allow us to expand our capacity to support one long-term postdoctoral research fellow each year for three years, creating more opportunities to embed the history of science in wider humanities discourse.

18 months of stipend support (2–3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) respectfully requests $385,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support stipend and selection expenses for long-term fellowships housed at the Center for Research in the Humanities (CRH) at the Library's landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellows will benefit from the Schwarzman Building's 4.3 million volume general humanities collection, which includes many rare and unique items, as well as NYPL's system-wide resources. During their time at the Center, Fellows will have opportunities to connect and share their work with other scholars and NYPL's broader community of patrons.

14 months of stipend support (2-3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The W.F. Albright Institute is applying for the equivalent of 14 months of stipend at $5000/month, for a total of $70,000 per year, for the three-year cycle: 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26, plus related selection costs at $5,000 per year. Funds would be used annually to support up to three fellows, in continuous residence at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem, for 4 to 6 months each. Fellows pursue a proposed research project, give public workshops to the academic community while in residence and participate in the activities of the Institute's scholarly community. Fellows' research projects culminate in a scholarly publication(s). The impact of this research, transmitted through the Albright's hundreds of alumni to institutions all over the world, has had a profound effect on the understanding of the humanities, western civilization, and its origins in the Near East. The Albright supports scholarly work in Near Eastern studies from prehistory through the Early Modern period.

9 months of stipend support (1–2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Linda Hall Library Foundation makes this application on behalf of the Linda Hall Library and requests $156,225 of funding over three years in order to offer a new, nine-month postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities. The Library's unrivaled collections of primary and secondary sources enable researchers to reconstruct the history of science and technology from the fifteenth century to the present and evaluate how those disciplines were shaped by the social contexts in which they were pursued. The Library is also the center of a dynamic intellectual community that includes research fellows, in-house experts, and scholars from across the Kansas City metropolitan area. This proposal details the Library's ongoing strategic efforts to expand its fellowship program, increase awareness of its holdings, establish ties with nearby cultural institutions, and support promising scholarship that views science, technology, and engineering through a humanistic lens.

20 months of stipend support (2–3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

This proposal seeks support for the award of about three fellowships per year for three years to post-doctoral scholars in all fields of the humanities to enable them to undertake their research projects in India.

12 months of stipend support (1–3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The ARIT NEH fellowship program aims to support scholars who conduct long-term interdisciplinary research in the humanities in Turkey. Their fields of study include art, archaeology, literature, linguistics, musicology, religion, and all aspects of cultural, social, and political history. The ARIT centers in Istanbul and Ankara offer unique research resources. The directors facilitate access to institutions and colleagues in the country. ARIT long term fellows interact with Turkish, U.S, and other scholars at the ARIT research centers in Istanbul and Ankara, where their intellectual exchange helps promote increased understanding of ancient and modern Turkey and the region. This program will enable ARIT-NEH fellows to produce groundbreaking research that is shared with the public through teaching and community outreach. For its NEH FPIRI program, ARIT requests 12 months total fellowship funding per year for 3 years, supporting 1 to 3 fellows annually.

10 months of stipend support (2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray selection and administrative costs.

PARC’s NEH/FPIRI postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanities-related fields includes 2 fellowships per year for a total of 10 months total per year. With 20 years’ experience in selecting and administering fellowship programs, PARC has extensive outreach to the community of scholars working on Palestine, expertise in conducting a fair, impartial selection process to make awards to the strongest applicants, a well-recognized record of PARC alumni fellows’ achievement and publication, and an established office in Palestine that acts as an intellectual hub for U.S., Palestinian, and international scholars. Our Palestine office has a unique library on Palestinian social/cultural history and provides scholars with unprecedented access to local archives, collections, and Palestinian scholars. PARC will utilize its experience and expertise to select and support NEH fellows in carrying out successful, significant research in the humanities and humanities-related fields.

26 months of stipend support (3 fellowships) per year for three years.

The National Humanities Center, an independent center exclusively devoted to advanced humanities research, seeks three nine-month fellowships for the next three-year cycle (grant period January 1, 2022 - June 30, 2025). Since 1978, the NEH has generously supported NHC fellowships during each granting cycle. Designated "NEH Fellows," recipients of these awards are chosen through a rigorous vetting process and join a vibrant intellectual community of 30-40 total Fellows. Each works on a major research project throughout the academic year with significant support from our library staff and scholarly programs office. End-of-year evaluations from the roughly 1,500 Fellows who have been in residence generally describe their year at the NHC as the most inspiring and productive of their careers. The NHC focuses attention to diversity in all of its dimensions so that Fellows represent a broad range of disciplines, institutions, backgrounds, and perspectives.

12 months of stipend support (2 - 3 fellowships) per year for one year and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The ARIT NEH fellowship program aims to support scholars who conduct long-term interdisciplinary research in the humanities in Turkey. Their fields of study include art, archaeology, literature, linguistics, musicology, religion, and all aspects of cultural, social, and political history. ARIT long term fellows interact with Turkish, U.S, and other scholars at the ARIT research centers in Istanbul and Ankara, where their intellectual exchange promotes a broad-based understanding of the ancient and modern Middle East. This scholarly interaction has enabled former ARIT-NEH fellows to produce groundbreaking publications that have been shared with the public through their teaching and community outreach programs. ARIT center directors in Istanbul and Ankara facilitate access to research resources and colleagues in the country. For its NEH FPIRI program, ARIT requests 12 months total fellowship funding per year. Research tenures may cover 4 to 12 months, supporting 1 to 3 fellows annually.

18 months of stipend support (3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) respectfully requests $286,143 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support stipend and selection expenses for Fellows in the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Fellows will benefit from dedicated research space at the Schomburg Center, intellectual exchange with fellow scholars, and access to the Schomburg Center's 11 million item collection, which contains rare and unique materials chronicling the Black experience in America and abroad. Notable research collections at the Schomburg Center include the archives of James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and Malcolm X; the records of the Civil Rights Congress; writings in 60 different African indigenous languages; artwork by Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden; photographs by Chester Higgins; and radio broadcasts and recordings by Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington, among many other items.

26 months of stipend support (4 to 6 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The American Antiquarian Society seeks renewed funding for the term 1/1/2022 through 6/30/2025 in the amount of $399,000 to support long-term fellowships for a total of 26 fellowship months per year at the stipend level of $5000/month. Founded in 1812, the AAS is a learned society centered on an independent research library of pre-20th century American history and culture. The Society offered its first National Endowment for the Humanities funded fellowships in 1976-77. The proposed renewal of NEH-supported fellowships will enable scholars from around the country, from diverse backgrounds, and at varied career stages, to conduct research at AAS for periods of 4 to 12 months. The Society asks that NEH provide it with the means to maintain the long-term fellowship program and thus to continue to serve the cause of humanistic scholarship in the United States.

16 months of stipend support (1.5 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The American Academy in Rome requests a grant from the NEH for partial support of six 11-month post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities over three academic years (2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24) and partial support for the costs of the juries convened to evaluate and select winners. The NEH has supported fellowships at the Academy since 1976. These fellowships continue to stand at the heart of the Academy's mission to support innovative scholars, writers, and artists living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Academy fosters cross-disciplinary exchange and enriches American scholarship and culture by attracting scholars of exceptional caliber and giving them the resources to advance their work and create new insights in the humanities. [edited by staff]

48 months of stipend support (5 fellowships) per year for five years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

Grants from the NEH’s Fellowship Program at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) have generously allowed the Newberry Library to invite outstanding scholars to pursue ground-breaking research using our extensive collections. In this application, the Newberry requests $382,500 over three years in direct FPIRI grants to provide 24 months per year of long-term fellowship stipends for carefully-selected researchers in the humanities. Further, the Newberry requests $180,000 over three years in matching FPIRI grants to offer an additional 24 months per year of long-term fellowship stipends (12 months funded by FPIRI grants; 12 months matched by the Newberry). A FPIRI grant and additional matching funds would allow the Newberry to begin to address high demand for scholarly use of our collections, enrich humanistic inquiry, and benefit the institution long after fellowship residencies.

12 months of stipend support (1 fellowship) per year for one year and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Center for Jewish History (the Center) is the world’s leading repository of archival sources on Jewish history. It is home to five partner organizations with over five miles of archival documents, 500,000 volumes, and thousands of artworks and objects stretching back 5,000 years. The NEH Fellowship for Senior Scholars--the highest tier in the Center’s fellowship program--supports high-level original research resulting in scholarship based on these collections. Since 2011, generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed the Center to host one outstanding Senior Scholar each year. Past NEH fellows have made significant discoveries and published numerous times. Continued NEH support would ensure that the Center can continue to offer a home to humanities scholars at the highest level. [edited by staff]

12 months of stipend support (2 fellowships) per year for two years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine seeks support for postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities over a three year period for advanced study and research in the history of science, technology and medicine. Specifically, the Consortium requests funding for 12 fellowships months per year which would be awarded to junior and/or senior scholars as determined by the selection committee for projects typically ranging from four to nine months in duration.