Collaborative Research | 20211201 RZ

Opportunity Information: Apply for 20211201 RZ

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Division of Research Programs, is offering the Collaborative Research grant (Funding Opportunity Number 20211201 RZ) to support teams of two or more scholars working together on humanities-centered research. The core goal of the program is to expand humanistic knowledge by funding collaborative activities such as scholarly convenings (for example, planning meetings, workshops, or working groups), sustained research, preparation of manuscripts for co-authored or jointly produced publications, and the development of scholarly digital projects. Projects can be rooted within a single humanities field or designed to cross disciplines, and NEH explicitly encourages partnerships that include researchers from the natural and social sciences, as long as the work remains anchored in significant humanities research questions.

This is a discretionary grant opportunity in the humanities (CFDA 45.161) with an award ceiling of up to $250,000 per grant. NEH anticipates making around 20 awards under this competition. The opportunity is open to a broad range of eligible applicants, including public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions), and multiple levels of government such as state, county, and city or township governments, as well as special district governments. Federally recognized Native American tribal governments are also eligible to apply. The original application closing date listed for this opportunity was December 1, 2021, and the record indicates it was created on August 31, 2021.

In practical terms, the program is designed for projects where collaboration is not incidental but central to the research approach and outcomes. Competitive proposals typically make clear why the research requires a team (rather than a single investigator), what concrete products will result (such as a co-authored book, edited volume, article series, digital scholarly resource, or other major research outputs), and how convenings and coordinated work plans will move the collaboration toward those deliverables. Even when projects bring in methods or partners from outside the humanities, NEH is signaling that the intellectual center of gravity must remain a humanities problem, with the collaboration structured to generate new insights, interpretations, data resources, or arguments that advance humanities scholarship.

• The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Collaborative Research" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.161.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2021-08-31.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-12-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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