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Research Division Evaluates the Impact of its Fellowships Program

In academic circles, it’s common to hear it said that a professor “got an NEH.”  What is meant by this shorthand is that a faculty member was awarded an NEH Fellowship. 

By NEH Staff
Édouard Manet's Impressionist portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé reading a book.

What Use is a Book?

Readers debate, often with angst, about where the printed book will fit into an increasingly digital future. These 21st-Century discussions wrestle with the question: what use is a book? The Book as Instrument looks to the past, to another time when the future of the book was in question, for answers to our present dilemma.

Portrait of John Adams as Vice President

The Education of a Statesman

The latest volume of the Adams Papers, one of the largest long-running editorial projects currently supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, opens a window on the development of American self-government and on the education of a statesman.

Medieval color illumination: a master Huntsman trains a class of 6 men

Dressing Up (and Down) in the Middle Ages

The NEH-supported Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515 takes a sartorial look at medieval history.

Black and white photo of Mark Twain

100 Years Later, Mark Twain's Autobiography

The NEH-funded Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, publishes to great acclaim Volume 1 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain (University of California Press, 2010), 100 years after the death of its iconic author.

Arjuna and Krishna in a battle chariot against a gold background

The Afterlife of the Bhagavad Gita

Richard Davis is exploring the "rich interpretive afterlife" of the Bhagavad Gita (“The Song of the Lord”).  Written over 2000 years ago, this eighteen-chapter poem presents a conversation between a warrior-prince, Arjuna, and his friend and charioteer, Krishna.

carved stone hieroglyphs on Mayan tomb wall

Royal Mayan Tomb Discovered

NEH-supported archaeologists led by Stephen Houston of Brown University have discovered an undisturbed tomb of an ancient Maya king in El Zotz, Guatemala. The major find was announced jointly by Brown University and Guatemala Ministry of Culture, which authorized the work.

Marchers in Algiers convey a body to its grave in 16th Century

Captured by Pirates

From his prison cell a Portuguese priest documented the mixing of cultures, languages, and religions in 16th-century Algiers. A new NEH-supported translation of his writing captures a city at the crossroads of civilizations.

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Posted: March 31, 2012

Summer Stipends Awards, March 2012

Summer Stipends Awards Announced in March 2012

Posted: March 21, 2012

Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions Awards, March 2012

FPIRI Awards Announced for 2012

Posted: February 13, 2012

Awards for Faculty 2012 Guidelines available

The new  Awards for Faculty guidelines are live on the NEH website.  The deadline is April 17, with drafts due by Sunday, March 25.

Posted: December 2, 2011

Fellowship Awards, December 2011

Fellowship Awards Announcement, December 2011

Posted: December 2, 2011

Awards for Faculty, December 2011

Awards for Faculty Announcement, December 2011

Posted: December 2, 2011

Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan, December 2011

Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan Awards Announcement, December 2011

Posted: August 1, 2011

Collaborative Research Awards, July 2011

Collaborative Research Awards Announcement, July 2011

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Posted: June 20, 2012

NEH Research at the APSA Annual Meeting

Program Officers Claudia Kinkela and Jason Boffetti will be attending the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in late August. The 2012 meeting is located in New Orleans, LA,

Posted: April 12, 2012

Workshop: Drake University, Des Moines

Program Officer Daniel Sack will be conducting a grant workshop at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on April 12th, 2012.

Posted: April 5, 2012

Workshop: Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Program Officer John Cox will be conducting a grant workshop at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina on April 6th, 2012.

Posted: March 1, 2012

Workshop: Rutgers University Camden

Program Officer Daniel Sack will be conducting a grant workshop for faculty from Rutgers and nearby institutions on March 1, 2012.

Posted: March 1, 2012

Workshop: University of Colorado, Boulder

Program Officer Claudia Kinkela will be conducting a grant workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder on March 1, 2012.

Posted: February 27, 2012

Workshop: Kent State, OH

Program Officer John Cox will be conducting a grant workshop at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on February 27, 2012.

Posted: February 22, 2012

Workshops: Dallas, Texas

Deputy Director Russell Wyland will be conducting two grant workshops in the Dallas, Texas area in late February.

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