Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accepting applications for the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. This program supports national or regional training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. The program aims to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. Some key aspects of the program include: • Sharing ideas and methods that advance humanities research and teaching through the use of digital technologies • Introducing digital humanities topics to scholars who lack digital expertise, resources, or capacity in their home institutions • Encouraging reflection on, and the interpretation and analysis of, new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies • Building inclusive communities of inquiry and contributing to participants' intellectual vitality and professional development • Teaching current and future generations of humanities scholars to design, develop, and use digital tools and environments for scholarship • Devising and applying new and creative uses for technology that offer valuable models for research in the humanities and sharing these methodologies and approaches with scholars and teachers Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, accredited institutions of higher education, state and local governments, and federally recognized Native American Tribal governments.