Collaborative Research | 20231129 RZ

Opportunity Information: Apply for 20231129 RZ

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering the Collaborative Research grant (Funding Opportunity Number 20231129 RZ), a discretionary grant program run through NEH's Division of Research Programs. The opportunity is designed to help teams of two or more scholars work together on projects that meaningfully expand humanistic knowledge. Rather than supporting solitary scholarship, it specifically targets collaborative efforts where the group structure is central to the research, interpretation, and final outcomes.

The program supports several common forms of collaboration. Funding can be used to organize scholarly convenings that move research forward, to prepare manuscripts for jointly authored or collaboratively produced publications, to build or enhance scholarly digital projects, or to plan an international research collaboration. Across all of these pathways, NEH emphasizes that projects must be driven by significant research questions and must result in a tangible interpretive product. In practice, that means the project should culminate in something concrete and scholarly that offers interpretation and insight (for example, a co-authored book or article, a curated digital resource with substantial interpretive framing, or another well-defined humanistic research output), not just networking, data gathering, or general capacity-building.

A key feature of the opportunity is its openness to different research designs. Collaborative projects may be rooted firmly within a single humanities field or may cross disciplinary boundaries. NEH explicitly encourages collaborations that include scholars from the natural sciences or social sciences, as long as the heart of the project remains humanistic in content and method. The proposal, therefore, should make clear that the central questions, sources, and analytical approach come from the humanities (such as historical, philosophical, literary, linguistic, religious, cultural, or other interpretive frameworks), even if scientific or social scientific perspectives contribute to the work.

Eligibility is broad and includes multiple types of institutions and organizations. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education institutions). This range signals that NEH expects proposals not only from universities, but also from eligible public entities and mission-driven nonprofits capable of managing research grants and supporting scholarly collaboration.

From a funding standpoint, the award ceiling is $300,000, and NEH anticipated making about 15 awards under this competition cycle. The opportunity falls under the humanities funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 45.161. For this particular posting, the opportunity was created on August 1, 2023, with an original application deadline of November 29, 2023. Overall, the grant is best suited for well-defined, team-based humanities research projects that can demonstrate why collaboration is essential, what interpretive product will be delivered, and how the work will advance understanding of important humanistic questions.

• The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) 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 Aug 01, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 29, 2023. (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 $300,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 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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