Opportunity Information: Apply for 20151209 RZ
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grants program funds interpretive humanities research carried out by teams of two or more collaborating scholars. The main purpose is to support substantial, humanities-driven inquiry that benefits from collaboration, whether that collaboration is across institutions, disciplines, or areas of expertise. Projects can be structured as full-time or part-time work and may run from one to three years, giving teams enough time to conduct sustained research, coordinate contributions, and produce meaningful outcomes.
The program is designed to be flexible in what it will pay for, as long as the costs are clearly tied to the research and its successful completion. Budgets may include support for participating scholars as well as consultants and research assistants. It can also cover project-related travel, fieldwork, and the use of information technology, including technical support and services that enable or strengthen the research. In practice, this makes the grant suitable not only for traditional collaborative scholarship (such as co-authored research and joint interpretive studies) but also for projects that require coordinated data gathering, specialized expertise, or technical infrastructure to analyze and present findings.
NEH emphasizes that funded work should reach both scholarly and public audiences. Grantees are expected to disseminate results in appropriate formats, which could include scholarly publications, conference proceedings, public-facing presentations, or other forms of communication that make the research accessible and useful beyond the immediate project team. This dissemination expectation signals that NEH is looking for projects with clear plans for impact, visibility, and contribution to ongoing humanities conversations.
Eligible projects fall into three broad categories. First, NEH supports research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities, meaning projects should be interpretive and analytical rather than purely descriptive, and they should demonstrate the potential to advance the field. Second, the program supports conferences on major humanities topics when those gatherings will directly benefit scholarly research, for example by catalyzing new agendas, methods, collaborations, or publications. Third, NEH funds archaeological projects, specifically when they include strong components of interpretation and dissemination, ensuring that excavation or field activities lead to humanities-centered analysis and shared results rather than stopping at data collection.
Eligibility is broad and includes individuals and many types of organizations: 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, including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities (as long as they are not institutions of higher education). This wide eligibility aligns with the program's collaborative nature and allows partnerships among scholars working in universities, cultural organizations, government settings, and independent contexts.
Key administrative details from the listing include that this is a discretionary grant opportunity administered by NEH, with a CFDA number of 45.161. The funding opportunity is identified as "Collaborative Research Grants" with opportunity number 20151209 RZ. The listed award ceiling is $300,000. The original closing date shown in the source data is December 9, 2015, and the opportunity record creation date is October 7, 2015.Apply for 20151209 RZ
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Collaborative Research Grants" 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 2015-10-07.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-12-09. (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.
- 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, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Individuals.
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