What Grant Program Fits My Digital Project? 

Are you developing innovative digital methods or workflows? 

Are you designing or enhancing open-source software for implementing digital humanities research? 

Are building or expanding upon digital platforms or infrastructure that enables and supports humanities research and publishing? 

• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Office of Digital Humanities 

• Research and Development program, Division of Preservation and Access 

 Are you pursuing research that examines history, criticism, or philosophy of digital culture or effects of technology on society? 

• Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities 

• Collaborative Research, Division of Research Programs 

• Fellowships program, Division of Research Programs 

• Summer Stipends, Division of Research Programs 

• Public Scholars, Division of Research Programs 

Does your institution wish to sustain mature and widely-used digital projects?

• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Office of Digital Humanities

• Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Division of Preservation and Access

Are you an individual faculty or staff member working on a digital humanities project of any kind at an HBCU, HSI, or Tribal College? 

• Awards for Faculty, Division of Research Programs, Division of Research Programs: 
  Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
  Tribal Colleges and Universities 

Are you considering digitizing or building a database of digitized collections? 

Do you want to enable access to existing collections through visualizations such as a map or social network? 

Are you developing online reference resources like dictionaries and encyclopedia? 

• Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Division of Preservation and Access 

Are you at small or mid-size institution or a minority-serving institution with digital collections seeking to assess their preservation and storage needs? 

• Preservation Assistance Grants for Small Institutions, Division of Preservation and Access 

Are you using digital means to collect oral histories or capture historical resources in communities endangered by climate events or the Covid-19 pandemic?  

• Cultural and Community Resilience, Division of Preservation and Access  

Are you seeking to address major challenges in preserving or providing access to  
humanities collections and resources, including collections and data standards? 

• Research and Development program, Division of Preservation and Access  

Are you engaging in experimental methods for analyzing, accessing, or digitizing collections? 

• Research and Development program, Division of Preservation and Access 

• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Office of Digital Humanities 

Are you using digital technology to record, document, or archive endangered languages? 

• Dynamic Language Infrastructure –Documenting Endangered Languages, Senior Research Grants, Division of Preservation and Access and National Science Foundation 

Are you an individual faculty or staff member working on a digital humanities project related to institutional or community archival collections at an HBCU, HSI, or Tribal College? 

• Awards for Faculty, Division of Research Programs: 
  Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
  Tribal Colleges and Universities 

Are you collaborating with a team using established digital methods for humanities research resulting in a major digital project, website, journal article, edited collection, special issue of a journal, book? 

• Collaborative Research, Division of Research Programs 

Are you an individual scholar engaging in digital methods for humanities research resulting in an article or book, digital or print, including an edition or translation?  

• Fellowships, Division of Research Programs 

• Summer Stipends, Division of Research Programs  

Are you building a digital documentary, critical edition, or translation project with an existing software platform? 

• Scholarly Editions and Translations, Division of Research Programs 

Are you an individual faculty or staff member working on a digital critical edition or publication at an HBCU, HSI, or Tribal College? 

• Awards for Faculty, Division of Research Programs: 
  Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
  Tribal Colleges and Universities 

Are you designing a website, VR experience, or mobile app with a strong storytelling element with a collaborative team for public audiences? 

• Digital Projects for the Public, Division of Public Programs 

Are you developing new software or digital methods for public engagement? 

• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants 

Are you documenting a community’s history or cultural practices for an interpretive research project? 

• Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research program, Division of Research Programs 

Are you using digital means to collect oral histories or capture historical resources in communities endangered by climate events or the Covid-19 pandemic?  

• Cultural and Community Resilience, Division of Preservation and Access 

Are you an individual faculty or staff member working on a digital public humanities at an HBCU, HSI, or Tribal College? 

• Awards for Faculty, Division of Research Programs: 
  Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
  Tribal Colleges and Universities 

Are you designing an interdisciplinary digital humanities minor/major for undergraduates? 

• Humanities Connections, Division of Education Programs 

• Humanities Initiatives, Division of Education Programs: 
  Historically-Black Colleges and Universities 
  Tribal Colleges and Universities 
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
  Community Colleges 
  Other Colleges and Universities 

Do you wish to create curriculum-based DH projects at the college-level with and/or for your students or members of your local community (ie, Open Educational Resources, podcasts, websites)? 

• Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education (for small two and four year colleges) 

Do you plan to research the effectiveness of online learning or digital pedagogy in the humanities? 

• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants 

Are you developing national or regional training in digital humanities? 

• Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities  

Are you developing training in digital preservation or technical art history? 

• Preservation and Access Education and Training, Division of Preservation and Access 

Are you designing summer institutes on a humanities theme that integrates digital methods? 

• Summer Seminars and Institutes, Division of Education Programs 

Are you establishing a collaborative humanities research center examining ethical, legal, or societal impact of Artificial Intelligence? 

• Humanities Research Centers for Artificial Intelligence, Division of Research Programs