Research funder · United States
National Endowment for the Humanities
Independent federal agency of the United States government
- Grants since 2016
- 7 965
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- $758.2M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 883
- Funded works, all time
- 4 160
Grants
2026 · research · Chairman's Awards to Individuals
The Burden of the Humanities
2026 · research · The Jefferson Lecture
2025 Jefferson Lecture (52nd Lecture)
2025 · research · Summer Stipends
Faith’s Retreat and the Evolution of Religious Belief Since 1689
Mark Boespflug · Fort Lewis College
2025–2027 · research · Chairman's Awards to Individuals
George Washington and the Politics of Honor
Carson Holloway · University of Nebraska at Omaha
2025–2027 · research · Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Fourth Floor Collections Storage Project
John Metz · Library Of Virginia Foundation
2025–2026 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
The Great American Art Competition (TGAAC)
Adam Thompson · American Principles Project Foundation
2025–2027 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Challenge Grants)
Founding Freedoms
Maddie Foster · Faith And Law Project
2025–2027 · fellowship · Fellowships
A Missing Voice in Early-American Music: The Choral Music of Johann Friedrich Peter
Ryan Malone · Bucknell University
2025–2026 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Challenge Grants)
Sharing Philadelphia’s History for the Semiquincentennial
Stacey Swigart · Drexel University
2025 · research · Summer Stipends
Who Will Draw Our History? Early Holocaust Graphic Narratives by Women Survivors, 1944-1949
Rachel Perry · Brandeis University
2025–2026 · research · Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Plan for Collections Space in the Seamans Visitor Center
Susan Baker · House Of Seven Gables Settlement Association
2025 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
Emancipation Summer: The Meaning of Freedom in Mississippi
Linda Fondren · Shape Up Mississippi
2025–2027 · research · Exhibitions: Implementation
Black Photojournalism
Dan Leers · Carnegie Institution for Science
2025–2027 · research · Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
The Luttrell File: A Unique Online Database of Early Modern English-Language Ephemera
Earle Havens · Johns Hopkins University
2025–2027 · research · National Digital Newspaper Program
National Digital Newspaper Project in Ohio, Round VII
Lauren Kennedy · Ohio History Connection
2025–2028 · research · Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Publishing an Open-Access, Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia
Ronald Roach · East Tennessee State University
2025–2027 · research · Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
La Jolla Assessment, Optimization and Planning Project
Jenna Jacobs · Museum Of Contemporary Art San Diego
2025–2026 · research · Chairman's Awards to Individuals
American Federalism at 250: the Enduring Legacy of the Federal Idea in a Divided Nation
Andrew Bibby · Utah Valley University
2025–2027 · fellowship · Fellowships
Nothing Halfway: German Idealism from System-Critique to Hegel’s System, and Back
James Kreines · Claremont McKenna College
2025–2027 · research · Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Updating and Expanding the Modernist Journals Project
Jeffrey Drouin · University of Tulsa
2025–2027 · fellowship · Fellowships
The Paradox of Faith: A Philosophical-Literary Commentary on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Alexander Jech · University of Notre Dame
2025–2026 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Education)
The Hebrew Roots of America: A Semiquincentennial Conference
Andrew Nolte · Regent University
2025–2027 · research · Collaborative Research
NEH-HFRI: The Archaeology of Small Islands in the Northeast Mediterranean
Alex Knodell · Carleton College
2025–2026 · research · Public Scholars
The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
Jay Rubenstein · University of Southern California
2025–2028 · training · Preservation and Access Education and Training
Preserving the Past for the Future: Training, Services, and Resources to Preserve Humanities Collections
Ann Willer · Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc.
2025 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Research)
Emerging Humanities
Heidi Camp · National Humanities Center
2025–2028 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
The Tikvah Institute: The Jewish Civilization Project
Jonathan Silver · Tikvah Fund
2025–2028 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
Great Books and Civic Renewal Initiative
Alexander Duff · The University of Texas at Austin
2025–2027 · research · Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development Grants
Experiential Learning for the Humanities Work Plan
Karl Kuhn · Lakeland University
2025–2026 · research · Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Adler Collections Lighting Upgrade
Christopher Helms · Adler Planetarium
2025–2026 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)
The Rivendell Center's Benjamin Rush Documentary Series
Joseph Loconte · Sagamore Institute, Inc.
2025 · research · Summer Stipends
The Letters of Jean Ingelow
Maura Ives · Texas A&M University
2025–2028 · research · Scholarly Editions and Translations
Frederick Douglass Papers Digital Edition
John Kaufman-Mckivigan · Indiana University
2025–2026 · research · Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Education)
Restoring the Humanities to American Higher Education
Peter Wood · National Association Of Scholars, Inc.
2025–2029 · research · Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
Integrational Health Humanities and Allied Sciences Lab at Lehigh University
Lorenzo Servitje · Lehigh University
2025–2026 · research · Media Projects Production
Florence Knoll: Nothing Left To Chance
H. Brown · Design Onscreen
2025–2026 · research · Humanities Connections Planning Grants
Educating the Whole Scientist
Viorel Paslaru · University of Dayton
2025–2028 · research · Scholarly Editions and Translations
A Digital Library of Renaissance Music: Accessible Scholarly Editions, ca. 1420–1540
Jesse Rodin · Stanford University
2025–2026 · research · Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Living History, Lasting Impact: Humidity Control for Long-Term Preservation
Andrea Lewis · Sublette County Historical Society
2025–2027 · research · Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (Collaborative)
Algorithmic Technology and Knowledge Divestment in American Education
Antón Barba-Kay · Georgetown University