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Applications are due March 5, 2025 by 11:59 pm pacific time.

Decisions will be announced April 2, 2025!

Please read the following critical information on applying:

Principles of Civility

From the Fragments will follow the Principles of Civility for NEH Professional Development Programs.

NEH Institutes and Landmarks programs are intended to extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics, texts, and issues; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; and foster a community of inquiry that provides models of excellence in scholarship and teaching.

NEH expects that project directors will take responsibility for encouraging an ethos of openness and respect, upholding the basic norms of civil discourse.

Institute and Landmarks presentations and discussions should be:

firmly grounded in rigorous scholarship, and thoughtful analysis;
conducted without partisan advocacy;
respectful of divergent views;
free of ad hominem commentary; and
devoid of ethnic, religious, gender, disability, or racial bias.

NEH welcomes comments, concerns, or suggestions on these principles at questions@neh.gov.

Participant Eligibility

You are eligible to apply if you are a:

• United States citizen, including those teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions and schools operated by the federal government;

• resident of U.S. jurisdictions; or

• foreign national who has been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.

You are not eligible to apply if you:

• are a foreign national teaching abroad

• are related to the project director(s)

• are affiliated with the applicant institution (employees, currently enrolled students, etc.)

• have been taught or advised in an academic capacity by the project director(s)

• are delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees)

• have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency

• have attended a previous NEH professional development project (Seminars, Landmarks, or Institutes) led by the project director(s)

NEH does not require participants to have earned an advanced degree.

In any given year, an individual may attend only one Institute or Landmarks workshop.

J1 and F1 visa holders should confer with their sponsoring institution regarding their eligibility to receive a stipend from another institution.

To be considered for selection, applicants must submit a complete application as indicated on the individual project’s website. Any questions about applications should be directed to the individual project team.

Participant Expectations

To be considered, you must submit a complete application using the button above by the posted deadline. In any given year, an individual may attend only one Institute or Landmarks workshop. Participants may not accept an additional offer or withdraw in order to accept a different offer once they have accepted an offer to attend an NEH Institutes or Landmarks program.

If you apply, are selected, and then accept the offer to attend this institute, you become a Participant. Participants are expected to be present the entire length of the institute and to participate in its work on a full-time basis. If a participant departs before the end of the week, they will receive a prorated share of the stipend. The UNH Certificate of Participation for 30 Contact Hours will be given only to those educators who complete the full institute. Anonymous participant evaluations will be collected at the end of the institute.

Applicants MUST review the full Participant Expectations (by clicking here)

Selection Process

The UNH project team will read and evaluate all properly completed applications. We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds, from a wide range of subject matters, and in broad and varied learning and teaching contexts. We are looking for applicants who make a strong case for how this institute will benefit them professionally and personally and who show clear potential to bring the week’s learning forward with them and to their students and communities.

Of note, while recent NEH summer program participants are eligible to apply, NEH requires first consideration be given to applicants who have not previously participated in an NEH-supported seminar, institute, or workshop.

Decisions will be made by April 2, 2025. Educators who are selected must accept by April 16, 2025.

Please see Applicant & Participant FAQs for more information (by clicking here)

NEH does not condone or tolerate discrimination or harassment based on age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), genetic information, national origin, race, or religion. Nor does NEH condone or tolerate retaliation against those who initiate discrimination complaints (either formally or informally), serve as witnesses, or otherwise participate in the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) process, or oppose discrimination or harassment. For further information, write to the Equal Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024. TDD: 202-606-8282 (this is a special telephone device for the Deaf).