Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Assistance Listings
- 45.162 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development
Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026
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Description
In recent years, research published by Humanities Indicators, among others, has revealed that humanities PhDs pursue careers in many different professions—both inside and outside academia. Yet most humanities PhD programs in the United States still prepare students primarily for tenure-track professor positions at colleges and universities. The increasing shortage of such positions has changed students’ expected career outcomes. NEH therefore hopes to assist universities in devising a new model of doctoral education, which can both transform the understanding of what it means to be a humanities...
scholar and promote the integration of the humanities in the public sphere.
Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants support universities in preparing to institute wide-ranging changes in humanities doctoral programs. Humanities knowledge and methods can make an even more substantial impact on society if students are able to translate what they learn in doctoral programs into a multitude of careers. Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants are designed to bring together various important constituencies to discuss and strategize, and then to produce plans that will transform scholarly preparation in the humanities at the doctoral level. Students will be prepared to undertake various kinds of careers, and humanities PhD programs will increase their relevance for the twenty-first century.
Grantee institutions must provide funds raised from nonfederal third parties equal to the grant funds released by NEH.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Miscellaneous
- Other
Additional information
The only eligible applicants are U.S. nonprofit institutions of higher education with PhD programs in the humanities.
Grantor contact information
Description
nextgen@neh.gov
202-606-8500
nextgen@neh.gov
nextgen@neh.gov
Documents
No documents are currently available.
Link to additional information
https://www.neh.gov/grants/education/next-generation-humanities-phd-planning-grants
Closed: November 29, 2017
Award
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Program Funding
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Expected awards
$2
Award Minimum
$50,000
Award Maximum
Funding opportunity number:
20171129-ZA
Cost sharing or matching requirement:
Yes
Funding instrument type:
Grant
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
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Category of Funding Activity:
Humanities
Category Explanation:
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History
Version:
1
Posted date:
September 14, 2017
Archive date:
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