2024 NEH Summer Stipend Guidelines

Each year the Office for Research and Sponsored Projects coordinates an internal competition per the eligibility requirements of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends Program. The purpose of the internal competition is to select one LMU candidate who will be nominated by LMU to submit applications.

The 2024 NEH Summer Stipend Guidelines will be posted in June. Stay tuned for more information as ORSP will send an additional announcement with the internal application and guidelines. Nominations for the 2024 competition are limited to one per institution, and other changes include eligibility requirements and an increased award amount to $8,000. Please refer to the timeline below for important dates related to the internal competition. ORSP will send additional guidance once the NEH releases stipend guidelines and other relevant information.

Timeline

Program Summary

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Summer Stipends provide $8,000 to support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. Eligible projects usually result in articles, monographs, books, digital materials and publications, archaeological site reports, translations, or editions. Projects must incorporate analysis and not result solely in the collection of data. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.

Internal Nomination Eligibility Requirements

Faculty members with tenured or tenure-track positions who teach full-time at institutions of higher education must be nominated by their institutions to apply for a Summer Stipend.

Applicants Exempt from Nomination Process

The following individuals may apply without a nomination: independent scholars not affiliated with an institution of higher education; staff members at institutions of higher education who are not faculty members and will not be teaching during the academic year preceding the award; community college faculty; emeritus faculty; adjunct faculty; part-time faculty; applicants with academic appointments that terminate by the summer of the period of performance; and faculty at Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNHIs), Native American-Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTIs), and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs).

General Eligibility Requirements

• All applicants must have completed their formal education by the application deadline. While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree- granting program are ineligible to apply.
• United States citizens, whether they reside inside or outside the United States, are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline are also eligible.
• Individuals who have either held or received a major fellowship or research award or its equivalent within the three academic years prior to the deadline are eligible. Everything else being equal, though, the program will give preference to applicants who have not received such support. However, NEH will ask reviewers to take into account the accomplishments from the prior Summer Stipends award and determine if the project warrants additional support.
• Individuals who have previously received Summer Stipends may apply to support a new stage of their projects. These applications do not receive special consideration and will be judged by the same criteria as others in the competition.

Please visit https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends for more information. For a list of other upcoming NEH grant opportunities, please visit https://www.neh.gov/grants.

For questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Office for Research and Sponsored Projects at orsp@lmu.edu or 310-338-4599.