PARTICIPATE IN AN NEH SUMMER PROGRAM IN 2012

Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports tuition-free residential seminars and institutes for faculty who teach American undergraduates.

These study opportunities allow faculty and a select number of graduate students to increase their knowledge of current scholarship and advance their own teaching and research. Participants in these two- to five-week projects receive stipends to help cover travel and living expenses.

The 20 seminars and institutes for summer 2012 will address the following topics:

• Health and disease in the Middle Ages
• 20th-century French history
• James Joyce’s Ulysses
• Roman empire and comedy, Etruscans
• Visual culture of the American Civil War
• Asian-American art history
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean
• Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
• Experimental philosophy
• Jane Austen
• Liberty, equality and justice
• Oscar Wilde
• World War I in the Middle East
• Tudor books and readers
• American maritime history
• Contemporary African-American literature
• Consciousness from Buddhist and contemporary philosophical perspectives

Many seminars and institutes take place on American campuses; others are held in Belgium, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and Spain.

For a list of the seminars and institutes to be offered in the summer of 2012, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, please visit http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html.

------------------------------------ DIRECT AN NEH SUMMER PROGRAM IN 2013

The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for grants to direct a summer program for college faculty or schoolteachers on a humanities topic of your expertise.

Why direct an NEH summer program?

• Directors strengthen teaching and research at the undergraduate or K-12 levels.
• Directors influence their fields of expertise through intense collegial study, often resulting in participants’ publications.
• Directors join a distinguished roster of NEH summer program leaders.
• Directors engage with motivated participants from across the country.
• Directors receive compensation based on the duration of the program.
• Directors bring distinction to their home institutions.

Interested in applying? Consult the application guidelines:

• NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html

• NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html

The deadline to propose a summer program for Summer 2013 is March 1, 2012.

We strongly encourage you to discuss your proposal with NEH staff, who will answer questions and critique drafts. Call (202) 606-8500 or send e-mail to sem-inst@neh.gov or landmarks@neh.gov.