Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports 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 2013 will address the following topics:

• Brazilian literature
• Italian unification
• Metaphysics and mind
• Early modern responses to religious pluralism
• Reassessing British Romanticism
• Early modern manuscripts and printed books
• Classic Buddhist texts
• African-American struggles for freedom and civil rights
• American material culture in nineteenth-century New York
• America’s Russian-speaking immigrants and refugees
• Translation studies
• Development ethics
• African-American poetry
• Early modern empires and interactions
• History of political economy
• History of India
• Modernism in Chicago
• African Americans in the Georgia Lowcountry
• Music and travel, 1500–1800
• Transcendentalism and social action

Many seminars and institutes take place on American campuses; others are held at sites in Brazil, India, and Italy.

For a list of the seminars and institutes to be offered in the summer of 2013, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, please visit http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs.

***Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2014***

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.

For examples, see this year’s list of NEH summer programs: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs.

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/education/summer-seminars-and-institutes • NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops: http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshops-school-teachers

The deadline to propose a summer program for Summer 2014 is March 5, 2013.

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.