Funding Opportunities

For digital pedagogy and research projects that need additional support and resources, funding opportunities for faculty and graduate students working in the digital humanities are available at Northwestern University and beyond.

Northwestern University

• Alumnae Curriculum Awards
  Provides support for faculty to develop new courses which will specifically enhance innovation in Northwestern’s undergraduate curriculum for the coming academic year


• Course Enhancement Grants
  Funded by the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, these grants provide funds for special events or activities associated with a course


• Graduate Research Grant
  Funded by The Graduate School, this grant is intended to to help PhD and MFA students and postdoctoral scholars in historically underfunded disciplines meet expenses related to scholarly research and creative endeavors.


• Hewlett Fund for Curricular Innovation
  Funded by Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, these grants or matching funds are available to one or more continuing faculty members or departments for projects that enhance undergraduate curricular innovation and development


• Office of Sponsored Research
  Provides an integrated portfolio of expert services and resources to serve our world-class investigators and advance Northwestern’s transformative research and teaching efforts.


• Provost's Grants for Research in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts (HSSA)

  Support for faculty research and creative work in the humanities, social sciences and arts fields.

National Endowment for the Humanities

• Public Humanities Projects
  Supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming.  Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Topic areas are specified and change with each grant cycle. 


• Media Projects
  Supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series  that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production. 


• Scholarly Editions and Translations
  Provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. 

Other Sources

• Digital Justice Grant
   The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.  


• Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives
  Subtitled "Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials," this national competition promotes and funds digitizing collections of rare and unique content in cultural memory institutions (CLIR).