National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postgraduate Fellowship

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers around 80 fellowships for postgraduate scholars for 6-12 months of an advanced humanities research project. These fellowships are offered to support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. The fellowship is a full-time and continuous tenure, and provides a stipend of $5,000 per month, with a maximum of $60,000 for twelve-month period.

Eligibility

• U.S. 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 prior to the application deadline are also eligible.
• Current students are ineligible.
  • If you have satisfied the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral, you are eligible to apply, but you must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or your department chair attesting to your status as of the application deadline