For Our Prospective Applicants: Engaging Latinx Art

Application due date: March 1, 2022. Please use the application portal found here.* Applications sent to NEH will not be reviewed.

Complete application will consist of 1) a completed application form at the link above, 2) an essay (maximum 1,500 words) outlining your commitment as a teacher, your intellectual interests as they relate to Latinx art and culture, the perspectives and skills you would bring to the program, and an argument for the long-term impact the program may have on the applicant's teaching. Send the essay to rkoontz@uh.edu attached to a message with the subject line "NEH Application [YOUR LAST NAME]," and finally 3) a two-page CV, included as an attachment in the message with your application essay.

Before You Open the Application Portal

Please have contact information for one reference ready as you sit down to complete your application via the portal above. The referee may be your Chair, Dean, or Supervisor, or another colleague with significant insight into your teaching practice. You should also visit <https://bit.ly/nehfields> and note all academic fields in the list that could be considered primary for you.

General Summer Institute Application Information

Depending on public health guidelines related to COVID-19, plans for a residential offering are subject to change.

NEH Summer Institutes allow higher ed. faculty an opportunity to enrich and revitalize their teaching through the study of humanities topics that bear upon undergraduate education. Participants will receive a certificate upon completion of the program, but programs are not intended to duplicate graduate-level courses. See the "Participant Eligibility Criteria" below for more detail on eligibility.

This institute will allow 25 participants to study a humanities topic with a team of experienced scholars over the course of two weeks of intensive lectures, scholar and participant presentations, hands-on research, and more informal discussion. Project leaders and participants mutually explore connections between scholarship and teaching, and some time will be provided for work on individual or collaborative projects.

Participants are offered a stipend for participation in the project. The stipend is intended to help cover travel, housing, meals, and basic academic expenses. The stipend for the two weeks will be $2,200. Project applicants who accept an offer to participate are expected to remain during the entire period of the program and to participate in its work on a full-time basis. If a participant is obliged through special circumstances to depart before the end of the program, it shall be the recipient institution’s responsibility to see that only a pro rata share of the stipend is received or that the appropriate pro rata share of the stipend is returned if the participant has already received the full stipend.

Participants must submit an evaluation at the end of the project's residential period.

Selection Process
A selection committee, comprised of the project director and two or more colleagues, will evaluate all complete applications to select a group of Summer Scholars and to identify alternates. Some key criteria the committee will consider include:

• the applicant’s effectiveness and commitment as a teacher/educator;

• the applicant’s intellectual interests as they relate to the topic of the seminar or institute;

• the applicant’s perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to the program;

• evidence that participation will have a long-term impact on the applicant’s teaching;

Time Frame
Applicants will be notified of their status no later than March 25, 2022. Once a successful applicant has accepted an offer to attend any NEH Summer Program (NEH Summer Seminar or Institute), they may not accept an additional offer or withdraw in order to accept a different offer.
All applicants must accept or decline the offer by April 8, 2022.

Note Regarding COVID-19: Since NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes are designed and funded as residential projects, we will proceed as planned. Applicants should be aware, however, that NEH may call for projects to adopt a virtual or hybrid format as they continue to monitor events in the coming months. If so, we will provide guidance to selected applicants.

PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Summer Seminars and Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

NOTE: In any given year, an individual may apply to a maximum of two Seminars or Institutes, but may attend only one.

Summer seminars and institutes are designed primarily for full-or part-time faculty who teach undergraduate students. Project directors may admit a limited number of others whose works lies outside undergraduate teaching but who demonstrate that their participation will advance project goals and enhance their own professional work.

At least three seminar spaces and at least five institute spaces are reserved for non-tenured/non-tenure-track faculty members. Two seminar spaces and three institute spaces may be reserved for advanced graduate students.

Participants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. U.S. citizens teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions are also eligible to participate. Foreign nationals teaching abroad are not eligible to participate.

An applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify as a Summer Scholar. Individuals may not apply to participate in a Summer Seminar or Institute whose director is a family member, who is affiliated with the same institution, who has served as an academic advisor to the applicant, or who has led a previous NEH summer program attended by the applicant.

Participants may not be delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (e.g. taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees). Individuals may not apply to participate in a Summer Seminar or Institute if they have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency.

To be considered for selection, applicants must submit a complete application as indicated on the individual seminar or institute’s website.

Principles of Civility for NEH Professional Development Programs

NEH Seminars, Institutes, and Landmarks programs are intended to extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics, texts, and issues; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; and foster a community of inquiry that provides models of excellence in scholarship and teaching.

NEH expects that project directors will take responsibility for encouraging an ethos of openness and respect, upholding the basic norms of civil discourse.

Seminar, Institute, and Landmarks presentations and discussions should be:

1. firmly grounded in rigorous scholarship, and thoughtful analysis;

2. conducted without partisan advocacy;

3. respectful of divergent views;

4. free of ad hominem commentary; and

5. devoid of ethnic, religious, gender, disability, or racial bias.

NEH welcomes comments, concerns, or suggestions on these principles at questions@neh.gov.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age. For further information, write to the Equal Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024. TDD: 202-606-8282 (this is a special telephone device for the Deaf).

*Full link to application portal: <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfc10EyNojKzAGAOrA8TlfWSlsQt7Iazl8NLMSXvigcHcB70w/viewform?usp=sf_link>