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National Endowment for the Humanities

Awards for Faculty at HBCUs

Closed for this year

Deadline
Next round: about Mar 2 – Apr 22, 2027 Estimate ?
Award size
$30K – $60K
Total available
$300K · about 5 awards
Match ?
Not required · Work out your budget and match
Who can apply
Individuals
Where
Anywhere in the U.S., including Tennessee
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Closed for this year

Last round: Mar 2 – Apr 22, 2026, as the funder posted it.

Next round: about Mar 2 – Apr 22, 2027 Estimate. The funder hasn't announced it. GrantMe estimated it from last year's dates.

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How this fits you

  • Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
  • No match required
  • Past Tennessee awards on file: 1

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Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/8a6fcda5-f9f7-425f-aa2e-5ce9f69bb8d6 · Printed from grantme.click/grants/757f35d9-1a05-4fe7-bcef-7c2539bdbbf3

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About this grant

NEH Awards for Faculty are grants to individual faculty members at HBCUs pursuing projects that embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. These awards provide recipients with time to write, to travel, and to conduct research and other project-related activities. Projects are eligible at any stage. This program offers applicants flexibility in project outcomes and award periods. The 2026 Awards for Faculty competition will accept only projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization.

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Who in Tennessee has won this program

1 award to Tennessee groups in 0 counties since 2023. Largest shown:

Past winnerWhereAmountFiscal year
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville$34K spent that year2024

Source: Federal Audit Clearinghouse. Past awards show who this program funds. They don't guarantee future awards.

About the federal program

Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends, also called “Fellowships and Other Awards to Individuals”
Program number 45.160 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · National Endowment for the Humanities · Project grant

How applications are judged

In each year's official notice: read this year's.

Match

None required (federal program listing).

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal year 2023: You can search for past recipients using NEH's Funded Projects Query Form available online at https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx. Fiscal year 2025: You can find examples of past projects by searching NEH's query tool at https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/default.aspx

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Source: Federal grants from Grants.gov · the official federal record. Last checked by GrantMe Oct 6, 2026.

Reference numbers: official notice number 20260422-HB · program number 45.160