The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s existing internal funding opportunities for UF faculty can be used to fund work with a digital component, for example, proposing a Library Enhancement Grant to build or develop a digital collection. Additionally, many humanities research funding bodies now consider digital humanities research projects through their established humanities research fellowship and grant competitions.
More specialized external funding sources and resources for digital research questions and projects are listed below. Example grant applications in the digital humanities can be found in the UF Digital Humanities collection and archive.
- NEH Office of Digital Humanities – This office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) coordinates the NEH’s efforts in the area of digital scholarship. Although all NEH granting programs will fund work with a digital component (e.g., fellowships and collaborative grants), the Office of Digital Humanities runs several specific funding programs for digital work including: the Digging into Data Challenge for research involving large-scale corpora and databases, Digital Projects for the Public, Start-Up Grants for new digital projects and larger Implementation Grants to move test projects into full implementation, digitization grants to Enrich Digital Collections, and Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. For more information, see the library of all NEH funded digital humanities projects.
- NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. An applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. - ACLS Digital Justice Grants – This 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. The program offers two kinds of grants: Digital Justice Seed Grants for projects at early stages of development; and Digital Justice Development Grants for projects that have advanced beyond the start-up or early phases of development.
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) – Visiting Fellowships – Visiting Fellowships at IATH can take a variety of forms: a month-long residency in Charlottesville, a year-long networked editing project, an international conference to discuss metadata standards, and so forth. These Fellowships are awarded on an ad hoc basis, and there is no fixed publication deadline. While IATH cannot provide funding to Visiting Fellows, IATH staff will provide advice and guidance to help applicants secure appropriate funding.
For more DH funding opportunities through libraries and archives programs, visit the UF Smathers Libraries Funding Opportunities page.
- See also our listing of Main Funding Bodies in the Humanities.