Funding

Disciplines: All

Application Deadline: March 1, 2021

The 2021 Summer Seminars and Institutes are 1- to 4-week virtual and residential programs that support collegial study of significant topics in the humanities and make use of important scholarship and primary resources such as archival documents, artifacts, or historic sites.

Typically, participants develop a scholarly and/or pedagogical project based on the topic. Programs take place throughout the United States, and participant stipends help cover travel and living expenses.

NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes

• focus on the study and teaching of significant texts and other resources;
• provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching;
• contribute to the intellectual growth of the participants; and
• build lasting communities of inquiry.

This year’s programs could have you delving into the depths of literature, history, and culture.

Early America

You could study early America through topics such as women and colonization, the Salem Witch Trials,  and the news media and making of America.

Civil Rights

Several programs provide fresh perspectives on civil rights struggles: emancipation and the evolution of American identity, the grassroots of the civil rights movement, African American lawmakers and Reconstruction, Harlem's education movement, and Supreme Court cases with roots in Alabama.

World History

For those with an interest in world history and culture, you can experience Roman daily life through the eyes of Petronius or widen your knowledge of Muslim art, music, and poetry. Other programs explore borderlands in the Chihuahua Desert and migrant waves in American history more broadly.

Literature

If you'd like to take deep dive into your favorite writers or works of literature you can contemplate the lasting legacy of Moby Dick using digital pedagogy or Frederick Douglass' literary world, or the history of literature instruction more broadly. Other programs cover World War I in literature, and disability studies. Programs also include new perspectives on Shakespeare and the making of America and digital storytelling.

For a complete list of the seminars and institutes offered this summer, along with eligibility and application requirements, please visit our website at the link below.

NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for K-12 Educators