Opportunity Information: Apply for 20171129 ZA
The Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants program, offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is designed to help universities rethink and redesign humanities doctoral education in response to major shifts in the academic job market and in the career paths humanities PhDs actually take. NEH is responding to evidence, including findings highlighted by Humanities Indicators, showing that humanities PhD graduates increasingly build careers across many sectors, not just in tenure-track faculty roles. Even so, most doctoral programs still structure training primarily around preparing students to become professors, despite a long-term shortage of tenure-track openings. This grant opportunity focuses on helping institutions plan for a broader, more realistic, and more publicly engaged model of humanities doctoral education.
The core purpose of the grant is planning rather than full implementation. Funded institutions are expected to convene the people who have a stake in doctoral training and outcomes, work through the challenges and opportunities facing their programs, and produce a concrete strategy for wide-ranging program change. The emphasis is on creating actionable plans that transform what scholarly preparation looks like at the PhD level, so that students can translate humanities knowledge and methods into a wide range of professional settings. NEH frames this as a way to strengthen the impact of the humanities in society by supporting graduates who can carry humanities perspectives into public-facing work and into varied career fields.
A central theme of the opportunity is expanding the definition of what it means to be a humanities scholar. Rather than treating non-academic careers as secondary or accidental outcomes, the grant encourages programs to build doctoral training that intentionally prepares students for multiple career trajectories. The planning process is meant to help programs become more relevant to the twenty-first century by aligning doctoral education with current employment realities and by promoting stronger connections between humanities scholarship and the public sphere.
The program is offered as a discretionary grant under the humanities funding category (CFDA 45.162). The maximum award amount listed is $50,000. A key condition is a one-to-one matching requirement: grantee institutions must secure and provide funds from nonfederal third-party sources equal to the amount NEH releases. In other words, every federal dollar drawn down must be matched by a dollar raised from eligible nonfederal sources.
Eligibility is limited to U.S. nonprofit institutions of higher education that already have PhD programs in the humanities. The opportunity is specifically aimed at institutional-level planning for doctoral program transformation rather than support for individual students or isolated research projects. The funding opportunity number is 20171129-ZA, and the original closing date shown in the source information is 2017-11-29.Apply for 20171129 ZA
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.162.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-09-14.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-11-29. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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