National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH Fellowship

Eligibility: Must be a U.S. citizen or have established residency in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline. 

Deadline Month: April 

Description: NEH Fellowships support individual scholars whose projects embody exceptional humanistic research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Fellowships provide recipients with time to conduct research or produce peer-reviewed articles, monographs, books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present.