The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers tuition-free opportunities for college and university educators to study a variety of humanities topics in the summer. Stipends of $1,200-$3,900 help cover the expenses for these one- to five-week programs.
Applications (to the individual programs) are due by March 1, 2016.
Visit the NEH website for eligibility requirements and links to the programs and directors: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs
Contact Rachel Brubaker, Dresher Center Assistant Director, for assistance.
The seminars and institutes for summer 2016 will address the following topics:
Applications (to the individual programs) are due by March 1, 2016.
Visit the NEH website for eligibility requirements and links to the programs and directors: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs
Contact Rachel Brubaker, Dresher Center Assistant Director, for assistance.
The seminars and institutes for summer 2016 will address the following topics:
- Alexis de Tocqueville and American Democracy
- American Maritime History
- Beowulf and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- The Commonplace Book and Its American Descendants
- Confucian Asia
- Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience
- The History of Political Economy
- The Land Ethic, Sustainability, and the Humanities
- Mapping, Text, and Travel
- Modern Mongolia
- Moral Psychology and Education
- Native American Histories and the Land
- The Ottoman Empire, Europe, and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800
- Presuppositions and Perception
- Problems in the Study of Religion
- Religion, Secularism, and the English Novel, 1719-1897
- Teaching the Reformation
- Tokyo: High City and Low City
- Urban Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Veterans in American Society
- The Visual Culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Westward Expansion and the Constitution