Awards for Faculty at HBCUs
This grant supports HBCU faculty pursuing research and writing projects in American history, culture, or Western civilization, offering flexible funding for project-related activities at any stage.
Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities
Due Dates: April 22, 2026: Full application deadline | June 4, 2026: Letters of reference deadline
Funding Amounts: $30,000–$60,000 per award ($5,000/month, 2–12 months); ~5 awards; total program funding ~$300,000
Summary: Supports individual HBCU faculty for research projects in American history, culture, and Western civilization, providing time for writing, research, and related activities.
Key Information: Only projects on American history/culture or Western civilization are eligible for 2026.
Description
This program provides grants to individual faculty and staff members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for research projects in the humanities, specifically focusing in 2026 on American history and culture or Western civilization. Awards are intended to give recipients the time and resources to write, travel, and conduct research or related activities. Projects may be at any stage of development, and applicants have flexibility in the proposed outcomes and duration of their work.
Eligible projects include scholarly research leading to books, articles, digital resources, translations, critical editions, or other scholarly outputs; research supporting institutional or community goals (such as oral histories or archival work); and research to improve a single existing undergraduate course. The program aims to strengthen humanities research capacity at HBCUs and encourages applications that will benefit both academic and broader audiences.
