1. NEH 2005-2006 Grants for Documenting Endangered
Languages - An Interagency Partnership
Receipt Deadline: September 15, 2005 (for projects beginning
in April 2006)
Applicants may submit only one proposal per prospective
project investigator at this deadline.
Documenting Endangered Languages is a multi-year funding
partnership between the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
for the support of projects to develop and advance
knowledge concerning endangered human languages. The
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
will participate in the partnership as a research host, a non-
funding role.
Funding will support fieldwork and other activities relevant to
recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages,
including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples,
and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to
three-year project grants as well as fellowships for up to twelve
months. At least half the available funding will be awarded to
projects involving fieldwork.
Awards are anticipated to include 12 Fellowships of $40,000
(for 9 � 12 months) or $24,000 (for six to eight months) and
up to 10 Standard and Continuing Grants ranging from $12,000
to $150,000 per year for one to three years.
For Fellowship Grants: U.S. citizens are eligible to apply. Foreign
nationals who have been living in the United States or its
jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the proposal
deadline are also eligible to apply for fellowships.
For Standard and Continuing Grants: Academic institutions and
non-profit, non-academic organizations located in the United
States are eligible. For-profit organizations are not eligible to
apply to this program. However, personnel in for-profit
organizations may participate as co-investigators.
Application materials and instructions are available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05590/nsf05590.htm
For more information, please contact:
� Joan Maling, Linguistics Program Director, Directorate for
Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, Division of Behavioral
and Cognitive Sciences, 995 N, telephone: (703) 292-8046,
fax: (703) 292-9068, email: jmaling@nsf.gov
� Anna M. Kerttula, Arctic Social Sciences Program Director,
Office of the Director, Office of Polar Programs, 755 S,
telephone: (703) 292-7432, fax: (703) 292-9082, email:
akerttul@nsf.gov
� Helen Aguera, Senior Program Officer, Preservation &
Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20506, USA,
telephone: (202) 606-8573, email: haguera@neh.gov
Visit the website at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05590/nsf05590.htm
