Georgia Historical Society

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Applications for NEH summer programs must be postmarked by

Monday, March 8, 2010.

APPLICATION

Eligibility and Application Procedures
This Seminar is designed primarily for teachers of American undergraduate students.  Qualified independent scholars and those employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and other organizations may be eligible to compete provided they can effectively advance the teaching and research goals of the seminar.  Applicants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.  Foreign nationals teaching abroad at non-U.S. chartered institutions are not eligible to apply. 

New this year: Up to two seminar spaces are reserved for current full-time graduate students in the humanities.

Applicants must complete the NEH application cover sheet and provide all of the information requested to be considered eligible.  An applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify. Adjunct and part-time lecturers are eligible to apply.  Individuals may not apply to study with a director of a seminar who is a current colleague or a family member.  Individuals must not apply to seminars directed by scholars with whom they have studied.  Institute selection committees are advised that only under the most compelling and exceptional circumstances may an individual participate in an institute with a director or a lead faculty member who has guided that individual's research or in whose previous institute or seminar he or she has participated. 

New this year: An individual may apply to up to three projects in any one year (seminars, institutes or Landmarks workshops), but may participate in only one. Please note that eligibility criteria differ significantly between the Landmarks Workshops and the Seminars and Institutes programs.

Applicants must complete the NEH application cover sheet and provide all of the information and application components requested to be considered eligible.  Perhaps the most important part of the completed application is the essay. The essay should be no more than four double-spaced pages. This essay should include your reasons for applying to the specific project; your relevant personal and academic information; your qualifications to do the work of the project and make a contribution to it; what you hope to accomplish; and the relation of the study to your teaching. Additionally, two letters of recommendation are required.  The two referees may be from inside or outside your home institution.  They should be familiar with your professional accomplishments or promise, teaching and/or research interests, and ability to contribute to and benefit from participation in the Seminar.  Referees should be provided with the director's description of the Seminar and the applicant's essay.   Applicants who are current graduate students should secure a letter from a professor or advisor.  Please ask each of your referees to sign their name across the seal on the back of the envelope containing their letter, and enclose the letters with your application. 

CHECKLIST OF APPLICATION MATERIALS

A completed application consists of three copies of the following collated items:

• the completed application cover sheet,
• a detailed résumé, or brief biography, and

• an application essay as outlined below.

In addition, it must include two letters of recommendation as described below.

The application cover sheet
The application cover sheet must be filled out online at this address: 

http://www.neh.gov/online/education/participants/

Please fill it out online as directed by the prompts. When you are finished, be sure to click on the "submit" button.  Print out the cover sheet and add it to your application package.  At this point you will be asked if you want to fill out a cover sheet for another project.  If you do, follow the prompts and select another project and then print out the cover sheet for that project.  Note that filling out a cover sheet is not the same as applying, so there is no penalty for changing your mind and filling out cover sheets for several projects.  A full application consists of the items listed above, as sent to a project director.       
  
 

Résumé
Please include a detailed résumé or brief biography (not to exceed five pages).

The Application Essay
The application essay should be no more than four double spaced pages.  This essay should include any relevant personal and academic information.  It should address reasons for applying; the applicant's interest, both academic and personal, in the subject to be studied; qualifications and experiences that equip the applicant to do the work of the seminar or institute and to make a contribution to a learning community; a statement of what the applicant wants to accomplish by participating; and the relation of the project to the applicant's professional responsibilities. 

• Applicants to seminars should be sure to discuss any independent study project that is proposed beyond the common work of the seminar.

• Applicants to institutes may need to elaborate on the relationship between institute activities and their responsibilities for teaching and curricular development.

Reference Letters
The two referees may be from inside or outside the applicant's home institution.  They should be familiar with the applicant's professional accomplishments or promise, teaching and/or research interests, and ability to contribute to and benefit from participation in the seminar or institute.  Referees should be provided with the director's description of the seminar or institute and the applicant's essay.   Applicants who are current graduate students should secure a letter from a professor or advisor.  Please ask each of your referees to sign their name across the seal on the back of the envelope containing their letter, and enclose the letters with your application. 

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE

Completed applications should be submitted to the project director and should be postmarked no later than March 2, 2010 and mailed to:

Georgia Historical Society
501 Whitaker Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Attn: NEH Summer Seminar 

Successful applicants will be notified of their selection on April 1, 2010, and they will have until April 5 to accept or decline the offer.  Applicants who will not be home during the notification period are advised to provide an address and phone number where they can be reached.  No information on the status of applications will be available prior to the official notification period.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.  For further information, write to the Equal Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506.  TDD:  202/606 8282 (this is a special telephone device for the Deaf).