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NEH Announces 2016 Summer Seminars & Institutes

Faculty are Invited to Apply by March 1, 2016

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: 
  • 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
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Posted: December 17, 2015, 10:39 AM