Digital Humanities @University of Alabama Libraries

The Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) oversees the administration of externally sponsored grants and contracts at The University of Alabama, including sponsored research, instruction, and other sponsored activities.

The Office for Advancing Scholarly and Scientific Initiatives through Services and Training (ASSIST) is committed to serving research faculty, staff, and students at The University of Alabama to seek and secure external grant funding for research and other sponsored activities.

The Research Grants Committee (RGC) reviews proposals for internal grants each year from UA full-time tenured, tenured track, clinical and clinical track faculty to receive funding from the Office for Research & Economic Development (ORED) Small Grant Program in three areas: Area A – Physical and Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering; Area B – Social and Behavioral Sciences; Area C – Arts and Humanities

The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

Submission Deadlines in January and June.

The Fellowships Open Book Program is a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books digitally available to a wide audience. By taking advantage of low-cost e-book technology, the program will allow teachers, students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that can be downloaded or redistributed for no charge.

The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology. The DOT program is part of the NEH’s new initiative, American Tapestry.

The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.