Event Details

End: March 1, 2016
Contact: sem-inst@neh.gov
More Info: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs

Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports residential seminars and institutes for faculty who teach American undergraduates.

These study opportunities allow faculty and a select number of graduate students to increase their knowledge of current scholarship and advance their own teaching and research.

Participants in these two- to five-week programs receive stipends to help cover travel and living expenses.

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

For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs. The application deadline is March 1, 2016.