Office of Digital Humanities

The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) offers grant programs that fund project teams experimenting with digital technologies to develop new methodologies for humanities research, teaching and learning, public engagement, and scholarly communications. ODH funds those studying digital technology from a humanistic perspective and humanists seeking to create digital publications. Another major goal of ODH is to increase capacity of the humanities in applying digital methods.

To best tackle the broad, interdisciplinary questions that arise when studying digital technology, ODH works closely with the scholarly community and other funding agencies in the United States and abroad, to encourage collaboration across national and disciplinary boundaries.

Funded digital projects contribute to humanities scholarship that serve carefully-identified audiences, address issues of accessibility and usability, and are designed to be open, replicable, and sustainable. All projects funded in this division analyze their workflows and publish their results in white papers that are shared widely. This body of work contributes to the bibliography of digital humanities.

ODH staff members participate in conferences and workshops with the scholarly community to help foster understanding of issues in the digital humanities and to ensure we are meeting the needs of the field.

Learn More

• Resources for Applicants to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities 
• Funding Digital Projects at Small, Regional, and Minority-Serving Institutions 
• Find an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities 
• ODH Resource Library: Workshops, Reports, and Initiatives 
• How to Write a Successful White Paper: Tips from the ODH 
• Lists of Open Access Books funded by the NEH: 
  • Fellowships Open Book Program 
  • Humanities Open Book Program 
• Past Programs 
  • Digging into Data 
  • NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions