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The UT Austin - NEH Regional Workshop will bring together humanities scholars and practitioners from central Texas to learn about new opportunities in humanities-centered research and funding. Through presentations, panel discussions, and 1:1 consultations with agency program officers, attendees will explore community-engaged scholarship and gain knowledge and skills to develop successful NEH proposals.
Geared toward academic and higher education funding opportunities, this multi-day program is free and open to the public. We encourage individual scholars, research collaborators and staff, and representatives from cultural institutions to attend. All sessions will be in-person, and NEH's keynote presentation will be recorded and made available on OVPR's resource library.
To explore funding opportunities for public-facing programs, check out parallel sessions offered in-person and online by NEH and Humanities Texas.
Dr. Russell Wyland served in several capacities in the NEH since 1990, including fourteen years as Deputy Director of the Division of Research Programs. Russ has conducted over 70 outreach workshops with colleges, universities, state humanities councils, and scholarly organizations; he has chaired over 160 peer review panels, and worked closely with NEH partners, including the Library of Congress, National Science Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.
Dr. Beauty Bragg joined the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020 as a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs. Her responsibilities include leading the Summer Stipends program and serving as a co-chair of the agency’s Equity Task Force on data collection capacity. Beauty earned a B.A. in American literature from the University of Southern California and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Reading Contemporary African American Literature: Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience and the African American Canon (Lexington Books, 2015), an exploration of the ways in which “popular women writers challenge the marginalization of black women in the public discourse on black identity” in genres from chick lit to urban fiction and hip hop memoir.
Jennifer Lyon Gardner, Deputy Vice President for Research at UT Austin, will give opening remarks.
Russell Wyland, NEH, will lead an informational session on NEH programs with a focus on opportunities for humanities scholars and institutions of higher education.
This session will be recorded and made available through OVPR's resource library after the workshop. All other sessions will be in-person only.
A panel of interdisciplinary humanities scholars will discuss their recently funded projects in public outreach and community engagement. Humanities Texas, the state humanities council, will discuss their role in connecting scholars and cultural institutions to the broader public.
Panelists:
Pramit Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
Department of Classics
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Tara Dudley
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
Greg Farrar
Community Engagement Specialist
City of Austin
Eric Lupfer
Executive Director
Humanities Texas
Moderated by Laura Gutiérrez
Associate Professor
Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies
Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice
College of Fine Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Beauty Bragg, NEH, will lead UT Austin humanities faculty through an evaluation of sample NEH individual grant proposals in this mock peer review panel. Their discussion will illuminate the review process and touch on best practices for NEH proposal writers.
Panelists:
Emily Drumsta
Assistant Professor
Departments of Middle Eastern Studies, French and Italian Studies
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Gesel Mason
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Fine Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Samantha Pinto
Professor
Department of English
Director, UT Humanities Institute
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Opportunity for a 1:1 consultation can be requested by faculty and staff to discuss their current research projects and evaluate their fit for NEH funding. Consultations will run approximately 20 minutes, and will be held on Thursday 9/26, 3-4:30 p.m. and Friday 9/27, 9-2:30 p.m.
Slots are limited, and they will be reserved for local scholars and cultural organizations with an interest in humanities research and humanities activities at institutions of higher education. Individuals and institutions interested in grants related to public programming should explore the concurrent consultations hosted by NEH and Humanities Texas. Register your interest by 9/9/24. Registering does not guarantee confirmation of an appointment. Registrants who are selected for consultations should be prepared to submit a 250-word project abstract, which we will solicit from you via email.
Registration for 1:1 consultations is now closed.
The San Jacinto Parking Garage provides the nearest parking to the WCP Student Activity Center. Visitor parking is charged per hour. Other paid visitor lots are available across campus; the Manor Garage and the Brazos Garage are also nearby options. Attendees not affiliated with UT Austin may request parking validation during the event – simply pull a ticket at a garage, and event organizers will provide you with a voucher during registration. Parking vouchers are not available to attendees affiliated with UT Austin.
