The Office of Research and Graduate Studies welcomed Dr. Mark Silver of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on Friday, February 20th. Dr. Silver provided an overview of funding opportunities and offered tips for writing competitive proposals. He focused especially on NEH Fellowships, Summer Stipends, and Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities,  however,the information shared may be applied to most NEH interests. He provided strategies to increase the possibility of securing funding from NEH.

Faculty participants had the opportunity to submit a one page concept in their area of interest in advance of the workshop. Dr. Silver provided one-on one feedback with those prospective NEH applicants.

Mark Silver is the Asia specialist and Senior Program Officer of NEH’s Research Division in Washington, DC. He works primarily in the Division’s programs for individuals, including Fellowships, Summer Stipends, the Public Scholar Program and Awards for Faculty (for which he is the team leader). He also chairs review panels in the Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions and Translations programs. Before joining the Endowment, he taught Japanese language and literature at Middlebury College, Connecticut College, and Colgate University. He has published reviews and peer-reviewed articles in the field of Japanese Studies, as well as a book titled Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008). He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University.

“The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”
–National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 1965, as amended

For additional information visit the National Endowment for the Humanities website.

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies is available to provide information and resources for your research project. For more information contact Dr. Elizabeth Noel at ennoel@pvamu.edu.

 

Pictured above:  Dr. Mark Silver, National Endowment for the Humanities; Dr. Elizabeth Noel, Associate Vice President for Research; Dr. Cajetan Akujuobi, Vice President for Research and Dean, Graduate Studies