National Humanities Center Summer Residency

IUIAS invites IU faculty members engaged in broadly humanistic work (including historical and humanistic social sciences) sited in any discipline to apply to be one of the two IU-nominated candidates for the National Humanities Center Summer Residency, which will take place in June 2026. Selected Residents will have individual studies in the NHC building in the woods of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and receive support from the NHC Library staff during their time in residence.

Due to high demand, the 2026 National Humanities Center (NHC) Select Summer Residency will be a competitive program with a capped enrollment of 40 participants. As an NHC Institutional Sponsor University, Indiana University may nominate two faculty members for consideration by NHC for their Select Summer Residency. Note that (1) candidates selected for nomination must commit to being in residence at NHC for the entire month of June 2026 and (2) nomination by IUIAS is not a guarantee of a spot in the NHC Summer Residency Program. Final select will be made by NHC.

For more information about the NHC Select Summer Residency Program, visit the NHC website here.

Applications are due by Sunday, November 9 at 11:59 p.m.

The application consists of a project description and CV. 

The project description must be no longer than 1000 words and should address:
• an overview of the project
• the objectives of the proposed research
• the scholarly significance of the project, including both the project’s importance for advancing knowledge in the scholar’s field and in humanities generally
• the import of this residency for this scholar at this time, including your aims for the month of residency
• a statement of project status, which should be the last paragraph

The CV cannot exceed 4 pages.

Applicants should send their project description and CV as email attachments to ias@iu.edu by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 9, 2025. The email should have the subject line “2026 NHC Summer Residency Application.”