Dictionary Society of North America

NEH grants for dictionary projects

Just received from NEH:

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program.  These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.  Awards also support the creation of reference works, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. 

HCRR offers two kinds of awards:

1)     Implementation Grants -- $350,000 maximum, for up to three years. Eligible activities include:

 

• ·       arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections;
• ·       cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture;
• ·       providing conservation treatment (including deacidification) for collections, leading to enhanced access;
• ·       digitizing collections;
• ·       preserving and improving access to born-digital sources;
• ·       developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials;
• ·       creating encyclopedias;
• ·       preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars
• ·       developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS); and
• ·       designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources.  

2)     HCRR Foundations Grants -- $40,000 maximum, for up to two years. To help in the formative stages of initiatives to preserve and create access to humanities collections or to produce reference resources,Foundations grants will support planning, assessment, and pilot activities that incorporate expertise from a mix of professional domains.  Drawing upon the cooperation of humanities scholars and technical specialists, these projects might encompass efforts to prepare for establishing intellectual control of collections, to develop plans and priorities for digitizing collections, to solidify collaborative frameworks and strategic plans for complex digital reference resources, or to produce preliminary versions of online collections or resources.

New guidelines for HCRR have now been posted, along with sample proposal narratives, FAQs, and other resources.  The application deadline is July 18, 2013, with projects beginning May 2014. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details.

Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 orpreservation@neh.gov.  Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. 

Please note that the Division is also currently accepting applications for three other grant categories, all with a deadline of May 1: “Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions,” “Research and Development, “and “Education & Training.”  Details on these programs, as well as on the full slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, can be found on the Division’s website. 

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in English Language Lexicography

The Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford is looking for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (vacancy ID 102775) who will pursue a research project in English Language
Lexicography (i.e. the academic study of dictionary-making - the practice, its products, their histories and their relationship to their cultural contexts) under the mentorship of DSNA member Charlotte Brewer. The proposed research project may be in any topic in English Language
Lexicography, but applications are particularly encouraged in areas relating to the OED, in dictionaries of current English, and in related areas of language technology such as language corpora.

The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English Language Lexicography will take up appointment between 1 September 2012 and 1 January 2013 and receive a salary in the range (as at 1 January 2012) of £29,099 - £30,870.

For further information about the job posting, view the PDF for vacancy ID 102775 at http://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk.

National Humanities Center fellowships

The National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2012 through May 2013. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials.  The Center accepts applications from scholars outside the United States. 

Information about the fellowship competition is available here. Applications and letters of recommendation must be postmarked by October 15, 2011.

ACLS Public Fellows Program

The American Council of Learned Societies announces a new fellowship, the Public Fellows program, which will place eight recent PhDs in staff positions at partnering agencies in government and the non-profit sector for two years.  The Public Fellows program aims to demonstrate the value of employing skilled and accomplished young scholars in a variety of capacities, thereby broadening the academy’s conventional ideas of the Ph.D. career path.  Details on eligibility and the application process are available here. 

Public Fellows will begin their positions in fall 2011. The deadline for applications is May 16, 3pm EDT.