Eligibility
Landmarks programs are designed for a national audience of full- or part-time K-12 educators who teach in public, charter, independent, and religiously affiliated schools, or as home schooling educators. Museum educators and other K-12 school system personnel— such as, but not limited to, administrators, substitute teachers, and curriculum supervisors—are also eligible to participate. At least three spaces per workshop session or six spaces total for the entire program must be reserved for teachers who are new to the profession (five or fewer years teaching experience). Participants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. U.S. citizens teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions are also eligible to participate. Foreign nationals teaching abroad are not eligible to participate.
Individuals may not apply to participate in a Landmarks workshop whose director is a family member, who is affiliated with the same institution, who has served as an instructor or academic advisor to the applicant, or who has led a previous NEH-funded Institute or Landmarks program attended by the applicant.
Participants may not be delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (e.g. taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees). Individuals may not apply to participate in a Landmarks workshop if they have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency.
Application Information
Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops provide K-12 educators with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics and issues in American history and culture, while providing them with direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical and cultural sites and the use of archival and other primary evidence.
Prior to completing an application to a specific workshop, please review the project website and consider carefully what is expected in terms of residence and attendance, reading and writing requirements, and general participation in the work of the project.
NEH Landmarks workshops involve teachers in collaboration with core faculty and visiting scholars to study the best available scholarship on a specific landmark or cluster of landmarks. Workshops, offered twice in one summer, accommodate 36 teachers in each one-week session. Participants benefit by gaining a sense of the importance of historical and cultural places, by making connections between the workshop content and what they teach, and by developing individual teaching and/or research materials.
Please Note: An individual may apply to up to two NEH summer projects (NEH Landmarks Workshops, NEH Summer Seminars, or NEH Summer Institutes), but may participate in only one.
Application Checklist
A completed application consists of the following items:
a résumé or short biography detailing your educational qualifications and professional experience.
a letter of reference from a current or former professional supervisor that describes what they believe you will contribute to the workshop and how you will benefit.
Submission of Applications and Notification Procedure
Applications are due by March 3, 2023. Applicants will be notified by email of their status (offer to participate, waitlist, or non-acceptance) on April 3, 2023.
Those who have been accepted will have until April 14, 2023 to accept or decline the offer. You will be asked to sign an acceptance letter and provide a W9 for the stipend payment.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or sexual orientation. For further information, write to NEH Equal Opportunity Officer, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD: 202/6068282 (for the hearing impaired only).
Continuing Education Credits
The project will work with teachers to gain their state’s Renewal Unit Certificates upon completion of this program. FPCC is an approved renewal unit provider.
Selection Criteria
A selection committee (consisting of the project team) will read and evaluate all properly completed applications.
At least three workshop spaces will be reserved for teachers who have been teaching for five years or less. While recent participants are eligible to apply, selection committees are charged to give first consideration to applicants who have not previously participated in an NEH-supported seminar, institute, or workshop. Additionally, preference is given to applicants who would significantly contribute to the diversity and dissemination of the workshop.
Special consideration is given to the likelihood that an applicant will benefit professionally and personally from the workshop experience. It is important, therefore, to address each of the following factors in the application responses and your attached resume:
your professional background;
your interest in the subject of the workshop;
your special perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to the workshop; and
how the experience would enhance your teaching or school service.
Stipend, Tenure, and Conditions of Award
Teachers selected to participate as NEH Summer Scholars will receive a maximum stipend $1,300 after the workshop session. Participants are strongly encouraged to stay at the remote lodge which is the setting of the workshop, and take their meals there as well. The final amount of stipend depends on which type of housing participants select and are assigned. See “Stipends”. Stipends are intended to help cover travel expenses to and from the project location, books, and ordinary living expenses. Stipends (minus your room and board) are taxable.
Participants are required to attend all scheduled meetings and to engage fully as professionals in all project activities. Participants who do not complete the full tenure of the project will receive a reduced stipend.
Participant Expectations
Project applicants who accept an offer to participate are expected to remain during the entire period of the program and to participate in its work on a full-time basis. If a participant is obliged through special circumstances to depart before the end of the program, a pro rata share of the stipend will be provided.
Once an applicant has accepted an offer to attend any NEH Summer Program (Seminar, Institute, or Landmark), they may not accept an additional offer or withdraw in order to accept a different offer.
Participants are required to submit a project evaluation at the end of the workshop.
Participants will be expected to abide by the North Yellowstone Lodge’s and Yellowstone National Park’s public health and safety guidelines at the time of the Workshop. Participants are also expected to abide by the following Principles of Civility:
Principles of Civility for NEH Professional Development Programs
NEH Seminars, Institutes, and Landmarks programs are intended to extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics, texts, and issues; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; and foster a community of inquiry that provides models of excellence in scholarship and teaching. NEH expects that project directors will take responsibility for encouraging an ethos of openness and respect, upholding the basic norms of civil discourse. Seminar, Institute, and Landmarks presentations and discussions should be:
firmly grounded in rigorous scholarship, and thoughtful analysis;
conducted without partisan advocacy;
respectful of divergent views;
free of ad hominem commentary; and
devoid of ethnic, religious, gender, disability, or racial bias.
NEH welcomes comments, concerns, or suggestions on these principles at questions@neh.gov.