Workshops & Consultations
Throughout the year, the CFDE hosts and presents multiple workshops, presentations, and opportunities for individual consultations with key professionals in scholarly publishing, funding organizations, and other areas of expertise in research and scholarship.
These offerings are a powerful way to help get your work into publication and receive advice and feedback on your grant applications and book proposals. Watch this area of the website for dates and details for such events throughout the year.
NEH Regional Workshop
Thursday-Friday, December 5-6, 2024
Joseph W Jones Room, Woodruff Library
The 2024 Emory University Regional Workshop for NEH Application-Writing will bring together humanities scholars and practitioners from the Southeast to learn about funding opportunities that can support humanities-centered research, education, preservation & access, public programming, and more. This workshop includes an overview of all NEH programs and special initiatives, a mock review panel offering strategies for writing competitive applications, a Q&A session, and individual consultation opportunities with an agency program officer.
Geared toward academic and higher education funding opportunities, this program is free and open to the public. We encourage individual scholars, research collaborators and staff, and representatives from cultural institutions to attend.
Mary Macklem, Senior Program Officer, Division of Research Programs
Mary Macklem is a senior program officer in the Division of Research at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She holds a PhD in music from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA (with Distinction) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (music and Italian). At NEH, Mary works with several grant programs in the Division of Research, including the Awards for Faculty programs, which support humanities research for individual scholars affiliated with Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. For the last several years, she has served as an NEH agency representative to the White House Initiative on HBCUS interagency working group and also participates in the NEH HBCU Working Group and the NEH Native and Indigenous Working Group. Her dissertation was titled “Reforming Opera and Its Public in Early Modern Venice,” a study of literary debates, theatrical culture, and operatic performance in Venice between 1680 and 1720. Prior to joining NEH in 2013, she taught music appreciation and music history for more than a decade at several institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Central Florida, the George Washington University, and the University of Maryland at College Park.
Individual, 15-Minute Consultations with Mary Macklem, NEH Program Officer
- Thursday, December 5, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- Friday, December 6, 2:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m
Individual consultations will be held in-person in in the CFDE, Suite 216, Woodruff Library, Emory University campus. Priority will be given to in-person consultations but if there are slots available, zoom consultations will be scheduled.
While not required for an individual consultation, participants are invited to submit a one-page project abstract via the below request form no later than December 1, with indication of any NEH program that they hope to apply for.
Request an individual consultation
Questions? Please email aadam02@emory.edu.
If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Allison Adams, CFDE, at 727-5269 or aadam02@emory.edu to arrange services. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Schedule
Thursday Dec 5
3:30-5:30: Private appointments conducted by NEH staff member (8 slots).
Friday Dec 6
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Registration, continental breakfast, informal meet-and-greet
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Welcome and introductions
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Overview of Endowment programs and special initiatives
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. - noon questions and comment period
Noon-1:15 p.m. Mock Panel Session and Strategies for application-writing (box lunches provided)
1:15 p.m -1:30 p.m. Closing remarks
2:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Private appointments conducted by NEH staff member (8 slots).
Call for Participants: Spring 2025 Book Proposal Working Group
Register by December 16