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AHA Summer Virtual Institute, Africa in World History, for K-12 educators

The American Historical Association  is convening a fully virtual institute on the theme of Africa in World History. The institute will take place over three weeks (fifteen days) in June and July 2025 for 30 K–12 educators. Participants will enhance their content knowledge about Africa throughout history, allowing them to expand beyond the often-limited engagement with African perspectives in many world history textbooks and state standards.

Through this program, world history educators from a variety of environments will engage in a collaborative effort with university faculty and scholars to begin assembling a free digital source collection that will be hosted on the AHA’s website as a permanent resource for world history teachers throughout the United States. In addition, teacher-participants will develop lesson plans and assignments built around this collaborative sourcebook and focus on integrating African perspectives in a way that aligns with the needs of educators and students in busy classrooms.

Educators who teach world history—often divided into one- or two-year sequences between grades 6 and 10—as well as related courses, including but not limited to AP world history, comparative government, African American studies, world geography, and world cultures should apply.

NEH Institute Participant Eligibility Criteria

Full- or part-time K–12 educators who teach in public, charter, independent, and religiously affiliated schools, or as home schooling educators are invited to apply. Museum educators and other K-12 school personnel who demonstrate that participation will advance project goals and enhance their own professional work are also welcome to apply.

You are eligible to apply if you are a:

  • United States citizen, including those teaching abroad at US chartered institutions and schools operated by the federal government;
  • resident of US jurisdictions; or
  • foreign national who has been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.

You are not eligible to apply if you:

  • are a foreign national teaching abroad
  • are related to the project director(s)
  • are affiliated with the applicant institution (employees, currently enrolled students, etc.)
  • have been taught or advised in an academic capacity by the project director(s)
  • are delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees)
    have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency
  • have attended a previous NEH professional development project (Seminars, Landmarks, or Institutes) led by the project director(s)

J1 and F1 visa holders should confer with their sponsoring institution regarding their eligibility to receive a stipend from another institution.

NEH does not require participants to have earned an advanced degree.

Applying

To be considered for selection, applicants must submit a complete application.

The application will provide us with information about the following:

  • Your teaching and research backgrounds.
  • Your interest in this institute.
  • How you would use this information and learning with your students.

Any questions about applications should be directed to Rachel Wheatley, AHA education and professional affairs associate, at rwheatley@historians.org.

Please note: In any given year an individual may apply to a maximum of two NEH summer programs but may attend only one NEH program per summer. Once you have accepted an offer to attend any NEH Summer Program (Landmarks or Institutes), you may not accept an additional offer or withdraw in order to accept a different offer.

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