How does New Frontiers define the humanities?
The review committee takes a broad view of the arts and humanities, and the key factor is the nature of the creative activity or the central question posed by the research, not the departmental or division affiliation of the faculty member(s) submitting the proposal. In determining whether a proposal falls within the humanities, the committee is guided by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ definition: “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.” (National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, 1965). The committee recognizes that the division between the humanities and the social sciences is not rigid. If your proposal has social sciences content and you won
