2026 Awards Nomination Form

2026 Awards Nomination Form

Please fill out this form to nominate for an award. It is strongly recommended that individuals, organizations, and/or institutions not nominate themselves. However, if self-nominating, required letters of support must come for personal/professional sources that can validate your work in the humanities to be eligible. Deadline to apply: Sunday, June 14, 2026.
Akers Prize: recognizes innovative individuals who use culture and history to bring people together, but whose efforts may have gone relatively unnoticed beyond their own community.

Governor’s Award: recognizes outstanding achievement in humanities research, teaching, and scholarship; institutional and individual participation in helping communities in South Carolina better understand our cultural heritage or ideas and issues related to the humanities.

McMeekin Award: honors individuals who promote and uphold the values of the humanities through service and advocacy in their professional lives, outside of the realms of academia and traditional humanities professions.
What are the humanities?

The National Endowment for the Humanities explains that, "The humanities explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, practices and experiences, past and present.

They are the languages, religions, laws, philosophies, and customs that make us distinct. They are our history and our cultures, the ideas and movements that have shaped societies throughout time."

According to the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Humanities, "the term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation 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 the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life."
Nominator's Name

First NameLast Name
Select Award (only one per application):
Nominator's E-mail Address
Nominator's Address

Street Address

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Postal / Zip Code
Nominator's Phone Number
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
- Nominee's Name
  
  First NameLast Name
- Nominee's Phone Number
  
  Area CodePhone Number
- Nominee's E-mail Address
- Nominee's Address
  
  Street Address
  
  Street Address Line 2
  
  CityState / Province
  
  Postal / Zip CodeCountry
- Resume/CV of nominee (it is strongly encouraged to contact the nominee to have their most up to date resume)
  
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- Letter of Nomination (one required)
  
  Describe the contributions of the nominee (up to 3 pages)
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- Letters of Support (between 1 - 3)
  
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- Which humanities disciplines, or actions, are most exemplified by the nominee's work? (click all that apply)
  
  Other
- If you answered other for the previous question, please explain.
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