Project Grant 18886755222

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grant to Literary Arts Inc., doing business as Portland Arts & Lectures, to renovate their new building located at 716 SE Grand in Portland, Oregon. The renovations will create additional classroom, event, community, and staff workspace, allowing Literary Arts to expand its literary and humanities programming. Planned improvements include a new bookstore, coffee bar, multi-purpose area...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will provide $120,000.00 to Le Moyne College to support the creation of a course called "Publishing Today." The course will reinvigorate interest in English Literature majors by educating students on the current publishing industry landscape. It will feature guest speakers and experts from...

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.169 - Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities) will extend and enhance the University of Oregon's existing London Stage Database, a "field-changing" open-access digital platform providing nightly playhouse offerings from 1660-1800. The funding will be used to migrate the database to a more sustainable web hosting architecture, improve data discovery and interoperability through...

The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. received a $425,000 three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Building Literacy and Curating (Critical Cultural) Knowledge in Black Humanities project. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, this award will advance digital humanities learning and scholarship through three primary goals from January 2022 to December 2024. Specifically, the project aims...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (UNL) for the project "Between the Columns: A Toolkit for Periodical Authorship Attribution and Display." This project aims to develop two interconnected innovations to assist researchers and scholars of print culture who work with periodicals: 1) an extension...

The Indiana University Iupui was awarded a $554,587.08 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement an online text-editing platform for scholarly editions from October 1, 2018 to April 30, 2022. The award was funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities Promotion of the Humanities program, which provides support under assistance listing 45.169 for innovative digital humanities projects utilizing emerging technologies....

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will provide $149,532 to St. Francis College to implement Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the award will support course redesign for at least eight courses, professional development for over 50 faculty, and the creation of a Digital Humanities Lab. These efforts will expose nearly all 2,700 students to digital...

This Project Grant award of $186,686.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the development of a culturally relevant Spanish-language localization of the Mukurtu Content Management System (Mukurtu CMS). The Mukurtu CMS is an open-source platform designed by Dr. Kim Christen in collaboration with the Warumungu Aboriginal community in Australia to help indigenous communities manage and...

This federal Project Grant award of $149,897.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will support the "WINDOWS TO THE WORLD: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR GLOBAL EDUCATORS" project over a 24-month period of performance from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026. The project aims to enhance the digital platform and user experience, as well as expand the user base to support hundreds of new Indiana educators and...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $148,428 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct "Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse across 20th Century Digitized Periodical Collections." The project seeks to enhance computational methods for analyzing text and image reuse in early 20th century digitized periodicals, with the...