Project Grant AE27751521

This two-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund the Research Foundation of the City University of New York to conduct two institutes at LaGuardia Community College focused on terrestrial and maritime borders. With total funding of $149,780, the institutes aim to contribute to global learning course development and curriculum design at CUNY community colleges through interdisciplinary faculty and student debates on political and territorial borders in year one...

The Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) is funding a three-year initiative by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - College of Staten Island to revise and redesign their undergraduate global humanities curriculum, known as the "Contemporary World (CW)" program. The project aims to reconceptualize...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $100,000 to fund an international conference on Indigenous borderlands in North America and the preparation of a published volume of essays. The University of New Mexico will host the conference from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, bringing together historians and scholars from other disciplines with Indigenous community representatives....

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Institute. Administered by the University of Pittsburgh under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), the $175,000 award will fund a two-week residential-hybrid program from June 6-17, 2022. The Institute aims to explore transregional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship and curricula...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), provides $172,935 to The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and its collaborating research centers to host a two-week residential summer institute for 25 secondary school teachers from July 20 to August 3, 2025. The institute will focus on borderlands narratives from the Chihuahuan Desert, exploring themes of identity and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $141,252 project grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The goal of this 2-year project, starting June 1, 2024, is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT, on the identities and practices of pre-service teachers from diverse...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of New Mexico (UNM) a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a new two-week institute for 25 K-12 educators, including classroom teachers, arts educators, museum educators, librarians, and curriculum support staff. The institute, titled "Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border Through Multimodal Storytelling," will engage...

The University of Texas at El Paso received a $240,339 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a summer institute for secondary school teachers from July 14-28, 2019. The institute, titled "Tales from the Chihuahuan Desert: Borderlands Narratives about Identity and Binationalism," will provide 25 teachers with intensive exploration of borderland narratives from the...

This federal Project Grant award of $173,044 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a 2-week NEH K-12 Institute titled "Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands". The Institute, led by faculty from Northern Arizona University's (NAU) History Department in collaboration with the NAU Institute for Native-Serving Educators (INE), aims to expose secondary social studies...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $149,700 to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. over a 2-year period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The funding supports the continued development, assessment, and scaling of a general education course for entering freshmen focused on metro Atlanta content, including memoirs,...