Project Grant AKA26566619

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program will support the development and launch of an interdepartmental Cultural Heritage Research, Stewardship, and Restitution Certificate at the University of California, Los Angeles Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. With $124,688 in funding over a one-year period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, the Cotsen Institute of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support an archaeological investigation focused on understanding the environmental and social strategies that enabled the transition from hunting and gathering to farming in a dense tropical forest context. The $276,441 award to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $270,834 Project Grant through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit technology company, for a 5-year project titled "OPEN CONTEXT: SUSTAINING A COLLABORATIVE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY". The project aims to sustain and enhance the Open Context platform, which has emerged as a globally recognized platform for reviewing, curating, and publishing...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,487 Project Grant to Hamilton College under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development of a new Curatorial Studies program and interdisciplinary minor over two and a half years from July 2023 through December 2025. The initiative aims to foster connections across humanities disciplines and between the college and neighboring...

The Community College of Baltimore County will provide contextualizing humanities education programs and resources through a two-year, $449,790 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant supports the "Contextualizing Humanities Education for All" program under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). Through faculty collaboration, the program will infuse humanities concepts...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $322,608 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) project grant to Arizona State University to develop a digital reference collection for the La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project. The project, a collaboration with Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, will facilitate access to a collection of artifacts and documents from seven major field seasons of excavation at a...

This $170,710 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund collaborative research by Bryn Mawr College to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest urban centers in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map archaeological features below the surface. This will be the largest such survey ever performed in the...

This $313,226 National Science Foundation project grant will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest cities in the United States through non-invasive archaeological techniques. The awardee, Colorado State University, will perform high-resolution magnetometry surveys covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map buried archaeological features across the entire urban landscape. This will be the largest such geophysical survey ever conducted in the Americas on...

This $206,850 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support archaeological fieldwork and remote sensing research to study the relationship between island size and human population history. Led by Carleton College, the project will conduct systematic surveys and geomorophological studies of 30 uninhabited islands to investigate how island characteristics like size, environment, and location impacted patterns of...

This three-year, $448,911 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program will support the University of North Carolina at Asheville in creating a Digital Humanities Undergraduate Research track within its Undergraduate Research Program. Through experiential learning opportunities and faculty development efforts, the university will adapt and pilot courses incorporating digital...