The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Governors State University a $192,063 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant period ran from May 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 to support the "WAR, TRAUMA, AND THE HUMANITIES" project. This program aims to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new educational resources, programs, and curricula. It is reasonable to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded George Mason University (Mason) a $220,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a 4-week summer institute on the history of higher education in the United States, combining residential and virtual components. The 25 participants will include full- and part-time faculty, as well as advanced doctoral candidates who teach or plan to teach the history of higher...
The University of West Florida received a two-year $199,244.77 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding supports the "WAR: ANCIENT AND MODERN" project from June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2019. This project enhances the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new teaching and learning resources on the topic of war throughout...
The Ohio State University received a $176,546 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The award period was from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019 to support the VOICES OF WAR: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES project. This project aimed to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new teaching and learning resources on comparative perspectives of war....
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago to develop a humanities curriculum and discussion forum program titled "Visualizing Parallels Between the US 'Indian Wars' and the 'Global War on Terror'." Through this award made under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), UIC will partner with the Emerging Veteran Art Movement to prepare a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,928 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Gettysburg College. The grant will fund two week-long workshops for K-12 educators focused on "the relationship between history and memory and the conflict between what happened and how we remember it." Through the workshops, participants will explore how "perceptions of the past shape how we document and...
The University of Texas Permian Basin received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development) to develop and implement a program titled "Mending Mental Gaps: Negotiating Combat Trauma via Visual/Textual Humanities." This two-year project will engage veterans, active military personnel, and the West Texas community in exploring war-themed literature, especially...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,995 Project Grant to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support the development of a new Health Humanities minor program at VCU. The program will create 10 new and revised interdisciplinary courses that bridge humanities and health professional...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $171,342 project grant to the National WWI Museum and Memorial through the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163). The grant funds a two-week summer institute from July 10-22, 2022 for 28 K-12 educators. The institute, hosted at the Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, will focus on the enduring impact of World War I on the Middle East beyond the traditional Western emphasis. Topics...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the University of Virginia. The grant, which runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, supports the scholarly documentary editing project "The Papers of U.S. President George Washington 1732-1799." This project edits, publishes, publicizes, and makes accessible a comprehensive edition of Washington's public and private papers,...