The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $193,876.59 Project Grant to George Mason University under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to support the project "COMING HOME: DIALOGUES ON THE MORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SPIRITUAL IMPACTS OF WAR" from May 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019. The project aimed to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new resources, programs, 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 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 $100,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) grant program, will create the prototype for PACCHA, an immersive, community-informed, narrative puzzle game and humanities curriculum. The game will expose players to the everyday lives of ancient Peruvians as they established civilization and innovated new societies from 3000 BC to AD 1532. The game will have high entertainment value...
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 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 (NEH) awarded a $149,899 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The grant, titled "ENTRE NOSOTRAS: PRESERVING ORAL HISTORIES OF MIGRANT FARMWORKER MOTHERS", will fund a project to document and preserve the oral histories of migrant farmworker mothers in the Rio Grande Valley. The project aims to better understand how these mothers leverage...
This $149,957 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) will fund the implementation of a humanities-informed environmental studies major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The program aims to integrate humanities perspectives, such as social, cultural, and historical knowledge, into environmental studies to help translate scientific and...
The University of Portland was awarded a $149,312 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support two interdependent initiatives: 1) an Engaged Humanities Pathway linked to the university's core curriculum, and 2) an Engaged Humanities Hub to provide ongoing support for the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,054 project grant to the San Jose State University Research Foundation to implement the "Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural and Community Resilience" initiative. This community-engaged humanities project seeks to collect and publicly preserve the stories, cultural heritage, and resilience of first- and second-generation Afghan...