Project Grant BH5020307

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support a $430,000 combined in-person and virtual summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 6-12. The institute aims to guide participants in an in-depth inquiry into climate futurism through literary works and engagement with subject matter experts from October 2022 to September 2024. Hosted by Sonoma State University both virtually and with field trips across Northern California, the institute curriculum explores...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), provides $149,611 to support the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers. The Hub operates as a network of scholars grounded in diverse feminist and decolonizing methods under the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. It delivers technical assistance and project consultation for scholars engaged in recovering works by American...

Federal Grant Award Summary Project Grant Award: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project Stockton University received a $299,998 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to develop an open-access digital edition of the complete letters written by early American author Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867). The award, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028, supports publication of...

This $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a two-year institute for high school English teachers (grades 9-12) to examine the portrayal of friendship in literature, film, and adolescent social experiences. Teachers will explore evolving conceptions of friendship through collaborative seminars, expert presentations, and the development of curricular materials. The...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $197,388 to Sonoma State University to host a 3-week summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 6-12. The institute will combine in-person and virtual activities to guide participants in an in-depth inquiry into "climate futurism" - storytelling that uses climate science as a catalyst to imagine...

The Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc., doing business as The Mount, received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities on January 1, 2022 to support full-time, on-site literary and history programming through December 31, 2022. The programming will focus on issues of racial justice, gender equality, and immigration using Edith Wharton's life and works as a framework. Three types of public programs are planned to 1) relate Wharton's works to present-day...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $149,994 under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program to Georgia College & State University for the project "FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND MILLEDGEVILLE: COLLECTING THE PAST." Through interviews and archival collection, the awardee and its Andalusia Institute will develop podcasts, videos, and records providing insights on author Flannery O'Connor and inspiration from her work. The...

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...

This Project Grant award, totaling $642,697.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The award supports research at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) to investigate the linguistic, nonverbal, and neural mechanisms that enable successful self-disclosure and social connection. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) identify...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $189,899.00 to support a six-day, two-week residential workshop titled "A Sense of Place: Architecture, Culture, and History in the Arkansas Delta." The workshop will bring together 60 teachers from across the United States in grades 6-12 to learn about the important architectural, cultural, and historical...