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 (CFDA 45.149) to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). The grant, titled "ENTRE NOSOTRAS: PRESERVING ORAL HISTORIES OF MIGRANT FARMWORKER MOTHERS," will fund a 2-year project from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027. The project aims to 1) collect and preserve oral histories from migrant farmworker mothers in the Rio...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $265,000 Project Grant to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant, effective July 1, 2023 through September 30, 2025, will fund the establishment of the TAMU-CC Special Collections, Archives, and Center for the Humanities in a newly acquired downtown building. This will provide expanded and secure space for the university's significant special...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) for the project "Enriching the Humanities Curriculum to Embrace Cultural Relevance". The project objectives are to: (1) develop five new culturally relevant courses to support a new Hispanic Studies minor; (2) provide...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,931 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to support the "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2" project. This 3-year project aims to preserve 240 bilingual sociolinguistic interviews, expand the collection by 50 new interviews, and enhance the project website with data visualizations and metadata to provide...
The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey was awarded a $282,854 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the "Collective Care" partnership project between the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, the National Museum of American History, and five Puerto Rican communities and community organizations. Through this project, the awardees will create a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas A & M University $349,067 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The university will publish an open access corpus of Syriac literature in English translation along with tools to automate digitization, encoding, and markup of Syriac textual resources. It will contextualize the text corpus by integrating linked data from an online...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $249,963 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will fund the "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present", which will create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website chronicling the experiences of Afro-Latinx communities affected by housing and school segregation, Jim Crow laws,...
This $150,000 Project Grant was awarded on January 1, 2024 by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant funds a 2.5-year initiative titled "BUILDING COMMUNITY AND BELONGING FOR HISPANIC STUDENTS THROUGH THE HUMANITIES" (BCBHS) at The Research Foundation for The State University of New York. The BCBHS program will create an advanced Spanish language...
The University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) has been awarded a $150,000 Project Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development (CFDA 45.162) program. This 3-year grant, effective March 1, 2024, will promote the humanities on the UPR-MSC campus by expanding "Libraria," the historical repository for health science information in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Puerto Rico $58,867.25 through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. The NEH project grant funded preservation and intellectual access activities for resources held at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law Library. As part of NEH's mission to preserve primary humanities materials, this award supported ensuring long-term...