This federal Project Grant award for $173,044 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a 2-week NEH K-12 institute titled "Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" at Northern Arizona University (NAU). The institute aims to expose secondary social studies educators to new historiography, primary sources, and teaching strategies for incorporating Native American histories into...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Fine Arts received a $175,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a new two-week institute titled "Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border through Multimodal Storytelling" for 25 K-12 educators, including classroom teachers, arts educators, museum educators, librarians, and curriculum support staff. The...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $172,935 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and its Center for Interamerican and Border Studies (CIBS) and Institute of Oral History (IOH). The grant will fund a two-week residential summer institute from July 20 to August 3, 2025 for 25 secondary school teachers in grades 6-12 to explore borderlands narratives from the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $197,846 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to The Interfaith Center of New York, Inc. The grant will fund a three-week institute that provides K-12 teachers with an advanced introduction to the religious diversity of the United States. The institute will include classroom-based workshops, meetings with religious leaders, visits to local houses of worship, and field research in a...
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 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $100,000 to fund an international conference on Indigenous borderlands in North America and the preparation of a published volume of essays. The University of New Mexico will host the conference from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, bringing together historians and scholars from other disciplines with Indigenous community representatives....
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $150,000 to Loyola Marymount University (LMU) to operate a summer institute for rising high school seniors from historically marginalized and underserved populations in Los Angeles. The institute will introduce students to thinking about public history and how to grapple with "difficult...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $172,260 to Montclair State University to fund a two-week hybrid institute for 25 K-5 teachers. The institute, titled "Bridging Histories: Angel Island and Asian American Immigration," will enable teachers to visit Angel Island in San Francisco and develop content knowledge and critical perspectives on the Asian American...
This $183,226 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund a multi-faceted educational initiative exploring the history, culture, and contributions of diverse communities in California's San Joaquin Valley. The project, titled "California Dreamin': Migration, Work, and Settlement in the Other California", will engage participants in readings, films, and primary...
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 $120,926 to support a three-week academic institute at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. The institute examines the influence of the Puritans on New England Gothic literature, exploring this topic through the lenses of place, race, and gender. The institute aims to demonstrate for participants how considering these...