The University of Florida will receive $460,260 under a Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the University Press of Florida's publications in African American and Latin American studies from December 2021 through June 2023. The funding will retain four positions and create seven new staff roles focused on acquisitions, promotions, and outreach to help the Press return to pre-pandemic levels of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $142,765 Project Grant to the Trustees of Indiana University (Indiana University) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support the development of a new cross-disciplinary, undergraduate minor in Book Studies at Indiana University. The proposed minor will provide rigorous training in book history, manuscript studies, text and page design,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $189,708 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) and the Concord Museum. The grant will fund a 6-day workshop for teachers to explore multiple narratives of the American Revolution and its legacies in Massachusetts. Teachers will investigate primary sources from the Revolutionary period, including artifacts, letters, paintings, and...
The Rare Book School (RBS), doing business as The Book Arts Press, Inc., received a $100,258 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). The grant funds the "Living American History in Primary Documents" initiative to develop new educational content and curricula focused on American history primary sources in anticipation of the 250th...
This federal Project Grant award of $148,764 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will support a three-year initiative by Florida Atlantic University's (FAU) Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters to create an interdisciplinary minor in Health Humanities. The program aims to bridge the teaching of health and medicine, typically rooted in scientific and biomedical...
This $246,320 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative. This transformative program is designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities, focusing on cultural heritage recovery through advanced imaging technologies. The initiative...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $2,035,697 project grant to the Florida Humanities Council, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant will support local, statewide, and regional humanities programming through the Florida Humanities Council from June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. As the designated state humanities council for Florida, the organization will use the federal funding to deliver a variety of public...
The University of Florida received a $368,498.55 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Office of Digital Humanities Promotion of the Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) for the period of October 1, 2018 through March 31, 2021. The grant funding supported the "Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute," which utilized digital technology and tools to advance humanities research and education on...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the establishment of an undergraduate laboratory and curriculum at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. The University of Iowa will receive $150,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program to develop a dedicated undergraduate workspace and new introductory course on global print cultures paired with an existing course on global manuscript...
This federal Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice" (OEPI) summer institute. The institute will help digital humanities scholars create open educational resources (OER) publications and classroom assignments that reflect the community-based concerns of their students and...