Project Grant EH28809422
- This three-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will provide $347,959 to Mississippi State University to develop a decolonial field school focused on community-engaged methods of collection and preservation at Brush Arbor Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi. Through pairing oral histories, public archaeology, participatory GIS story mapping and black digital archives with traditional archival,...
- East Carolina University will conduct a three-year project totaling $137,906 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The project aims to evaluate patterns of degradation in African American cemeteries, examine multicausal processes leading to abandonment, and identify ways to recognize contributions of marginalized communities. Through archaeological investigation and ethnographic interviews, the university seeks to...
- Clemson University was awarded a $199,967 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program. The grant will support retaining one postdoctoral researcher and hiring two additional researchers to expand interdisciplinary research on enslaved African Americans at Clemson University. This includes reopening the university's archaeological field school with a focus on historical and...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $249,963 to the University of Texas at Austin to create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website titled "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present." The project will digitize and analyze oral histories to document how Afro-Latinx communities were affected by housing and...
- Rowan University will establish a Black Humanities in Education initiative through history and culture project with $133,748 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The initiative aims to develop and disseminate content knowledge on African American history and culture for pre-service and in-service teachers through three objectives: embedding a newly established undergraduate...
- South Carolina State University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in South Carolina, was awarded a $145,877 Project Grant 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 will support the development of an online, asynchronous Master of Arts in English program with a focus on intersectional studies, which examines how aspects of individual...
- The Black Archives History Research Foundation of South Florida was awarded a $719,535 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to expand public access to its collections through digitization and virtual research services. Specifically, the Foundation will purchase archival supplies and a large format scanner to digitize its periodical collection, notably the Miami Times collection of South...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...
- This Project Grant award of $150,000 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 the "Buried Blueprints of Black Education" initiative at Morgan State University. The project aims to illuminate the unknown or often invisible contributions of Black educators as founders of Black education pedagogy and practice in America from the colonial period through...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The County of Beaufort, South Carolina received a $105,000 Project Grant award on July 1, 2025, under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966), administered by the National Park Service. The award supports research and documentation of historic burial grounds within Beaufort County as part of the African American Civil Rights (AACR) competitive grant initiative. This program funds preservation activities that document...
RECONSTRUCTING THE BLACK ARCHIVE: SOUTH CAROLINA AS CASE STUDY, 1739-1895 [RECONSTRUCTING THE BLACK ARCHIVE: SOUTH CAROLINA AS CASE STUDY, 1739-1895, BASED PRIMARILY AT TWO INSTITUTIONS LOCATED IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA, AIMS TO UNCOVER WAYS TO UNDERSTAND AND RECONSTRUCT NOTIONS ABOUT EARLY BLACK LIVES. WE WILL CREATE A COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY ALLOWING US TO COLLABORATIVELY LEARN ANALYTICAL STRATEGIES FROM INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELDS OF THE VISUAL ARTS, COMMUNITY-FOCUSED RESEARCH, HISTORICAL STUDIES, AND A SWATH OF OTHER CREATIVE FIELDS. OUR APPROACH IS ONE OF BIOGRAPHICAL MEDIATION WHEREBY WE WILL TAKE INSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS, STATISTICS, AND SEEMINGLY INHUMANE ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE AND DEMONSTRATE WAYS THAT THE BROAD HUMANITIES AND VALUES CAN BE RECOGNIZED. WE AIM TO RESURRECT THE HIDDEN NARRATIVES OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN OUR WORK.]
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($1k) | 12/18/25 | ||
| Not listed | $197.8k | 9/19/22 | ||
| Not listed | $197.8k | 9/19/22 |