The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Historic Hudson Valley $269,800 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to support a virtual teacher training institute from July 16-22, 2023. The institute will provide professional development to 36 K-12 educators on teaching about slavery in the northern colonial era. The NEH Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program aims to improve teaching of American history and...
This $197,304.00 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a two-year humanities institute for higher education faculty and K-12 educators. The institute will allow participants to develop plans for engaging with museum and archival collections that contain potentially traumatic content related to historical events and human-ecology interactions. The goal is for...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $190,682, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), supports a 3-week residential institute for higher education faculty titled "Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy." The institute, taking place at Georgetown University in Washington, DC from June 16 to July 4, 2025, aims to address the lack of scholarly focus on philosophical debates about slavery...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,147 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the University of Utah to host a 3-week summer institute titled "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." The institute, scheduled for July 14 to August 1, 2025, will provide 30 higher education faculty from across the humanities disciplines with a deeper understanding of the technological workings and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,996 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support NYU's "Applied Humanities in Professional Education" project, which will integrate the humanities into NYU Steinhardt's professional education programs through first-year seminars. These courses will focus on the role of history, literature,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provides $199,999.00 to Amherst College to support an educational institute titled "Punishment: The American Story". The institute will address three core questions about punishment through a fresh examination of texts and resources: 1) What is punishment and why do we punish as we do? 2) What can we learn about politics,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Cornell University a $151,748.73 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) for the period of October 1, 2018 through March 31, 2020. The grant funding supported Cornell University's "SITUATING DEMOCRATIC WRITERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK: TOCQUEVILLE, COOPER, STANTON, AND DOUGLASS" project. This project aimed to promote better teaching and research of American history...
This federal Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development) will be used by Loyola Marymount University to run a summer institute for rising seniors from historically marginalized and underserved populations at Los Angeles high schools. The institute will introduce students to public history and how to grapple with "difficult pasts," using examples from...
This $119,504 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a one-week residential institute for 30 K-12 teachers entitled "Slavery in the Colonial North." The institute, to be hosted by the non-profit organization Historic Hudson Valley in Westchester County, New York from July 13-19, 2025, will equip participants with the knowledge and tools needed to...