Project Grant EH5008306

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 Reconstructionist Rabbinical College received a two-year, $199,850 project grant from 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 will support the development of online courses and curricula examining race, racism, and the American Jewish experience. Ten humanities scholars from various disciplines will deliver lectures on interdisciplinary research at the...

The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education awarded the University of Notre Dame $3.985 million on January 1, 2026, under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) to integrate civil discourse into curricula at public, private, community, and historically minority-serving colleges and universities through a four-year project running through December 31, 2029. Notre Dame will lead a consortium effort to embed argument-mapping and AI-assisted...

The Chicago History Museum will receive $429,190 over two years from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program to conduct its sixth iteration of "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, Democracy, 1877 to 1920." Key deliverables include a three-week summer institute in Chicago from July 9-29, 2023 for 30 K-12 teachers across grades 6-12 to deepen their understanding of the...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded DePaul University $720,000 on June 1, 2026, through the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program (CFDA 84.215) to establish and operate the Center for Middle School Civic Leadership (C-MSCL) in Chicago, Illinois. The award funds development and delivery of a unified civic leadership curriculum for middle school students in underserved Cook County communities. DePaul's Office of Innovative and Professional...

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 (CFDA 45.162) program to the University of Notre Dame DU Lac's Notre Dame Research Division. The grant supports the development of a website that provides tutorials on reading and interpreting medieval Roman Catholic liturgical practices, targeting faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students at Notre Dame, as well as...

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...

This $103,921 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of quantitative models relating student learning outcomes and affect to varying degrees of instructional reform at Utah Valley University from June 2023 to May 2026. Through the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the awardee will design introductory geoscience lessons at different levels of reformed teaching practice based on established classroom observation protocols. Lessons will be administered across...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $291,569 on June 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to produce an annotated English translation of the Ecclesiastical History in the Book of the Tower, a medieval theological compendium that contains the only complete surviving account of the Church of the East across its first millennium. The translation will make accessible to students, researchers, and general...

The New York Public Library, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University, will deliver a two-week combined summer institute titled "Harlem's Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative" through a $378,290 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through scholarly presentations, dialogue with movement veterans, place-based pedagogy, and guided exploration of the Schomburg Center's archival collections, the institute will provide 25...