Project Grant ES29364223
- 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...
- 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 $197,388 to Sonoma State University to host a 3-week summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 6-12. The institute will combine in-person and virtual activities to guide participants in an in-depth inquiry into "climate futurism" - storytelling that uses climate science as a catalyst to imagine...
- The Trustees of Amherst College, operating as the Folger Shakespeare Library, received a $174,921 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to host a two-week, on-site summer institute in July 2024 for 25 middle and high school teachers. The institute, titled "Shakespeare: Othello and The Taming of the Shrew in Conversation," will provide professional development focused on...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Folger Shakespeare Library (operating as a program of the Trustees of Amherst College) received a $199,211 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), awarded January 1, 2026. The grant funds a three-week residential professional development institute scheduled for June 28–July 17, 2026, serving 25 middle and high school teachers. The institute,...
- 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...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $199,985 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. The grant will fund a three-week summer institute for 30 English Language Arts teachers to explore strategies for teaching climate justice using young people's literatures and media. The institute will provide participants with an opportunity to develop a literature-based,...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of New Mexico (UNM) a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a new two-week institute for 25 K-12 educators, including classroom teachers, arts educators, museum educators, librarians, and curriculum support staff. The institute, titled "Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border Through Multimodal Storytelling," will engage...
- The New York Historical Society received a $194,648 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The funding will support the "American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948" institute, a hybrid learning experience that will convene 30 schoolteachers, 2 teacher advisors, 6 scholar guests, and several educational partners/field trip sites over several months. The institute will...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $171,776 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to San Jose State University Research Foundation to host a two-week summer institute titled "The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History" from July 13 to July 27, 2025. The institute will provide professional development for 25 K-12 teachers, with a focus on middle and high school educators of...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), will fund a $150,000 Summer Institute at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). The institute will introduce rising seniors from historically marginalized and underserved populations at Los Angeles high schools to public history and how to grapple with "difficult pasts," using...
This $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) supports a two-year institute for high school English teachers (grades 9-12) to examine the portrayal of friendship in literature, film, and adolescent social experiences. Teachers will explore evolving conceptions of friendship through collaborative seminars, expert presentations, and the development of curricular materials. The institute will address social and cultural factors relevant to literary representations of friendship, such as gender, race, class, loyalty, reciprocity, social media, and power dynamics. The funding will cover participant housing, meals, classroom facilities, and instruction by interdisciplinary humanities scholars. The institute aims to help teachers become more grounded and nuanced readers of friendship in literature and in their students' lives.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $175.0k | 9/8/23 |