Project Grant ES29366923
- The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Inc., a nonprofit organization, received a $348,641 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) to build an open-source georeferencing platform called AllMaps. This platform will enable hundreds of cultural institutions worldwide to align their digitized map collections with real-world geographies, making the collections more vibrant and accessible for scholars, educators, and the...
- This federal Project Grant award of $189,792.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The award will fund a residential workshop in 2025 for 72 K-12 educators titled "From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England." The workshop will be hosted at the University of New Hampshire and focus on examining the experiences of Native American, African American, and...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $249,496.00 to support the "Deep Maps and Community Histories: Advancing Transdisciplinary and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Spatial Humanities" institute at Michigan Technological University. The 16-month hybrid virtual and in-person institute will provide advanced training to researchers on using digital geospatial and...
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support experiential professional development for educators focused on colonial history in New Hampshire. Awarded $373,434, the grant will run from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The University of New Hampshire will lead place-based encounters for educators along the Great Bay estuary, considering the experiences of Native American and African American populations alongside early European settlers. Educators will...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $135,691 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to develop open-source tools and methods for identifying and linking text on scanned historical maps to online resources. Working with partners at major cultural institutions, the University of Southern California will apply machine learning to enable researchers and the public to search,...
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) provided $163,742 to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc. to deliver the "Ancient Stories, New Neighbors" summer institute from July 24 to August 6, 2022. The institute aimed to decolonize narratives of Indigenous homelands and 17th century New England through a case study approach using Mourt's Relation and other primary sources from...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $645,792 Project Grant to the Maine Humanities Council Corp through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This funding will support the Council's delivery of local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming from June 2021 through April 2023. As the state's nonprofit organization for the humanities, the Maine Humanities Council will utilize the federal funding to promote humanities-based...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 $174,485 Project Grant (CFDA 45.163 - Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development) to the University of Southern Maine for a two-week residential institute in July 2024 titled "Teaching with Maps: Community and Resilience in Maritime New England." The institute will provide 25 educators in grades 3-12 the opportunity to explore physical and digitized maps from the collections of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine and the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Participants will engage in field trips, scholar talks, workshops, and research activities to examine rural and urban landscapes in maritime New England through a geographic lens. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Inc. is serving as a sub-grantee to develop public geospatial data literacy components for the institute.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $174.5k | 9/8/23 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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USM2233S | The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Inc. | Project Grant ES29366923 | $30.7k | 10/1/23 |