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...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support a $430,000 combined in-person and virtual summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 6-12. The institute aims to guide participants in an in-depth inquiry into climate futurism through literary works and engagement with subject matter experts from October 2022 to September 2024. Hosted by Sonoma State University both virtually and with field trips across Northern California, the institute curriculum explores...
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...
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 (NEH) awarded a $194,261 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the American Historical Association (AHA) to deliver a three-week combined format summer institute on U.S. environmental policy and history. The institute, to be held at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, will provide 25 higher education faculty with historical content, methodological...
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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $130,615 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)'s School of Art & Art History. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of April 30, 2026, will support a strategic climate action plan for two UIC public-facing units: Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The project aims to conduct a comprehensive...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the Upstander Project, Inc. for the "Upstander Academy: Rethreading the Needle of Native American History through Land and Water-Based Learning" program. This two-week residential institute, scheduled for July 2025, will provide 25 participants from 3rd to 12th grade humanities teachers and museum educators with an...
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 Regents of the University of Minnesota was awarded a $149,923 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to conduct a 2-year participatory research project exploring indigenous reproductive health and reproductive justice (IRH/RJ) within the Dakota and Chamoru communities. Through a series of community-engaged conversations and storywork methods, the project will document and...