The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $172,260 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Montclair State University. The grant, entitled "BRIDGING HISTORIES: ANGEL ISLAND AND ASIAN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION", will fund a two-week hybrid institute for 25 K-5 teachers. The institute will enable participants to visit Angel Island in San Francisco and engage in lectures and workshops to develop content knowledge and critical perspectives on Asian American immigration. The grant aims to address the underrepresentation of the Asian American immigrant experience in K-12 curricula, which has often focused on the European immigrant experience at Ellis Island. The institute will provide teachers with resources and strategies to incorporate the complex history of Asian American immigration, marked by exclusion and discrimination, into their classrooms. The project will be carried out from October 2024 through December 2025.
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