Project Grant ES30808026
- 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...
- The Folger Shakespeare Library will use a $199,211 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to host a three-week residential institute for 25 middle and high school teachers from June 28 to July 17, 2026. The institute, titled "Shakespeare: Love and Infamy: Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra in Conversation," will provide professional development to deepen the teachers' expertise...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas State University $123,268.68 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development grant program (CFDA 45.163) from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. The university utilized the funding to deliver a project titled "Teaching Shakespeare's Plays" that promoted better teaching of Shakespeare in higher education. As part of the Institutes program, the project supported professional development opportunities for faculty...
- 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...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $119,504 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization in Tarrytown, New York. The grant will fund a one-week residential institute for 30 K-12 teachers entitled "Slavery in the Colonial North" from July 13-19, 2025. The institute will present slavery as a central element of American economic and political development in the...
- This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support a three-week summer institute for higher education faculty from June 29 to July 18, 2026. The institute will build on a previous NEH-funded program focused on the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) from the Great Depression era, and will provide training on teaching and researching the FWP's archival materials, as...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $446,542 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to Boston College for their project "The Performance of Roman Comedy." The project will train college faculty and graduate students over four weeks in summer 2023 on the latest scholarship and performance techniques for plays by Plautus and Terence. Experts will instruct trainees on evidence for ancient performances and modern...
- 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 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 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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $174,950 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Theatre For A New Audience, Inc. for a two-week Summer Institute entitled "Scholarship and Performance: A Combined Approach to Teaching Shakespeare's Plays." The institute will be held from July 13-24, 2026 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York and is offered to 25 middle and high school teachers nationwide. The institute will use an integrated approach to explore text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance of two Shakespearean plays, Macbeth and Henry VI (Part 1), with a focus on the theme "Witches, Warriors, and Counselors: Shakespeare's Women in Times of War." The institute will feature presentations by leading Shakespeare scholars and master teaching artists.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $175.0k | 12/9/25 |