Project Grant ES30810826
- 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 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...
- 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 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 $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 a $552,888.88 Project Grant to the Folger Shakespeare Library to catalog, digitize, and provide access to 17th-century British book illustrations from May 1, 2012 to October 31, 2018. This funding supported the Library's efforts under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to humanities resources held in libraries, museums, and archives. Specifically, the...
- The Newberry Library was awarded a $179,005 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to support "250 Years of Teaching with Maps: Maps in the Making of US Education," a three-week residential institute for 25 K-12 educators in July 2026. The institute will explore how educators have used maps in U.S. classrooms from 1776 to the present, connecting participants with the Newberry...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), awarded a $152,382 Project Grant to the Fort Ticonderoga Association to offer two one-week workshops in the summer of 2025 for teachers across the country. The workshops, titled "The American Revolution: Subjects, Citizens, and Soldiers," will use the association's archival and object collections to explore five key themes related to the American...
- 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...
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 in Shakespeare's language, scholarship, and performance through the Folger Method. Participants will work closely with scholars, mentor teachers, performance experts, and Folger staff to gain hands-on experience with primary sources and pedagogical strategies. This award builds on the Folger's expertise in designing and delivering high-quality teacher training programs, as evidenced by their prior NEH grants for initiatives such as "Shakespeare: Othello and The Taming of the Shrew in Conversation" and "Folger Shakespeare Library New Exhibitions."
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $199.2k | 12/29/25 |