Project Grant GA27435520

The University of Montana received a $499,023 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support a coordinated set of public humanities programming from December 2021 through May 2023 focused on racial justice, death during the COVID-19 pandemic, Native American scholarship, and the history of pandemics. University of Montana staff will conduct a range of activities...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will fund a summer bridge program at Helena College in Montana called "A Bridge to Humanities Pathways in College: Using Film Production to Explore Local Culture and History." Over a two-year period ending in September 2023, the $144,719 in funding will support three summer programs where high school and at-risk college students research and produce documentary films on topics representing under-explored aspects of the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute $500,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support seven staff positions from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The positions will sustain the Institute's core public, academic, school, and library humanities programs, including digital programming, cultural exhibitions, and academic activities. Funding will allow the Institute to resume...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1.5 million Project Grant to Sundance Institute under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160). The grant will provide 20 monthly stipends of $60,000 each to supplement the incomes of media-makers working on humanities-driven projects whose livelihoods were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sundance Institute will administer the grantmaking program and convene humanities advisors to support and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,949 project grant to MT San Antonio Community College District (Mt. SAC) through the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The goal of this 3-year project is to create a digital photo collection that documents the history of Mt. SAC and incorporate its use across the humanities and other academic disciplines. The project aims to promote equity by examining the...

This Project Grant award of $146,645 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development) supports a three-year initiative by Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, to develop new pedagogical approaches for exploring the ethical, historical, and cultural impacts of "place" and "displacement" in West Central Illinois. The project, titled "Resituating the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,487 Project Grant to Hamilton College under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development of a new Curatorial Studies program and interdisciplinary minor over two and a half years from July 2023 through December 2025. The initiative aims to foster connections across humanities disciplines and between the college and neighboring...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Regis University a $110,447 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development of a 15-credit certificate program and 12-credit minor in Museums, Archives, and Gallery Studies. The proposed curriculum will prepare students to work in these humanities-focused spaces or be competitive when applying to graduate school....

The Chicago History Museum (CHM) was awarded a $499k Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to develop hybrid online and in-person humanities programs and resources from January 2022 through December 2023. CHM will use the funding to create a sustainable framework for connecting with audiences digitally and onsite, enhance its digital humanities content and archives to promote accessibility and interactivity, and center...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $626,658 to Humanities Montana through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 2021 to April 2023. This Project Grant will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through annual grants administered by Humanities Montana, the state humanities council for Montana. The Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program promotes such public humanities...