The National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, awarded a $216,218 project grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. The grant, titled "AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice," will support an institute that explores how to teach writing, research, and critical inquiry in the face of developing generative AI technology. Designed for...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support Framingham State University in developing resources and curriculum focused on investigating race through digital humanities approaches. The $146,785 award will fund a faculty institute, high school teacher program, cultural organization workshops, and junior scholar lectures from 2022 through 2024. These activities aim to strengthen the university's commitments to digital humanities and the examination of race in...
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. was awarded $336,638.31 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the period of October 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017. The award supported the development and delivery of curriculum and professional training on the topic of "Teaching the 'Long Hot Summer' of 1967 and Beyond." The program aimed to promote better teaching and research of...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $149,842 to Kansas State University (KSU) to create public-facing digital resources such as annotated treaties, oral histories, educational videos, and curricula. The goal is to augment humanities education in Kansas by promoting understandings about Indigenous peoples and histories as a best teaching...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will provide $149,532 to St. Francis College to implement Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the award will support course redesign for at least eight courses, professional development for over 50 faculty, and the creation of a Digital Humanities Lab. These efforts will expose nearly all 2,700 students to digital...
This three-year, $448,911 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program will support the University of North Carolina at Asheville in creating a Digital Humanities Undergraduate Research track within its Undergraduate Research Program. Through experiential learning opportunities and faculty development efforts, the university will adapt and pilot courses incorporating digital...
This $499,997 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, will fund five new digital humanities initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University through December 2023. The university will employ seven positions including four full-time professionals and three graduate assistants to conduct oral histories on Black institutions during the Civil Rights movement, create an online database of political...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Rutgers, The State University located in New Jersey. The Design Justice Labs project will establish an international and interdisciplinary digital network to conduct community-centered research on the use of "generative AI" for modeling human languages, communication, arts, and cultures. Key activities include: Rutgers will focus on...
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York received a $149,431 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a digital humanities minor at the City College of New York. The grant was awarded on February 1, 2021 under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), with work expected to be completed by January 31, 2024. This NEH program aims to enhance the teaching and study of...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $410,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to support the Humanities Open Book Program from May 1, 2018 through October 31, 2020. The Office of Digital Humanities program aims to support innovative humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This award specifically funds the Humanities Open Book Program,...