This three-year, $399,376 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the development of the Metapolis digital research infrastructure platform at Harvard University. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, Metapolis aims to spatially reconstruct historical places through archival sources. As an interactive map-based publication platform, it will enable users to cross-reference archival, bibliographic and multimedia sources with...
This federal Project Grant award of $249,496.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) funds the "Deep Maps and Community Histories: Advancing Transdisciplinary and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Spatial Humanities" institute hosted by Michigan Technological University. The 16-month hybrid virtual and in-person institute will provide advanced training to researchers on using digital geospatial and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program awarded a $349,515 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop and sustain education and training opportunities for library, archive, and museum professionals, humanities scholars, and others through the creation of "communities of practice" around multispectral imaging. This 3-year project (March 2025 - February 2028) aims to foster...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $348,190 to Vanderbilt University over a three-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The project, titled "GEOPACHA 2.0: LARGE-SCALE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGERY SURVEY THROUGH HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING," will revise Vanderbilt's existing web application "GEOPACHA: Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History, and Archaeology" to enable...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $246,320 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). The grant funding supports the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative, a transformative program designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities. The intensive week-long...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will fund the "Chinatown History Project" at the University of Southern California. The project will use augmented reality tools to recreate the historic Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, which was demolished in the 1930s to make way for Union Station. By combining historic photographs, geospatial data, and research into...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,650 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Pharos: The International Photo Archives Association. The grant will enable Pharos, a collaboration among 14 North American and European art historical photo archives, to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform. This platform will provide consolidated access to photo archive images and associated...
This $141,318 National Science Foundation award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund collaborative research to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest cities in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 sq km of the urban landscape, making it the largest such subsurface survey ever performed in the Americas for an archaeological site. This near-total geophysical survey of the subsurface will...
The Center received a $162,500 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164). The award will support the project "THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT" from September 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Under this award, the Center will use photography and civic engagement programs to explore human history and culture. Specifically, the Center will provide public programs...
The federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, supports the Urban Archive's "Collections Management and Engagement Program, Phase 4." This $150,000 grant, awarded on February 1, 2025, aims to enhance Urban Archive's digital infrastructure and provide a location-based digital platform and collections-management system for cultural organizations across New...