Project Grant HAA29640224
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $395,439 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant to Rice University for the project "GLOBAL PASSAGES: CREATING A PUBLIC DATABASE OF SLAVING VOYAGES ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN AND ASIA" from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2026. The project aims to create an Indian Ocean and Asia slave voyages database as part of the open access SlaveVoyages website to expand understanding of the global nature and complexity of the human...
- This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) will support the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in developing a prototype website that increases understanding of African American life in early rural New England. Specifically, the website will focus on Lucy Terry Prince, the first documented African American poet, illuminating her life from captivity in Africa circa 1726 to enslavement in...
- The University of Georgia was awarded a $302,070 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the selection, digitization, and online publication of 100,000 pages of public domain Georgia newspapers from the Jim Crow era and early civil rights period between 1877 and 1963, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). In addition, the university...
- The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center was awarded a $220,369 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The Center will identify, map, and interpret the history of African American land ownership and residential life in Central Virginia from 1744 through 2020 by analyzing over 400,000 pages of property records using citizen science crowdsourcing tools. Records will be mapped and...
- This $178,992 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Georgia State University Research Foundation to improve speech technology for better learning outcomes among African American English-speaking children. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the three-year award aims to develop data augmentation and normalization techniques to increase the amount of training data available and improve automatic speech recognition performance for this...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $100,000 through the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309) to the Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center (WHHRC) in collaboration with Georgia Southern University Libraries and the GSU Department of History. The award, obligated on October 1, 2025, supports Phase Two of a collection digitization project focused on African American funeral programs in rural Bulloch...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Expanding and Sustaining Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade" project at Michigan State University (MSU). The $348,051 award will enable MSU to link digital collections from 10 collaborators to the Enslaved.org linked open data platform, expanding the geographic reach of the project to include New England,...
- The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. will receive $179,650 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to create a comprehensive online archaeological dataset and archive. The awardee will assemble over 6,000 archaeological site records spanning more than 150 municipalities and multiple time periods. These records were originally collected by various research groups using consistent methodology and will be...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $365,726 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to conduct research on the disappearance of St. Lawrence Iroquoian peoples from a river valley in the early colonial period. The project aims to develop a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology to determine the timing and directionality of this population movement,...
- This $170,710 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund collaborative research by Bryn Mawr College to reconstruct the landscape of one of the earliest urban centers in the United States. The researchers will conduct a high-resolution magnetometry survey covering over 5.5 square kilometers to map archaeological features below the surface. This will be the largest such survey ever performed in the...
DATA MINING AND MAPPING ANTEBELLUM GEORGIA [THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS LEVEL I FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $75,000 TO GENERATE A RELATIONAL DATABASE AND MAP THAT WILL EXPAND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BLACK LIFE AND GEOGRAPHY DURING SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. WHERE DAVID ELTIS?S SLAVE VOYAGES BROUGHT US TO THE SHORES AND PORTS OF THE AMERICAS, OUR PROPOSED PROJECT, DATA MINING AND MAPPING ANTEBELLUM GEORGIA (DMMAG) TAKES US INLAND, TURNING FROM THE TRANS-ATLANTIC TO THE INTRA-AMERICAN ENSLAVEMENT AND FORCED MIGRATIONS OF AFRICANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO GENERATE A SCALABLE PROTOTYPE FOR DMMAG?S PROPOSED DATABASE AND MAP, WHICH WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: TO WHAT EXTENT CAN RESEARCHERS USE DIGITIZED GENEALOGICAL ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVAL STATE MAPS TO BOTH IDENTIFY AND GEOLOCATE INDIVIDUAL ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES BEFORE EMANCIPATION?]
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 9/24/24 | ||
| Not listed | $68.8k | 1/18/24 | ||
| Not listed | $68.8k | 1/18/24 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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SP0001638601S | Troy University | Project Grant HAA29640224 | $15.6k | 3/6/24 |