Project Grant HAA30062824
Award Date
10/1/24
Completion Date
4/30/26
Dollars Obligated
$150K
Federal Agency
National Endowment for the Humanities
Federal Grant Program
45.169
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Pennsylvania, USA
Similar Awards
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the National Yiddish Book Center's "NAYE FARBINDUNGEN (NEW CONNECTIONS): ONLINE YIDDISH STUDY AND COMMUNITY DURING COVID" project. The project will document the surge in online Yiddish language study and community building that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to understand the role these...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $138,319 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to the National Yiddish Book Center, Inc. to develop an experimental system for improving optical character recognition (OCR) error correction on its extensive corpus of digitized Yiddish texts. This 2-year project, beginning February 1, 2024, aims to enhance the accessibility and usability of the Center's digital collection, which is expected to double to over 12,000 digitized...
This $394,060 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature project. The project aims to provide English-language audiences with high-quality translations of modern Ukrainian literature, in response to the rising public and academic interest in Ukraine's history and culture following the 2014 Russian aggression and 2022 invasion. The project will...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,015 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to The Corporation Of Haverford College, doing business as Haverford College. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of three pedagogical and scholarly tools for the BRIDGE, an existing digital ecosystem that supports the encoding and reading of ancient Greek and Latin texts. The key products to be...
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,...
This federal Project Grant award of $195,669.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the translation and dissemination of the works of Rokhl Brokhes, an early 20th century Yiddish woman writer. The project aims to recover Brokhes' literary legacy, which was nearly lost due to the Nazi invasion of Minsk in 1941, when plans to publish her collected stories, novellas, and plays were abandoned after her murder....
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provided $199,510 to the Yivo Institute For Jewish Research to digitize and provide online access to three collections in its archives. Specifically, the award supported retaining five staff members to digitize approximately 70,000 pages from the Vilna Territorial Collection, Records of the Lithuanian Jewish Community Council, and the Jewish Customs...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,660 Project Grant to Macalester College under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant aims to update the "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History" digital humanities archive, which has attracted over 700,000 unique visitors annually despite its outdated design. The project will enhance the archive's functionality by improving ADA compliance, accessibility, and...
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...
This $338,357 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.169 - Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities), will fund the "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books" project at Northeastern University. The project aims to build open data and code infrastructure for metadata, page images, and manual and automatic transcriptions of over 242,000 early modern printed books. This will...