This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports a $349,812 research project titled "The Archaeology of Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes: Digital Approaches to Documentation, Mapping, and Interpretation". The project, led by Dartmouth College, will employ advanced digital remote sensing techniques including drone-based LiDAR, thermography, and infrared imaging, along with terrestrial...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $349,971.00 to Montclair State University to develop a web application that digitally registers, maps, and analyzes Norman architectural monuments in Sicily. The primary deliverable will be a fully functioning, user-friendly web application that guides visitors while offering additional monument classes, integrated kinship...
This $246,320 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative. This transformative program is designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities, focusing on cultural heritage recovery through advanced imaging technologies. The initiative...
The University of Southern California received a $148,962 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program. The grant funding will be used to build the infrastructure needed to scale up an existing pilot database, CATCOR: The Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great, to the production stage. Key project activities include: Establishing a robust workflow on GitHub. Creating a coding...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Cornell University a $151,748.73 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) for the period of October 1, 2018 through March 31, 2020. The grant funding supported Cornell University's "SITUATING DEMOCRATIC WRITERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK: TOCQUEVILLE, COOPER, STANTON, AND DOUGLASS" project. This project aimed to promote better teaching and research of American history...
The Project Grant award of $333,333 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) supports Oregon State University in creating a 6,400 square-foot facility for digital 3D scanning and artifact analysis, as well as collections facilities for the university's growing Indigenous Studies program. This infrastructure will enhance student coursework, faculty research, and public engagement through the development of a virtual...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $246,347 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. The grant, which runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026, will fund the development of an expansive, public-facing website to reconstruct the demography and topography of the Greek Orthodox communities in late Ottoman Istanbul during the 19th and 20th centuries. The project will...
The University of Chicago received a $349,969 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop "FLORENCE ILLUMINATED: VISUALIZING THE HISTORY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND SOCIETY." This 2-year project, with an award date of September 1, 2024, will create a free online research platform that serves as a repeatable model for integrating and sharing digital humanities research...
The Columbia University History Lab will receive $494,798 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program to host an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities from September 2022 through August 2025. The Institute will offer training to archivists and historians through in-person summer workshops on processing and making text data accessible for digital humanities research. Each workshop cohort of...