The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,147 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the University of Utah. The 3-week summer institute, titled "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence," will be held from July 14 to August 1, 2025 and provide 30 higher education faculty members across humanities disciplines a deeper understanding of the technological workings and societal implications of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $141,252 project grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The goal of this 2-year project, starting June 1, 2024, is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT, on the identities and practices of pre-service teachers from diverse...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $437,833 project grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures (CAIEF) under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant supports CAIEF's research to promote the democratic governance of AI systems by engaging diverse stakeholders in creative worldmaking processes and designing sociotechnical systems. The center's work combines...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $491,863 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the University of Richmond. The grant will establish the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI), which will bring together researchers, students, and pedagogy experts from small liberal arts colleges to study the social, cultural, and legal possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence. The funding will support four key activities over...
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. received a $425,000 three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Building Literacy and Curating (Critical Cultural) Knowledge in Black Humanities project. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, this award will advance digital humanities learning and scholarship through three primary goals from January 2022 to December 2024. Specifically, the project aims...
This $121,811 Project Grant awarded on June 1, 2024 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) supports a collaborative research project titled "Imagining AI in Organized Labor: Struggles Over the Value of Cultural Work." Through interviews, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis, the project investigates how cultural workers and their labor unions conceptualize generative AI...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,999 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to implement and scale an undergraduate certificate in AI and Data Ethics. The university assembled an interdisciplinary faculty team to design the curriculum, leveraging partnerships across computer science, statistics, communications, and information science....
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $498,129 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma for the "OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production" from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The goal of this research center is to explore the implications of generative AI technologies for artistic and cultural expression, particularly in relation to issues of truth, trust, power, and cultural sovereignty for Native American communities. The center will...
This federal Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice" (OEPI) summer institute. The institute will help digital humanities scholars create open educational resources (OER) publications and classroom assignments that reflect the community-based concerns of their students 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...