Project Grant JUSFC1206

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $174,862 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Arizona State University's Division, doing business as Orspa. The two-week institute focuses on literary and cultural contact between China, Japan, and Korea from the 17th century to the present, using the lens of translation to examine issues in East Asian literary studies. Participants will discuss scholarship on translation...

This $180,567 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will enable the Japanese American National Museum to host a program that invites educators from across the country to Los Angeles to examine the history and ongoing impacts on the Little Tokyo neighborhood. The project will study how events and issues like restrictive covenants, World War II incarceration, eminent domain,...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) received a $349,920 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), awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. The grant supports the digitization of up to 10,000 items from JANM's permanent collection, which documents the Japanese American experience from the 19th century to present...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Japanese American National Museum received a $195,088 Project Grant award on September 23, 2025, under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant funds conservation of the museum's textile collection, a collections-focused preservation project that addresses the...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $105,299 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to support the creation of a U.S.-Japan Young Scholars' Training on Nuclear Policy. The Maureen And Mike Mansfield Foundation will organize a bilateral exchange bringing Masters and PhD students from the U.S. and Japan together from September 2022 to January 2024 to deepen their understanding of nuclear policy and security issues. The exchange is intended to advance...

Azusa Pacific University was awarded a three-year, $149,910 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support APU's initiative to enhance its existing Ethnic Studies program by planning and piloting three new certificate programs in Africana Studies, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, and Latinx Studies. In year three of the...

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded a $474,528 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant (CFDA 15.933) to Densho, a nonprofit organization, to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through this Project Grant, Densho will digitize 50,000 archival items, conduct outreach to survivors and descendants to gather contextual information, and incorporate the new digital materials into...

This $163,304 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant funds Densho, a public history organization in Seattle, Washington, to restart its oral history program on the Japanese American World War II incarceration and its aftermath. The grant provides funding from January 2022 through December 2023 for staffing and equipment to conduct, process, and preserve oral histories with individuals impacted by Japanese American internment. As part of the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division...

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) will receive $399,000 through June 2030 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). AAS, an independent research library focused on pre-20th century American history and culture, will use the funding to support 26 months of long-term fellowships annually. The fellowships, first funded by NEH in 1976, enable scholars from various backgrounds and career stages...

This $189,575 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support two one-week workshops for educators to learn about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The workshops will utilize faculty members from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation staff as well as outside experts. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization, operates the Heart...