This $974,414 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program supports George Mason University, in collaboration with several partners, to develop a community archiving prototype and training materials. The key objectives are to: (1) create the Archives for Racial and Cultural Healing (ARCH) National Collaborative, (2) support the Chipman ARCH project as a prototype and develop curriculum/practices for future ARCH regional...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $249,963 to the University of Texas at Austin to create and publicize an open-access digital archive and website titled "Building Community, Fighting Exclusion: Black Cuban Oral History Project, 1959-Present." The project will digitize and analyze oral histories to document how Afro-Latinx communities were affected by housing and...
This federal Project Grant award of $199,737 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the research project "ARCHIVING PUERTO RICO: DIGITAL MEMORY AND THE TEMPORALITIES OF DISASTER." The project, led by Michigan State University, will explore the intersections of disaster studies, digital humanities, and lived experiences in Puerto Rico. The proposed volume incorporates contributions from the project team...
This Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund the "?STILL STANDING?: STORIES OF RESILIENCE FROM SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES" project. The project will document the resiliency, innovation, and community-building of South Asian American small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how these businesses serve as vital community...
This $492,200 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), will fund a 2-year research project to evaluate the impact of trauma-informed art workshops for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will conduct fidelity assessments, focus groups, and a waitlist randomized controlled trial to examine outcomes related to self-efficacy, hope, problem-solving,...
The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museum will receive $480,885 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to carry out a digitization and cataloging project for an at-risk audiovisual collection held by the Institute of Texan Cultures. Key deliverables include cataloging, rehousing, and moving thousands of collection items to climate-controlled storage; digitizing prioritized at-risk items; and providing practical...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $180,830 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) grant to the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) to train archivists on inclusive practices for serving autistic communities and empower autistic individuals with oral history skills. The project, titled the "Autistic Voices Oral History Project," will deliver two workshops to improve archivists' competencies in accessibility and representation,...
This Project Grant award of $336,762 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports a collaboration between San Diego State University (SDSU) and Tijuana's Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMAC) to organize, protect, digitize, and make available online the visual and cultural heritage materials of the Archivo Histórico de Tijuana. The project will preserve and provide access to rare...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $452,312 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HCC: MEDIUM: FINE-GRAINED EMOTION ANALYSIS IN CRISES" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing and communication sciences and...
The City of Austin was awarded a $500,000 project grant under the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women's "Demonstration Program on Trauma-Informed, Victim-Centered Training for Law Enforcement" (CFDA 16.058). The grant aims to train law enforcement officers on the use of evidence-based, trauma-informed, and victim-centered techniques for investigating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking cases. The City of Austin will partner with...