Project Grant MR24813516

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of New Mexico (UNM) a $175,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund a new two-week institute for 25 K-12 educators, including classroom teachers, arts educators, museum educators, librarians, and curriculum support staff. The institute, titled "Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border Through Multimodal Storytelling," will engage...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $131,116 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as the Health Sciences Division, for the project "A RIVER OF MEMORIES: PRESERVING LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE BORDERLANDS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS". This grant, with a performance period from May 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Northern Arizona University $379,720 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct two one-week site-based teacher workshops along Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona during summer 2023. The workshops will examine multiple historical perspectives presented by landmarks along Route 66, an iconic American roadway, to provide approximately 80 fifth through twelfth grade teachers of...

The New York Historical Society received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The funding supports the ACTS OF FAITH: RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN WEST NATIONAL TRAVELING EXHIBITION from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The exhibition will explore how religion shaped the exploration and settlement of the American West, highlighting the diversity of spiritual beliefs...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Ball State University under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to implement the traveling exhibition "St. Clair's Defeat Revisited: A New View of the Conflict." The University will partner with the Applied Anthropology Laboratories and the Ohio History Connection to display the exhibition at the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio and tour it to three additional sites, including...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $187,868 Project Grant to Southern Utah University (SUU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant, titled "Voices of the Ancients: Archaeology and Oral History in the American West," aims to help teachers grapple with difficult and complex history and expand the American narrative. The project will investigate the archaeology of the ancient Fremont people, engage with the...

The University of Texas at El Paso received a $240,339 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a summer institute for secondary school teachers from July 14-28, 2019. The institute, titled "Tales from the Chihuahuan Desert: Borderlands Narratives about Identity and Binationalism," will provide 25 teachers with intensive exploration of borderland narratives from the...

This Project Grant award of $137,266 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), supports the University of Arizona in revising the required course "Readings in the Literary Genres" for Spanish majors and minors. The revised course explores the theme of "life as a road or journey" through four geo-cultural modules covering the Iberian Peninsula,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $399,960 Project Grant under the CFDA 45.164 Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Inc. for the "Knowing the West" traveling exhibition. This exhibition will feature 130 artworks from the 19th to early 20th century by both Native and non-Native artists, including textiles, baskets, paintings, pottery, sculpture, beadwork, saddles, and prints. The goal is to present a more...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $23,964.20 Project Grant to El Paso Community College for the project "BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: LIMINALITY IN EL PASO,TX AND COLONIA JUAREZ, MX" from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019. The grant was funded through NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which supports projects that preserve and provide intellectual access to humanities resources held in libraries, museums,...