Project Grant PB26995620

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Pennsylvania $325,009 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for a Project Grant beginning September 1, 2025, and concluding August 31, 2027. The award supports Digital Scriptorium's development of an open-access, online national union catalog of premodern manuscripts held in American institutions. The project will expand the Digital...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas A & M University $349,067 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The university will publish an open access corpus of Syriac literature in English translation along with tools to automate digitization, encoding, and markup of Syriac textual resources. It will contextualize the text corpus by integrating linked data from an online...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169), provides $150,000 to Northeastern University to investigate the relationship between digitized early print materials and their physical source materials. The project aims to develop state-of-the-art object detection models for localizing handwriting in digital collections of early printed books, exploring how material versus...

A $37,500 Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the book project "Encounter and Identity: Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy." The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160) to fund individual scholarship, including books and articles. The grant will support the author's book reconstructing the history of early medieval southern Italy through interpersonal encounters...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities awarded Northeastern University a $338,357 Project Grant titled "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books". This Level III digital humanities project aims to build open data and code infrastructure for metadata, page images, and manual and automatic transcriptions of over 242,000 early modern printed books. The project will collate manual transcripts from the Text...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded UCLA $291,569 under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) on June 1, 2026, to produce an annotated English translation of the Ecclesiastical History from the Book of the Tower, a medieval theological compendium documenting the Church of the East across its first millennium. The primary deliverable is a comprehensive, annotated translation that will make accessible to students,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $194,346 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA #45.161) to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will fund a 3-year scholarly project titled "Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: A Unique Archive of Arabic Field Diaries in the Archaeological Literature of Egypt and Sudan." The project aims to promote Egyptian Arabic as a valid language for academic research and help decolonize Egyptology...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $349,798 to Indiana University through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to execute the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, a three-year initiative (September 1, 2025–August 31, 2028) to digitize and create comprehensive item-level metadata for 1,442 pre-1600 manuscripts across 23 primarily non-R1 Midwestern institutions. Indiana University Libraries and the...

The University of Oklahoma, through its Office of Research Administration, has been awarded a $349,887 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will enable the Coptic Scriptorium Project to expand its digital database of richly annotated Coptic texts, which are crucial for academic disciplines and the heritage community of Coptic Orthodox Christians. This 3-year project,...

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...