Project Grant PE29013423
- East Carolina University will conduct a three-year project totaling $137,906 in funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The project aims to evaluate patterns of degradation in African American cemeteries, examine multicausal processes leading to abandonment, and identify ways to recognize contributions of marginalized communities. Through archaeological investigation and ethnographic interviews, the university seeks to...
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, totaling $307,827, will support the University of Montana in developing indigenized collections handling, decision-making, and educational programs focused on determining cultural affiliation for objects with unclear records in its anthropological collections. Specifically, the University will hire two postdoctoral fellows, a graduate research assistant, and...
- This three-year, $149,696 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the "Inclusive Public History" initiative at Montclair State University. The initiative aims to develop faculty expertise in public history through training programs, create new public and digital history courses, and establish opportunities for place-based student learning at cultural institutions. These activities align with the federal program's goal of promoting humanities teaching...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $143,386.00 to support the curation and circulation of the Gullah/Geechee Alkebulan Archive over a two-year period from February 2024 to January 2026. The project, led by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, aims to collect and curate oral histories and cultural artifacts related to the Gullah/Geechee Nation through community-based events. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) provides $149,842 to Kansas State University (KSU) to create public-facing digital resources such as annotated treaties, oral histories, educational videos, and curricula. The goal is to augment humanities education in Kansas by promoting understandings about Indigenous peoples and histories as a best teaching...
- This Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will support the "Buried Blueprints of Black Education" initiative at Morgan State University. The project aims to illuminate the unknown or often invisible contributions of Black educators as founders of Black education pedagogy and practice in America from the colonial period through...
- This $149,779 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist to advance digital preservation and curation activities within tribal libraries, archives, and museums across at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations. Over the 2-year award period from April 2025 to March 2027, the Community Archivist will provide...
- The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Inc. was awarded a $149,445 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for their "MISSISSIPPI DIALOGUES: A COMMUNITY COLLECTING INITIATIVE" project. The 17-month project aims to document the histories and knowledge of local communities related to flooding and living with the Mississippi River, in order to foster climate...
- The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM) received a three-year, $349,860 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. CWRGM is developing an open-access digital documentary edition of over 20,000 documents from the papers of nine Mississippi governors spanning 1859 to 1882. To date, the project team has made nearly 7,000 documents available on their Omeka-S-based...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Expanding and Sustaining Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade" project at Michigan State University (MSU). The $348,051 award will enable MSU to link digital collections from 10 collaborators to the Enslaved.org linked open data platform, expanding the geographic reach of the project to include New England,...
This three-year project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program will provide $347,959 to Mississippi State University to develop a decolonial field school focused on community-engaged methods of collection and preservation at Brush Arbor Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi. Through pairing oral histories, public archaeology, participatory GIS story mapping and black digital archives with traditional archival, archaeological, historical and anthropological work, the field school will train advanced undergraduate and graduate students in skills needed to equitably partner with Black, Indigenous and other communities of color. The products will be a certificate in community-engaged anthropology for participating students and preservation of an African American site through centering community voices and perspectives.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $310.5k | 2/3/23 | ||
| Not listed | $37.5k | 2/3/23 |