The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $265,000 Project Grant to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant, effective July 1, 2023 through September 30, 2025, will fund the establishment of the TAMU-CC Special Collections, Archives, and Center for the Humanities in a newly acquired downtown building. This will provide expanded and secure space for the university's significant special...
New Mexico State University will receive $1,037,289 over three years from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) to undertake the Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project. The project will digitize and provide intellectual access to the personal correspondence of the Amador family held in the university's archives. As the awardee, New Mexico State University's Office of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,931 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access grant (CFDA 45.149) to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to support the "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Phase 2" project. This 3-year project aims to preserve 240 bilingual sociolinguistic interviews, expand the collection by 50 new interviews, and enhance the project website with data visualizations and metadata to provide...
The National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, awarded a $338,357 project grant to Northeastern University to develop the "STC^2: Scalable Text Collation for the Short Title Catalogue of Early Printed Books" project. This Level III 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...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $410,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to support the Humanities Open Book Program from May 1, 2018 through October 31, 2020. The Office of Digital Humanities program aims to support innovative humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This award specifically funds the Humanities Open Book Program,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,015 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to The Corporation Of Haverford College, doing business as Haverford College. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of three pedagogical and scholarly tools for the BRIDGE, an existing digital ecosystem that supports the encoding and reading of ancient Greek and Latin texts. The key products to be...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,650 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Pharos: The International Photo Archives Association. The grant will enable Pharos, a collaboration among 14 North American and European art historical photo archives, to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform. This platform will provide consolidated access to photo archive images and associated...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $336,288 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. The grant funding will support the digitization and online publication of 2,400 rare and historical books from the library's Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection, which represents over 300 indigenous languages of North and Central America. This...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) will produce the definitive English scholarly edition of the Tlalamatl Cuaxicala, an important quadrilingual Mesoamerican hieroglyphic text from the Mexican state of Puebla, as well as a digital hieroglyphic companion website. The $300,000 grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will support this collaborative research project led by the University of Massachusetts...