The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $249,991 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant funds the first phase of "The Antefixa Project," a scholarly digital project that will document and explain the contributions of diverse artistic communities in the Italic Peninsula between 500-75 BCE. This period saw the rise of Rome and the appropriation of artisanal and religious practices...
This $125,714 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) will fund the expansion of the "Hamtramck Explorer Deep Map" in Hamtramck, Michigan. The project aims to increase access to and participation in local heritage preservation within this disadvantaged community. Key project outputs will include increased digitization, archival processing, and development of tools to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $249,496 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to Michigan Technological University. The 16-month grant, titled "Deep Maps and Community Histories: Advancing Transdisciplinary and Public-Facing Scholarship in the Spatial Humanities," will support the development of a hybrid virtual and in-person institute that will provide advanced training to researchers on...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to Urban Archive, Inc., a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, to implement Phase 4 of their Collections Management and Engagement Program (CMEP). This grant supports the enhancement of Urban Archive's award-winning digital infrastructure, which provides a location-based digital platform and collections management system for cultural organizations across New York State and...
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...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Southern California (USC). The grant supports the development and dissemination of "BOOKSNAKE," a scholarly application that uses augmented reality (AR) technology to allow users to juxtapose and compare digitized archival materials from multiple collections, including those from the Library of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,812 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the Trustees of Dartmouth College. The award will fund a 3-year project titled "The Archaeology of Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes: Digital Approaches to Documentation, Mapping, and Interpretation." The project will employ drone-based LiDAR, thermography, and infrared imaging, along with terrestrial geophysics,...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $495,326 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to update and enhance the National Inventory of Humanities Organizations (NIHO). The project aims to 1) identify a wider universe of humanities nonprofit organizations, 2) rigorously clean and code the data file to ensure accuracy and relevance, and 3) document the dataset for...
This federal Project Grant award of $149,779.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will enhance the Living New Deal's (LND) contribution to digital humanities. The funding will be used to: 1) audit and upgrade the existing LND data, 2) incorporate U.S. Census spatial and population data to expand the scope, 3) pilot methods for locating additional regional demographic data that can be scaled nationally, and 4)...