This federal Project Grant award of $199,737 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the research project "ARCHIVING PUERTO RICO: DIGITAL MEMORY AND THE TEMPORALITIES OF DISASTER." The project, led by Michigan State University, will explore the intersections of disaster studies, digital humanities, and lived experiences in Puerto Rico. The proposed volume incorporates contributions from the project team...
This Project Grant award of $336,762 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports a collaboration between San Diego State University (SDSU) and Tijuana's Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMAC) to organize, protect, digitize, and make available online the visual and cultural heritage materials of the Archivo Histórico de Tijuana. The project will preserve and provide access to rare...
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation, University of Minnesota, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will collaborate on a three-year, $700,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and provide open access to Mexican American art and archival materials. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which supports preserving and providing intellectual access to humanities resources, approximately...
This $234,820 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 support the Sfai Legacy Foundation and Archive in expanding access to the 150-year archival collection of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). The project will comprehensively arrange and rehouse the archival collections, digitize at-risk audiovisual recordings, and create detailed online finding aids to make this...
The Society of Architectural Historians, University of California, Riverside, and the Color Film Emergency Project were awarded a $338,024 Project Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support a consortium work model to address the preservation and digitization of at-risk 35mm architectural slides documenting historic buildings and sites. This effort aims to safeguard this...
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 (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program, awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Latinos in Heritage Conservation (LHC) for The Abuelas Project. The Abuelas Project is a multi-year initiative to identify, collect, and share stories about places that matter to Latinx communities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The grant funding will support staff time and resources to research and plan the...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,515 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The grant supports the development and delivery of education and training opportunities in multispectral imaging for library, archive, and museum professionals, humanities scholars, and others. The project aims to create "communities of practice" to foster expanded...
This $348,811 federal Project Grant award to Northern Illinois University from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Midwest Latinx Oral History Digital Library" project. The award will fund the digitization and online dissemination of nearly 300 audio and video oral history interviews along with full-text transcripts, documenting the diversity of the growing Latinx...