This $499,997 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, will fund five new digital humanities initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University through December 2023. The university will employ seven positions including four full-time professionals and three graduate assistants to conduct oral histories on Black institutions during the Civil Rights movement, create an online database of political...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $1,027,768 to Humanities Tennessee through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) for the period of June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. This Project Grant will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through annual grants administered by Humanities Tennessee to promote the humanities in the state of Tennessee. The Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $375,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the University of Tennessee to aid in preparing Volumes XIII, XIV, and XV of "The Papers of Andrew Jackson" covering the years 1835, 1836, and 1837-1839, respectively. This multi-volume annotated edition project aims to publish a comprehensive collection of Andrew Jackson's public and private papers. The University of Tennessee is...
The University of Tennessee received a $1.3 million Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the federal Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to undertake the Tennessee Digital Newspaper Project Phase One from July 1, 2010 through August 31, 2016. The project aimed to preserve and provide intellectual access to primary newspaper resources held in Tennessee by digitizing select newspaper titles and making them freely...
This $149,957 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) will fund the implementation of a humanities-informed environmental studies major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The program aims to integrate humanities perspectives, such as social, cultural, and historical knowledge, into environmental studies to help translate scientific and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $113,711 Project Grant to Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) to produce an annotated literary edition and English translation of the works of Anne de Graville, a French noblewoman whose writings had an enduring impact on literary and social women's movements. The project, titled "Resurrecting the Work of Anne de Graville," will take place from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. This grant is funded under the Promotion of the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $396,848 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Trinity University. The project, titled "Richard Rolle's Fire of Love (Incendium Amoris): New Editions, a New Translation, and an Open-Access Companion Website," focuses on producing new scholarly editions, a translation, and an open-access website for the influential 14th century religious text by English mystic Richard Rolle. Trinity...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $555,959.75 Project Grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln through its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021. Under this award, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will produce a scholarly edition of the complete letters of American author Willa Cather. As the parent organization of the awardee, the University of Nebraska system will oversee this project....
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Dominguez Hills Foundation California State University. This 2-year grant, commencing on January 1, 2024, will fund the publication of an open-access digital edition of the complete, unexpurgated letters written by American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) to over 250 correspondents between 1827 and 1836. This project...
Duke University was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant will support Duke University's Office of Research Administration in publishing The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Promotion of the Humanities Research program advances knowledge and understanding of the humanities through support of...