The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The grant will support the OI's continued production of digital and audio humanities programming focused on early American history.
Specifically, funding will retain three staff positions that were slated for layoff due to pandemic-related budget cuts. Retained staff will produce...
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) was awarded a $304,405 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160). The grant will support 16 three-month fellowships, with options for two- or four-month terms, providing $15,000 each to underemployed early American scholars in contingent faculty or non-academic positions impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Science History Institute, a non-profit organization, a $204,428 Project Grant to support long-term postdoctoral research fellowships. This grant, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research CFDA program, will allow the Institute to expand its capacity to support one long-term postdoctoral research fellow each year for three years, from January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The funding will create more opportunities to embed the...
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture will use a $370,920 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the Hidden Histories of the Founding Era professional development program. The program will introduce teachers to four sites in Virginia encompassing the complexity of the founding era through two five-day residential sessions at the College of William & Mary in summer 2023. The sites - William & Mary's Brafferton Building, the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $381,000 Project Grant under its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) for the period of January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. This grant will support 25 long-term research fellowships per year at the AAS, providing scholars from diverse backgrounds with 4-12 month stipends of $5,000 per month to conduct humanities research using the Society's extensive collection of...
This federal Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice" (OEPI) summer institute. The institute will help digital humanities scholars create open educational resources (OER) publications and classroom assignments that reflect the community-based concerns of their students and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $495,326 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This cooperative agreement will fund the updating and enhancement of the National Inventory of Humanities Organizations (NIHO), a data resource developed under a previous NEH award. The project aims to: 1) identify a wider universe of humanities nonprofit organizations, 2) rigorously clean and code...
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) was awarded a $199,862 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the continuation and expansion of core programming and member networking opportunities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). Through this funding, OAH will undertake activities to pivot public programming to a hybrid digital and in-person model to position the organization for post-pandemic stability...
The American Philosophical Society received a $123,300 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship from January 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024. The NEH grant will fund research and scholarship activities for a postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society. As described in the program description, the Promotion of the Humanities Research program aims to...
The New York Historical Society will receive $267,269 over three years from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support its Fellowship Program. Through this Project Grant award, starting in 2023 the Society will provide one fellowship annually through 2026 for promising scholars in American history. Fellows will conduct interdisciplinary research in history, art history, and material culture using the Society's...