The American Academy in Rome received a $278,580 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The grant will allow 13 American Academy in Rome fellows whose work was disrupted by COVID-19 closures to return to the Academy for up to three months to complete their work. It will also support hybrid and digital programming to share the fellows' work with local and international communities. This includes...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $166,889 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a virtual institute for 25 higher education faculty focused on applying the health humanities to dismantle structural injustice in healthcare. The funding supports the institute, which aims to help physician and nursing faculty explore how to use the health humanities to promote critical...
The Science History Institute was awarded $359,097 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to support the "White Coats, Black Lives" multi-platform project exploring the historic roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine. Key products include the production of eight 45-minute podcasts for general audiences available via the organization's website and major...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $249,994 to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to host the Advancing Digital Health Humanities (DHH) Institute from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The institute investigates how cross-disciplinary expertise and data analysis methods can advance understanding of the effects of illness and disease on patients, health...
The Phillips Collection received a $197,845 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support exhibitions and public programs celebrating its centennial. The grant will fund an interdepartmental team to fabricate and install two exhibitions featuring renowned American artists David Driskell and Alma Thomas from October 2021 through January 2022. The team will also plan and implement...
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) was awarded a $199,596 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support SAH staff who manage the organization's free, online public humanities programs and publications from November 2021 through October 2023. Key staff overseeing SAH's Archipedia online encyclopedia, communications, membership, and programs will develop additional content for...
The Hastings Center Inc. was awarded a $287,018 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The 18-month project will produce new critical writing on meanings of dementia in diverse social groups in the United States and other aging societies. Specifically, the Center will convene scholars to consider how cultural narratives expressed through metaphors, tropes, and other representations influence public...
The Center received a $162,500 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164). The award will support the project "THE DEMOCRATIC LENS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT" from September 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. Under this award, the Center will use photography and civic engagement programs to explore human history and culture. Specifically, the Center will provide public programs...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute $500,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support seven staff positions from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The positions will sustain the Institute's core public, academic, school, and library humanities programs, including digital programming, cultural exhibitions, and academic activities. Funding will allow the Institute to resume...
The National Humanities Center was awarded a $390,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support three nine-month long-term research fellowships from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The fellowship program is part of the Promotion of the Humanities Research program, which aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the humanities through collaborative research and scholarly editions and translations projects. As the grant description indicates, the fellowships...