Project Grant RQ28687622

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the refinement and scaling of the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence Translation Interface (DAILP TI) prototype developed by Northeastern University. The DAILP TI is a digital platform that leverages DAILP's lexical datasets and resources to produce digital edited collections of translated and annotated indigenous language documents. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) will produce the definitive English scholarly edition of the Tlalamatl Cuaxicala, an important quadrilingual Mesoamerican hieroglyphic text from the Mexican state of Puebla, as well as a digital hieroglyphic companion website. The $300,000 grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will support this collaborative research project led by the University of Massachusetts...

This Project Grant award of $186,686.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the development of a culturally relevant Spanish-language localization of the Mukurtu Content Management System (Mukurtu CMS). The Mukurtu CMS is an open-source platform designed by Dr. Kim Christen in collaboration with the Warumungu Aboriginal community in Australia to help indigenous communities manage and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $298,782 Project Grant to The Washington University in Missouri for the "Translating the Americas: Early Modern Jewish Writings on the New World" project. The goal is to complete the first translations of two 16th-century Jewish texts: Joseph Ha-Kohen's "Book of New India" and Luis de Carvajal's spiritual autobiography and religious works. Ha-Kohen's work is a modified Hebrew translation of Francisco de Gómara's...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $336,288 project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL. The grant funding will support the digitization and online publication of 2,400 rare and historical books from the library's Edward E. Ayer North and Middle American Indian Linguistics Collection, which represents over 300 indigenous languages of North and Central America. This...

This three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), will fund the transcription, translation into English, annotation, and publication of oral narratives from the Upper Inlet Dena'ina people of Southcentral Alaska. The $292,183 in funding will support Native Village of Eklutna to complete the known corpus of audio-recorded narratives primarily collected from late Elder Shem Pete between...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the restoration and early-stage documentation of Chiricahua-Mescalero language recordings. Funded at $851,646 over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, the award will advance the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program's goal of ensuring long-term availability of primary humanities resources. Specifically, the Fort Sill Apache Tribe will restore archival-quality digital master...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $297,000 through its Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to St. Paul Center for a Project Grant beginning January 1, 2026, and concluding December 31, 2028. This award supports the translation and annotation of eight volumes of the Glossa Ordinaria, a twelfth-century medieval Bible commentary that represents one of the most influential scriptural interpretive works in Western intellectual history. The project...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160) provides $60,000 to support the completion of an individual book project examining the material, political, and environmental history of papermaking in post-colonial Mexico from independence to the contemporary era. The grant recipient, based in Statesboro, Georgia, will produce a manuscript analyzing how paper became an essential...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $322,608 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) project grant to Arizona State University to develop a digital reference collection for the La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project. The project, a collaboration with Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, will facilitate access to a collection of artifacts and documents from seven major field seasons of excavation at a...