The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $394,060 Project Grant to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University) for the "Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature" project. The project aims to provide English-language translations of modern Ukrainian literature, responding to the rising public interest in Ukraine, its history, and culture following the 2014 Russian aggression and 2022 invasion. Over the 2-year project period from October 2024 to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Northern Michigan University a $300,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant funds the completion of The Complete Works of George Herbert, a comprehensive scholarly edition comprising three print volumes with extensive textual and critical apparatus, as well as original verse and prose translations of Herbert's Latin and Greek...
The University of Wyoming received a $150,000 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop digital methods for analyzing book illustrations in cultural institutions. Titled "Finding a Place: Advancing Digital Methods to Unlock the Use of Digitized Book Illustrations in Cultural Institutions," the project will utilize digital technologies to expand comparative analysis of illustrations contained in archival collections. By identifying...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 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 project, which runs from October 2024 to September 2027, will make this "living document" produced in the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Texas A & M University $349,067 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The university will publish an open access corpus of Syriac literature in English translation along with tools to automate digitization, encoding, and markup of Syriac textual resources. It will contextualize the text corpus by integrating linked data from an online...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $148,015 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to The Corporation Of Haverford College, doing business as Haverford College. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund the development of three pedagogical and scholarly tools for the BRIDGE, an existing digital ecosystem that supports the encoding and reading of ancient Greek and Latin texts. The key products to be...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Duke University. This grant will fund the "I Shall No Longer Want" (Psalm 23:1): The Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter (CEHP) project. CEHP is the first eclectic edition of the Psalms, critically reconstructed from the most ancient versions and manuscript witnesses. This project seeks to provide a more accurate and authoritative...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $396,848 Promotion of the Humanities Research grant to Trinity University for the project "Richard Rolle's Fire of Love (Incendium Amoris): New Editions, a New Translation, and an Open-Access Companion Website." This 2.5-year project, commencing on January 1, 2025, will create new editions, a new translation, and an open-access digital companion website for the major work of the influential 14th-century English mystic Richard...
This federal Project Grant award of $113,711.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports a scholarly project to produce an annotated literary edition and English translation of the works of the French noblewoman Anne de Graville. The collaborators at Middle Tennessee State University will undertake this project to resurface and make accessible Graville's impactful writings on literary and social women's movements. The...
The University of Wyoming, through its Sponsored Programs division, has been awarded a $262,828 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a two-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, the funding will support the Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Wyoming's microfilmed newspapers. This will contribute to the National Digital...