The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $356,368.53 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017. The grant supported research on the devotional works of 17th century Italian nun and poet Arcangela Tarabotti, including scholarly activities in Venice to study primary sources. George Washington University received a sub-award as part of this research to conduct additional...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $195,669.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the translation and dissemination of the works of Rokhl Brokhes, an early 20th century Yiddish woman writer. The project aims to recover Brokhes' literary legacy, which was nearly lost due to the Nazi invasion of Minsk in 1941, when plans to publish her collected stories, novellas, and plays were abandoned after her murder....
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 Massachusetts received a $395,731 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2019. The grant funded research on Giovanni Boccaccio's De Montibus, advancing knowledge and understanding of the humanities through a scholarly edition and translation of this work. As the prime awardee, the University of Massachusetts Office of Grant...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $194,346 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA #45.161) to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will fund a 3-year scholarly project titled "Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: A Unique Archive of Arabic Field Diaries in the Archaeological Literature of Egypt and Sudan." The project aims to promote Egyptian Arabic as a valid language for academic research and help decolonize Egyptology...
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 awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to The Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to support the temporary exhibition "Renaissance Woman." Scheduled from October 1, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the exhibition will bring together approximately 150 art objects exclusively made by women artists from collections across North America and Europe. Curated by Dr. Andaleeb Bantam, the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $249,991 Project Grant to New York University under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will fund "The Antefixa Project," a scholarly digital initiative to document and explain the contributions of diverse artistic communities in ancient Italy between 500-75 BCE. The project applies humanistic, digital, computational, and scientific methods to archaeological remains of sacred sculpture to...
A $37,500 Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the book project "Encounter and Identity: Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy." The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and Stipends program (CFDA 45.160) to fund individual scholarship, including books and articles. The grant will support the author's book reconstructing the history of early medieval southern Italy through interpersonal encounters...