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 $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development (CFDA 45.162) program to the University of Notre Dame DU Lac's Notre Dame Research Division. The grant supports the development of a website that provides tutorials on reading and interpreting medieval Roman Catholic liturgical practices, targeting faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students at Notre Dame, as well as...
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...
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 University of Rochester was awarded a $299,748 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the publication of 6 volumes in the Middle English Text Series (METS) and the implementation of a redesigned digital edition to enhance user access and interaction. The METS series, now in its 32nd year, aims to make available critical editions of medieval vernacular texts from Britain spanning the 13th...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $459,910.87 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2021. The grant funds a research project titled "The Tegernsee Debate on Love and Reason: Mystical Letters and Treatises in Late Medieval Germany." The project will advance scholarly understanding of medieval German religious texts...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $299,996 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Princeton Theological Seminary. The grant will fund a project to translate the lectures and shorter works of theologian Karl Barth, covering the period of 1922-1933. This output will provide invaluable resources for humanities scholars working in fields such as religion, philosophy, history, German studies, and critical theory, by offering...
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...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $330,296 to St. Bonaventure University to produce a new scholarly edition and English translation of the second book of philosopher John Duns Scotus' Parisian Lectures, also known as the Reportatio. The project will involve the first publication of the Latin text and English translation based on five 14th and 15th century manuscript sources,...
Rice University received a $129,952.72 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, 2017 through December 31, 2019. The grant funding supported the project "Reconsidering the Sino Cultural Sphere: A Critical Examination of the Use of Literary Chinese by East Asian Cultures," which advanced scholarly understanding of the influence and use of classical Chinese in East...