Project Grant RQ30683026
- This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $459,970 to The Pennsylvania State University for the development of "Sovereign Kin: A History of the Cherokee Nation." The funding period is from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Under the award, the awardee will conduct research trips, interviews, and complete a draft manuscript updating the history of the Cherokee Nation from...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,999 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. This 2-year grant, which began on October 1, 2023, will support the "VSSVNOCHI ANUMPULI (ELDERS SPEAK): THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IN CHOCTAW" project. This initiative will collect, transcribe, translate, and publish conversations in the Choctaw language from Choctaw elders...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Tennessee $294,640 under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to produce a new critical edition of John Lydgate's shorter works. The project, which runs from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2029, will be published by the Early English Text Society in cooperation with Oxford University Press. The edition will provide comprehensive scholarly treatment of Lydgate's brief...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary East Tennessee State University's Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services received a $349,882 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded on September 1, 2025. The award supports the development and publication of a revised, open-access online version of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, building upon the original print...
- This Project Grant award of $449,877 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund a 3-year project to document traditional ways of communicating in Diné/Navajo and Lakota communities. The goal is to address the imminent loss of linguistic and cultural knowledge by creating digital audiovisual recordings of naturally occurring language use and associated pragmatic knowledge. This...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $297,000 to St. Paul Center under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) on January 1, 2026, to support the translation and annotation of eight volumes of the Glossa Ordinaria as part of a comprehensive twenty-volume series. The Glossa Ordinaria, a twelfth-century biblical commentary that served as the foundation for medieval university education, will be rendered into English with scholarly...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded UCLA a Project Grant of $291,569 under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) on June 1, 2026, with a completion date of May 31, 2029. The grant supports the production of an annotated English translation of the Ecclesiastical History from the medieval theological compendium known as the Book of the Tower. This translation will make accessible the only complete surviving account of the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $300,000 through the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the Freedmen and Southern Society Project. The award, effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, supports completion of the ninth and tenth volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, a comprehensive ten-volume scholarly edition documenting the transition...
- 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...
Eastern Cherokee Histories in Translation (ECHT) Critical Editions and Digital Repository Western Carolina University received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), effective February 1, 2026 through January 30, 2029. The award supports the ECHT project, which will translate, annotate, and contextualize handwritten Eastern Cherokee social documents from the mid-nineteenth through early twentieth centuries. The primary deliverables include a limited series of critical editions and a public-facing digital language data repository containing word-for-word translations of the largest known body of primary Cherokee language sources documenting the history of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). The project preserves critical Cherokee language materials for scholarly research and future language study by making these historically significant primary sources broadly accessible to academic institutions, Cherokee language communities, and the general public through digital archiving and critical editorial work. As a Scholarly Editions and Translations initiative, the award aligns with NEH's commitment to supporting collaborative teams engaged in editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts while creating tangible scholarly outputs that extend knowledge and strengthen intellectual foundations in the humanities.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 1/6/26 |