The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $630,000 project grant to the American Institute of Indian Studies to support research fellowships for senior scholars in the humanities to conduct projects in India from January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), the grant will fund approximately three fellowships per year over three years, enabling post-doctoral humanities scholars to undertake research projects while in India....
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,660 Project Grant to Macalester College under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant aims to update the "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History" digital humanities archive, which has attracted over 700,000 unique visitors annually despite its outdated design. The project will enhance the archive's functionality by improving ADA compliance, accessibility, and...
This federal Project Grant award of $149,897.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will support the "WINDOWS TO THE WORLD: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR GLOBAL EDUCATORS" project over a 24-month period of performance from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2026. The project aims to enhance the digital platform and user experience, as well as expand the user base to support hundreds of new Indiana educators and...
This federal Project Grant award of $149,999.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports a collaborative research project between Dr. Rachel Kuo and Mark Calaguas titled "Transnational Disinformation Networks and Asian Diasporic Politics." The project aims to examine the historical and geopolitical frameworks that underlie the spread of misinformation and disinformation within Asian and Asian...
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...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $279,594, was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant supports the CAORC-NEH FPIRI Research Fellowship Program, which enables American scholars to conduct long-term research at American Overseas Research Centers (ORCs) in strategically important regions such as Latin America, North and West Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and the South Caucasus....
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $495,326 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to update and enhance the National Inventory of Humanities Organizations (NIHO). The project aims to 1) identify a wider universe of humanities nonprofit organizations, 2) rigorously clean and code the data file to ensure accuracy and relevance, and 3) document the dataset for...
The federal Project Grant award of $136,528 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) supports the "Blank Spaces in the Library Archives" community-based learning and digitization project at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The project aims to document and publicize the underrepresented lived experiences of people of color from the 18th to...
This $246,320 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative. This transformative program is designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities, focusing on cultural heritage recovery through advanced imaging technologies. The initiative...