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 awarded a $245,880 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to Columbia University's History Lab. The grant will fund the development and delivery of training workshops for archivists and historians on open-source tools and workflows for archiving, aggregating, and exploring large collections of digitized and born-digital records. The workshops will include hands-on training, expert...
This $348,811 federal Project Grant award to Northern Illinois University from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Midwest Latinx Oral History Digital Library" project. The award will fund the digitization and online dissemination of nearly 300 audio and video oral history interviews along with full-text transcripts, documenting the diversity of the growing Latinx...
The federal Project Grant award of $209,151.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Cornell University. The award, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, will fund a "Summer Institute in Moral Psychology" to enable participants to develop theoretical and methodological resources for teaching and conducting original research in the...
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....
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $446,542 under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163) to Boston College for their project "The Performance of Roman Comedy." The project will train college faculty and graduate students over four weeks in summer 2023 on the latest scholarship and performance techniques for plays by Plautus and Terence. Experts will instruct trainees on evidence for ancient performances and modern...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into how emotions are encoded in the brain during narrative listening. The project aims to investigate the representations of affect (valence and arousal) across brain regions and frequencies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) data collected from a large, diverse sample of adults aged...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $186,000 under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Society for Classical Studies from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The award funds an annual fellowship for an American scholar to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Institute in Munich, Germany. Fellows contribute to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, an encyclopedic lexicon of the Latin language. Through their work on this major...
This Project Grant award of $276,000.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to the Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a non-profit organization. The funding will support research fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The fellowships will provide American-based, post-doctoral scholars opportunities to pursue...