The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $341,959 project grant to the University of North Florida (UNF) and five local museums and historical societies under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The 36-month Archivist-in-Training program will provide intensive archival processing and preservation training to 30 undergraduate students, including paid semester-long internships at the local historical institutions. The...
The University of Florida (UF) received a $275,743 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the selection, digitization, and provision of approximately 100,000 historic newspaper pages from Florida's diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic communities to the Library of Congress through the National Digital Newspaper Program...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $223,800 Project Grant to the Florida Humanities Council, Incorporated through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant supports the "Racial Awareness Project", a multiplatform, interactive initiative focused on educating the public on white supremacy in the wake of a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida. The project will include an interactive exhibition, a...
The University of Florida received a $368,498.55 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Office of Digital Humanities Promotion of the Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) for the period of October 1, 2018 through March 31, 2021. The grant funding supported the "Migration, Mobility, and Sustainability: Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute," which utilized digital technology and tools to advance humanities research and education on...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support experiential professional development for educators focused on colonial history in New Hampshire. Awarded $373,434, the grant will run from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The University of New Hampshire will lead place-based encounters for educators along the Great Bay estuary, considering the experiences of Native American and African American populations alongside early European settlers. Educators will...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,985 Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development grant (CFDA 45.162) to Florida Memorial University to develop three new Spanish language courses focused on business, medical, and Hispanic cultural topics. This project, which runs from Sep 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2028, aims to expand the university's Spanish curriculum and better prepare its predominantly Black student body for career...
The University of North Florida received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to document the Viola Muse Digital Edition. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), the project will produce a digital edition of 73 manuscripts and typescripts totaling 262 pages from the Viola Muse Collection at the Jacksonville Historical Society. Viola Muse was a local hairdresser and interviewer/writer with the Negro Writers Division...
The University of Florida will receive $460,260 under a Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the University Press of Florida's publications in African American and Latin American studies from December 2021 through June 2023. The funding will retain four positions and create seven new staff roles focused on acquisitions, promotions, and outreach to help the Press return to pre-pandemic levels of...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $100,000 to fund an international conference on Indigenous borderlands in North America and the preparation of a published volume of essays. The University of New Mexico will host the conference from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, bringing together historians and scholars from other disciplines with Indigenous community representatives....
This Project Grant award of $119,827.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.163 - Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program) will support Northeastern University in hosting an institute for higher education faculty on Native American, Indigenous, and land-based social and political philosophy. The program aims to provide a cohort of philosophy instructors across the country with a deep understanding of Indigenous knowledge traditions and social/political...