The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $146,245 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant supports an intergenerational oral history project in Taos, NM that will engage youth aged 14-20 to capture the resilience and cultural knowledge of elders from the region's three land-based cultures. Under the guidance of professional staff and a multi-stakeholder advisory committee, the youth...
This federal Project Grant award of $140,795 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support a project by the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon to document, preserve, and share the stories of diverse communities in central and eastern Oregon whose ways of life are being affected by climate change. The project will involve 30 long-form video interviews with Native knowledge holders,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $191,862 Project Grant to the Humanities Council of Washington DC, Inc. through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This five-year grant, effective from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, will enable the Humanities Council to deliver public humanities programming and cultural initiatives tailored to the needs and interests of the District of Columbia. The funding supports the Council's...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $149,999 to the University of Wisconsin System for the collaborative research project "Transnational Disinformation Networks and Asian Diasporic Politics." The project, led by Dr. Rachel Kuo and Mark Calaguas, examines how lived experiences of trauma, war, colonialism, and power dynamics contribute to the spread of misinformation and disinformation across...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $12,627,300 Project Grant to the California Humanities organization under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant funded 20 documentary films, podcasts, and digital projects created by 19 independent producers and organizations in California between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2021. The projects explored diverse topics from the history of Asian and LGBTQ communities to agricultural...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $245,880 to Columbia University's History Lab to develop new open-source tools and workflows for archiving, aggregating, and exploring large collections of digitized and born-digital records. The project aims to offer training to archivists and historians, encourage dialogue between the two groups, identify common concerns, and work toward innovative...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), supports the National Humanities Center's long-term residential fellowship program. The $366,000 award, effective January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, will fund approximately three 9-month fellowships per year at the Center to enable advanced humanities research and scholarship across diverse disciplines. The National Humanities Center...
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...
This $279,594 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) in administering long-term research fellowships for American scholars at select American overseas research centers. The award enables U.S. scholars to engage in in-depth scholarly inquiry in understudied regions of growing political, strategic, and economic...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded a $149,998 project grant to Northern Marianas College to collect oral histories from farming and maritime communities in the Northern Mariana Islands about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to preserve this indigenous knowledge and oral history. The award period runs from Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2027, with the goal of...