Project Grant RZ30663926
- This $155,546 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports a research project at Yale University that will use natural language processing (NLP) to analyze over 100,000 rabbinic legal opinions, or "responsa," written over the past 1,200 years. The goal is to reveal trends in topics, legal rulings, and the influence of historical events on Jewish law and life across different times and places. The...
- This federal Project Grant award of $149,996.00, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, supports research to develop computational methods for analyzing literature in low-resource languages. The key objectives are to build a BookNLP pipeline for the Yiddish language, create new annotated training data, and document the procedures for applying this approach to other low-resource languages. The...
- The Center for Jewish History in New York was awarded a $153,292 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of January 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support LONG-TERM RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY IN NEW YORK, enabling the Center to provide fellowships for scholars to conduct humanities research using its resources. As indicated in the program...
- This $130,288 federal Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2025 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program. The grant will support a 2-year project led by Georgetown University to investigate the use of data-intensive algorithmic tools and "artificial intelligence" systems within the U.S. education system. The project aims to understand how dependencies on corporate-owned...
- This 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) will support the "NAYE FARBINDUNGEN (NEW CONNECTIONS)" project led by the National Yiddish Book Center. The $150,000 project, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2027, will document the surge in online Yiddish language study and community building that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic....
- 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...
- 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 (NEH) awarded a $138,319 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (CFDA 45.169) to the National Yiddish Book Center, Inc. to develop an experimental system for improving optical character recognition (OCR) error correction on its extensive corpus of digitized Yiddish texts. This 2-year project, beginning February 1, 2024, aims to enhance the accessibility and usability of the Center's digital collection, which is expected to double to over 12,000 digitized...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $175,045 Project Grant to National History Day Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will fund the "Moving Freedom Forward: Teaching a More Inclusive History" initiative, which combines teacher training and curriculum development to enhance classroom teaching and student learning about the histories of marginalized communities. The...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Rutgers, The State University located in New Jersey. The Design Justice Labs project will establish an international and interdisciplinary digital network to conduct community-centered research on the use of "generative AI" for modeling human languages, communication, arts, and cultures. Key activities include: Rutgers will focus on...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), aims to advance the understanding of Jewish intellectual networks and cultural dynamics through a large-scale computational analysis of knowledge transmission across Jewish communities from 200-2000 CE. The $249,956 grant will fund the analysis of approximately 130,000 texts containing over 300 million words using advanced AI and natural language processing techniques adapted for historical Hebrew and Aramaic sources. The research will map citation networks and patterns of influence across multiple genres of Jewish literature, geographic regions, and scholarly traditions to reveal how knowledge and ideas spread, adapted, and evolved across different cultural contexts. This project represents a significant methodological advance in the digital humanities, combining traditional Jewish scholarship with cutting-edge computational techniques.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $250.0k | 12/15/25 |