The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $304,885 Project Grant to PRX Inc., a non-profit media company, to produce a seven-episode podcast series titled "Division Street Revisited." This series, plus a 1-hour opening special for public radio, will revisit Studs Terkel's seminal oral history collection "Division Street: America" by interviewing the children and grandchildren of the original participants. The podcast will explore how themes of race, work,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Stone Soup Productions Inc., a woman-owned non-profit media production company. The grant will support the production of the second and third seasons of "The People's Recorder," a national podcast series inspired by the 1930s Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The podcast aims to explore the legacy,...
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 for $149,991.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The project, titled "Machine Listening in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," will bring together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholars to advance research on the dangers and opportunities of machine listening from a humanistic perspective. The project aims to explore how...
This Project Grant award of $149,999 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 examining memory, political histories, and information networks across Asian and Asian American diasporas. The project aims to understand how experiences of trauma, war, colonialism, and political suppression have influenced the spread of misinformation and...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $310,536 Project Grant to the State Historical Society of Colorado, operating as the Colorado History Museum, to support the production of the Lost Highways podcast. Under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164), the funding will allow the production of Season Three of the podcast series between May 2021 and May 2022. Each episode explores connections between Western history and current events through...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,054 project grant to the San Jose State University Research Foundation to implement the "Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural and Community Resilience" initiative. This community-engaged humanities project seeks to collect and publicly preserve the stories, cultural heritage, and resilience of first- and second-generation Afghan...
The Queens Borough Public Library was awarded a $228,546 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program. The grant will support the creation of a 10-episode Queens Memory podcast season exploring the history of Asians in America. The podcasts will utilize existing oral histories from the library's archives, and will be edited by Asian American activists, scholars, and community members. Fifty-three Asian...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $227,420 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to the Linguistic Society of America to support the creation and distribution of 20 original podcast episodes and 3 mini-series episodes on the history of African American English through the Subtitle podcast. The podcast episodes will range between 20 to 25 minutes and will be distributed through Subtitle's online and social media platforms, with...