The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,995 Project Grant to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support the development of a new Health Humanities minor program at VCU. The program will create 10 new and revised interdisciplinary courses that bridge humanities and health professional...
Vanderbilt University was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to conduct descendant-led excavation at the Reconstruction-era Black Civil War veteran community site in Fort Negley Park in Nashville, Tennessee. The two-year project will collect oral histories from descendants to guide excavation of a home and two public spaces. Archaeologists and scholars will work with descendants to...
This $149,957 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will fund the implementation of a humanities-informed environmental studies major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The program aims to integrate humanities perspectives, such as social, cultural, and historical knowledge, into environmental studies to help translate scientific and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $145,186 Project Grant to Belmont University under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will fund a project titled "BOUNDLESS LOVE: CHANGING UNDERSTANDINGS OF SACRED IN AMERICANA MUSIC" that will develop a set of humanities courses to train students on engaging with Americana music from the perspectives of religious studies and rhetoric. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $348,190 to Vanderbilt University over a three-year period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The project, titled "GEOPACHA 2.0: LARGE-SCALE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGERY SURVEY THROUGH HUMAN-MACHINE TEAMING," will revise Vanderbilt's existing web application "GEOPACHA: Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History, and Archaeology" to enable...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $366,000 Project Grant to the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina for the "Promotion of the Humanities Research" program (CFDA 45.161). The grant will provide long-term research fellowships from January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028 to support advanced humanities scholarship and public engagement. As an independent, nonprofit institute, the National Humanities Center is devoted to furthering understanding of the human...
The University of Portland was awarded a $149,312 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support two interdependent initiatives: 1) an Engaged Humanities Pathway linked to the university's core curriculum, and 2) an Engaged Humanities Hub to provide ongoing support for the...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will provide $149,532 to St. Francis College to implement Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the award will support course redesign for at least eight courses, professional development for over 50 faculty, and the creation of a Digital Humanities Lab. These efforts will expose nearly all 2,700 students to digital...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded York County Community College $135,854.46 under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2019. The funding supported the development of a new American Studies concentration at the community college to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities. Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development programs funded through this...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $137,522 Project Grant to Old Dominion University (ODU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will be used to establish two new academic programs exploring the relationship between the humanities and data science. Specifically, ODU will create a concentration in the data...