The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Science History Institute, a non-profit organization, a $204,428 Project Grant to support long-term postdoctoral research fellowships. This grant, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research CFDA program, will allow the Institute to expand its capacity to support one long-term postdoctoral research fellow each year for three years, from January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The funding will create more opportunities to embed the...
The Science History Institute was awarded a $688,914 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to process and digitize the Dow Historical Collection. The project will involve creating an online finding aid and digital files for 135 analog oral histories within the collection, which documents over 100 years of history for a significant American company and offers insight into the myriad...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $157,202 project grant to The Ohio State University under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163). The grant will fund the "Pandemics and Public Health Crises in United States History" program, which will train 30 educators in the humanities and health sciences to teach interdisciplinary courses on the history of disease and public health crises. The program will immerse participants in...
The Mechanics Institute was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support staffing, presenters, and audiovisual infrastructure to deliver a hybrid online and in-person civil rights programming series from October 2021 through September 2022. Key products include planning discussions on prison reform, immigration, and reparations issues. The...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) supports a faculty collaboration at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop new approaches to undergraduate instruction connecting the humanities and health sciences. The project team representing five academic departments will participate in a summer workshop 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 Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The grant will support the OI's continued production of digital and audio humanities programming focused on early American history. Specifically, funding will retain three staff positions that were slated for layoff due to pandemic-related budget cuts. Retained staff will produce...
This $147,371 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant aims to collaborate with residents of East St. Louis, Illinois to build an archive documenting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has two key components: conducting oral histories with community elders and first responders, and organizing community-based archiving events...
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...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program will support a series of public programming titled "Harlem as an Incubator." The project will present the history of Harlem as an incubator of arts, culture, and activism for the African diaspora, through lectures, public discussions, and readings. This in-depth programming aims to construct a more holistic cultural...