The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) announced $31.5 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support 226 humanities projects nationwide.
According to the NHA, the NEH will support the publication of papers of historic figures, including six U.S. Presidents, through their Scholarly Editions and Translations program. The NEH will also provide professional development opportunities for K-12 educators and higher ed faculty. The National Digital Newspaper Program grants will aid in the continued preservation and digitization of local newspapers, including those that covered underrepresented histories.
Mid-Atlantic Regional grant recipients:
DELAWARE (2) $71,779
Dover
State, Delaware Secretary of State- Delaware Public Archives
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Edward McWilliams
Project Title: New Skills for Stewards of Delaware’s History Workshop
Newark
Cynthia Ott
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: Biscuits & Buffalo: The Ongoing Reinvention of American Indian Culture Project
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (6) $894,334
Washington D.C.
Eric Arnesen
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: The Unfinished Revolution: The Political Life of A. Philip Randolph Project
Foundation for Advancement in Conservation
[Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (P&A)]
Project Director: Eric Pourchot
Project Title: Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage: A Supplement to Held in Trust
Gayle Wald
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins’ Life in Music
Inclusion Zone, Inc.
[Landmarks of American History and Culture]
Project Director: Mary Dolan
Project Title: The Disability Legacy of the FDR Presidential Memorial
Stone Soup Productions, Inc.
[Media Projects Development]
Project Director: Andrea Kalin
Project Title: The People’s Recorder: Revisiting the Federal Writers’ Project and What It Means Today
American Psychiatric Association Foundation
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Deena Gorland
Project Title: Rare Books Collection Assessment
MARYLAND (4) $1,107,757
Baltimore
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Andaleeb Banta
Project Title: Renaissance Woman
Joshua Davis
[Public Scholars]
University of Baltimore
Project Title: Police Against the Movement: The Forgotten Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle
College Park
[Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Education)]
Project Director: Cathy Gorn
Project Title: A More Perfect Union: America at 250
University of Maryland, College Park
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: Leslie Rowland
Project Title: Freedmen and Southern Society Project
NEW JERSEY (5) $1,308,731
Madison
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts
[Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections]
Project Director: Deborah Farrar Starker
Project Title: Viewable Storage Facility: Storing & Rehousing METC’s Collection
Mahwah
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: Cathy Hajo
Project Title: The Jane Addams Papers Project
New Brunswick
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: Paul Israel Project Title: Edison Papers Digital Editions
Princeton
Elaine Pagels
[Public Scholars]
Trustees of Princeton University
Project Title: Who Was Jesus? And Who Is He In the 21st Century?
Trustees of Princeton University
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: James McClure
Project Title: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
NEW YORK (31) $4,582,175
Albany
[Historic Places: Planning]
Project Director: Shawna Reilly
Project Title: We Carry It Within Us: Reinterpretation at Historic Cherry Hill
Amherst
SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo
[Collaborative Research]
Project Director: Douglas Perrelli
Project Title: From the Cataract House to Canada: African American Activism and the Underground Railroad in the Niagara River Borderland
Annandale-on-Hudson
[Digital Humanities Advancement Grants]
Project Director: Aaron Glass; Judith Berman (co-project director)
Project Title: Enhancing Accessibility of Site Content in Scalar for the Digital Publication of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Materials
Joseph Luzzi
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: Brunelleschi’s Children: How a Renaissance Orphanage Saved 400,000 Lives and Reinvented Childhood
Bronx
SUNY Research Foundation, Maritime College
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Jillian Kehoe
Project Title: Preserving Oversized Maritime Heritage Collections at SUNY Maritime College
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Children’s Museum Corporation
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Hana Elwell
Project Title: Brooklyn Time Machine
Mosi Secret
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: A Narrative History of the Desegregation of Private Boarding Schools in the American South, 1967–1975
Buffalo
SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo State College
[Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections]
Project Director: Patrick Ravines
Project Title: Preserving Collections at Buffalo State College: An Integrated Holistic Conservation and Preservation Approach
Canton
[Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections]
Project Director: Catherine Tedford Project Title: St. Lawrence University Planning Grant for Art Gallery Facilities Optimization Study
Garrison
[Collaborative Research]
Project Director: Nancy Berlinger
Project Title: The Meanings of Dementia: Interpreting Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies
Hudson
The Flow Chart Foundation, Inc.
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Craig Reardon
Project Title: Taking Stock Toward Taking Action: A Preservation Plan for the Ashbery Resource Center
Ithaca
History Center in Tompkins County
[Digital Humanities Advancement Grants]
Project Director: Eve Snyder
Project Title: HistoryForge: Mapping Census Data to Visualize Local History
Sophie Pinkham
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: Green Russia: A Forest History
Kingston
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Erin Zona
Project Title: Preservation Assessment of the Women’s Studio Workshop Archives
New York
Alisa Solomon
[Public Scholars]
Columbia University
Project Title: St. Vincent’s Hospital in the “Plague Years”
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Inc
[Media Projects Production]
Project Director: Cynthia Kracauer Project Title: New Angle Voice: Pioneering Women of American Architecture Podcast
Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies, Inc.
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Barbara Kopple
Project Title: Cabin Creek Center’s Film and Moving Image Archive Project
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Mary Mann
Project Title: To Assess and Preserve the Cooper Union’s Archives and Special Collections
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center
[Institutes for Higher Education Faculty]
Project Director: Donna Thompson Ray
Project Title: Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance
[Humanities Discussions]
Project Director: Meredith Horsford
Project Title: Dyckman Discussions: A More Perfect Union in Inwood
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
[Institutes for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Denver Brunsman Project Title: The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction
James Duesterberg
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Structuralism, Cybernetics, and the Postwar Political Imagination
Literary Classics of the United States
[Humanities Discussions]
Project Director: Max Rudin Project Title: 400 Years of Latino Poetry
Michael Lobel
[Public Scholars]
CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College
Project Title: How to Know Van Gogh
[Institutes for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Brian Jones; Ansley Erickson (co-project director)
Project Title: Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative
[Institutes for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Leslie Hayes; Allyson Schettino (co-project director)
Project Title: Preparing for America at 250: Women and the American Revolution
Old Merchants House of New York, Inc.
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Margaret Halsey Gardiner
Project Title: Assessment and Rehousing of the Textile Collection at Merchant’s House Museum
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
[Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities]
Project Director: Matthew Connelly; Courtney Chartier (co-project director)
Project Title: Archives as Data
[Media Projects Production]
Project Director: Stephen Segaller
Project Title: The First Folio: The Making of Shakespeare
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Stefanie Halpern
Project Title: Preserving the Jewish Labor and Political Archives at YIVO
Yonkers
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: Walter Zev Feldman
Project Title: Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions
PENNSYLVANIA (12) $1,073,703
Altoona
[Collaborative Research]
Project Director: Julie Reed
Project Title: Sovereign Kin: A History of the Cherokee Nation
Doylestown
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Marian Schad
Project Title: General Preservation Assessment of the University Archives
Greenville
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: David Buck Project Title: Thiel College Conservation and Presentation Assessment and Training
New Hope
Nakashima Foundation for Peace
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: David Long
Project Title: Nakashima Archives Preservation
Philadelphia
Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement
[Institutes for K–12 Educators]
Project Director: Bruce Murphy
Project Title: The First Amendment in 21st Century America
Carpenters Company of City and County of Philadelphia
[Preservation Assistance Grants]
Project Director: Carol Smith
Project Title: Conservation Assessments for Artifacts at Carpenter’s Hall
[Institutes for Higher Education Faculty]
Project Director: Gabriel Bauriedel; Allen Kuharski (co-project director)
Project Title: Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Devised Theatre
Pittsburgh
[Scholarly Editions and Translations]
Project Director: Pilar Herr
Project Title: Chilean Parlamentos: Digital Edition and Translation of Indigenous Treaties (1724-1870)
University Park
[Digital Humanities Advancement Grants]
Project Director: Elizabeth Mansfield; James Wang (co-project director)
Project Title: After Constable’s Clouds: Toward A Machine-Learning Paradigm for Studying Pictorial Realism
[Institutes for K-12 Educators]
Project Director: Boaz Dvir
Project Title: Making Holocaust and Genocide Education Relevant Through Inquiry and Classroom Application
Villanova
Judith Giesberg
[Public Scholars]
Project Title: Last Seen: Searching for Family After Slavery
York
[Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections]
Project Director: Rachel Warner
Project Title: York County History Center A-Wing Collections Storage Project
WEST VIRGINIA (1) $162,155
Morgantown
West Virginia University Research Corporation
[National Digital Newspaper Program]
Project Director: Ann Plein
Project Title: West Virginia Digital Newspaper Project
For project descriptions and projects outside of our region, click here.
(From neh.gov)