National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Awards $28.1 Million in Grants

Elizabeth Patton Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Project Title: Representation as a Form of Resistance: Documenting African-American Spaces of Leisure during the Jim Crow Era. Project Description: Research and writing of a book about Black leisure and tourism in the Jim Crow era.

Francois Furstenberg Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], Johns Hopkins University. Project Title: The American Palimpsest: A Layered History of Persistence and Change. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the environmental, Indigenous, settler colonial, and imperial history of the continental United States up to the twentieth century.

George Musgrove Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Project Title: “We must take to the streets again”: The Black Power Resurgence in Conservative America, 1980–1997. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on Black activism during the 1980s and 1990s.

Lisa Siraganian Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], Johns Hopkins University. Project Title: The Personhood Problem, from Corporations to Trees: Synthesizing Political and Philosophical Debates on Persons. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on legal and philosophical concepts on personhood—from humans to corporations, algorithms, animals, and the environment.

Antoine Borrut Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], University of Maryland, College Park. Project Title: Astrology and the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Early Islam. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the construction of historical knowledge in Islam and the neglected genre of astrological histories in the Middle East from the seventh to tenth centuries CE.

Michele Lamprakos Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], University of Maryland, College Park. Project Title: Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the architecture and significance of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (Córdoba, Spain), from its construction in the eighth century CE to the present.

NEW YORK (30) $5,024,586  

Research Foundation for the State University of New York Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions] Project Director: Aviva Taubenfeld. Project Title: Building Community and Belonging for Hispanic Students through the Humanities. Project Description: The creation of an advanced course, a community-wide speaker series, and digital humanities resources for the study and teaching of Spanish language and culture for heritage speakers.

Wendy Roberts Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], SUNY Research Foundation, Albany. Project Title: Phillis Wheatley Peters’s Poetic Worlds. Project Description: Transcription of archival documents and writing a book on Phillis Wheatley Peters’s (c. 1753–1784) poetry production in the context of transatlantic manuscript culture.

Marc Bohlen Outright: $30,000 [NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication], SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo. Project Title: On the Logics of AI and GIS Analysis of Land Use. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a web-based publication that explores how artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, and satellite imagery can be deployed to describe land use in the Alas Merta Jati forest of Bali, and how these descriptions interact with local knowledge and sustainability strategies.

Maria Sonevytsky Outright: $40,000 [Fellowships], Bard College. Project Title: Singing for Lenin in Soviet Ukraine: Children, Music, and the Communist Future. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about Soviet education and children’s musical practices in Soviet Ukraine, from 1934 to 1991.

Jennifer Stoever Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton. Project Title: Living Room Revolutions: Black and Brown Women Collecting Records, Selecting Sounds, and Making New Worlds in the 1970s Bronx. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about hip-hop history, showing how the record collections and home-DJ practices of Black women and Latinas in the 1970s Bronx shaped the artform’s birth, sound, and development.

Fordham University Outright: $49,926 [Digital Humanities Advancement Grants] Project Director: Matthew Hockenberry; Colette Perold (co-project director). Project Title: Manifest: Digital Humanities Platform for the Critical Study of Logistics. Project Description: Research and testing of the Manifest platform designed to support humanities research of supply chains and commodities.

Kirsten Swinth Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], Fordham University. Project Title: A Cultural History of the Working Family in Postindustrial America, 1970– 2020. Project Description: Writing a book on the emergence and impact of the working family in late twentieth-century discourse and public policy.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum Corporation Match: $500,000 [Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants] Project Director: Atiba Edwards. Project Title: Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s Geothermal Well Repair and Rehabilitation. Project Description: Rehabilitation of the geothermal heating and cooling system to protect collections, visitors, and staff at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York.

Green-Wood Historic Fund Inc. Match: $500,000 [Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants] Project Director: Lisa Alpert. Project Title: Center for Research. Project Description: Construction of a center for research within the new education and welcome center at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo State College Outright: $250,000 Match: $100,000 [Preservation and Access Education and Training] Project Director: Patrick Ravines Project Title: Fellowships for Graduate Students in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Art. Project Description: Partial fellowship stipends for graduate students enrolled in the Buffalo State College, State University of New York (SUNY Buffalo State) program in art conservation. Students to receive funding would include ten in the class of 2024, eight in the class of 2025, and ten in the class of 2026.

Hamilton College Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities] Project Director: Thomas Wilson; Marissa Ambio (co-project director). Project Title: Curatorial Studies: Expanding the Impact of the Humanities through Interdisciplinary and Experiential Partnerships. Project Description: A two-and-a-half-year project to develop an interdisciplinary program and minor in curatorial studies.

Nadya Bair Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] Hamilton College. Project Title: Cornell Capa and the International Center of Photography. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on Cornell Capa (1918– 2008), a photographer and curator, and the International Photography Center (ICP), which he founded in 1974.

Kirsten Ziomek Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan], Adelphi University. Project Title: Colonial Soldiers, Forced Laborers, and Local Peoples at the Japanese Empire’s Edge. Project Description: Research and writing leading to publication of a book on the Japanese military and the colonial subjects and local populations involved in its Asian- Pacific operations during World War II.

Cornell University Outright: $349,987 [Digital Humanities Advancement Grants] Project Director: Matthew Wilkens; David Mimno (co-project director); Melanie Walsh (co-project director). Project Title: BERT for Humanists. Project Description: The development of case studies about and professional development workshops on the use of BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers) for humanities scholars and students interested in large-scale text analysis.

Thomas Travers Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], Cornell University. Project Title: Law Between Empires: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings and the Origins of the Modern State in Britain and India. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, former British governor in Bengal (1787–1795), and the origins of the modern state in Britain and India.

National Comedy Center, Inc. Outright: $400,000 [Digital Projects for the Public: Production Grants] Project Director: Laura LaPlaca. Project Title: Discovering Lucy and Desi: Interpretive Content on the First Couple of Comedy. Project Description: Production of four interactive touchscreen kiosks for a museum dedicated to entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College Outright: $148,391 [Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges]. Project Director: Thomas Cleary. Project Title: Oral History in Interdisciplinary Community College Pedagogy. Project Description: A two-year project to develop faculty workshops and experiential learning activities on teaching students how to conduct oral histories in the community.

Jesse Schwartz Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty], CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College. Project Title: America’s Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution, Eurasianism, and the Race of Radicalism. Project Description: Research and writing for a book examining the origins and shifts of American political perceptions of Russia as captured in print culture from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Alexander Schlutz Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty], CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College. Project Title: Birdsong for the Anthropocene: The Poetry of Peter Reading. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on trauma and the environment in the works of English poet Peter Reading (1946–2011).

CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center Outright: $349,887 [Digital Humanities Advancement Grants] Project Director: Lisa Rhody; Stephen Zweibel (co-project director) Project Title: Digital Humanities Resource Infrastructure for Teaching Technology Project Description: The continued development of the Digital Humanities Resource Infrastructure for Teaching Technology (DHRIFT) platform to provide technical training in digital humanities methodologies with a particular focus on faculty and staff for historically under-resourced institutions.

Ithaka Harbors, Inc. Outright: $74,376 [Research and Development] Project Director: Kurtis Tanaka Project Title: Preserving Their Stories: Archiving Mass Incarceration. Project Description: A project to research the challenges that nontraditional memory organizations face in preserving and making accessible materials created by incarcerated people.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Outright: $236,050. [Preservation and Access Education and Training] Project Director: Elizabeth Perkins. Project Title: Preservation Training Initiative: Pre-Program Conservation Internships. Project Description: A three-year initiative to fund six conservation internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for undergraduates and recent graduates who are interested in pursuing careers in conservation.

New York University Outright: $348,580 [Preservation and Access Education and Training] Project Director: Jeanet (Juana) Suarez. Project Title: Practical Training in Media Archiving: Educating for the Ever-Changing Preservation Landscape. Project Description: Scholarships for 38 internships as part of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program. 20 semester- long scholarships of $7,000 each would place students in New York City cultural heritage institutions, while another 18 summer scholarships at $10,000 each would place them at institutions across the country.

WNET Outright: $400,000 [Digital Projects for the Public: Production Grants] Project Director: Sandra Sheppard. Project Title: Mission US: Spirit of a Nation. Project Description: Production of an online game using the history of the Apalachee as a case study to interrogate Indigenous experiences in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florida.

North Country Children’s Museum Match: $100,000 [Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants] Project Director: Sharon William Project Title: Second Floor Capital Project Phase II. Project Description: Complete interior renovations for new humanities exhibits and program spaces at the North Country Children’s Museum in Potsdam, New York.

Lara Vapnek Outright: $40,000 [Fellowships], St. John’s University, New York. Project Title: Mothers, Milk, and Money: A History of Infant Feeding in the United States, 1850s–Present. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the history of infant feeding practices in the U.S. from the nineteenth century to the present with a focus on women of color.

Andrew Cashner Outright: $60,000 [NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication], University of Rochester. Project Title: The Earth Songs of the Seneca Nation. Project Description: Research and writing towards a digital multimedia book on the Earth Songs of the Seneca Nation of Indians.

Matthew Lenoe Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], University of Rochester. Project Title: Emotions, Experience, and the End of the World: The Red Army, 1941– 1942. Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the experiences and emotions of Red Army soldiers in the Soviet Union during a crucial year of World War II (1941–1942).

St. Bonaventure University Outright: $147,389 [Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities] Project Director: Oleg Bychkov. Project Title: Native American and Indigenous Studies in the General Education Curriculum. Project Description: A three-year curricular and faculty development project in conjunction with the Seneca Nation to incorporate the teaching of Native American and Indigenous Studies into general education classes required for all first-year students.

Andrew Newman Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships], SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook. Project Title: The High School Canon: The History of a Civic Tradition. Project Description: Research and writing for a book examining American high school English curriculum as a touchstone of American literary history and culture.

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