On December 8, 2014, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that $17.9 million in grants have been approved for 233 humanities projects. Mid-Atlantic Region organizations have received $4.9 million in funding for 47 different projects.
Grants were approved for a variety of projects, including research fellowships and awards for faculty, traveling exhibitions, the preservation of humanities collections at smaller institutions, and training programs to prepare libraries, museums, and archives to preserve and enhance access to their collections. A breakdown of grant funds to each state and a selection of projects supported by this years NEH grants are below.
To see the full list of projects, with project descriptions, monetary allocations, and the specific grant each program falls under, view the NEH Grant Awards, December 2014 (52-page PDF), or visit the NEH website.
DELAWARE (1 Project) $3,114
Delaware State University: General Preservation Assessment and Rehousing of the Alumni and Campus Life Photograph Collection
NEW JERSEY (4 Projects) $238,437
Drew University: Vanishing Veterans: Disability, Medicine, and Soviet Manhood at the End of World War II.
Princeton University: Empirical Rationalism: a Philosophical Defense
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: Pox in the City: A 3-D Strategy Game for the History of Medicine
Rutgers University, Newark: The Shakespeare Phantom: The Lives of William Henry Ireland, Late 18th-Century Forger and Fabulist
NEW YORK (24 Projects) $2,976,828
City College of New York: The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Audiovisual Collection
Cornell University: The Psychiatric Revolution in France, 1945-1975
CUNY Research Foundation, Lehman College: Philology, Colonial Law, and the Origins of Literary Studies
New York Botanical Garden: LuEsther T. Mertz Library Digital Preservation Plan
New York University: Trade, Debt, and International Order in the Age of Enlightenment
Old Merchants House of NY, Inc.: Collection Preservation with Light Protection at Merchant’s House Museum
St. John’s University, New York: Preservation Assessment for Asian Art in St. John’s University Special Collections.
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton: Changing Demographics in Cold War America
PENNSYLVANIA (18 Projects) $1,754,303
American Philosophical Society: Endowing a Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies
Berks County Historical Society: NEH on the Road: House and Home
Chester County Historical Society: Conservation Assessment of Historical Iron Artifacts Collection
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts: Preservation Services for the Mid-Atlantic Region and Underserved Regions of the US
Franklin and Marshall College: The Origin of Black Politics in America, 1790-1860
Gettysburg College: Expanding Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College.
Haverford College: The Later Career of Folksinger Woody Guthrie (1912-1967); A Collection of Zapotec Indigenous Testaments in Translation with Linguistic Analysis and Annotation; Changing Social Norms in France during the Enlightenment
Mercer Museum: Bound Manuscript Collection Survey, Training, and Rehousing Project
Old Christ Church Preservation Trust: Preservation Assessment for Christ Church
St. Joseph’s University: The Complete Works of Early Modern Poet Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Volume 2