The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $35.63 Million in grants for 258 humanities projects across the country.
Special congratulations to the Mid-Atlantic recipients!
Delaware (2) $77,880
Newark
Deborah Steinberger Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
University of Delaware
Project Title: Women’s Stories from Le Mercure Galant: A Critical Translation of Four Seventeenth-Century Nouvelles
Project Description: Research and writing leading to the translation of four early modern French periodical stories from Le Mercure Galant and the development of a translation apparatus for an anthology.
Winterthur
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. Outright: $71,880
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Catharine Roeber
Project Title: Long Term Research Fellowships at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Project Description: Four months of stipend support (one fellowship) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
District of Columbia (2) $548,340
Washington
American Geophysical Union Outright: $148,340
[Archaeology and Ethnographic Field Research]
Project Director: Aixa Aleman-Diaz
Project Title: How Ethnography Reveals the Human Story of Unusual Geological Encounters: Lessons from Puerto Rico
Project Description: An ethnographic study of how residents of the Puerto Rican archipelago’s southwest have experienced, understood, and reframed meaning in response to unusual geologic features and disruptive natural events.
National Building Museum Outright: $400,000
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Cathy Frankel
Project Title: Building Stories
Project Description: Implementation of a long-term exhibition exploring the built environments in children’s books and how those worlds lay the foundations for understanding our surroundings.
Maryland (5) $424,000
Baltimore
Aaron Palmore Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Loyola University Maryland
Project Title: The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted, Moravian Missionary to Colonial America Project Description: Research and writing of a critical edition of 50 unpublished poems by eighteenth-century Moravian missionary Christian Wedsted (1720–1757).
Dale Snow Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Loyola University Maryland
Project Title: Translation of F.W.J. Schelling’s System of Philosophy in General and of the Philosophy of Nature in Particular
Project Description: Research and writing of a sample translation of System of Philosophy in General (1804) by German philosopher F.W.J. Schelling (1774–1854).
Mavis Biss
[Summer Stipends]
Loyola University Maryland
Project Title: What Is Moral Striving?
Project Description: Research and writing of two chapters of a philosophical book on the Kantian ethics of moral self-perfection.
College Park
Ann Gaul Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipdends]
University of Maryland, College Park
Project Title: Red Nightshade: Tomatoes and the Making of Modern Egypt
Project Description: Research and writing of a book about the development of modern Egypt through the historical importance of the tomato.
Silver Spring
Unity Productions Foundation Outright: $400,000
[Humanities Discussions]
Project Director: Daniel Tutt
Project Title: American Muslim Pathways
Project Title: The Farnsworth Art Museum
Project Description: Implementation of lectures, public discussions, a website, and educational materials about the history and culture of Muslims in America.
New Jersey (7) $593,000
Camden
Tesneem Alkiek Out right: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Rutgers University, Camden
Project Title: Interspousal torts in Islamic law: a critical look at what it means for a woman to experience harm in marriage
Project Description: Research and writing one chapter of a book on notions of harm and divorce in medieval Islamic law.
Glassboro
Debbie Sharnak Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Rowan University
Project Title: Jewish Internationalism and the Southern Cone Dictatorships
Project Description: Research leading to a book about Jewish struggles against antisemitism in Latin America’s military dictatorships during the period of the 1960s– 1980s.
Rowan University
Outright: $35,000
[Humanities Connections Planning]
Project Director: Debbie Sharnak; Julia Richmond (co-project director)
Project Title: Strengthening Humanistic Literacy in the Study of Sport: Developing a Minor and Certificate in Sports and Society
Project Description: A one-year project to establish a minor and a certificate in sport and society.
Lodi
Felician University Outright: $60,000
[Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development]
Project Director: Lavina Sequeira
Project Title: Humanities Reimagined: Global Perspectives For Twenty-first-Century Education
Project Description: A two-year project to update a Global Peace, Law, & Justice concentration.
Princeton
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Outright: $276,000
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Bonna Wescoat
Project Title: Research Fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Project Description: Eighteen months of stipend support (three fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
Summit
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Match: $150,000
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Melanie Cohn
Project Title: Renovation of Main Floor Galleries
Project Description: Renovation of two galleries, including installation of new lighting and sound systems and automated black out shades at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
Trenton
Thomas Edison State University Outright: $60,000
[Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development]
Project Director: Burton Peretti
Project Title: Incorporating DEI Concepts and Content into Humanities General Education Courses
Project Description: A two-year project to revise seven humanities courses in the general education curriculum.
New York (27) $4,859,096
Albany
Historic Albany Foundation, Inc. Match: $500,000
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Cara Macri
Project Title: Van Ostrande-Radliff House Reuse
Project Description: Restoration of the oldest building in Albany, New York, the Van Ostrande-Radliff House from 1728, and its later additions, to serve as the seat of the Historic Albany Foundation.
Amherst
Christian DiCanio Outright: $30,000
[Dynamic Language Infrastructure-documenting Endangered Languages- Fellowships]
SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo
Project Title: A reference grammar of Itunyoso Triqui
Project Description: Research and writing of a comprehensive reference grammar of Itunyoso Triqui [ISO 639-3 trq], an endangered Southern Mexican language.
Bayside
CUNY research Foundation, Queensborough Community College Outright: $24,500
[Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Exploration]
Project Director: Ilse Schrynemakers; Sybil White (co-project director)
Project Title: Reimagining the First-Semester College Experience: Building the Welcome Read Program
Project Description: A one-year project that would expand a first-semester common read program to reach students in two precollege programs.
Binghamton
Birgit Brander Rasmussen Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton
Project Title: Signs of Resistance, Signs of Resurgence: Indigenous Literacies and New Media in Native American Literatures, 901 CE to the Digital Age
Project Description: Research and writing for a book tracing the origins and resurgence of pictographic literacy in American Indigenous cultures.
Bronx
Laura Specker Sullivan Outright: $6,000
Laura Specker Sullivan
Fordham University
Project Title: Climates of Distrust
Project Description: Research and writing two chapters of a philosophical book on social theories of trust.
Marisa Lerer Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Manhattan College
Project Title: Latinx Public Memorials
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about Latinx monuments and memorialization in the United States.
Bronxville
Maria Fajardo Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Sarah Lawrence College
Project Title: Development as Vocation: Latin America in the Neoliberal Era
Project Description: Research leading to an intellectual history of economic development in Latin America between the 1960s and 1990s.
Ithaca
Chloe Kessler Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Cornell University
Project Title: After Apocalypse: American Ecofascism and the Violent Work of Earthly Restoration
Project Description: Archival research leading to a book on the intersection of hate groups and environmental movements and how such groups have historically come from both sides of the political spectrum.
New York
American Academy in Rome Outright: $255,000
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Mark Robbins
Project Title: Rome Prize Fellowships at the American Academy in Rome
Project Description: Sixteen months of stipend support (two fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
American Academy in Rome Match: $472,850
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Mark Robbins
Project Title: Building a New Library Annex: The Villa Chiaraviglio
Project Description: Renovation of the lower level of the Villa Chiaraviglio building for an expansion of the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library at the American Academy in Rome.
American Council of Learned Societies Outright: $207,000 Match: $105,000
[Fellowships Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Deena Ragavan
Project Title: ACLS China Studies Research Fellowships 2024–2027
Project Description: Twenty-seven months of stipend support (three fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
Center for Jewish History Outright: $213,238
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Miriam Mora
Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Center for Jewish History in New York Project Description: Twelve months of stipend support (one fellowship) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
Charlotte Walker-Said Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College
Project Title: A History of Martial and Spiritual Entrepreneurship in Central Africa
Project Description: Research and writing of a book about the religiously inspired insurgencies in Central Africa in the modern period.
Clemente Course in the Humanities, Inc. Outright: $99,000
[Dialogues on the Experience of War]
Project Director: Mark Santow
Project Title: Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative: Extending the Reach
Project Description: A two-year project to hold four 12-week Dialogues on the Experience of War seminars for ten military veterans and interested civilians per seminar, preceded by a preparatory program for six seminar discussion leaders.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Outright: $75,000
[Exhibitions: Planning]
Project Director: Denver Brunsman
Project Title: The Long Struggle for Equality: The Declaration of Independence at 250
Project Description: Planning of a traveling exhibition, community conversations, and online resources exploring the origins and legacy of the Declaration of Independence.
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum Match: $337,050
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Matthew Woods
Project Title: Restoring & Opening Intrepid’s Sick Bay
Project Description: Infrastructure upgrades to allow public access to the sick bay, post office, barber shop and berthing/torpedo handling spaces on the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid, located in New York, New York.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. Match: $51,480
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Sophie Glidden-Lyon
Project Title: Preserving Off Off-Broadway: Designing Improved Climate Control for the La MaMa Archive
Project Description: Installation of climate-control equipment and planning of long-term storage solutions for archives from the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Outright: $400,000
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Andrea Achi
Project Title: Public Humanities: Africa & Byzantium
Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition exploring the global impact of the art and culture of Byzantine-era North and East Africa, including public programs, online media, and a scholarly catalog.
Modern Language Association of America, Inc. Outright: $60,000
[Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development]
Project Director: Jason Rhody
Project Title: Reimagining Humanities Coursework for Career Readiness: A Virtual Workshop for Teachers of Languages and Literature
Project Description: A two-year development workshop series for faculty at small or mid- sized colleges to integrate humanities study, career readiness, and applied humanities in their teaching and mentoring of underserved students
Museum of the City of New York, Inc. Outright: $100,000
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Sarah Henry
Project Title: The New York Century: 100 Years of Imagining the City, 1923–2023
Project Description: Implementation of a short-term exhibition examining how New York City has been depicted in arts, media, and culture from 1923 to 2023.
New York Public Library Outright: $309,996
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Matt Knutzen
Project Title: Long-term Research Fellowships at The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Project Description: Eighteen months of stipend support (two–three fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
Rubin Museum of Art Outright: $400,000
[Exhibitions: Implementation]
Project Director: Michelle Bennett Simorella
Project Title: Gateway to Himalayan Art
Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition geared to university galleries that would introduce essential concepts of Himalayan art and culture and a digital educational platform.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Outright: $349,524
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Stefanie Halpern Project Title: Jewish Labor and Political Archives Project
Project Description: The arrangement and description of 122 linear feet of archival materials from four collections documenting Jewish immigrant involvement in the U.S. labor movement, as well as the digitization of 293,000 pages from those collections.
Niagara University
Niagara University Outright: $148,500
[Humanities Connections Implementation]
Project Director: Paula Kot; James McCutcheon (co-project director); Donna Thompson (co-project director); Lisa Williams (co-project director)
Project Title: Implementing the Vincentian Social Justice General Education Minor
Project Description: A three-year project to launch a minor in Vincentian social justice.
Oswego
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Oswego Outright: $35,000
[Humanities Connections Planning]
Project Director: Tiffany Deater
Project Title: New Minor in Environmental Humanities and Visual Media
Project Description: A one-year faculty and curricular development project to build an environmental humanities and visual media minor.
Rochester
University of Rochester [Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research]
Project Director: Michael Jarvis
Project Title: The Archaeology of Earliest Bermuda, 1610–c.1630 Outright: $129,970 Match: $20,000
Project Description: Archeological excavation investigating the English settlement of Bermuda by the Virginia Company in the seventeenth century.
Troy
Museum Association of New York Outright: $499,988
[Humanities Discussions]
Project Director: Megan Eves
Project Title: A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy
Project Description: Implementation of a discussion and public program series exploring democracy in America to be conducted at twelve museums across New York.
Pennsylvania (14) $1,800,066
Bryn Mawr
Edwige Crucifix Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Bryn Mawr College
Project Title: Illegible Subjects: Jewish Women, Writing, and the Performance of Identity in the Colonial Maghreb
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the French-language writings of North African Jewish women during the French colonial period (1830–1962).
Carlisle
Amy Farrell Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Dickinson College
Project Title: Girl Scouts of the USA: Race, Feminism, and American Empire
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the history of the Girl Scouts of the USA, exploring its struggles over race, civil rights, feminism, and the legacies of empire and colonialism.
Collegeville
Lori Daggar Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Ursinus College
Project Title: Indigenous Visions of Rights and Sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions, 1760–1840
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on Indigenous assertion of rights and sovereignty across North America and the Atlantic world, 1760–1840.
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Match: $48,400
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Christopher Stokum
Project Title: Eckley Miners’ Village Research & Learning Center
Project Description: Preparatory architectural and engineering work for a renovation project to house a new Research & Learning Center at the Eckley Miners’ Village Museum in Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Huntingdon
Juniata College Outright: $149,989
[Humanities Connections Implementation]
Project Director: Amanda Page
Project Title: Explorations of Rural Experience: Fostering Narrative Imagination and Civic Curiosity
Project Description: A three-year project to establish a new minor focused on rural experience, including experiential learning opportunities in Pennsylvania and Alabama.
Philadelphia
La Salle University Outright: $60,000
[Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development]
Project Director: Joanne Woods
Project Title: ALTA (Access Language Through Academics): Bridge to Success
Project Description: A 15-month project to develop and offer a free humanities-rich bridge program supporting Spanish-speaking students in enhancing their English proficiency and college readiness.
Library Company of Philadelphia Outright: $220,500
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Christine Nelson
Project Title: The Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program
Project Description: Fourteen months of stipend support (two–three fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
Presbyterian Historical Society Outright: $330,678
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Natalie Shilstut
Project Title: Digitizing the Religious News Service Photograph Collection, 1945–1982
Project Description: The digitization, description, and preservation of 22,500 images and related documents from the Religious News Service collection. The digitized images would be made publicly available via the Presbyterian Historical Society’s digital repository, and the project would support the physical rehousing of the entire collection of 60,000 photo files.
Science History Institute Outright: $204,428
[Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Michelle DiMeo
Project Title: Long-Term Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Science History Institute Project Description: Twelve months of stipend support (one–two fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
Pittsburgh
Judy Suh Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
Duquesne University
Project Title: Precarious Translations: Korean Language Media and the American Political Imagination
Project Description: Research and writing the introduction and conclusion for a book about the shared cultural and political terrains of Koreans and Korean Americans.
Patrick McKelvey Outright: $6,000
[Summer Stipends]
University of Pittsburgh
Project Title: Supporting Actors: A Disability History of Theatrical Welfare in the United States Project Description: Research leading to a book about the history of social services for disabled actors in the United States since the late nineteenth century, with particular focus on The Actors’ Fund of America and allied organizations.
WQED Multimedia
Outright: $196,071
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Minette Seate
Project Title: Pittsburgh Black History and “Black Horizons” Digitization Project
Project Description: The digitization of 2,000 media assets relating to the Black experience in Pittsburgh, PA, from WQED Multimedia.
Wayne
Eastern University Match: $500,000
[Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants]
Project Director: Brian Williams
Project Title: Expanding the Humanities at Eastern University
Project Description: Renovation of Workman Hall to house the Templeton Honors College and construction of a contiguous lecture hall and art gallery on the campus of Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
West Chester
West Chester University of Pennsylvania Outright: $60,000
[Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education: Development]
Project Director: Laquana Cooke
Project Title: Expanding iCAMP: Humanities Inquiry and Public Engagement
Project Description: A two-year project engaging underserved high school students with public digital humanities projects.
For a full list of grants by geographic location, click here.