e x p l o r i n g t h e h u m a n e n d e a v o r NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 2ANNUAL01 REP3ORT
Chairman’s letter
December 2014 Dear Mr. President,
It is my privilege to present the 2013 Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For forty-eight years NEH has striven through its rigorous grantmaking process to support excellence in humanities research, education, preservation, access to humanities collections, long-term planning for educational and cultural institutions, and humanities programming for the public. NEH’s 1965 founding legislation states that “democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens.” It is in response to this mission that NEH supports work in the humanities that enlightens and deepens our understanding of the world. In September 2013, NEH launched its Created Equal initiative centered on a collection of four NEH-funded films—The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, The Loving Story, and Freedom Riders— that trace the long history of civil rights in our nation. From the beginning, African Americans have been at the core of America’s evolving story about the changing meaning of freedom. Through free access to the films, website resources, and public discussion programs held in more than four hundred communities across the nation over the next three years, Created Equal will help make this aspect of our history accessible to everyone. At NEH, we also believe that access to the classics should be for everyone, in particular to America’s military veterans who are returning home from conflicts abroad. A 2013 grant to Aquila Theatre is helping to bring a series of scholar-led discussions and performances of classical Greek and Roman dramas to military veterans across the country. The project includes a website and a mobile app with essays and interviews on how these ancient works resonate today. The observations and theories of a scientist a hundred and fifty years ago still influence the field today. To better understand the work of Charles Darwin, the American Museum of Natural History is using an NEH grant to digitize 30,000 scientific manuscripts and letters produced and received by Darwin for access via the Darwin Manuscripts Project and Darwin Correspondence Project websites, as well as the Cambridge Digital Library. Another website passed a milestone this year— Chronicling America, a free searchable database of historical U.S. newspapers, supported by NEH and the Library of Congress, posted its 5 millionth page in 2013. Digital technology is changing how humanities professionals practice their craft, in ways that were hard to imagine just a decade ago. A new project will allow researchers to refine the use of facial recognition software to identify the subjects of centuries-old portraits, while another is developing visualization and analytical tools based on a prototype that mapped the Republic of Letters, an inter- national community of literati and scholars from the late Renaissance through the Enlightenment. Although online research is an invaluable asset, there is also an immeasurable benefit in visiting the places where history was made. Through the Landmarks of American history, each summer thousands of K–12 teachers from around the country travel to historic sites—such as Michigan’s The Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village and the River Rouge factory to study the Industrial Revolu- tion or Chicago to study the development of the skyscraper and its impact on urbanization—and take a renewed energy and understanding back to their classrooms. The effect of such learning is exponential.
CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 2 It is the diligent work of researchers who make possible new insights into the human condition. From the publication of little-known materials of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show when it stormed the capitals of England and Europe between 1887–1906, to the reassembly and interpretation of early Mayan murals discovered at San Bartolo, Guatemala, grants funded in research bring resources to scholars and general audiences that are critical to our collective knowledge. Sustaining humanities resources is also critical to the long-term endurance of the field. A 2013 challenge grant and matching funds helped restore buildings at the newly opened historic site of Arkansas’s Dyess Colony, a place where impoverished farmers resettled during the New Deal, including the family of Johnny Cash. Another grant for construction and an endowment will secure the preservation of the endangered Coast Salish culture and language at Northwest Indian College in Washington state. Through the programs and work of fifty-six state and territorial humanities councils, NEH is able extend the reach of the humanities in ways that touch local concerns. In Arizona, the humanities council supported a guide to Tucson’s twentieth-century tradition of neon sign advertising, including one that was designed by Georgia O’Keeffe. And, in Maryland, the council supported a traveling exhibition and film on the exquisite and heartbreaking needlework series made by Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz that documented her and her family’s story in Poland. Krinitz’s art will ensure the story is never forgotten. Last, another piece of art from a new American deserves to be mentioned—that of the newly designed National Humanities Medal. Bestowed for the first time on the 2013 medalists, the design was created by a recent immigrant from the Philippines and was chosen through a national competition.
Sincerely,
Acting Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
CHAIRMAN’S LETTER 3 Table of Contents
Chairman’s Letter 2
Introduction 5
Jefferson Lecture 6
National Humanities Medalists 7
Division of Education Programs 9
Division of Preservation and Access 15
Division of Public Programs 22
Division of Research Programs 27
Office of Challenge Grants 34
Office of Digital Humanities 38
Office of Federal/State Partnership 41
Panelists 44
National Council on the Humanities 44
Senior Staff 45
Summary of Grants and Awards 46
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 The National Endowment for the Humanities
In order “to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States,” Congress enacted the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. This act established the National Endowment for the Humanities as an independent grant- making agency of the federal government to support research, education, and public programs in the humanities. In fiscal year 2013, grants were made through the Federal/State Partnership, four divisions (Education Programs, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and Research Programs), the Office of Challenge Grants, and the Office of Digital Humanities. The act that established the National Endowment for the Humanities says, “The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.” The National Endowment for the Humanities supports exemplary work to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the disciplines of the humanities. Endowment support is intended to complement and assist private and local efforts and to serve as a catalyst to increase nonfederal support for projects of high quality. To date, NEH matching grants have helped generate more than $2.4 billion in gift funds. Each application to the Endowment is assessed by knowledgeable persons outside the agency who are asked for their judgments about the quality and significance of the proposed project. More than 800 scholars, professionals in the humanities, and other experts served on 183 panels throughout the year. The following lists of grants include all funds that were released in 2013, including funds that were amendments to earlier grants. For example, a summer institute awarded $170,000 in 2012 may have received an additional $10,000 in 2013 for follow-up activities. Additionally, many NEH grants receive matching funds, which are only released when the private gift donations are secured, perhaps over the course of several years. These matching funds awarded in 2013 are indicated by a single asterisk (*) throughout. A double asterisk (* *) denotes a Chairman’s grant, which is a fast-track grant awarded up to $30,000 at the discretion of the chairman of NEH. For more complete information on any project, please use the grant search tool on the NEH website, www.neh.gov.
INTRODUCTION 5 Jefferson Lecture
On April 1, 2013, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese presented the forty- second Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in the Concert Hall at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He spoke about the urgency to save films that are in danger of being lost, and the inspiration and lessons that these films offer to the visual literacy of audiences and filmmakers today. The lecture, titled “The Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,” was followed by an informal, onstage Q & A with film critic Kent Jones. The evening began with a film clip from the 1950 British movie The Magic Box, about the life and work of William Friese-Greene, one of the inventors of moving pictures, as he excitedly runs to the street and pulls in a passing policeman (played by Lawrence Olivier) to view the culmination of his life’s work: a two-minute movie of people in Hyde Park. Scorsese was eight years old when his father took him to see this movie. “I’ve never really gotten over the impact that it had,” he said. “I believe this is what ignited in me the wonder of cinema, and the obsession—of watching movies, making them, inventing them.” Scorsese went on to earn a master’s from the New York University School of Film and direct fifty-nine movies, including The Departed, which won an Academy Award in 2007 (he’s had eight other films nominated) and a Golden Globe. His films Hugo and Gangs of New York also won Golden Globes. In 1990 he helped found The Film Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preserving the history of motion pictures. As a sickly child growing up in New York City, Scorsese’s main outlet was watching movies. He spoke about the films that were early influences on his worldview and filmmaking aspirations— the train scene shot by the Lumiere brothers, Impossible Voyage by Georges Méliès, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes, which Scorsese showed clips from as an example of the preservation efforts being done at his Film Foundation. “It took years to get this going and was quite expensive,” Scorsese explained. “You must bear in mind that The Red Shoes was shot in the old three-strip Technicolor technology with very heavy cameras that had not one but three rolls of film going through them at the same time. None of this would have been possible before digital technology.” Scorsese lamented that the technology came too late for many films to be saved. “Over 90 percent of all silent cinema is gone. Lost forever,” he reminded us. “Every time a silent picture by some miracle turns up like John Ford’s film he made in 1927 called Upstream, which was recently discovered by the National Film Preservation Foundation in an archive in New Zealand—every time one of those shows up we have to remind ourselves that there are hundreds, maybe thousands more that are gone forever. So we have to take really good care of what’s left. Everything, from the acknowledged masterworks of cinema to industrial films and home movies, anthropological films. Anything that could tell us who we are.”
JEFFERSON LECTURE 6 National Humanities Medal
President Barack Obama awarded the 2013 National Humanities Medals during a ceremony held at the White House in July 2014. Nine individuals and one organization were honored for their exemplary contributions to the humanities. This year inaugurated a new medal designed by artist Paul Balan and selected through a national competition run by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The National Humanities Medal, first awarded in 1989 as the Charles Frankel Prize, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. Medal recipients do not compete for this award but are selected by the president for their lifelong achievements in their diverse areas of expertise. Their achievements were cited at the White House ceremony.
M. H. Abrams Literary critic, for expanding our perceptions of the Romantic tradition and broadening the study of literature. As a professor, writer, and critic, Dr. Abrams has traced the modern concept of artistic self-expression in Western culture, and his work has influenced generations of students.
American Antiquarian Society Historical organization, for safeguarding the American story. Through more than two centuries, the Society has amassed an unparalleled collection of historic American documents, served as a research center to scholars and students alike, and connected generations of Americans to their cultural heritage.
David Brion Davis Historian, for reshaping our understanding of history. A World War II veteran, Dr. Davis has shed light on the contradiction of a free Nation built by forced labor, and his examinations of slavery and abolitionism drive us to keep making moral progress in our time.
William Theodore de Bary East Asian Studies scholar, for broadening our understanding of the world. Dr. de Bary’s efforts to foster a global conversation have underscored how the common values and experiences shared by Eastern and Western cultures can be used to bridge our differences and build trust.
Darlene Clark Hine Historian, for enriching our understanding of the African American experience. Through prolific scholarship and leadership, Dr. Hine has examined race, class, and gender and shown how the struggles and successes of African American women shaped the Nation we share today.
Johnpaul Jones Architect, for honoring the natural world and indigenous traditions in architecture. A force behind diverse and cherished institutions, Mr. Jones has fostered awareness through design and created spaces worthy of the cultures they reflect, the communities they serve, and the environments they inhabit.
MEDALISTS 7 Stanley Nelson Producer and director, for documenting the story of African Americans through film. By turning a camera on both the well-known and unknown narratives of
African Americans, Mr. Nelson has exposed injustice and triumph while revealing new depths of our Nation’s history.
Diane Rehm Radio host, for illuminating the people and stories behind the headlines. In probing interviews with pundits, poets, and Presidents, Ms. Rehm’s incisive, confident, and curious voice has deepened our understanding of our communities and our culture.
Anne Firor Scott Historian, for pioneering the study of southern women. Through groundbreaking research spanning ideology, race, and class, Dr. Scott’s uncharted exploration into the lives of southern women has established women’s history as vital to our understanding of the American South.
Krista Tippett Radio host and author, for thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence. On the air and in print, Ms. Tippett avoids easy answers, embracing complexity and inviting people of all faiths, no faith, and every background to join the conversation.
MEDALISTS 8 Division of Education Programs
Through the Division of Education Programs, NEH provides national support for faculty development and teaching resources in the humanities. These resources are developed with rigorous scholarship to meet the needs of America’s classrooms. The division’s programs address needs at all grade levels, from elementary through graduate school, and help instructors bring humanities scholarship into their teaching.
DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 9 Humanities Initiatives Howard University Roosevelt University for Faculty Washington, DC Molly Myerowitz Levine Chicago, IL Marjorie Jolles $59,147 A three‑year series of faculty work‑ $21,432 The development of an intermedi‑ Grants strengthen and enrich humanities shops, public lectures, and course development ate‑level undergraduate course on the question, education and scholarship in higher education. activities leading to the transformation of What is a family? Howard University’s classics department into a department of ancient Mediterranean studies. San Francisco State University Bethel College, Minnesota San Francisco, CA Megan H. Williams St. Paul, MN Daniel Edgar Ritchie Le Moyne College $24,803 The development of an undergraduate $23,090 The development of a senior capstone Syracuse, NY Jennifer A. Glancy course on the question, Why are we interested course on the question, What good is leisure? $24,747 The development of a general educa‑ in the past? tion course for undergraduate students that asks, College of St. Benedict What does prayer do? State University of West Georgia St. Joseph, MN Shane Miller Carrollton, GA Jesus Salvador Peralta $24,999 The development of an upper‑level Little Priest Tribal College $22,491 The development of an undergraduate undergraduate seminar on the question, What is Winnebago, NE Caroline Fiscus seminar on the question, What does it mean to a monster?—from Antaeus to Zombies. $74,826 A two‑year community‑based project be free? to develop an oral history program to record Cornell College and preserve Winnebago (or HoChunk) culture. Suffolk University Mount Vernon, IA James L. Martin Boston, MA Evgenia Cherkasova $25,000 The development of an interdisciplin‑ Marquette University $24,953 The development of a first‑year ary undergraduate humanities course that asks Milwaukee, WI Gerry Canavan seminar to explore the question, What is the how we reconcile tradition and innovation. $24,948 The development of an upper‑level meaning of life? undergraduate course on the question, What is CUNY Research Foundation, John Jay College worthy of preservation? University of Arkansas, Little Rock New York, NY Richard Haw Little Rock, AR Rochelle Green $74,799 Faculty and curriculum development to Middlebury College $25,000 The development by two faculty mem‑ create interdisciplinary intensive reading courses Middlebury, VT Patricia Zupan bers of a course to explore the question, What on Melville’s Moby‑Dick and Garcia Marquez’s $25,000 The development of a seminar on the is education? One Hundred Years of Solitude. question, What is the good life and how do I live it? University of California, Los Angeles CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College Los Angeles, CA Otto Santa Ana of Technology Mississippi Valley State University $24,964 The development of a cross‑listed Brooklyn, NY Mary Sue Donsky Itta Bena, MS Jianqing Zheng undergraduate course on the nature of human $74,986 A yearlong faculty development project $55,755 An eighteen‑month program of study laughter and humor. to explore the practice of medicine as an and curriculum development for university fac‑ expression of beliefs and value systems that ulty and schoolteachers on Richard Wright, University of Connecticut differ across cultures. Margaret Walker, and Sterling Plumpp. Storrs, CT Anna Mae Duane $18,005 The development of a one‑semester CUNY Research Foundation, Mount Marty College capstone course examining the question, What Queensborough Community College Yankton, SD Paul Anders is empathy? Bayside, NY Megan Joanna Elias $24,550 The development of an undergraduate $74,937 A multiyear collaboration between course on the nature, origins, and structures of Western Kentucky University Research humanities and culinary arts faculty and students authority. Foundation exploring Latino history and culture through Bowling Green, KY Audrey Anton foodways. National History Day $23,390 The development of a general educa‑ College Park, MD Cathy Gorn tion course to explore the question, Why are Heritage University $170,500 Cooperative agreement in support of bad people bad? Toppenish, WA Winona Wynn National History Day. $74,247 An eighteen‑month curriculum devel‑ Western Michigan University opment project for a new Native American and Norfolk State University Kalamazoo, MI Dini Metro‑Roland Indigenous Studies program at a Hispanic‑serv‑ Norfolk, VA Cassandra L. Newby‑Alexander $21,365 The development of an undergraduate ing institution with a large Native American $69,529 Two symposia, several teacher work‑ honors course to explore the question, What is student population. shops, and the development of educational human flourishing? resources on the African diaspora in the New Hofstra University World, with a focus on the arrival of twenty Yale University Hempstead, NY Simon Doubleday Africans at Old Point Comfort (Fort Monroe, New Haven, CT Helene Landemore $24,977 The development of an introductory Virginia) in August 1619. $25,000 The development of an undergraduate course that would explore the history of the course on the art of choosing. question, What is friendship?, from ancient Northern Illinois University Mesopotamia to social networks. DeKalb, IL Andrea Maria Radasanu $25,000 The development of an upper‑level undergraduate course that asks, What is the role of women in an ideal society?
DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 10 Landmarks of American Fort Ticonderoga University of Connecticut History Ticonderoga, NY Richard Strum Storrs, CT Robert W. Stephens $173,180 Two one‑week workshops for eighty $11,958 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Grants support a series of one-week residence-based schoolteachers focused on Fort Ticonderoga as schoolteachers to explore the history and workshops at historic sites for teachers. a critical outpost in the northern frontier during cultural memory of the Gullah people through the early years of the Revolution. the arts. Amherst College Amherst, MA Cynthia S. Dickinson Gettysburg College University of Massachusetts, Lowell $176,677 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Gettysburg, PA Dave Powell Lowell, MA Sheila Kirschbaum schoolteachers to study the poetry of Emily $169,341 Two one‑week workshops for eighty $11,431 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Dickinson in relation to her biography schoolteachers on the Battle of Gettysburg and schoolteachers on the textile industry in Lowell, and surroundings. its legacy. Massachusetts, as a case study of early nineteenth‑century industrialization. Apprend Foundation The Henry Ford Durham, NC Laurel Sneed Dearborn, MI Paula Gangopadhyay University of Missouri Libraries $12,000 Two one‑week workshops for eighty $179,557 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Kansas City, MO Diane Mutti‑Burke schoolteachers on African‑American entrepre‑ schoolteachers on America’s Industrial Revolu‑ $179,192 Two one‑week workshops for eighty neurship in the antebellum South, as represented tion as interpreted through The Henry Ford’s schoolteachers on the history and impact of the by Thomas Day and Elizabeth Keckly. Greenfield Village and the River Rouge factory. Missouri‑Kansas border wars during the Civil War era. California State University, Long Beach London Town Foundation, Inc. Long Beach, CA Tim W. Keirn Edgewater, MD Lisa Robbins Wing Luke Memorial Foundation $177,527 Two one‑week workshops for eighty $177,814 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Seattle, WA Charlene Mano Shen schoolteachers on Southern California’s aero‑ schoolteachers on the development of slavery in $179,914 Two one‑week workshops for eighty space development and its impact from the Chesapeake Bay region during the eighteenth schoolteachers to explore the history and culture World War II through the Cold War era. century. of Asian immigrant groups in the Pacific North‑ west and their significance to the nation. California State University, Monterey Bay Montana Historical Society Seaside, CA Ruben G. Mendoza Helena, MT Kirby Lambert Seminars and Institutes $11,997 Two one‑week workshops for eighty $12,000 Two one‑week workshops for eighty schoolteachers to explore the architectural, schoolteachers that connect the study of mines Grants support national summer seminars and institutes archaeological, cultural, and historical record of and mining in Montana to broad patterns in in humanities subjects for teachers. Spanish colonial missions in California. U. S. history. American Academy in Rome California State University, Sacramento NorthEast Washington Educational Service New York, NY Maureen C. Miller Sacramento, CA Chloe Burke District 101 $131,263 A five‑week seminar for sixteen col‑ $178,353 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Spokane, WA Robert McCoy lege and university faculty to investigate social schoolteachers to explore California Gold Rush $177,000 Two one‑week workshops for eighty transformation in medieval Rome. history and its economic, environmental, and schoolteachers on Hanford Nuclear Reservation cultural setting. and the development of the atomic bomb dur‑ Amherst College ing World War II and the Cold War. Amherst, MA Austin D. Sarat Chicago Architecture Foundation $115,291 A five‑week seminar for sixteen Chicago, IL Jennifer Masengarb Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville schoolteachers on punishment and its place in $169,000 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Edwardsville, IL Caroline Pryor American culture. schoolteachers on the development of the $174,205 Two one‑week workshops for eighty skyscraper and its impact on the city of Chicago schoolteachers on Abraham Lincoln and his Arizona State University and on urbanization throughout the world. role in American history, using sites in and near Tempe, AZ David W. Foster Springfield, Illinois. $106,657 A three‑week seminar for sixteen col‑ Crow Canyon Archaeological Center lege and university faculty on Argentine Jewish Cortez, CO Kathleen Stemmler SUNY Research Foundation, Brockport literature and culture, to be held in Buenos $179,724 Two one‑week workshops for eighty Brockport, NY Jose Torre Aires, Argentina. schoolteachers to study Pueblo history and cul‑ $157,090 Two one‑week workshops for eighty ture through the archaeology of Mesa Verde. schoolteachers to examine Rochester’s central Boston University role in nineteenth‑century American Boston, MA Peter Gibbon Delta State University reform history. $104,467 A three‑week schoolteacher seminar Cleveland, MS Luther Brown for sixteen participants to study influential phi‑ $182,907 Two one‑week workshops for eighty University of California, Berkeley losophers of education from the eighteenth schoolteachers on the history and culture of the Berkeley, CA Mark Brilliant century to the present. Mississippi Delta, with music as a focus. $178,734 Two one‑week workshops for eighty schoolteachers on the social, economic, and City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture Fairfield University cultural impact of World War II in the San New York, NY Amanda Dargan Fairfield, CT Laura R. Nash Francisco Bay Area. $170,212 A two‑week institute for thirty school‑ $177,340 Two one‑week workshops for eighty teachers on Islamic poetry. schoolteachers on Duke Ellington and his world.
11 Columbia University twenty‑five college and university faculty to lege and university faculty to explore the relation‑ New York, NY Alan H. Timberlake study aspects of the federal government’s influ‑ ship between art and devotional practices in $166,518 A three‑week summer institute for ence in the history of the western United States. medieval England. twenty‑five college and university faculty on twentieth‑century immigration to the United George Washington University Lewis and Clark College States from East Central Europe. Washington, DC Dina R. Khoury Portland, OR Nicholas D. Smith $100,185 A three‑week seminar for sixteen col‑ $108,252 A five‑week seminar for sixteen Community College Humanities lege and university teachers to explore compara‑ participants to engage with recent scholarship on Association tive dimensions of citizenship and related issues Socrates. Newark, NJ George L. Scheper in the late Ottoman and Russian empires. $189,935 A four‑week institute for twenty‑four Maine Humanities Council college and university faculty to study Georgetown University Portland, ME Anne Schlitt pre‑Columbian and Early Colonial pictorial Washington, DC Mustafa Aksakal $150,997 A three‑week summer institute for manuscripts authored by indigenous peoples of $127,422 A four‑week college and university twenty‑five teachers on the history and culture central Mexico and Puebla between 1100 and faculty summer seminar for sixteen participants of the French Acadian peoples of St. John Valley 1600 CE. to study World War I in the Middle East. in northern Maine.
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate Georgia College and State University Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist School and University Center Milledgeville, GA Bruce Gentry Languages New York, NY Donna Thompson Ray $193,448 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five Berkeley, CA Luis Gomez $200,000 A two‑week summer institute for college and university faculty to examine Flan‑ $16,500 A four‑week seminar for sixteen college thirty college and university faculty on the visual nery O’Connor’s work through various critical and university faculty to study classical Buddhist culture of the Civil War. and disciplinary perspectives. texts in the context of their translation and transmission. Eastern Illinois University Georgia Historical Society Charleston, IL David Raybin Savannah, GA Stan Deaton Marist College $118,188 A four‑week schoolteacher seminar $12,000 A two‑week institute for twenty‑five Poughkeepsie, NY Ann Elizabeth Davis for participants on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canter‑ college and university teachers to explore Afri‑ $174,880 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five bury Tales, to be held in London with additional can‑American life and culture in Savannah and college and university faculty to explore the site visits to Canterbury and Oxford. Georgia’s coastal islands. changing definitions of property as a principle of social organization. East‑West Center Gonzaga University Honolulu, HI Peter D. Hershock Spokane, WA Douglas L. Kries Michigan State University $200,000 A five‑week institute for twenty‑five $154,548 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five East Lansing, MI Nwando Achebe college and university faculty to examine the college and university faculty to study medieval $560 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five high defining characteristics of Mongol culture and works of political philosophy written by schoolteachers to explore the role of Africa in society, emphasizing the Mongol Empire’s role Muslims, Jews, and Christians, exploring what world history. in shaping global history. the works have in common and what divides them. Michigan State University Emory University East Lansing, MI Frederick Gifford Atlanta, GA Pellom McDaniels III Interfaith Center of New York $17,500 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five $200,000 A three‑week summer institute for New York, NY Henry Goldschmidt higher education faculty to engage in discussion twenty‑five college and university faculty to ex‑ $160,121 A three‑week summer institute for and debate over critical issues in the field of plore the topic of black aesthetics and cultural twenty‑five middle and high schoolteachers on development ethics. expressions. the religious diversity of America, exemplified in six religious traditions. Moravian College Emory University Bethlehem, PA Hilde Marga Binford Atlanta, GA Harvey E. Klehr Jackson State University $181,918 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five $121,191 A five‑week summer seminar for Jackson, MS Rico D. Chapman schoolteachers, to be held in Germany, on the sixteen schoolteachers on the history of, and $185,547 A three‑week institute for college and music of Johann Sebastian Bach, within the issues surrounding, the Communist movement university teachers on the civil rights movement context of the Baroque and Enlightenment eras. in America from the 1930s through the Cold in Mississippi and its relation to national War era. developments. Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA Thomas E. Wartenberg Folger Shakespeare Library James Madison University $104,892 A four‑week seminar for sixteen Washington, DC Margaret H. O’Brien Harrisonburg, VA Mark Rankin schoolteachers to study philosophical treatises $195,000 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five $169,685 A five‑week seminar for sixteen and other works related to Existentialism. schoolteachers on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth college and university faculty on the history of Night and Romeo and Juliet, to be held at the book production and reading in the Tudor era, Mystic Seaport Museum Folger Shakespeare Library. to be held at three locations: Antwerp, London, Mystic, CT Glenn Gordinier and Oxford. $164,280 A five‑week summer institute for George Mason University twenty college and university faculty to examine Fairfax, VA Richard Stillson Kenyon College recent social, cultural, and ecological approaches $208,416 A five‑week summer institute for Gambier, OH Sarah Blick to American maritime studies. $132,908 A four‑week seminar for sixteen col‑ 12 New-York Historical Society twenty‑five schoolteachers that will explore the University of Dayton New York, NY Mia Nagawiecki immigrant experience in California through Dayton, OH Richard P. Benedum $132,273 A two‑week summer institute for literary works and theatrical adaptations. $159,447 A three‑week institute for twen‑ thirty schoolteachers on the political context of ty‑five participants on Mozart’s operas The the Civil War and the centrality of racial issues Texas A & M University System Office Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, to be held during the conflict. College Station, TX Richard J. Golsan in Vienna, Austria. $152,305 A four‑week seminar for sixteen Newberry Library schoolteachers on the commemoration of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Chicago, IL Liesl Marie Olson two World Wars in France. North Dartmouth, MA Gerard M. Koot $11,937 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five $8,896 A five‑week seminar for sixteen college and university teachers on modernism Texas A & M University System Office schoolteachers comparing the development of in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth College Station, TX Robert R. Shandley modern economic systems in the Dutch Repub‑ century. $169,950 A five‑week seminar for sixteen lic and Great Britain in the seventeenth and schoolteachers to study the centuries‑old history eighteenth centuries. Newberry Library of migrant and multiethnic culture in transna‑ Chicago, IL James R. Akerman tional Germany, to be held in Berlin. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $200,190 A five‑week institute for twenty col‑ Ann Arbor, MI Mark Clague lege and university faculty to explore connec‑ University of California, Davis $200,000 A four‑week institute for thirty tions between mapping and environmental Davis, CA Brenda D. Schildgen schoolteachers on the role of “The Star‑Span‑ knowledge in the Americas from the contact $162,947 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five gled Banner” and other music related to civic period to the twenty‑first century. college and university faculty to study Dante’s life in American history and culture. Divine Comedy. Newberry Library University of Oklahoma, Norman Chicago, IL Benjamin Heber Johnson University of California, Santa Cruz Norman, OK Kevin Butterfield $140,005 A four‑week summer seminar for six‑ Santa Cruz, CA Karen Bassi $121,000 A two‑week summer institute for teen college and university faculty, focusing on $200,000 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five twenty‑five college and university teachers to the history of borderlands in North America. college and university faculty to study the history explore the topic of American westward expan‑ of mortality in ancient Greek culture. sion in the Early Republic through the lens of North Carolina Center for the Advancement the U.S. Constitution. of Teaching University of California, Santa Cruz Cullowhee, NC M. Elaine Franklin Santa Cruz, CA John O. Jordan University of Oregon, Eugene $155,950 A three‑week summer institute for $112,594 A four‑week seminar for sixteen Eugene, OR Stephanie G. Wood thirty schoolteachers on Cherokee history and schoolteachers on the literary and film adapta‑ $194,103 A four‑week institute for thirty culture in North Carolina. tions of Charles Dickens’s enduring novels Great schoolteachers on Mesoamerican history and Expectations and A Christmas Carol. culture, to be held in Oaxaca, Mexico. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC Mary Ann F. Witt University of California, Santa Cruz University of Tennessee, Chattanooga $138,849 A five‑week seminar on French drama Santa Cruz, CA John O. Jordan Chattanooga, TN Irven M. Resnick for sixteen schoolteachers, to be held in Avi‑ $118,912 A four‑week seminar for sixteen col‑ $191,592 A five‑week institute for twenty‑five gnon, France, during an annual theater festival. lege and university faculty to explore two of college and university faculty to examine Charles Dickens’s novels and their theatrical and changes in the perception of Jews in medieval Oregon State University cinematic adaptations. England, to take place in England, at the Ox‑ Corvallis, OR Joseph Krause ford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. $174,857 A three‑week institute for twenty‑five University of Chicago college and university faculty to study the litera‑ Chicago, IL Richard Strier University of Virginia ture, cinema, and other artistic production of $108,313 A five‑week seminar for sixteen college Charlottesville, VA Mitchell S. Green post‑colonial Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. and university faculty to study the poetry of $11,952 A four‑week institute for thirty high George Herbert and Emily Dickinson. schoolteachers on topics central to philosophi‑ Primary Source cal inquiry. Watertown, MA Deborah Cunningham University of Cincinnati $11,772 A three‑week institute for thirty school‑ Cincinnati, OH Elizabeth B. Frierson University of Virginia teachers on the Ottoman Empire to be held in $196,858 A four‑week institute for twenty‑five Charlottesville, VA Kurtis R. Schaeffer Istanbul, Turkey. college and university teachers to study the his‑ $126,366 A three‑week institute for twenty‑five tory of World War I from a trans-regional college and university faculty to pursue religion San Diego State University Research perspective. as a subject of humanistic inquiry. Foundation San Diego, CA Kathleen B. Jones University of Colorado, Boulder University of Wisconsin, La Crosse $141,717 A five‑week seminar for sixteen Boulder, CO Terry Frederick Kleeman La Crosse, WI Bonnie L. Jancik schoolteachers to study three major works by A three‑week seminar for sixteen college and $154,018 A three‑week summer institute for political theorist Hannah Arendt. university faculty to examine the Daoist religion twenty‑five schoolteachers on archaeological and its impact on Chinese civilization and theory and methods as applied to the cultures San Jose State University Foundation society. of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. San Jose, CA Mathew Spangler $161,797 A two‑week summer institute for
13 Bridging Cultures Ethics and Public Policy Center Community College Washington, DC Bruce Cole $30,000** History and civics education To develop and implement a curriculum and professional initiative. development for faculty members from community colleges across the United States or in a multistate region. Modern Language Association of America New York, NY Nelly Furman CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate $30,000** MLA survey of enrollments in lan‑ School and University Center guages other than English in higher education. New York, NY Pennee Bender $359,659 A cooperative agreement for a National Center for the American Revolution two‑and‑a‑half‑year faculty and curriculum Philadelphia, PA Michael Quinn development project on Latino/a history for $30,000** Museum of the American Revolution thirty‑six community college faculty and aca‑ educational outreach. demic administrators in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Northwestern University Evanston, IL Scott Hiley Ohio Historical Society $30,000** Luxury in the Mediterranean. A Columbus, OH Molly Uline‑Olmstead medieval history (10th–13th centuries). $359,994 A cooperative agreement for a three‑year faculty and curriculum development Operation Opportunity Foundation project on the history of nine Midwestern Na‑ Decatur, IL Christopher R. Howell tive American groups for thirty‑six community $30,000** Warrior‑Scholar project. college faculty and academic administrators in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and U.S. Association of Former Members of Oklahoma. Congress Washington, DC Sharon Witiw University of Virginia $30,000** Congress to campus. Charlottesville, VA Rachel Stauffer $359,769 A cooperative agreement for a two‑year faculty and curriculum development project on the religions and cultures of Asia, the Middle East, and Russia for thirty‑six faculty and academic administrators from five Virginia community colleges.
Miscellaneous Education Programs
Anderson University Anderson, IN Dulce Maria Scott $7,500** Exploring the Portuguese diaspora in interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives: An International Conference.
Association of American Colleges and Universities Washington, DC Debra Humphreys $30,000** Liberal Arts degrees and their value in the employment market.
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Dallas, TX Claudia E. Allums $10,000** The Summer Institute 30th anniver‑ sary anchor events.
DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 14 Division of Preservation and Access
Through the Division of Preservation and Access, NEH combats the physical deterioration of humanities collections in America’s libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations, ensuring access to these collections for research, education, and public programming.
DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 15 Preservation and Access Digital Library at the University of California, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, the recordings will be mounted on University Corporation Grants a searchable, bilingual website. Northridge, CA Kent Kirkton Grants assist in the care of humanities collections and $290,000 Processing of 551,000 photographs in the availability for use by the public. Art Center College of Design and creation of a digital archive of 19,820 Pasadena, CA Robert Phillip Dirig selected images from collections of three promi‑ Abbe Museum $40,000 A planning and pilot project to nent photojournalists in the African-American Bar Harbor, ME Julia Clark establish protocols and practices for digitiza‑ Photography Collection. $220,000 The implementation of environmen‑ tion and preservation of 100,000 photographs, tal improvements, consisting of upgrades to 2,000 films and videos, and 500 linear feet of Campbell Center for Historic Preservation the climate control and lighting systems, for a print materials documenting industrial design Studies museum that collects, preserves, and exhibits education. Mount Carroll, IL Sharon Welton ethnographic and historic material relating to $150,000 Collections care training for staff the four tribes of central Maine, collectively Art Institute of Chicago from heritage institutions, particularly museums, known as the Wabanaki. The collections, dating Chicago, IL Matthew S. Witkovsky libraries, and archives, to acquire essential skills from 12,000 years ago to the present, include $280,000 Enhanced cataloging for a collection for the care of humanities collections. archaeological materials from sites around the of 20,000 photographs that span the history of state, works of contemporary Native American American and European photography from the Colorado Humanities artists, and the library and archival collection of 19th to the 21st century, rehousing and con‑ Greenwood Village, CO William Wei the museum’s founder, Dr. Robert Abbe. servation of approximately 3,300 of them, and $250,000 The first production phase for the creation of access to highlights of the collection online Colorado Encyclopedia, providing American Antiquarian Society through a series of online exhibits and catalogs. authoritative information on the state’s history Worcester, MA Alan N. Degutis and culture. $220,000 The continued creation of a union Balboa Art Conservation Center catalog of all books, pamphlets, and broadsides San Diego, CA Janet E. Ruggles Columbia College, Chicago printed before 1877 in the United States and $190,000 A regional preservation field service Chicago, IL Jan Chindlund Canada. This project will enhance 7,150 records program that provides preservation surveys, $38,009 Assessment and planning to ensure and create 500 new records for imprints from workshops, technical consultations, and edu‑ sustainable environmental conditions in a newly the period 1801 through 1820. cational materials to museums and historical acquired 1972 building that would house the col‑ organizations in California, Arizona, Oregon, lections of the Center for Black Music Research American Museum of Natural History and Washington. and Columbia College Chicago Archives. The New York, NY David Kohn collections include 11,000 sound recordings, $209,994 The digitization of 30,000 scientific Barnum Museum 4,500 scores and sheet music, 109 archival col‑ manuscripts and letters produced and received Bridgeport, CT Adrienne Saint Pierre lections, and 5,000 books and dissertations that by Charles Darwin for access via the Darwin $34,213 Collaborative planning to improve document the history of black music around the Manuscripts Project and Darwin Correspon‑ access to two complementary collections of his‑ world. dence Project websites as well as the Cambridge torical documents and artifacts at several cultural Digital Library. institutions relating to 19th‑century American Columbia University icon P.T. Barnum (1810–1891). New York, NY Ehsan O. Yarshater American Research Institute in Turkey $100,000* Preparation of the Encyclopædia Philadelphia, PA A. Kevin Reinhart Bay Area and Peninsula Library System Iranica, a multidisciplinary reference work and $40,000 To develop a plan to process and San Mateo, CA Linda Crowe research tool on Iranian history and civilization digitize ca. 262 linear feet of documents, $250,000 Workshops on disaster prepared‑ from prehistory to the present. photographs, books, and journals chronicling ness, emergency response, and collections care American missionary activity in the Ottoman management that would result in disaster plans Columbia University Empire from 1824 to 1950. for libraries and archives in eleven western states New York, NY Ehsan O. Yarshater and three Pacific territories. $150,000 Preparation of the Encyclopædia Amigos Library Services, Inc. Iranica, a multidisciplinary reference work and Dallas, TX Gina Lahman Bundy Minks Bay Area Video Coalition research tool on Iranian history and civilization $100,000 A regional field service program that San Francisco, CA Moriah Ulinskas from prehistory to the present. The project provides workshops, consultations, preservation $320,000 The development of a suite of would add up to 600 new entries to the online surveys, disaster response assistance, reference open‑source, quality‑control software tools that database, update earlier entries, and improve services, and educational materials on preserva‑ will ensure accurate and efficient assessment of user interaction through social media. tion and digitization to libraries, archives, and video media integrity throughout the archival cultural heritage organizations in the Southwest. digitization process. Connecticut State Library Hartford, CT Jane F. Cullinane Arhoolie Foundation Board of Regents of the University of $274,034 Digitization of 100,000 pages of Con‑ El Cerrito, CA Tom Diamant Wisconsin System necticut newspapers, dating from 1836 to 1922, $102,160 The digital preservation of 24,000 Milwaukee, WI Amanda I. Seligman as part of the state’s participation in the Mexican and Mexican‑American recordings of $249,997 Production of the Encyclopedia of National Digital Newspaper Program. traditional and vernacular music from the Dis‑ Milwaukee, in print and digital form. cos Ideal label, dated from 1940 to 1990, issued on 2,400 33‑1/3 rpm LP vinyl records and 200 reel‑to‑reel master tapes; partnering with the
DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 16 Conservation Center for Art and Historic Fordham University Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Artifacts Bronx, NY Sandra Arnold Languages Philadelphia, PA Ingrid E. Bogel $30,000** Burial database project of enslaved Salem, OR Gregory David Shelton Anderson $290,000 A preservation field service program African Americans. $246,515 Documentation of the Hill variety that conducts preservation surveys and work‑ of Gta’ (Didey), an endangered language of the shops and that provides technical consultations George Eastman House Munda family spoken in Malkangiri and Koraput and educational materials to libraries, archives, Rochester, NY Ralph Wiegandt Districts, Odisha State, India. The project would museums, and historical organizations. $50,000 A comprehensive environmental as‑ produce a grammar, a dictionary, and an an‑ sessment of the George Eastman House, which notated text collection in print and electronic Cornell University contains materials related to the history and tech‑ formats. Ithaca, NY Oya Rieger nology of still and moving images. The museum $300,000 The development of a methodological would develop a plan to improve care of its Louisiana Museum Foundation framework for the preservation of digital media collections in environmentally and economically New Orleans, LA Greg Lambousy artwork, using the Rose Goldsen Archive of sustainable ways. $275,000 Digitizing and creating free online ac‑ New Media Art as a test bed. cess and English‑language finding aids for 70,000 Georgia State University Research judicial and notarial records of the New Country Music Foundation, Inc. Foundation, Inc. Orleans French Superior Council (1714–1769) Nashville, TN Lee Boulie Atlanta, GA Joseph A. Hurley and Spanish Cabildo (1769–1803) that document $280,000 The preservation and provision of $210,000 Creation of a digital collection related the history and culture of the city’s inhabitants intellectual access to three collections document‑ to the development of Atlanta during the 20th during the colonial era. ing the history of country music in America: 1) century. It would be comprised of 1,550 geo- Bob Pinson Recorded Sound Collection, 2) referenced city planning maps, 235 city planning Louisiana State University Moving Image Collection: Bobby Bare and publications, 300 photographs, 12 new oral histories, Baton Rouge, LA Gina R. Costello Friends, and 3) Photo Collection: Fabry Still and a demographic dataset from 1955 to 2000. $210,000 The digitization of 100,000 pages of Image Collection. Louisiana newspapers, dating between 1860 and Historic Charleston Foundation 1922, as part of the state’s participation in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. Charleston, SC Brandy Sommers Culp National Digital Newspaper Program. New York, NY Judy Tyrus $40,000 A yearlong planning project to provide $49,000 The commissioning and delivery of a for a sustainable means of managing the interior Louisiana State University comprehensive preservation plan that will assess environment of the Aiken‑Rhett House Baton Rouge, LA Tara Zachary Laver and identify cost‑effective, energy‑efficient solu‑ Museum for the long‑term preservation of the $194,152 A collaborative effort to digitize ap‑ tions for the optimal preservation environment collections and the historic interior finishes. The proximately 25,000 pages of historical documents and conditions for onsite archival materials in Aiken‑Rhett House, c. 1820, is a rare example of relating to free people of color in Louisiana and the Everett Center for the Performing Arts, a nearly intact, 19th‑century urban townhouse the lower Mississippi Valley, including family which holds the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s col‑ complex, containing original objects and finishes papers, business records, and public documents. lections on the history of modern dance in the in the main house and dependency buildings. United States. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Howard University Cambridge, MA Nancy Mc Govern Denver Museum of Nature and Science Washington, DC Seth M. Kronemer $86,000 The development of four curriculum Denver, CO Stephen E. Nash $90,000 The arrangement, description, and modules, enhancement of online services, and $280,000 The arrangement, rehousing, and selected digitization of the papers of jurist and comprehensive assessment of impact for the completion of cataloging of 323,000 still images educator J. Clay Smith Jr., pertaining to Digital Preservation Management workshop in multiple formats in the museum’s Humanities 20th‑century civil rights history and African program, established in 2003. Image Archive, containing a wide range of Americans in the legal profession. ethnographic and archaeological materials dating Middle Tennessee State University from 1871, and the digitization and mounting on Idaho State Historical Society Murfreesboro, TN Dale Cockrell the Internet of 5,000 high‑demand images. Boise, ID Stephen Barrett $127,956 The cataloging and digitization of 230 $277,673 Digitization of 100,000 pages of American vernacular music manuscripts dating Des Moines Art Center Idaho newspapers published between 1863 and from 1730 to 1910. Des Moines, IA Rose Marie Wood 1922, as part of the state’s participation in the $80,000 Conservation treatment of up to eleven National Digital Newspaper Program. Midwest Art Conservation Center sculptures in the collection of the Des Moines Minneapolis, MN Colin D. Turner Art Center. Works are by artists Scott Burton, Indiana State Library $125,000 A regional preservation field service Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Carl Indianapolis, IN Connie Rendfeld program that strengthens preservation prac‑ Milles, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Claes $200,000 Digitization of 100,000 pages of tices and the care of humanities collections at Oldenberg, George Segal, David Smith, Robert historic Indiana newspapers published between hundreds of museums, historical organizations, Smithson, and Frank Stella. 1836 and 1922 as part of the state’s participation libraries, and archives in the Upper Midwest. in the National Digital Newspaper Program. Activities include training workshops, disaster Detroit Institute of Arts response services, preservation needs assess‑ Detroit, MI Terry Birkett Kansas State Historical Society ments and surveys, the loan of environmental $300,000 Renovation of four art storage rooms Topeka, KS Michael A. Church monitoring equipment, and information and at the Detroit Institute of Arts, to house works $169,500 The digitization of 100,000 pages of outreach services. of Asian, Native American, pre‑Columbian, and Kansas newspaper titles, published between 1860 Oceanic art, and American, Canadian, African- to 1922, as part of the state’s participation in the American, and modern and contemporary National Digital Newspaper Program. furniture. DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 17 Minnesota Historical Society Oregon Shakespeare Festival Sanskrit Library St. Paul, MN Shengyin Xu Ashland, OR Maria DeWeerdt Providence, RI Peter M. Scharf $40,000 An interdisciplinary study of $200,000 The cataloging and digitization of $195,000 Cataloging of up to 1,700 Sanskrit energy‑efficient cold storage options for film, 3,098 items in an audiovisual collection that manuscripts in the Houghton Library at Harvard magnetic media, and microfilm collections documents the performance history of the Or‑ University for future digitization and integra‑ related to the history of Minnesota. egon Shakespeare Festival, among the oldest and tion into a digital library of Sanskrit. Ultimately, largest professional regional repertory theater about 75,000 manuscript pages would be made Mississippi Department of Archives and companies in the United States. The materi‑ searchable together with Sanskrit‑English lexica History als will be cataloged and digitized along with a and other linguistic tools developed for analysis Jackson, MS Julia Marks Young six‑volume, 900‑page descriptive finding aid for of machine‑readable texts. $274,390 Digitization of 100,000 pages of the audio collection. Mississippi newspapers published between 1836 Sanskrit Library and 1922, as part of the state’s participation in Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Providence, RI Peter M. Scharf the National Digital Newspaper Program. Philadelphia, PA Harry Philbrick $280,000 Development of software to produce $40,000 A planning grant to assess the envi‑ the partial transcription of Sanskrit manuscripts Monhegan Historical and Cultural Museum ronmental conditions for a collection of 12,000 for human validation. The project would also Association works of American art spanning more than integrate the manuscripts in a digital library to Monhegan, ME Jennifer Pye 250 years. extend the use of lexical resources and linguistic $25,500 Planning for improved environmental tools for full‑text searching and analysis. conditions to protect a collection of art, pho‑ Pepperdine University tography, and material culture that chronicles Malibu, CA Mark S. Roosa Society of Architectural Historians the history of Monhegan Island, Maine, rang‑ $32,735 Planning for temperature and humidity Chicago, IL Gabrielle Esperdy ing from early Native American fishing sites control, lighting and energy usage, and sustain‑ $150,000 The continuation and expansion of to an art colony that has flourished from the able architectural design for the holdings at Archipedia, an online state‑by‑state resource on mid‑1800s to the present. Pepperdine University Libraries Special Col‑ architectural history, by commissioning writing lections, including materials on the history of teams to document representative buildings Montana Historical Society American religion, the history of the university, from states not yet added to this resource, Helena, MT Molly Kruckenberg and the history of southern California. preparing essays on landscape and settlement/ $300,000 The digitization of 50,000 pages of urban settings, and incorporating materials from Montana’s newspapers published between 1860 Portland Art Museum existing and new print volumes of Buildings of and 1922, as part of the state’s participation in Portland, OR Donald Urquhart the United States. the National Digital Newspaper Program. $171,765 Cataloging and digitization of 7,750 works of Northwest regional art, including State Historical Society of North Dakota Museum of the City of New York textiles, baskets, masks, photography, paintings, Bismarck, ND Ann B. Jenks New York, NY Sarah M. Henry prints, and drawings. $285,000 The digitization of 100,000 pages of $43,331* Digitization, selective conservation, North Dakota newspapers published between and creation of online access to 1,578 paintings, Rochester Institute of Technology 1864 and1922, as part of the state’s participation drawings, and prints documenting the history Rochester, NY Jean‑Louis Bigourdan in the National Digital Newspaper Program. of the city of New York from the 17th through $180,000 The creation and testing of a freely the 20th century. available web‑based application, FilmCare.org SUNY Research Foundation, University that would provide an authoritative source at Buffalo Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Inc. of information and an easy‑to‑implement Buffalo, NY Patrick Ravines Boston, MA Janet H. Spitz decision‑making tool for preserving all types and $170,000 Graduate training for conservators $40,000 A planning project to establish proto‑ formats of film materials. specializing in the preservation of humanities cols and agreements for creating digital access collections, including historical objects, ethno‑ to 3,000 cartographic images, held by multiple Rochester Museum and Science Center graphic and archaeological artifacts, paintings, institutions, that document the Revolutionary Rochester, NY Kathryn E. Murano works on paper, books, and photographs. War era (1750–1800). $50,000 A planning grant to develop sustainable and efficient storage in a basement storage area Syracuse University Northeast Document Conservation Center for a portion of the museum’s 1.2 million ob‑ Syracuse, NY Sean Quimby Andover, MA William P. Veillette jects documenting western New York’s histori‑ $280,000 The second phase of digitization of $260,000 A preservation field service program cal, natural, cultural, and technological heritage. and creation of access to the papers of architect that provides surveys, workshops and seminars, and designer Marcel Breuer (1902–1981), technical consultations, and disaster assistance San Francisco Museum of Modern Art focusing on the second half of his career, and to libraries, archives, and historical organiza‑ San Francisco, CA Jill Sterrett enhanced functionality of the current online tions in the Northeast. $300,000 The purchase of storage furniture resource. for the museum’s 16,000‑item photography col‑ Oklahoma Historical Society lection, which spans the history of the medium Dhiru Ambrit Thadani Oklahoma City, OK Chad Williams from 1839 to the present day. The majority of Washington, DC $300,000 The digitization of 100,000 pages of the collections, which include representations of $28,500** The language of towns and cities: Oklahoma newspapers published between 1860 European and American modernism, surrealism, A visual dictionary. and 1922, as part of the state’s participation in the avant‑garde, Western landscape, and Japa‑ the National Digital Newspaper Program. nese photography, would be housed in a vault adjacent to a new photography study center.
DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 18 Tufts University will engage multiple partnering institutions— $275,000 The transcription and textual Medford, MA Gregory R. Crane including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, encoding of nearly 2,000 early English works $30,000** Center for Neuroscience Research Brigham Young University, Brown University, (1473–1700) for an open access collection on and Perseus collaboration. Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, travel‑related literature. The collection would the Newberry Library, and others—to con‑ also become part of the larger text‑encoded col‑ University of Arkansas, Fayetteville duct an initial analysis of pamphlet collections lection produced by the Text Creation Partner‑ Fayetteville, AR Jesse J. Casana published during the French Revolution era ship in collaboration with Early English Books $275,000 The second phase of a project to (1780–1810). Online. create a digital archaeological atlas of Old World archaeological sites with an emphasis on central University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign University of Nebraska, Lincoln and eastern China, southeastern Europe, central Champaign, IL Mara R. Wade Lincoln, NE Adrian Wisnicki Asia, the Indus Valley, and the African Sahel, $280,000 The digitization and indexing of 100 $275,000 The digitization and transcription of based on 3,000 CORONA satellite images, aug‑ books containing approximately 8,000 emblems 3,500 manuscript pages written by David Liv‑ menting images of the Near East that were the from the early modern period (1531–1750) along ingstone, pertaining to his exploration of Africa, focus of the first phase of the project. with the metadata enrichment of 244 additional for inclusion in the Livingstone Online website, emblem books, all of which would be combined along with the development of tools and ser‑ University of California, Berkeley in the online portal Emblematica Online. vices to enhance use by scholars and educators. Berkeley, CA Niek C. Veldhuis $194,152 Digitization and enhanced access to University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign University of Nebraska, Omaha sign lists compiled by Mesopotamian scribes Champaign, IL Marek Sroka Omaha, NE Thomas E. Gouttierre and scholars, which document the cuneiform $300,000 The digitization of 100,000 pages of $39,684 Planning the cataloging and digitization writing system. Editions with translations of Illinois newspapers published between 1860 and of a collection of ca. 12,000 maps and ancillary about 1,500 texts dating from 2,500 BCE to 1922, as part of the state’s participations in the materials on Afghanistan and Pakistan. CE 100 would be made freely accessible online National Digital Newspaper Program. with links to images of the cuneiform tablets, University of South Carolina Research indexes, bibliographic data, and glossaries. University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign Foundation Champaign, IL Jennifer E. Hain Teper Columbia, SC Heather Heckman University of California, Berkeley $300,000 An implementation project to install $229,997 Digitizing approximately 14,000 news‑ Berkeley, CA Lucinda Barnes new climate control and fire suppression systems reels from the Fox Movietone News Collection $300,000 An implementation project for the for the university’s Archives Research Center, from 1919 to 1934, and making these recordings purchase and construction of a cold-storage which holds a diverse collection of primary- freely available on the web. unit housing selected portions of the Pacific source materials for the study of American Film Archive, a collection of over 16,000 films music, academic student life, the history of com‑ University of South Carolina Research focusing primarily on the cinematic history of mercial advertising, and numerous other subjects. Foundation the Pacific Rim. Columbia, SC Kate Foster Boyd University of Chicago University of Kentucky Research Foundation $300,000 The digitization of 100,000 pages of Chicago, IL Matthew W. Stolper Lexington, KY Mary H. Molinaro South Carolina newspapers published between $280,000 Cataloging and digitizing ca. 2,000 ad‑ $139,596 The digitization of ten manuscript col‑ 1860 and 1922, as part of the state’s participa‑ ministrative documents dating around 500 BCE lections, comprising 132 linear feet, pertaining to tion in the National Digital Newspaper Program. from Persepolis, the chief imperial residence of the history of the coal and oil industries in the the Achaemenid kings in the homeland of the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian region. University of Texas, Austin ancient Persian Empire. Austin, TX Jo Ann Hackett University of Maine, Orono $280,000 Development of an electronic Biblical University of Florida Orono, ME Pauleena Mary MacDougall Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon, based on a print Gainesville, FL Frank Seidel $339,411 Digitization of an unpublished diction‑ dictionary published in 1907. The project would $247,862 The documentation of Baga Man‑ ary manuscript, creation of a revised and expand‑ update entries, incorporating the past century’s dori, a language spoken in the Basse‑Côte region ed database, and preparation of a web‑based and textual discovery and scholarship. of Guinea‑Conakry in West Africa, through print dictionary of Penobscot, an Algonquian the compilation of a trilingual dictionary (Baga language originally spoken in central and eastern University of Toronto Mandori‑English‑French), the development of a Maine. Drawing on original field notes and col‑ Toronto, Canada Antonette diPaolo Healey small corpus of texts and a grammatical outline, lected texts, the project would add 30,000‑45,000 $100,000* The preparation of entries for the and the training of community members in lexical items (words, phrases, sentences, notes, Dictionary of Old English, a historical dictionary linguistic documentation techniques. and examples of usage) to the current 17,000 based on the entire extant corpus of Old Eng‑ lexemes in the manuscript dictionary. lish texts written between CE 600 and 1150. University of Florida Libraries Gainesville, FL Patrick Reakes University of Maryland, College Park University of Virginia $325,000 Digitization of 100,000 pages of College Park, MD Jennie Levine Knies Charlottesville, VA Lise M. Dobrin historic Florida and Puerto Rico newspapers $325,000 Digitization of 100,000 pages of $13,289** Glossing and archiving Bukiyip published between 1836 and 1922, as part of Maryland newspapers published between 1836 Arapesh texts. the state’s and territory’s participation in the and 1922, as part of the state’s participation in National Digital Newspaper Program. the National Digital Newspaper Program. University of Wisconsin, Madison Madison, WI Joan H. Hall University of Florida Libraries University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $230,000 Development of a web‑based survey Gainesville, FL Matthew Loving Ann Arbor, MI Rebecca Anne Welzenbach instrument and methodology to conduct new $39,246 A twelve‑month planning project that
DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 19 fieldwork on American regional English. The ancient art of the Mediterranean and the Ameri‑ Bank Street College of Education survey would include large parts of the original cas, American and European painting, Asian art, New York, NY Lindsey Wycoff questionnaire used for compiling the Dictionary of decorative arts, and works on paper. $5,183 American Regional English plus questions designed to reflect changes since the 1960s. The results Worcester Polytechnic Institute Beloit College of a pilot survey for Wisconsin would be used Worcester, MA Kathleen A. Markees Beloit, WI Nicolette B. Meister to adjust the methodology before undertaking $300,000 A partial renovation of the Special $6,000 nationwide fieldwork. Collections wing of the George C. Gordon Library at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Beyond Baroque Foundation University of Wisconsin, Madison which holds a diverse collection of business Venice, CA Lenka Minkowski Madison, WI Matthew H. Edney records, personal papers, and rare books relating $5,564 $100,000* Continued development of the multi‑ to the history of industry and technical educa‑ volume reference work The History of Cartography tion in the United States. The proposed activities Board of Regents of the University of with particular attention to Volume Four on the will improve environmental conditions by isolat‑ Wisconsin System European Enlightenment, 1650–1800 and ing air handling from the main library building’s Milwaukee, WI Michael Doylen Volume 5 on the nineteenth century. system, enhancing extant fire protection systems, $3,802 and installing a new environmental control University of Wisconsin, Madison system for the special collections. Brookdale Community College Madison, WI Matthew H. Edney Lincroft, NJ Dale Daniels $220,000 Continued development of the multi‑ Preservation Assistance $5,819 volume reference work The History of Cartography Grants with particular attention to Volume Four on the California Baptist College Grants help small and mid-sized institutions improve European Enlightenment, 1650–1800, Volume Riverside, CA Steve Emerson their ability to preserve and care for their significant Five on the nineteenth century, and Volume Six $6,000 humanities collections. on the twentieth century. Chester County Historical Society AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard Vanderbilt University West Chester, PA Ellen Endslow of Hearing Nashville, TN David Allen Michelson $6,000 Washington, DC Gary Yates $16,613* Development of an online portal to $5,998 reference resources on Syriac studies, includ‑ Chicano Resource Center, County of ing an encyclopedia, a prosopography tool for LA Public Library Alice Ferguson Foundation, Inc. information related to Syriac sources, a classified Los Angeles, CA Andrew Chlebek Accokeek, MD Lori Arguelles bibliography, and other research tools. The por‑ $6,000 $4,700 tal would integrate and link information about the ancient sources and scholarly works. City of Boynton Beach American Numismatic Society Boynton Beach, FL Janet M. DeVries New York, NY Elizabeth Hahn Walters Art Museum $6,000 $6,000 Baltimore, MD Kate Blanch $39,720 Planning for the creation of access City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs Amon Carter Museum to the museum’s curatorial files, representing Dallas, TX John Slate Fort Worth, TX Samuel Duncan approximately 262 linear feet of correspon‑ $6,000 $6,000 dence, photograph albums of exhibit installa‑ tions, an object index catalog, and bibliographic Clark County Historical Society Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center references for an encyclopedic collection of Springfield, OH Virginia Weygandt Anchorage, AK Sara J. Piasecki 35,000 works of art that were collected from $3,311 $5,850 the mid‑19th century through the present and range from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance Clifton Park‑Halfmoon Public Library Appalachian Mountain Club works to decorative arts and modern European Clifton Park, NY Gail Winters Boston, MA Rebecca Maxwell Fullerton painting. $5,432 $5,500 West Virginia University Research Corporation Colgate University Appalachian State University Morgantown, WV John Cuthbert Hamilton, NY Sarah Keen Boone, NC Pamela Mitchem $135,000 Digitization of 100,000 pages of West $4,754 $6,000 Virginia newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, as part of the state’s participation in Country Music Foundation, Inc. Atlanta University Center ‑ Robert W. Wood‑ the National Digital Newspaper Program. Nashville, TN Lee Boulie ruff Library $5,971 Atlanta, GA Andrea Jackson Worcester Art Museum $5,970 Worcester, MA Rita Albertson County of Chester, Chester County Archives $50,000 Planning for sustainable storage solu‑ West Chester, PA Laurie A. Rofini Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary tions and upgrading of climate control systems $5,985 Austin, TX Kristy Kay Sorensen to improve preservation of and access to an $6,000 encyclopedic collection of 35,000 works of art County of Yolo that span the world’s cultures, with highlights in Woodland, CA Patricia M. Wong $6,000 DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 20 Cranbrook Educational Community Manitou Springs Historical Society Stearns History Museum Bloomfield Hills, MI Judy Dyki Manitou Springs, CO Rachel Higgins St. Cloud, MN Sarah Warmka $6,000 $6,000 $5,923
Denver Botanic Gardens Mennonite Historians of Eastern Texas State Library and Archives Denver, CO Allaina Wallace Pennsylvania Commission $6,000 Harleysville, PA Forrest Moyer Austin, TX Alana Inman $6,000 $6,000 Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City, NC Jean B. Bischoff Muncie Public Library Torrington Historical Society, Inc. $5,846 Muncie, IN Beth Kroehler Torrington, CT Gail Kruppa $3,200 $5,987 Emerson College Boston, MA Christina J. Zamon Museum of the Grand Prairie University of Akron, Main Campus $5,035 Mahomet, IL Barbara Oehlschlaeger‑Garvey Akron, OH Cathy Lee Faye $5,978 $6,000 Fresno County Public Library Fresno, CA Nance Espinosa New Mexico Highlands University University of Alaska, Fairbanks $6,000 Las Vegas, NM Cheryl Zebrowski Fairbanks, AK Leonard Kamerling $6,000 $6,000 Fundacion Luis Munoz Marin San Juan, PR Soraya Serra‑Collazo Northern Arizona University University of Arkansas, Fayetteville $3,928 Flagstaff, AZ Jonathan Marc Pringle Fayetteville, AR Mary C. Suter $6,000 $5,797 George Mason University Fairfax, VA Yvonne Carignan Northern Kentucky University W. Frank University of California, Davis $6,000 Steely Library Davis, CA Hulleah June Tsinhnahjinnie Highland Heights, KY Lois Hamill $6,000 Girard College Development Fund $6,000 Philadelphia, PA Elizabeth M. Laurent University of Southern Mississippi $5,996 Northside Education Foundation Hattiesburg, MS Diane DeCesare Ross San Antonio, TX Cassandra Miranda $6,000 Hancock Shaker Village, Inc. $6,000 Pittsfield, MA Lesley C Herzberg University of Wisconsin, Madison $6,000 People, Inc. Madison, WI Richard Slaughter Williamsville, NY Douglas Farley $6,000 Henry Morrison Flagler Museum $6,000 Palm Beach, FL Tracy Kamerer Vailima Foundation $6,000 Petterson Museum of Intercultural Art St. Helena, CA Marissa Schleicher Claremont, CA Carol Gil $6,000 Hill‑Stead Museum $4,997 Farmington, CT Melanie Bourbeau Valparaiso University $6,000 Phoenix Art Museum Valparaiso, IN Judith Miller Phoenix, AZ Alexis Gould $5,845 Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and $4,855 Orange County Virginia Historical Society Hillsborough, NC Brandie Elise Fields Providence Public Library Richmond, VA Paulette F. Schwarting $6,000 Providence, RI Jordan Goffin $6,000 $3,575 Historical Society of Sleepy Hollow and Wildlife Conservation Society Tarrytown Sam Davis Memorial Association Bronx, NY Kerry Prendergast Tarrytown, NY Sara Mascia Smyrna, TN Christina Runkel $4,509 $6,000 $6,000 Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Inc. Kankakee Couny Historical Society Schenectady County Historical Society Winter Garden, FL Kay Cappleman Kankakee, IL Connie Licon Schenectady, NY Ryan Mahoney $6,000 $3,574 $4,005 Yankton County Historical Society Karuk Tribe of California Southern University at Shreveport Yankton, SD Crystal Nelson Happy Camp, CA Helene Rouvier Shreveport, LA Raegan Stearns $6,000 $6,000 $3,640
Lyman Allyn Art Museum New London, CT Carolyn Grosch $6,000 DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 21 Division of Public Programs
Through the Division of Public Programs, NEH supports humanities programs that reach large and diverse public audiences through radio and television programs, interpretive exhibitions, reading and film discussion series, lectures, websites, conferences, and symposia.
DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 22 Humanities Projects in North Georgia College and State University television documentary, website, and DVD that Libraries and Archives Dahlonega, GA Shawn Tonner examine the rich and complex intermingling of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Spain Grants support the use and interpretation of collections Ohio Historical Society from the Muslim conquest in 711 through the in libraries and archives. Columbus, OH Charles Wash consolidation of Christian power in the 15th century. Mid America Arts Alliance Ottawa University Kansas City, MO Kathy Dowell Ottawa, KS Gloria F. Creed Dikeogu Catticus Corporation $700,000 Mid America Arts Alliance’s proposal Berkeley, CA Jason Cohn to sustain the NEH on the Road Traveling Peabody Institute Library $40,000 Development of a sixty- minute Exhibition Program. Peabody, MA Kelley Rae Unger documentary film examining the 1978 campaign for Proposition 13 in California led by Howard Small Grants to Libraries Poplar Creek Public Library Jarvis and its subsequent ramifications nationally Grants in the amount of $1,500 to support public Streamwood, IL Mary Tetzlaff on tax policy. humanities programs in libraries related to the series America’s Music: A Film History of our Popular Providence Public Library Center for Independent Documentary Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway. Providence, RI Louise Moulton Sharon, MA Bestor Cram $40,000 Development of a sixty-minute Assumption Parish Library Rollins College documentary film on Boston civil rights activist Napoleonville, LA Teri Maggio Winter Park, FL Susan Montgomery William Monroe Trotter’s effort to launch a national boycott of the 1915 film Birth of a Nation. Aurora University Skokie Public Library Aurora, IL Amy Schlumpf Manion Skokie, IL Amita K. Lonial Center for Independent Documentary Sharon, MA Gaspar Gonzalez Calcasieu Parish Public Library Southern Illinois University, Carbondale $40,000 Development of a two-hour documen‑ Lake Charles, LA Danielle McGavock Carbondale, IL Elizabeth Cox tary film on the history of pioneering African- American baseball players who followed Jackie Camden County College University of Dayton Robinson and integrated both minor and major Blackwood, NJ Barbara Laynor Dayton, OH Katherine Kelly league baseball.
City of Pensacola West Florida Public University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture Library Chapel Hill, NC Amanda Hughes New York, NY Lisa Ades Pensacola, FL Beth Freeman $40,000 The development of a ninety-minute University of Texas, Pan American documentary film that tells the story of the Coastal Carolina University Edinburg, TX Virginia Haynie Gause 500,000 Jewish American men and women who Conway, SC Patti Edwards fought in World War II. Vineyard Haven Public Library East Meadow Public Library Vineyard Haven, MA Betty Burton City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture East Meadow, NY Judith Ann Schanzer New York, NY Michael Kantor Wartburg College $125,000 The first episode in a series of three Georgia Southern University Research and Waverly, IA Jill Westen one-hour programs and a companion website on Service Foundation comic book heroes as reflections of American Statesboro, GA W. Bede Mitchell Washington Center for the Performing Arts cultural values from 1938 to the present. Olympia, WA Kevin Boyer Hazard Community and Technical College City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture Hazard, KY Cathy Branson Youngstown State University New York, NY Ric Burns Youngstown, OH Michael Crist $500,000 Production of a two-hour documentary Hill House Association film examining the decades long struggles and Pittsburgh, PA Terri Baltimore Humanities Projects triumphs of Chinese immigrants in America in in Media the period leading up to and following the 1882 Jackson Hinds Library System Chinese Exclusion Act. Jackson, MS Kimberly Corbett Grants support the planning, scripting, and production of television and radio programs for general audiences. Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc. Joliet Junior College New York, NY Barbara Berney Catticus Corporation Joliet, IL Susan Prokopeak $350,000 Production of a ninety-minute docu‑ Berkeley, CA Richard L. Wormser mentary film exploring the civil rights movement $500,000 Production of a two-hour documentary Louisville Free Public Library Foundation from the perspective of health care professionals, film about the rise and fall of the Communist Louisville, KY Scott Condra grassroots organizers, and policy makers who Party in America. worked to integrate healthcare in the United Midwestern State University States. Wichita Falls, TX Clara Latham Catticus Corporation Berkeley, CA Michael Schwarz George Mason University $225,000 Production of a two-hour historical Museum L A Fairfax, VA Kelly Schrum Lewiston, ME Kate Griffith $250,000 Production of an interactive, multifac‑
DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 23 eted website that would serve as an anchor for Tulane University examining the history and impact of the Dust the Popular Romance Project, a multimedia proj‑ New Orleans, LA Nicholas R. Spitzer Bowl of the 1930s. ect on the writing, production, and consumption $146,000 Production of six two-hour radio docu‑ of popular romance literature. mentaries and four one-hour programs exploring American Writers Museum Foundation American musical culture to be featured on the Washington, DC Andrew Anway Harvard University “American Routes” radio series. $30,000** American Writers Museum launch pad. Cambridge, MA Peter Galison $150,000 Final production of a ninety-minute Video Veracity, Inc Aquila Theatre Company Inc. feature documentary film analyzing the cul‑ New Orleans, LA Dawn C. Logsdon New York, NY Peter Meineck tural and political meanings of the problem of $40,000 Development of a ninety-minute docu‑ $300,000 Implementation of scholar led read‑ nuclear waste. mentary and related web programs on the history ing/performance and discussion programs in and current state of public libraries. twenty locations, a website, and a mobile app Independent FilmWorks, Inc. focused on the ways classical Greek and Roman New York, NY Tina DiFeliciantonio WGBH Educational Foundation drama continue to resonate today for veteran and $40,000 Development of an eighty-seven-min‑ Boston, MA Mark Samels public audiences. ute documentary presenting the stories of four $500,000 Production of a two-hour documentary torture victims as they work towards healing and film that uses the short lived presidency of James Association for Public Art recovery. A. Garfield as a lens to explore numerous political, Philadelphia, PA Penny Balkin Bach social, cultural, and scientific issues related to the $54,000* Implementation of a multiplatform Independent Television Service United States at the time. interpretive audio program for thirty-six outdoor San Francisco, CA Dennis Palmieri sculptures in Philadelphia. $7,500** Created Equal social screenings. WNET New York, NY Stephen Segaller Baltimore Museum of Art Language Conservancy $500,000 Production of six one-hour docu‑ Baltimore, MD David Park Curry Bloomington, IN Wilhelm Meya mentaries and a website on the plays of William $90,750* Implementation of the reinstallation $500,000 Production of a sixty-minute docu‑ Shakespeare. of the galleries of American fine and mentary, an interactive website, and an open decorative art. source online discussion platform for use by Women Make Movies, Inc. scholars and the general public exploring the New York, NY Melissa Haizlip Baltimore Museum of Art cultural significance of the Lakota language and $40,000 Development of a ninety-minute televi‑ Baltimore, MD Kathryn Gunsch efforts to save it. sion documentary, an interactive website, a book, $150,000 Implementation of the reinstallation and secondary and post secondary curriculum of the African art collection and related digital Minnesota Public Radio about the first national television showcase of interpretive tools. St. Paul, MN Stephen Smith black culture and its creator, Ellis Haizlip. $33,700 Development of a one-hour radio Bostonian Society program and a companion website exploring World Music Productions Boston, MA Donald C. Carleton Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s extensive use Brooklyn, NY W. Sean Barlow $20,000** 1763 Peace of Paris commemoration. of radio to communicate to the American public $180,000 Production of ten new radio episodes, in the 1930s and 1940s. substantive updates of five existing Afropop California State University, Monterey Bay Worldwide “Hip Deep” programs exploring con‑ Seaside, CA Rina Benmayor Northwest Documentary Arts & Media temporary African music, education materials, and $40,000 Planning for a 1,293 square foot perma‑ Portland, OR Ian McCluskey an outreach and evaluation campaign. nent exhibition, a digital walking tour, and inter‑ $40,000 Development of a film about three cultural dialogs for a new museum at the Salinas French explorers who kayaked 900 miles from Chinatown Cultural Center and Museum. Green River, Wyoming, to Lee’s Ferry, Arizona, Humanities Projects in documenting the American West in 1938. Museums and Historical Carnegie Institute Organizations Pittsburgh, PA Louise W. Lippincott OUR L.A. $50,000* Implementation of a multimedia trav‑ Los Angeles, CA Lyn Goldfarb Grants support a wide range of public humanities pro‑ eling exhibition examining the work of African- $500,000 Production of a ninety-minute docu‑ grams, including interpretive exhibitions, websites, reading American photographer Teenie Harris of mentary film exploring the life and career of Los and film discussion programs, and symposia, conferences Pittsburgh. Angeles mayor Tom Bradley (1917–1998), first and lecture series. Children’s Museum of Manhattan African-American mayor of Los Angeles, who New York, NY Andrew Scott Ackerman was elected in 1973 and served until 1993. American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education $300,000 A museum exhibition and related public programs exploring how cultural tradi‑ Silk Road Project, Inc. Washington, DC Mabel C. McKinney Browning tions, faith, and history have shaped the lives of Boston, MA Cristin Canterbury Bagnall $40,000 Planning of four public program mod‑ Muslims in the United States and internationally. $400,000 Production of a documentary about ules to promote community discussion of major the Silk Road Ensemble, a collective of virtuoso topics relating to citizenship in the 21st century. Chippewa Valley Museum musicians from more than twenty countries in Eau Claire, WI Susan M. McLeod Asia, Europe, and the Americas. American Library Association Chicago, IL Susan E. Brandehoff $20,000* Implementation of “Intersections,” a $263,000 Implementation of a traveling exhibi‑ new permanent exhibition that chronicles the tion and public programs for twenty-five libraries history of community formation and immigra‑ tion in Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley.
DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 24 Confluences Jan Karski Educational Foundation $125,000 Implementation of the reinstallation of Vancouver, WA Jane Jacobsen Raleigh, NC Wanda Marie Urbanska the permanent exhibition, a catalog, and educa‑ $40,000 Planning of a website that examines $30,000** The World Knew: Jan Karski’s mission tional programs exploring Mexican art and culture Native American history and culture at six sites for humanity. on both sides of the American border. along the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon. Jewish Museum New York Council for the Humanities New York, NY Maurice Berger New York, NY Erika Halstead Defiant Requiem Foundation $40,000 Planning for a traveling exhibition, a $195,000 Implementation of a multisession facili‑ Washington, DC Louisa Hollman catalog, a website, and programs about the influ‑ tated reading and discussion series at forty venues $30,000** Defiant Requiem film guide. ence of avant garde art on the development of involving twelve books on Muslim culture and the network television from the early 1940s through distribution of these books to an additional two Duke University the mid 1960s. hundred venues. Durham, NC Sarah W. Schroth $120,000 Implementation of a traveling exhibi‑ Journey Through Hallowed Ground New-York Historical Society tion and a catalog on African-American painter Partnership New York, NY Louise Mirrer Archibald Motley in the context of early Waterford, VA Beth Erickson $300,000 Implementation of an exhibition and twentieth century modernism. $38,100* Implementation of a project for middle educational initiative exploring the Chinese- school students to research, script, and produce American experience. Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. vodcasts that interpret thirteen Civil War National Waltham, MA Kathryn P. Dietz Parks for visitors. Ohio Historical Society $9,050** Working with scholars. Columbus, OH Sharon E. Dean Library of America $40,000 Planning for a five thousand square foot Friends of Iolani Palace New York, NY Max Rudin permanent exhibition, a website, and educational Honolulu, HI Heather Diamond $125,000 Implementation of a multiformat materials examining the forced removal of ten $40,000 Planning of a series of permanent project that would encourage public explora‑ Native American tribes from Ohio in the early exhibits at Iolani Palace exploring the complex tion of the transformative impact and contested nineteenth century and the historical and contem‑ story of Hawai’i and its contact with Europe, meanings of the Civil War through the words of porary impact on these tribes. Asia, and the United States in the late 19th a wide variety of first-hand participants. century. Pacific Symphony Maryland Commission on African American Santa Ana, CA Joseph Horowitz Henry Street Settlement History and Culture $300,000 A series of multimedia performances New York, NY Susan LaRosa Annapolis, MD Stephany Brown Neal and related symposia on the music of Antonín $40,000 Planning for an interactive web based $28,354** The Color in Freedom Experience: Dvorákv (1841–1904) and Charles Ives (1874–1954). and in-person interpretation of the Henry Street An interactive journey along the Underground Settlement, plus associated walking tours, school Railroad. Peabody Essex Museum programs, and lectures. Salem, MA Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts $40,000 Planning of a traveling exhibition, a cata‑ Humanities Nebraska Minneapolis, MN Jan Lodewijk Grootaers log, an online publication, and programs exploring Lincoln, NE Christopher Sommerich $40,000 Planning of a traveling exhibition exam‑ the global reach of the Dutch Republic in the $33,300* Implementation of a three year Chau‑ ining the social and historical significance of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the role tauqua program in seven rural Nebraska commu‑ diverse forms of Islamic art and architecture that that Asian art and culture played in Dutch life. nities on issues connected to significant legislative have developed in Africa over the last 1,500 years. acts that shaped the settlement of the region. Philadelphia Museum of Art Museum of American Finance Philadelphia, PA Hyunsoo Woo International Coalition of Historic Site New York, NY David J. Cowen $450,000 Implementation of a traveling exhibi‑ Museums of Conscience $30,000** Centennial Exhibit: New York Federal tion, a catalog, a website, and public programs on New York, NY Sarah Pharaon Reserve Bank. the art of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910). $275,000 Implementation of guided dialog pro‑ grams on immigration and American citizenship Mystic Seaport Museum Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association to be held at twenty immigration, civil rights, and Mystic, CT Susan S. Funk Deerfield, MA Timothy C. Neumann ethnic identity museums across the country. $450,000 Implementation of a long term $40,000 Planning for multiformat prototypes exhibition, a website, and public programs at the (website, maps, iPad tablet tour, exhibits, archaeo‑ Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum Mystic Seaport Museum that examine the broad logical field school, and other public programs) New York, NY Jessica Lee Williams economic, social, and cultural impact of whaling. that uncover some of the forgotten history of $260,000 Implementation of a long term, African Americans in early rural New England. multimedia interpretation of nine restored spaces National Museum of American Jewish History aboard the Intrepid Museum’s historic aircraft Philadelphia, PA Josh Perelman Rebecca Solnit carrier. $300,000 Im plementation of an artifact-based San Francisco, CA traveling exhibition, a smaller panel version to be $30,000** Unfathomable City: A New Orleans atlas. Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature displayed in baseball parks, a catalog, a website, Iowa City, IA John P. Kenyon and related public programs. The Film Foundation, Inc. $30,000** On the Fly: Writers on writing. Los Angeles, CA Jennifer Ahn National Museum of Mexican Art $30,000** The story of movies. Chicago, IL Cesareo Moreno
DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 25 Tom Lea Institute films on Civil Rights history The( Abolitionists, Clymer Museum of Art El Paso, TX Adair Wakefield Margo Slavery by Another Name, Freedom Riders, and The Ellensburg, WA Edna Madsen $10,000** LBJ Conference. Loving Story) accompanied by a website, educa‑ tional resources, and discussion guides, to public Decatur Public Library Tribeca Film Institute libraries and schools to encourage public conver‑ Decatur, IL Robert Edwards New York, NY Timothy Gunn sations about the changing meanings of freedom $75,000 Implementation of a six-part series of and equality in U.S. history. Scheduled to launch Elmhurst Historical Museum public programs in collaboration with the Ameri‑ in 2013 to coincide with the 150th anniversary Elmhurst, IL Brian F. Bergheger can Library Association exploring American of the Emancipation Proclamation and continue musical traditions in the 20th century to be held over three years. Kansas African American Museum, Inc. at fifty libraries. Wichita, KS Carole Branda Independent Feature Project University of Missouri, Columbia New York, NY Robert Bahar Oregon Historical Society Columbia, MO Fraser Berkley Hudson $70,000 Development of a sixty-minute docu‑ Portland, OR Marsha Matthews $40,000 Planning of a traveling exhibition of mentary film about the hundreds of thousands fifty-five to seventy-five large-format photo‑ of children who were taken from their parents by Port Huron Museum graphs, a website, and related public and scholarly authorities and placed into adoption during and Port Huron, MI Susan Bennett programming that examine the lives of blacks after Franco’s forty-year dictatorship in Spain. and whites in the rural, racially segregated com‑ Ravalli County Museum munity of Columbus, Mississippi. International Documentary Foundation Hamilton, MT Tamar Lisa Stanley Los Angeles, CA Ben Loeterman Wadsworth Atheneum $500,000 Production of a sixty-minute television St. Bonaventure University Hartford, CT Robin Jaffee Frank documentary exploring Israeli-Palestinian rela‑ St. Bonaventure, NY Evelyn Jones Penman $300,000 Implementation of a traveling exhibi‑ tions in the years before World War I when the tion, a catalog, and public programs about the Ottoman Empire was crumbling. St. Mary’s College of California history of Coney Island and its depiction in art Moraga, CA Carrie Brewster and popular culture over the last 150 years. Raymar Educational Films, Inc. Oakland, CA Erica Marcus Symphony in the Flint Hills, Inc. Walters Art Museum $315,000 Production of a one-hour documentary Strong City, KS Sandy Dorsey Baltimore, MD Amy Landau film examining the African community taking $300,000 Implementation of a traveling exhibi‑ root in Guangzhou, China, and the resulting ten‑ Ursinus College tion, a catalog, and programs that present the arts sions and cross cultural exchange. Collegeville, PA Susan Shifrin of Islamic cultures from the point of view of patrons and artists from various historical periods Bridging Cultures Bookshelf Washakie Museum across the Islamic world. Worland, WY Leah E. Stabenow, A cooperative agreement William F. Laman Public Library West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc American Library Association N. Little Rock, AR Debra Susan Wood Pensacola, FL Gale Messerschmidt Chicago, IL Lainie Castle $1,000** Simeon Wright Lecture in conjunction $25,717 Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: “Muslim with NEH on the Road exhibition. Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Lives and Cultures.” Education Foundation Red Cloud, NE Leslie C. Levy Bridging Cultures NEH on the Road Grants support projects that examine international and Grants of $1,000 support ancillary pubic humanities transnational themes in the humanities. programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling Humanities Indicators exhibitions. Center for Independent Documentary American Academy of Arts and Sciences Sharon, MA Gaspar Gonzalez Arnot Art Museum Association, Inc. Cambridge, MA John E. Tessitore $70,000 The development of a final shooting Elmira, NY Richard F. Pirozzolo $300,000 American Academy/NEH Partnership script and a trailer for a ninety-minute documen‑ for the Humanities Indicators. tary about the cultural impact of Hollywood Bell County Museum movies in mid-20th-century Cuba. Belton, TX Cynthia Evans The Jefferson Lecture Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History Waltham, MA Michal A. Goldman Bryan, TX Deborah Fay Cowman Martin C. Scorsese $600,000 Production of a ninety-minute New York, NY documentary film examining the life and career Brigham City Museum and Gallery $10,000** 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), the iconic Brigham City, UT Kaia Landon Humanities Egyptian figure who led Egypt from 1952 until his death. Brown County Historical Society, Inc. Hiawatha, KS Eric Oldham Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History New York, NY Susan F. Saidenberg Chippewa Valley Museum $817,670 The distribution of four NEH-funded Eau Claire, WI Carrie M. Ronnander
DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 26 Division of Research Programs
Through the Division of Research Programs, NEH assists scholars who are engaged in examining ideas, making inquiries, and assembling evidence that leads to a better understanding of human thought, societies, and cultures worldwide.
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 27 Fellowships and Stipends David Andrew Biggs Heather Diane DeHaan Riverside, CA Johnson City, NY Grants go to individuals to support up to a year of $50,400 $6,000 humanities research. Johanna Bockman Stephen D. Dumont Margaret Abruzzo Fairfax, VA Notre Dame, IN Tuscaloosa, AL $6,000 $50,400 $6,000 Nicholas B. Breyfogle Christopher John Dunn William Garrett Acree Bexley, OH New Orleans, LA St. Louis, MO $50,400 $50,400 $50,400 Joshua Brown Louise Nelson Dyble Jennifer L. Andersen New York, NY Berkeley, CA Pomona, CA $25,200 $6,000 $50,400 Jan Kathy Bulman Kathryn Jean Edgerton Tarpley Edward E. Andrews Montgomery, AL San Diego, CA Providence, RI $6,000 $6,000 $6,000 Susan Burch Bonnie Effros Adam Arenson Middlebury, VT Gainesville, FL El Paso, TX $6,000 $6,000 $50,400 Thomas E. Burman A. Roger Ekirch Paul S. Atkins Knoxville, TN Roanoke, VA Seattle, WA $50,400 $50,400 $6,000 Alexander Byrne Huda Jawdat Fakhreddine Dabney A. Bankert Cambridge, MA Middlebury, VT Staunton, VA $6,000 $50,400 $50,400 Ernesto B. Capello Christopher Faraone Richmond Tyler Barbour Saint Paul, MN Chicago, IL Corvallis, OR $50,400 $42,000 $50,400 Kerry Ryan Chance Gregory Panos Fields Gregory Peter Barnhisel Cambridge, MA Edwardsville, IL Pittsburgh, PA $6,000 $6,000 $50,400 Claudia S. Chang Ian Finseth Sahar Bazzaz Sweet Briar, VA Denton, TX Cambridge, MA $50,400 $6,000 $6,000 David A. Chang Marilyn R. Fischer Richard J. Bell Minneapolis, MN Dayton, OH University Park, MD $50,400 $50,400 $6,000 Robert Andrew Chodat Simeon Floyd Mara H. Benjamin Boston, MA Nijmegen, The Netherlands Mendota Heights, MN $50,400 $50,400 $6,000 Sharika D. Crawford Robert Forbes Julie Berebitsky Annapolis, MD New Haven, CT Sewanee, TN $6,000 $50,400 $6,000 Bryan J. Cuevas Steven Michael Friedson Michael Thomas Bernath Tallahassee, FL Denton, TX Palmetto Bay, FL $50,400 $29,400 $6,000 Adam Jeffrey Davis Kathryn H. Fuller Seeley Jonathan Best Bexley, OH Leander, TX Middlefield, CT $50,400 $33,600 $50,400
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 28 Tejaswini Ganti Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Cherilyn May Lacy New York, NY Albuquerque, NM Oneonta, NY $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Sandra L. Garner Janna Israel Benjamin Lindsay Lapidus Oxford, OH Richmond, VA Brooklyn, NY $6,000 $6,000 $50,400
Eleonory Gilburd Lisa Marie Jakelski Tirza True Latimer New York, NY Rochester, NY Kensington, CA $50,400 $6,000 $6,000
Jonathan Gilmore Scott D. Jenkins Sonia Song Ha Lee New York, NY Lawrence, KS Columbus, OH $33,600 $50,400 $6,000
Edmund J. Goehring Benjamin Heber Johnson Scott Cameron Levi London, Canada Chicago, IL Columbus, OH $6,000 $50,400 $50,400
David Malcolm Gordon Joan Marie Johnson Nathaniel Benjamin Levtow Brunswick, ME Evanston, IL Missoula, MT $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Amy Sophia Greenberg Jennifer Ann Jolly Juliette Levy State College, PA Ithaca, NY Riverside, CA $50,400 $37,800 $6,000
Sandra M. Gustafson Alan Sidney Kahan Heping Liu Chicago, IL Paris, France Wellesley, MA $50,400 $50,400 $50,400
Steven Howard Hahn Richard Kalmin Mireya Loza Bryn Mawr, PA Bronx, NY Chicago, IL $50,400 $50,400 $6,000
Stanley Harrold Debra Kaplan Loren Diller Lybarger Orangeburg, SC Bronx, NY Athens, OH $50,400 $6,000 $50,400
Wil Haygood Daniel Young Hoon Kim Nancy K. MacLean Washington, DC Providence, RI Durham, NC $27,500 $6,000 $50,400
Colin M. Heydt Tomomi Kinukawa Cristina Magaldi Tampa, FL Oakland, CA Potomac, MD $6,000 $50,400 $25,200
Stephen E. Hinds John Koegel Maureen Elizabeth Mahon Seattle, WA Anaheim, CA Brooklyn, NY $50,400 $50,400 $50,400
David Paul Hochfelder Dior Konate Susan L. Martin Marquez Albany, NY Orangeburg, SC Highland Park, NJ $6,000 $42,000 $50,400
Dorothy Louise Hodgson Eric John Kondratieff Pedro Mateo Pedro Highland Park, NJ Bowling Green, KY Indianapolis, IN $50,400 $6,000 $50,400
Heather Hurst Kathy M. Krause Elaine T. May Saratoga Springs, NY Kansas City, MO Minneapolis, MN $6,000 $50,400 $50,400
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 29 Kelly Jean Mays Sarah Elizabeth Owens Virginia Reinburg Las Vegas, NV Charleston, SC Chestnut Hill, MA $50,400 $50,400 $6,000
Babacar Mbaye Michael Pasquier Daniel Reynolds Kent, OH Baton Rouge, LA Grinnell, IA $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Andrew Lockwood McClellan Miriam Audrey Pawel Cristian Horacio Ricci Belmont, MA Pasadena, CA Glendora, CA $6,000 $50,400 $50,400
Scott Card McGill Michael G. Peletz Sara Ritchey Houston, TX Atlanta, GA Lafayette, LA $50,400 $50,400 $6,000
Mitchell Bennett Merback Elaine Pena Marion Elizabeth Rodgers Baltimore, MD Washington, DC Washington, DC $6,000 $6,000 $6,000
Joanna Rachel Merwood Salisbury Antje Pfannkuchen Philip Rupprecht New York, NY Carlisle, PA Durham, NC $6,000 $6,000 $50,400
Susan Ford Morgan Dirk Peter Philipsen Mark Edward Santow Los Angeles, CA Durham, NC Providence, RI $6,000 $33,600 $6,000
John Ross Morrison Stacey Lynn Pigg Priya Satia Brooklyn, NY Orlando, FL Stanford, CA $50,400 $6,000 $50,400
Daniel Wayne Mosser Karen Carol Pinto Eric R. Schlereth Blacksburg, VA Fairfield, PA Richardson, TX $6,000 $50,400 $6,000
Mona Narain Amanda H. Podany David Schorr Fort Worth, TX Los Angeles, CA Jerualem, Israel $6,000 $33,600 $50,400
Jeffrey D. Needell Frances Pohl Mark Schroeder Gainesville, FL Claremont, CA Santa Barbara, CA $50,400 $6,000 $50,400
Bruce E. Nevin David William Porter Anna Schur Edgartown, MA Baton Rouge, LA Keene, NH $50,400 $50,400 $6,000
Danny Noorlander Christopher Powers Leslie A. Schwalm Beloit, WI Boqueron, PR Iowa City, IA $6,000 $50,400 $6,000
Tammy Nyden Sara Elizabeth Pugach David Javad Sehat Grinnell, IA Los Angeles, CA Atlanta, GA $6,000 $50,400 $6,000
Conor Andreas O’Dwyer Mary Quinlan McGrath Ronit Seter Cambridge, MA Chicago, IL Fairfax, VA $6,000 $50,400 $50,400
John Matthew Oksanish Susan Wright Rather Carl Shaw Winston Salem, NC Austin, TX Sarasota, FL $6,000 $50,400 $6,000
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 30 Angela Marie Smith William Stone Waldron Collaborative Research Lexington, VA Middlebury, VT Grants support up to three years of research undertaken $6,000 $33,600 by a team of scholars and fellowship programs at indepen‑ dent research institutions. Stacey Leigh Smith Shannon Drysdale Walsh Corvallis, OR Duluth, MN Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library $6,000 $6,000 Foundation Springfield, IL Daniel W. Stowell Suzanne Eileen Smith Isaac Amitai Weiner $300,000* The preparation for publication of Alexandria, VA Columbus, OH materials for an online edition of the papers of $50,400 $6,000 Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th president of the United States. Scott Sowerby James L. W. West Evanston, IL University Park, PA American Academy in Rome $6,000 $50,400 New York, NY Adele Chatfield Taylor $228,600 Sixteen months of stipend support Elizabeth A Spiller Ashli White (1.5 fellowships) per year for three years and a Tallahassee, FL Miami, FL contribution to defray costs associated with the $25,200 $50,400 selection of fellows. Marcia Carol Stephenson Dana A. Williams American Council of Learned Societies West Lafayette, IN Bowie, MD New York, NY Steven C. Wheatley $50,400 $37,800 $25,000* The equivalent of 3 twelve-month fellowships and 1 six-month fellowship a year Zoe Sara Strother Stewart Winger for three years. New York, NY Bloomington, IL $50,400 $50,400 American Council of Learned Societies New York, NY Steven C. Wheatley Elaine Condouris Stroud Laura Vera Harwood Wittman $66,133* The equivalent of 4 twelve-month Madison, WI San Francisco, CA fellowships a year for three years. $6,000 $50,400 American Council of Learned Societies Jody Swilky Justin Wolfe New York, NY Steven C. Wheatley Des Moines, IA New Orleans, LA $61,600 Sixteen months of stipend support for $6,000 $6,000 1 to 2 fellowships for one year and a contribu‑ tion to defray costs associated with the selection Amie L. Thomasson Nazera S. Wright of fellows. Coral Gables, FL Lexington, KY $50,400 $6,000 American Council of Learned Societies New York, NY Steven C. Wheatley Deborah G. Tor Louise Conrad Young $156,825 Twenty-seven months of stipend Notre Dame, IN Madison, WI support (3 to 4 fellowships) per year for three $50,400 $50,400 years and a contribution to defray costs associ‑ ated with the selection of fellows. Rachel Trubowitz Tara Zahra Durham, NH Chicago, IL American Folklore Society $6,000 $50,400 Columbus, OH Bill Ivey $15,000** China US Intangible Cultural Hugh Bayard Urban Elizabeth Ann Zanoni Heritage Conference. Columbus, OH Norfolk, VA $25,200 $6,000 Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine Vessela Valiavitcharska John Theodore Zilcosky Lander, WY Beth Mortensen College Park, MD Toronto, Canada $250,000 Translation into English and annota‑ $50,400 $50,400 tion of Book IV of the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard by theologian Emily Stetson Van Buskirk Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). Princeton, NJ $6,000 Boston University Boston, MA Christina M. Luke Ericka Kim Verba $281,645 Archaeological excavation and analysis Santa Monica, CA of a second millennium BCE site at Kaymakçi $50,400 in the Marmara Lake Basin, Western Anatolia, Turkey.
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 31 Buffalo Bill Historical Center literary biography, as well as associated video (3 to 4 fellowships) per year for three years and a Cody, WY Mary Robinson podcasts and a volume of essays. contribution to defray costs associated with the $200,000 Preparation for publication of selection of fellows. materials related to the tours by Buffalo Bill’s Folger Shakespeare Library Wild West show of Great Britain and Germany Washington, DC Michael Lawrence Witmore Philip Kelley in 1887–1906. $252,300 Eighteen months of stipend support Winfield, KS (2 fellowships) per year for three years and a $50,000* Completion of editorial work on Christopher Newport University contribution to defray costs associated with the volumes 22–24 of The Brownings’ Correspondence. Newport News, VA Sharon Melissa Rowley selection of fellows. $250,000 Preparation for publication of a criti‑ Lafayette College cal edition of the Old English translation of George Washington University Easton, PA Suzanne Westfall Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Washington, DC Christopher Brick $205,000 Editing and preparation for publica‑ $225,000 Preparation for publication of tion in the Records of Early English Drama of College of William and Mary volumes 3, 4, and 5 of the papers of First Lady three to four volumes for Civic London to Williamsburg, VA Ronald Hoffman Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). 1558; preparation for electronic publication of $100,714* Preparation for publication of the records of the counties of Staffordshire volumes 4 through 6 of the papers of Charles George Washington University and Salisbury. Carroll (1737–1832), Maryland statesman and Washington, DC Charlene N. Bickford signer of the Declaration of Independence. $125,000 Preparation for publication of Library Company of Philadelphia volumes 21 and 22 of the papers of the first Philadelphia, PA John C. Van Horne Columbia University Federal Congress (1789–1791) and closing the $198,900 Fourteen months of stipend support New York, NY Michael T. Ryan project’s work. (2 to 3 fellowships) per year for three years and $175,000 Preparation for publication of all of a contribution to defray costs associated with volumes 4 (1785–1788) and 5 (1789–1795), and Indiana University, Bloomington the selection of fellows. half of volume 6 (1795–1829) of the papers of Bloomington, IN Russell Valentino John Jay (1745–1829), a member of the Con‑ $225,000 A series of symposia examining the Loyola University Maryland tinental Congress, first Chief Justice of the role of translation in making literary works Baltimore, MD Leslie Zarker Morgan United States, and governor of New York. a part of world literature, culminating in the $200,000 Preparation for publication of a digi‑ preparation for publication of essays to appear tal edition and modern English translation of Duke University in special issues of two literary journals. the Franco-Italian epic, Huon d’Auvergne, drawing Durham, NC David R. Sorensen on three manuscripts and one fragment dating $10,000* The preparation for print publication Indiana University, Indianapolis from 1341 to 1441. of volumes 40–42 of the collected letters of Indianapolis, IN Martin A. Coleman Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, and publica‑ $6,382* Preparation for publication of George Massachusetts Historical Society tion of volumes 39–41 in an existing online Santayana’s The Life of Reason, Three Philosophical Boston, MA Conrad Edick Wright archive. Poets, Winds of Doctrine, Character and Opinion in $177,600 Sixteen months of stipend support the United States, and Dialogues in Limbo. (2 to 4 fellowships) per year for three years and Earlham College a contribution to defray costs associated with Richmond, IN Marc Benamou Indiana University, Indianapolis the selection of fellows. $290,000 Preparation for print publication, and Indianapolis, IN William H. Schneider development of a database and website, of $290,000 An international research collabora‑ Massachusetts Historical Society Javanese gamelan song texts, translated into tion leading to the publication of a book that Boston, MA C. James Taylor both Indonesian and English. will examine the political, social, and medical $130,000* Preparation for publication of processes of the emergence of HIV/AIDS volumes 17 and 18 of the Papers of John Adams, East Carolina University in Africa. and volumes 11 and 12 of the Adams Family Greenville, NC Gary Stringer Correspondence. $10,000* Completion of volume 4 of the Institute for Advanced Study eight-volume variorum edition of John Donne’s Princeton, NJ Marian Gallagher Zelazny Massachusetts Historical Society poetry and continued development of the $17,834* The equivalent of 1 twelve-month and Boston, MA Conrad Edick Wright electronic archive, DigitalDonne: the Online 1 six-month fellowship a year for three years. $15,000* The equivalent of 2 twelve-month Variorum. fellowships a year for three years. Claudia R. Jensen Emory University Kirkland, WA Massachusetts Historical Society Atlanta, GA Lois More Overbeck $290,000 Research, writing, and preparation Boston, MA C. James Taylor $10,070* Completion of editing of volume 3 for print and e book publication of a volume of $325,000 Preparation for publication of and 4 of a four-volume critical edition of the essays, journal articles, and conference papers volumes 18 and 19 of the Papers of John Adams Letters of Samuel Beckett and preparation of a relating to diplomacy and theater in 17th-century (1735–1826), Revolutionary leader and second one-volume edition for a general audience. Russia. president of the United States, and volumes 12 and 13 of his family’s correspondence. Folger Shakespeare Library John Carter Brown Library Washington, DC Kathleen Lynch Providence, RI Edward Ladd Widmer Massachusetts Historical Society $65,000 An international conference on the $253,050 Eighteen months of stipend support Boston, MA Conrad Edick Wright topic of playwright William Shakespeare and $10,000* Sixteen months of stipend support
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 32 (2 to 4 fellowships) per year for three years and a American author and humorist Mark Twain’s Au‑ in the Retirement Series of the edition of the contribution to defray costs associated with the tobiography, online publication of his letters from Papers of James Madison. selection of fellows. 1881–83, and online publication of two novels previously issued as print editions. University of Virginia New York University Charlottesville, VA John C. A. Stagg New York, NY Robert D. McChesney University of California, Santa Barbara $250,000 Preparation for publication of four $175,000 Preparation for publication of a Santa Barbara, CA Elizabeth H. Witherell volumes (Secretary of State 11, Presidential 8 translation of the fourth and final volume of a $15,000* Completion of editorial work and and 9, Retirement 3) of the Papers of James history of modern Afghanistan. preparation for publication of Henry David Madison (1751–1836). Thoreau’s Correspondence, comprising three North Carolina State University volumes of letters from 1834 through 1861. University of Virginia Raleigh, NC S. Thomas Parker Charlottesville, VA Edward George Lengel $290,000 Archaeological excavation and analysis University of Memphis $300,000 Preparation for publication of vol‑ of 1st- through 4th-century materials at the Memphis, TN Peter James Brand umes 17 and 18 of the Presidential series and North Ridge of ancient Petra, Jordan. $280,000 Translation and preparation for print volumes 19–21 and 23–30 of the Revolution‑ and online publication of inscriptions from the ary War series of the Papers of George Washington Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus Great Hypostyle Hall in Luxor, Egypt. (1732–1799), and continued work on a digital University Park, PA Sandra H. Petrulionis edition of Washington’s financial papers. $290,000 Preparation for digital publication of University of Nebraska, Lincoln the final thirty six folders of the Almanacks of Lincoln, NE William G. Thomas University of Washington Mary Moody Emerson (1774–1863), American $200,000 Creation of a digital archive and Seattle, WA Richard G. Salomon scholar and aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson. website, presentation of virtual seminars, and re‑ $60,000* Preparation for publication of tran‑ search and writing of a scholarly monograph and scriptions, translations, and extensive annota‑ Rice University journal articles related to a series of legal cases tions of Gandhari texts documenting the early Houston, TX Lynda L. Crist and family networks in early Washington, D.C. history of Buddhism. $16,000* Preparation for publication of volumes 13 and 14 of the Collected Papers of Jefferson Davis. University of New Mexico University of Wisconsin, Madison Albuquerque, NM Patricia L. Crown Madison, WI John Kaminski Roosevelt University $123,828* The excavation, analysis, and inter‑ $130,000* Completion of three volumes and Chicago, IL Christopher R. Reed pretation of archaeological remains for further work on two more volumes of documents $200,000 Research leading to the creation of evidence about the ritual use of cylinder jars in related to the ratification of the Constitution. an online digital archive, an edited collection Chaco Canyon, New Mexico between 1000 and of essays, and public presentations on African- 1140 CE. University of Wisconsin, Madison American intellectuals in Chicago, 1890–1930. Madison, WI John Kaminski University of Puget Sound $300,000 Preparation for publication of three Rutgers University, New Brunswick Tacoma, WA Peter H. Greenfield volumes of documents concerning the ratifica‑ New Brunswick, NJ Paul B. Israel $50,000* Editing and preparation for publica‑ tion of the United States Constitution in Mary‑ $150,000* Completion of volume 8 and the tion of Civic London to 1558 in the Records of land, South Carolina, and New Hampshire. beginning of work on volume 9 of the Papers of Early English Drama. Thomas Edison, covering the period 1885–1889. Vassar College University of South Carolina, Columbia Poughkeepsie, NY Dorothy Kim Rutgers University, New Brunswick Columbia, SC Constance B. Schulz $200,000 Preparation for electronic publication New Brunswick, NJ Paul B. Israel $225,000 Preparation for digital publication of of two Early Middle English manuscripts $250,000 Preparation for publication of two vol‑ the personal and public papers of three South (c. 1100–1350) and the beginning of work on umes (completing volume 8 and beginning vol‑ Carolina statesmen: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney an electronic edition of a third manuscript. ume 9) of the papers of inventor Thomas Edison (1746–1825), Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), (1847–1931), covering the period 1885–1889. and Charles Pinckney (1757–1824). Yale University New Haven, CT Ellen R. Cohn Skidmore College University of South Carolina, Columbia $130,000* Preparation for publication of vol‑ Saratoga Springs, NY Heather Hurst Columbia, SC Don H. Doyle umes 41–45 of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin. $185,000 The reassembly, interpretation, and $65,000 A conference and volume of collected dissemination of early Mayan murals discovered essays on the American Civil War in an interna‑ Yale University among the first century construction rubble at tional context. New Haven, CT Harry S. Stout the Ixim temple at San Bartolo, Guatemala. $50,000* The preparation for online pub‑ University of South Florida lication of the collected papers of Jonathan Stanford University Tampa, FL Thomas Williams Edwards (1703–1758), colonial American pastor, Stanford, CA Clayborne Carson $138,080 Preparation for publication of English author, educator, and theologian. $50,000* Preparation for publication of volumes translations of John Duns Scotus’s (1265/66– 7 and 8 of the papers of American civil rights 1308) writings on ethics. Yale University leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968). New Haven, CT Paul Joseph Grant Costa University of Virginia $225,000 Preparation for online publication University of California, Berkeley Charlottesville, VA John C. A. Stagg of a critical edition of primary source materials Berkeley, CA Robert H. Hirst $110,000* Preparation for publication of vol‑ about Native Americans in Connecticut from $200,000* The preparation for simultaneous ume 10 in the Secretary of State Series; volume 8 1783 to 1869. print and online publication of volume 3 of in the Presidential Series; and volumes 2 and 3 DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS 33 Office of Challenge Grants
Through Challenge Grants, NEH contributes to the nation’s long-term investment in the humanities by providing funds for construction, renovation, and acquisitions, as well as for endowments that offer continuing support through their earnings.
OFFICE OF CHALLENGE GRANTS 34 Challenge Grants Center for Oral and Public History to include completion fellowship, and humanities program‑ climate controlled archival storage space; a stu‑ ming in Orthodox Christian Studies. Grants secure long-term funding for humanities dent collaborative learning lab; and conference, programming and resources through building processing, and reading rooms. Hastings Center endowments at institutions. Garrison, NY Erik F. Parens Carnegie Institute $91,363* Endowment for a senior humanities American Association for State and Pittsburgh, PA Louise W. Lippincott research scholar and travel costs for visiting Local History $75,000* Endowment for a key humanities po‑ scholars as part of the Hastings Center Humani‑ Nashville, TN Terry Davis sition to oversee the archive of African Ameri‑ ties Research Initiative. $2,278* Endowment for 1.5 additional can photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris humanities staff positions. (1908–1998). Hiram College Hiram, OH Kirsten Parkinson American Council of Learned Societies Case Western Reserve University $15,000* Endowment of a community reading New York, NY Pauline R. Yu Cleveland, OH John Orlock program and scholar in residence in the Lindsay $125,000* Endowment for additional research $137,140* Endowment for seminars, courses, Crane Center for Writing and Literature. fellowships and increased stipends for fellows. and other humanities programs for faculty, students, representatives of local cultural institu‑ Historic Cherry Hill American Research Center in Sofia, Inc. tions, and the general public, as well as salary Albany, NY Liselle M. LaFrance Ithaca, NY Kevin Clinton support for a digital humanities coordinator. $173,966* Restoration of a 1787 house, endow‑ $34,240* Endowment for humanities staff ment for the Curatorial and Research Depart‑ and for library acquisitions. Cleveland Museum of Art ment, and fundraising expenses. Cleveland, OH Caroline Goeser Arkansas State University, Main Campus $100,000* Endowment for the museum’s Howard University State University, AR Ruth A. Hawkins interpretation staff and the development of Washington, DC Dana A. Williams $368,143* Restoration of buildings at the His‑ humanities-based interpretive materials for $71,255* Endowment for salary supplements toric Dyess Colony, an agricultural resettlement refreshed gallery interpretation. for visiting scholars, a humanities seminar, and a colony during the New Deal era that aided in humanities atelier, plus bridge funding for those recovery from the Great Depression. Columbia University in the City of activities. New York Trustees Baltimore Museum of Art New York, NY Ronald Bayer Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Baltimore, MD Thomas Primeau $118,159* Endowment for a junior faculty Boston, MA Oliver Tostmann $51,650* Endowment for the Director of position focused on global health and for related $133,334* Endowment for humanities ex‑ Conservation position as well as direct funds for programming at the Center for the History and hibitions and programs in a new wing of the the acquisition of a portable X-ray fluorescence Ethics of Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman museum. spectrometer. School of Public Health. Mass Humanities Bard College Dane County Library Service Northampton, MA David A. Tebaldi Annandale on Hudson, NY Roger S. Berkowitz Madison, WI Julie Anne Chase $92,800* Endowment for a Fund for New $160,000* Endowment for speaker series, $86,334* Endowment of a variety of humani‑ Communities that will enable the Massachusetts fellowships for junior scholars, workshops, and ties programs including a lecture series, mobile Foundation for the Humanities to expand its other programs at the Hannah Arendt Center outreach, traveling exhibits, and collaborative Clemente Course in the Humanities to four sites. for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. initiatives. Maymont Foundation Brandeis University Dickinson State University Foundation Richmond, VA Dale Wheary Waltham, MA Susan J. Birren Dickinson, ND Clay S. Jenkinson $100,334* Endowment for staff salaries, scholar $18,334* A post-doctoral fellow, faculty and $14,620 Endowment for a chair in Theodore -in-residence stipends, and advisory panel costs course development, and a coordinator for the Roosevelt studies and for related library as well as direct costs for outdoor signage. Mandel Center for the Humanities through a acquisitions. ten-year spend down fund and an endowment. National Czech and Slovak Museum Dubuque County Historical Society and Library California State University, Fresno Dubuque, IA Jerome A. Enzler Cedar Rapids, IA Jan Stoffer Foundation $155,204* Endowment to support humanities $75,344* Endowment for the museum’s educa‑ Fresno, CA Vida Samiian staffing, exhibitions, and interpretation. tion department, including a staff position, $16,667* Endowment to advance the Middle lecture series, research fellowships conferences, East Studies Program, including salary enhance‑ Fayetteville Public Library Foundation internships, and web-based humanities ment for a faculty chair, faculty development Fayetteville, AR David Johnson curriculum. and travel, graduate assistantships, visiting guest $35,230* Endowment for a humanities coor‑ lecturers, conferences, and curriculum and mate‑ dinator, humanities programming, and related National Underground Railroad Freedom rials development. collection development. Center Cincinnati, OH Douglass W. McDonald California State University, Fullerton Fordham University $5,000 Endowment for education programs Fullerton, CA Natalie Fousekis Bronx, NY George Demacopoulos for schools, and a full-time distance learning $182,981* Relocation and expansion of the $191,704* Endowment of a faculty-in-residence program manager. research fellowship, an annual dissertation
OFFICE OF CHALLENGE GRANTS 35 Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus Theatre for a New Audience Lincoln, NE David Feingold University Park, PA J. Michael Hogan New York, NY Katie Miller $89,986* A digital humanities endowment $100,000* Endowment of the activities of the $152,679* Endowment and bridge funding for fund to support scholarly involvement and Center for Democratic Deliberation. new and expanded humanities programming, expand NET’s capacity to conduct future digital publications, and staff salary enhancements. projects. Poets House, Inc. New York, NY Lee Ellen Briccetti U.S.S. Constitution Museum New Bedford Whaling Museum $50,000* Endowment to partially support a Boston, MA Sarah Watkins New Bedford, MA Alison Meyer Smart full-time librarian for expanded humanities ser‑ $100,000* Endowment to enhance interpretive $16,667* Endowment for humanities staff vices and programming in the new permanent opportunities for all ages by providing partial salaries, interpretive exhibitions, and humanities home for Poets House. support for two humanities positions and related programs, as well as fundraising costs. activities. Pratt Museum New York Botanical Garden Homer, AK Diane Converse Universidad del Este Bronx, NY Susan Fraser $130,325 Renovation to expand collections Carolina, PR Jaime R. Partsch $200,000* Endowment for collections acquisi‑ storage space and improve environmental con‑ $225,055* Construction of the Jesús T. Piñero tion, conservation supplies and staff time, and trols; creation of dedicated program space and Library and Social Research Center. library exhibition program expenses for the facilities for research, conservation, and exhibit Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library. preparation. University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. Lawrence, KS Victor Bailey Newark Museum Preservation Society of Newport County $50,000* Endowment for programs designed Newark, NJ Christa Clarke Newport, RI Laurie Ossman to encourage, develop, and advance collaborative $144,334* Renovation/expansion of the mu‑ $125,000* Endowment to expand the Society’s research in the humanities at the University of seum’s African galleries and endowment to sup‑ fellows program by supporting stipends for 4 Kansas’s Hall Center for the Humanities and in port programs, publications, and a new assistant annual one-year fellowships. the community. curator for the Arts of Africa collection. Rogers Historical Museum University of Nebraska, Board of Regents Northwest Indian College Rogers, AR John Burroughs Lincoln, NE Katherine L. Walter Bellingham, WA Sharon Kinley $13,665* Construction, fixtures, furniture, $52,202* Endowment for programs at the $470,000* Construction, fixtures, furniture, equipment, and fundraising expenses for a new University of Nebraska’s Center for Digital and equipment, as well as endowment and fun‑ museum facility that will house interpretive ex‑ Research in the Humanities. draising expenses, for the Coast Salish Institute hibit galleries, collections processing and storage to enable the college to continue preserving and areas, programming spaces, and offices. University of Wisconsin, Madison revitalizing the endangered Coast Salish culture Madison, WI Cora Lee Kluge and language. Rutgers University, Newark $150,000* Remodeling the new Max Kade Insti‑ Newark, NJ Clement Alexander Price tute Library and Archives and endowment for a Oberlin College $172,569* Endowment and bridge funds to librarian/archivist position and for acquisitions. Oberlin, OH Andria Derstine support two public humanities programs: City $125,000* Endowment for a humanities Children and Their Cultures (which brings Wake Forest University curator and related programming for the Allen scholars to Newark to discuss a wide range of Winston Salem, NC Mary F. Foskett Memorial Art Museum. child centered topics) and Teachers as Scholars $338,167* Endowment and bridge funding for (a professional development program for K–12 the programs in a new Humanities Institute at Oklahoma Christian University teachers). Wake Forest University. Edmond, OK R. Scott LaMascus $39,970* Endowment for a variety of San Jose State University Foundation Walters Art Museum programs in the McBride Center for Public Hu‑ San Jose, CA Ruth Kifer Baltimore, MD Jacqueline Tibbs Copeland manities, including a visiting scholar program, $14,059* Endowment for the purchase of $150,000* Endowment for key humanities lecture series, symposia, and programs for library resources and to support programs in the education positions. students and teachers. humanities. Winterthur Museum Paul Revere Memorial Association Sonoma County Museum Winterthur, DE Lois O. Price Boston, MA Nina Zannieri Santa Rosa, CA Diane Evans $77,737* Endowment for the director of con‑ $50,000 Funding supports the renovation of $62,781* Endowment for collections care and a servation position at Winterthur to enhance the an 1835 abutting structure at 5/6 Lathrop Place collections registrar position, and the retrofit‑ museum’s extensive programs in conservation. to create an Education and Visitor Center, plus ting of a warehouse space with museum quality an endowment for humanities programming. storage equipment. Yakima Valley Museum and Historical Association Peabody Essex Museum Teachers College, Columbia University Yakima, WA Cynthia Wells Salem, MA Lynda Roscoe Hartigan New York, NY Thomas James $197,389* Endowment for humanities $150,000* Endowment for the position of $271,813* Endowment for a Center for History exhibitions and programs. curator of photography and for enhanced Education that includes a graduate fellowship humanities programming. program, a digital history portal, and curricular innovations.
OFFICE OF CHALLENGE GRANTS 36 Special Initiative Montgomery College University of Alaska, Anchorage Rockville, MD Rita Kranidis Anchorage, AK Stephen W. Haycox Grants support long-term planning for two-year colleges. $70,000* Endowment and a spend-down fund $3,491* Endowment for a full-time coordina‑ for an Institute for Global Humanities Initiatives. tor, summer travel, student scholarships, and Capital Community College Polaris lectures for The Forty Ninth State Hartford, CT Jeffrey F. L. Partridge Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fellows Program. $44,673* Endowment for program coordina‑ Boston, MA Elliot Bostwick Davis tor and web designer positions, course and $40,219* A spend-down fund for acquisitions Westchester Community College Foundation faculty development, symposia, materials, and of American art by artists of color and about Valhalla, NY Frank Madden direct support for bridging expenses. people of color. $125,000* Endowment for programming in a new Westchester County Humanities Institute Center for Jewish History National Civil Rights Museum that explores humanities themes through the New York, NY Michael Glickman Memphis, TN Barbara Andrews lens of the immigrant experience. $33,333* Endowment to enhance the center’s $128,015* Endowment for enhanced program‑ online public-access catalog. ming to promote greater understanding of the American civil rights movement. Community College of Baltimore County Baltimore, MD Rachele Lawton National Underground Railroad Freedom $316,666* Endowment for the college’s Center Center for Global Education and renovation of its Cincinnati, OH Douglass W. McDonald historic Hilton Mansion House. $150,000* Endowment for core programs: exhibits, educational workshops, distance Crafton Hills College learning, and tours. Yucaipa, CA Rick Hogrefe $9,275* Endowment for Arabic language Northwest College faculty and direct support for fundraising, Powell, WY Shelby Bonner Wetzel library acquisitions, Arabic language and culture $106,000* To purchase and renovate a building program development. to house an Intercultural Center and to endow humanities programming at the college and in Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History surrounding communities. New York, NY Lesley S. Herrmann $250,000* Endowment, bridge funds, and Owensboro Community and Technical College direct support to fund a transformation of the Owensboro, KY Kaye Brown Gilder Lehrman’s History Schools Program. $139,059* Endowment to support humani‑ ties programming, including guest speakers, Green River Community College incorporating new uses of technology in the Auburn, WA Jennifer K. Hoene humanities, leveraging community partners, and $28,000* Endowment for a Humanities theme related activities in the community and at Cultural Center and direct support for website the college. design and fundraising. Queensborough Community College Fund, Inc. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Flushing, NY Arthur Flug Wabash Valley $51,160* Endowment and spend-down fund Terre Haute, IN Allen Shotwell for faculty salaries, honoraria, travel, materials, $12,500* Endowment and fundraising ex‑ and archival acquisitions for yearlong colloquia penses to establish a Center for Humanities and at the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center Medicine. and Archives.
Leech Lake Tribal College Siena College Cass Lake, MN Sharon M. Marcotte Loudonville, NY Jennifer Dorsey $373,750* To construct a new library for the $141,828* Endowment for staff salaries, cur‑ college including an archive for Ojibwe cultural riculum development, community outreach artifacts. initiatives, library enhancements, a fellowship program, and publication subventions. Lewis and Clark Community College Godfrey, IL Jill Lane St. John’s College, Santa Fe $65,287* To establish and endow activities in a Santa Fe, NM Stephen Van Luchene new Institute for the Humanities in Culture, to $71,667* Endowment for Tecolote colloquia be guided by the theme “Sense of Place.” for New Mexico educators K–16.
OFFICE OF CHALLENGE GRANTS 37 Office of Digital Humanities
Through the Office of Digital Humanities, NEH supports efforts in the area of digital scholarship. Digital technology has changed the way scholars perform their work, allowing new questions to be raised and changing the ways material can be searched, mined, displayed, taught, and analyzed. The office also facilitates conversations with other funding bodies both in the United States and abroad to work towards meeting these challenges.
OFFICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 38 Digital Humanities and New Media, on advanced theory and ap‑ Kitchen Sisters Productions plication of new media tools for teaching and San Francisco, CA Nikki Silva Grants support innovative digital-humanities projects scholarship. $60,000 The development of open source soft‑ from start-up through implementation. ware tools and educational materials to facilitate Georgia Tech Research Corporation the dissemination and long-term preservation of Catholic University of America Atlanta, GA Lauren Frederica Klein oral histories, radio broadcasts, and other audio Washington, DC Lilla Kopar $59,999 The development of a web-based tool content. $27,921 A two-day workshop bringing together for the visual exploration of the themes that re‑ an international group of humanities scholars, cur across an archive, based on the text analysis Lane Community College cultural heritage professionals, and technical technique of topic modeling combined with the Eugene, OR Anne McGrail experts to begin planning for an online resource archive’s related metadata. A digitized archive $29,271 To conduct a survey of community col‑ that would facilitate access to digital collections of 19th-century abolitionist newspapers would lege faculty and administrations and host a series of the art and artifacts of the early medieval serve as the initial test case. of workshops at the Community College period in northern Europe, drawn from a range Humanities Association annual meeting to of dispersed institutional holdings. Harvard University consider how community colleges can better par‑ Cambridge, MA Peter K. Bol ticipate in and contribute to the multiple ongoing Cleveland State University $320,888 Continuing development of the conversations about digital humanities teaching Cleveland, OH Mark Tebeau WorldMap platform, a system that allows schol‑ and research. $60,000 Development of a prototype of ars, teachers, and students to explore, visualize, Curatescape Museums, a platform for mobile edit, and publish geospatial information. Loyola University, Chicago interpretation of museum collections, as well as Chicago, IL David Evan Chinitz best practices for small to mid-sized museums Hope College $27,671 A one-day workshop to engage humani‑ interested in implementing mobile technologies. Holland, MI Christian Spielvogel ties scholars and technical experts in the develop‑ $299,221 Development of a platform that ment of a standardized metadata schema and Columbia University would allow educators across humanities disci‑ vocabulary that describe and enable discovery of New York, NY Sheldon Pollock plines to create web-based, multiplayer histori‑ digital projects in modernist studies. $175,000 Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts cal role playing games. The platform would also proposes to create a corpus of Sanskrit texts include tools to facilitate peer review of game Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist focused on three areas: Buddhist philosophy, materials. Languages Vedic hermeneutics, and literary theory. TEI Berkeley, CA Luis Gomez conformant digital editions amounting to more Independent Feature Project $60,000 The continued development of a pro‑ than 10,000 printed pages will be integrated with New York, NY Roger Ross Williams totype of the Buddhist Translators Workbench, a two existing reference resource databases from $30,000 A two-day workshop led by Games platform for scholars and translators of classical the two partner organizations: Epistemology for Change that will result in the development Buddhist texts, as well as the preparation of and Argumentation in South Asia and Tibet of a proof of concept prototype for a game supplementary user tutorials. (EAST, University of Heidelberg) and Sanskrit based on The Negro Motorist Green Book, Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism first published in 1936 with advice for African Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SKSEC, Columbia University). Americans traveling in the Jim Crow South. Cambridge, MA James Paradis $324,833 Further development and wide- scale Early Manuscripts Electronic Library Indiana University, Bloomington implementation of Annotation Studio, a platform Rolling Hills Estates, CA Todd Russell Hanneken Bloomington, IN Brian Graney to enhance student learning through annotation $60,000 The establishment of best practices $26,400 A scholarly workshop and follow up of digital texts, images, and video resources. for the application of spectral imaging and activities that will bring together film studies Reflectance Transformation Imaging technolo‑ scholars, moving image archivists, and library New York Public Library gies to reveal new information about objects of professionals to consider how digitization of New York, NY Benjamin Vershbow study in the humanities. Activities would include early motion picture film might be improved $325,000 Further development of Scribe, an the imaging of three test objects and follow up to better capture the physical attributes of the open source, extensible software platform for quality evaluation undertaken by humanities film print. The workshop would focus on early crowd-sourced transcription of cultural heritage scholars. 20th-century films made for African-American collections, including tools for transcription man‑ audiences. agement, quality control, and data sharing. Electronic Literature Organization Cambridge, MA Rudyne Grigar Johns Hopkins University New York University $52,003 The development of preservation Baltimore, MD Susan Forscher Weiss New York, NY Roger Bagnall strategies for born-digital literature, includ‑ $54,466 The continued development of a $190,000 This collaboration between the Uni‑ ing capturing reading experiences of both the prosopographical database tracing the social versity of Heidelberg and New York University original authors as well as other readers, all to and professional networks of Renaissance would create a Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri, be incorporated in the Electronic Literature musicians, using automated methods to identify building an infrastructure that initially focuses on Directory. individuals and biographical information within Greek and Latin texts but that can accommodate relevant sources and to establish relationships other ancient literatures as well. George Mason University between them. Fairfax, VA Sharon Leon Northeastern University $215,718 A two-week institute for twenty-five Boston, MA Ryan Cordell historians, to be hosted by George Mason $59,805 The development of models, using tools University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History
OFFICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 39 from computational linguistics, to help track University of Maryland, College Park Vanderbilt University the spread of prints and reprints of poetry and College Park, MD Jennifer E. Guiliano Nashville, TN Clifford Blake Anderson short stories throughout 19th-centry newspa‑ $249,302 A series of four two-day workshops $72,760 This two-week summer institute at pers, using the sources found in the Chronicling to be held at Northeastern University, Emory Vanderbilt would train twelve participants in America database of digitized newspapers. University, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the techniques and methodologies of XQuery and the University of Texas, Austin, on theoreti‑ language, which allows for searching and ma‑ Old Dominion University Research cal and practical approaches for making digital nipulating texts encoded in XML. Foundation humanities scholarship accessible to blind, low Norfolk, VA Michele C. Weigle vision, deaf, and hard of hearing users. An Washington State University $57,892 The development of an open-source online guide of best practices with examples of Pullman, WA Kimberly Ann Christen tool that would allow web browsers to digitally humanities projects would be produced as a part $319,331 The development of Mukurtu archive a web page or series of pages as they of these workshops. Mobile, an open-source mobile platform for appear at a particular point in time, using as case collecting and exhibiting indigenous digital studies web resources that address humanities University of Maryland, College Park cultural heritage. themes such as religious history and political College Park, MD Douglas W. Oard dialog. $24,650 Two workshops to further explore Washington State University Vancouver how automated computational methods may Vancouver, WA Brett Oppegaard Stanford University facilitate access to cultural heritage materials $19,421** Grand Emporium of the West tablet Stanford, CA Dan Edelstein by establishing structured relationships or links app. $297,137 A project to develop a general-pur‑ between digitized and born-digital sources, pose suite of visualization and analytical tools including web and social media content. based on the prototypes created for the Map‑ ping the Republic of Letters project, which ex‑ University of Massachusetts, Amherst amines the scholarly communities and networks Amherst, MA Eric Eagan Poehler of knowledge during the period 1500–1800. $59,993 Further development of a web based prototype platform that would allow research‑ University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ers to access both geospatial and bibliographic Fayetteville, AR Fred Limp information relevant to Pompeii. $49,719 The development of a publication framework and peer reviewer community for University of Missouri, Kansas City scholarly publication of the three-dimensional Kansas City, MO Jeffrey A. Rydberg Cox models and complex datasets produced by $59,896 The analysis of a 15th-century printed archaeological research. book and development of an online educational resource to further researchers’ understand‑ University of California, Los Angeles ing of how a range of imaging technologies Los Angeles, CA Willemina Z. Wendrich offer new knowledge about the production and $157,170 The development of a controlled reception of books and manuscripts. vocabulary for ancient Egyptian architecture to be supported by geo-referenced, annotated University of Nebraska, Board of Regents illustrations of architectural details, which will Lincoln, NE Brett Barney be delivered through the Ancient Egyptian $165,005 Using three case studies—The Architecture Online digital library. Walt Whitman Archive; an edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses; and an edition of J.W. Goethe’s University of California, Riverside Faust—the proposed project will experiment Riverside, CA Conrad Rudolph with methods of advanced TEI markup, create $60,000 The refinement of additional tech‑ methods for detailed scholarly queries currently niques for using facial recognition software to unavailable, and develop user interfaces to best help with the identification of human subjects display the variants exposed through diachronic in portraiture for art historical research. markup.
University of California, Santa Cruz University of Virginia Santa Cruz, CA Noah Wardrip Fruin Charlottesville, VA Stephen Railton $30,000 A Level 1 pilot project focusing on the $59,084 The development of an expanded preservation of software relevant to humanities prototype that allows for the mapping and study scholars. of William Faulkner’s fiction that took place in the imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Champaign, IL William Underwood University of Virginia $57,163 The continuing development of soft‑ Charlottesville, VA Bethany Nowviskie ware that would allow users to classify digitized $29,902 A two-day workshop that will bring to‑ literary works by genre, including allowing for gether digital humanities scholars and software the changing definitions of genres over time. developers for critical discussion and hands-on activities to further articulate and theorize the intellectual work behind the technical develop‑ ment of digital projects. OFFICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 40 Office of Federal/State Partnership
Through the Office of Federal/State Partnership, grants go to the state and territory humanities councils for operating costs and special projects.
OFFICE OF FEDERAL / STATE PARTNERSHIP 41 Federal/State Partnership Georgia Humanities Council 50 Hurt Plaza, SE Illinois Humanities Council Through the Office of Federal/State Partnership, grants Suite 595 17 North State Street, Suite 1400 go to the state and territory humanities councils for Atlanta, GA 30303-2934 Chicago, IL 60602-3296 operating costs and special projects. $824,040 $1,028,460
Alabama Humanities Foundation Guam Humanities Council Indiana Humanities 1100 Ireland Way, Suite 202 222 Chalan Santo Papa 1500 North Delaware Street Birmingham, AL 35205-7012 Reflection Center, Suite 106 Indianapolis, IN 46202-2419 $666,570 Hagatna, GU 96910-5172 $734,020 $327,210 Alaska Humanities Forum Kansas Humanities Council 161 E. 1st Avenue, Door 15 Hawai ’i Council for the Humanities 112 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 210 Anchorage, AK 99501 First Hawai’ian Bank Building Topeka, KS 66603-3850 $622,690 3599 Wai‘alae Avenue, Room 25 $601,010 Honolulu, HI 96816 Amerika Samoa Humanities Council $608,390 Kentucky Humanities Council P. O. Box 5800 206 East Maxwell Street Pago Pago, AS 96799-5800 Humanities Council of Washington, DC Lexington, KY 40508-2613 $303,300 925 U Street, NW $649,560 Washington, DC 20001-4019 Arizona Humanities Council $522,650 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities The Ellis Shackelford House 938 Lafayette Street, Suite 300 1242 N. Central Avenue Humanities Council SC New Orleans, LA 70113-1027 Phoenix, AZ 85004 2711 Middleburg Drive, Suite 203 $670,540 $683,140 Columbia, SC 29204-2486 $645,530 Maine Humanities Council Arkansas Humanities Council 674 Brighton Avenue 407 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 201 Humanities Iowa Portland, ME 04102-1012 Little Rock, AR 72201-1697 100 Main Library $553,030 $601,530 Iowa City, IA 52242 $612,010 Maryland Humanities Council, Inc. Cal Humanities 108 West Centre Street 312 Sutter Street, Suite 601 Humanities Montana Baltimore, MD 21201-4565 San Francisco, CA 94108-4323 311 Brantly Hall $702,980 $2,004,030 Missoula, MT 59812-7848 $535,090 Mass Humanities Colorado Humanities 66 Bridge Street 7935 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 450 Humanities Nebraska Northampton, MA 01060-2406 Greenwood Village, CO 80218-2391 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 330 $743,350 $645,420 Lincoln, NE 68508-1836 $565,540 Michigan Humanities Council Connecticut Humanities Council 119 Pere Marquette Drive 37 Broad St Humanities Tennessee Suite 3B Middletown, CT 06457-3204 306 Gay Street, Suite 306 Lansing, MI 48912-1270 $628,960 Nashville, TN 37201-1189 $912,940 $717,110 Delaware Humanities Forum Minnesota Humanities Center 100 West 10th Street, Suite 1009 Humanities Texas 987 Ivy Avenue East Wilmington, DE 19801-6606 1410 Rio Grande Street St. Paul, MN 55106-2046 $529,390 Austin, TX 78701-1506 $686,890 $1,391,540 Florida Humanities Council Mississippi Humanities Council 599 Second Street South Humanities Washington 3825 Ridgewood Road, Room 311 St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5005 1015 8th Avenue N Jackson, MS 39211-6453 $1,174,730 Suite B $604,120 Seattle, WA 98109-3504 Fundación Puertorriqueña de las $726,750 Missouri Humanities Council Humanidades 543 Hanley Industrial Court, Suite 201 P. O. Box 9023920 Idaho Humanities Council St. Louis, MO 63144-1905 San Juan, PR 00902-3920 217 West State Street $707,810 $653,750 Boise, ID 83702-6053 $545,200
OFFICE OF FEDERAL / STATE PARTNERSHIP 42 Nevada Humanities Rhode Island Council for the Humanities P. O. Box 8029 131 Washington St #210 Reno, NV 89507-8029 Providence, RI 02903-3309 $560,350 $543,900
New Hampshire Humanities Council South Dakota Humanities Council 117 Pleasant St. 1215 Trail Ridge Road, Suite A Concord, NH 03301-3852 Brookings, SD 57006-4107 $547,530 $531,650
New Jersey Council for the Humanities Utah Humanities Council 28 West State Street, 6th floor 202 West 300 North Trenton, NJ 08608-1602 Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1108 $871,690 $578,380
New Mexico Humanities Council Vermont Humanities Council 4115 Silver Ave SE 11 Loomis Street Albuquerque, NM 87108-2645 Montpelier, VT 05602-3021 $563,510 $523,380
New York Council for the Humanities Virgin Islands Humanities Council 150 Broadway, Suite 1700 #1829 Kongens Gade New York, NY 10038-4364 St. Thomas, VI 00802 $1,378,620 $324,869
North Carolina Humanities Council Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 122 North Elm Street, Suite 601 145 Ednam Drive Greensboro, NC 27401-2818 Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 $814,160 $784,010
North Dakota Humanities Council West Virginia Humanities Council 418 E. Broadway Avenue, Suite 8 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East Bismarck, ND 58501-4086 Charleston, WV 25301-3001 $538,070 $577,840
Northern Marianas Humanities Council Wisconsin Humanities Council P.O. Box 506437 222 South Bedford Street, Suite F Saipan, MP 96950-4336 Madison, WI 53703-4028 $316,980 $699,440
Ohio Humanities Council Wyoming Humanities Council 471 E. Broad St., Suite 1620 1315 E. Lewis Street Columbus, OH 43215-3857 Laramie, WY 82072-3459 $981,810 $519,120
Oklahoma Humanities Council Festival Plaza 428 West California, Suite 270 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 $625,560
Oregon Humanities 813 SW Alder St., Suite 702 Portland, OR 97205-3114 $619,640
Pennsylvania Humanities Council Constitution Place 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 715 Philadelphia, PA 19112 $1,026,240
OFFICE OF FEDERAL / STATE PARTNERSHIP 43 Panelists http://www.neh.gov/files/2013_neh_panelists.pdf
National Council on the Humanities
Carole M. Watson, Acting Chairman
Rolena Adorno Adele Alexander Camila Alire Albert Beveridge Allison Blakely Constance Carroll Jamsheed Choksy Cathy Davidson Dawn Ho Delbanco Jane Marie Doggett Paula Duffy Jean Bethke Elshtain Gary Glenn Mary Habeck David Hertz Marvin Krislov Robert Martin Christopher Merrill Ricardo Quinones Ramón Saldívar Bruce Sievers Carol Swain Martha Weinberg Jay Winik
NATIONAL COUNCIL 44 Senior Staff
Acting Chairman Division of Education Programs Carole M. Watson Director William Craig Rice Assistant Chairman for Planning and Operations Division of Preservation and Access Jeffrey Thomas Director Nadina Gardner Assistant Chairman for Programs Adam Wolfson Division of Public Programs Director General Counsel Karen Mittelman Michael McDonald Director of Communications Division of Research Judy Havemann Director Jane Aikin Director of Publications David Skinner Office of Challenge Grants Director Director of White House and Andrea Anderson Congressional Affairs Courtney Chapin Office of Digital Humanities Director and Chief Information Director of the Office of Officer Planning and Budget Brett Bobley Larry Myers Federal/State Partnership Senior Partnership Officer Director Malcolm Richardson Edythe Manza Senior Adviser to the Chairman Eva Caldera Inspector General Laura Davis
SENIOR STAFF 45 National Endowment for the Humanities SUMMARY OF GRANTS AND AWARDS, FY 2013
AMOUNT OBLIGATED 2
Division/Program Number 1 Outright Matching3 Total
FEDERAL/STATE PARTNERSHIP 71 $38,307,945 $776,749 $39,084,694
EDUCATION PROGRAMS 124 13,758,439 -- 13,758,439
PRESERVATION AND ACCESS 165 17,081,579 359,944 17,441,523
PUBLIC PROGRAMS 135 14,042,150 286,150 14,328,300
RESEARCH PROGRAMS 235 13,382,528 1,726,133 15,108,661
OFFICE OF CHALLENGE GRANTS 75 - 8,510,400 8,510,400
OFFICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 37 4,226,621 $4,226,621
MISC. HUMANITIES PROJECTS 12 1,145,588 1,467,223
Grand Total 854 $102,266,485 11,659,375 $113,925,860
FOOTNOTES
1/ New grants, supplemental awards on previous years’ grants, transfers to other agencies, and program contracts.
2/ Totals include obligations for new grants, supplemental grants, program contracts, and other program-related purposes. Included are awards that are (a) made by NEH using appropriated funds, including funds appropriated to the We the People and Bridging Cultures initiatives,(b)made by NEH using program funds transferred to the Endowment by other federal agencies, and (c) made by
NEH using funds contributed by nonfederal entities.
3/ Totals include definite program funds used to match gifts.
Note: Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.
SUMMARY 46