| Grant Programs |
| Announced: August 2007 |
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Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gregory
Kimura
PROJECT TITLE: We the People: the March to
DESCRIPTION: To support radio
programming, institutes for teachers, and grants for local projects, all
related to important themes and topics in
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Niualama
Taifane
PROJECT TITLE: The History of
DESCRIPTION: The first
history text to collect archival and other materials about Amerika,
Public
Programs
Interpreting
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Paul Hirt
PROJECT TITLE: Nature, Culture, and History at the
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of an interactive web site and a DVD, audio tours, and other materials
interpreting the natural and cultural history of the
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ann‑Mary
Johnson
PROJECT TITLE: We the People
DESCRIPTION: To support
cultural heritage tourism projects, planning for a tour in 2009 of the
traveling exhibit, "New Harmonies" on American roots music, keynote
speakers for the annual book festival and the annual humanities lecture, and
issues forums on important topics in the humanities in election year 2008.
Public
Programs
NEH On the Road
Batesville,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jo Blatti
PROJECT TITLE: Shipping Subsidy to Accompany Traveling
Exhibition
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jeffrey
Root
PROJECT TITLE: We the People Programs in
DESCRIPTION: To support the
annual statewide History Day in
Public
Programs
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Forrest
McGill
PROJECT TITLE: Presentation of "The Lost Treasures of
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a web site, and public and educational
programs exploring the arts and cultural heritage of ancient Afghanistan.
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
PROJECT TITLE:
Representations
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
institute for twenty‑four college and university teachers in
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Brian
Catlos
PROJECT TITLE: The Medieval
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
institute for twenty‑four college and university teachers in
Institutes for School Teachers
Calabasas,
Center for Civic Education $169,996
PROJECT DIRECTOR: William
Harris
PROJECT TITLE: Political and Constitutional Theory for
Citizens
DESCRIPTION: A three‑week
institute for twenty‑five school teachers on American political and
constitutional
thought.
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael
Uhlmann
PROJECT TITLE: The President vs. Congress: Constitutional
Principles and Practices That Have Shaped Our Understanding of the War Powers
DESCRIPTION: A two-week seminar for fifteen high school
teachers to study the origins and development
of the Constitution’s
allocation of the war powers.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Kathleen
Jones
PROJECT TITLE: The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt: The Problem of Evil and the
Origins of Totalitarianism
DESCRIPTION: A six‑week
seminar for fifteen school teachers to study three major works by political
theorist Hannah Arendt, which provide philosophical lenses to consider the
problem of evil, the uses of terror, and the origins of totalitarianism.
Preservation
and Access
Advancing
Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael
Buckland
PROJECT TITLE: Context and Relationships:
DESCRIPTION: Development of a
testbed of Irish studies materials and three open‑source tools, broadly
applicable to text‑based collections, to serve as an Internet age
"reference section" and to enable students, scholars, and librarians
to establish scholarly context from digital collections.
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Alan Nelson
PROJECT TITLE: Records of Early English Drama: Digital
Innovations for Enhanced Access
DESCRIPTION: Development of
an electronic publishing framework and supporting tools for Records of Early
English Drama (REED), focusing on a pilot publication of documents on drama and
secular entertainment performed between 1401 and 1642 in
Public
Programs
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Bobbe
Hultin
PROJECT TITLE: Old Stories, New Voices Intercultural Youth
Program Expansion
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a three‑year program of weeklong summer camps to be held in
NEH On the Road
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
PROJECT TITLE: Enhancing Going Places: Exhibit Through Humanities Scholars
Public
Programs
NEH On the Road
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Vivian Zoe
PROJECT TITLE: Public Programming to Accompany NEH on the
Road Exhibition: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanian Kente and African American Identity
Education
Programs
Seminars for College Teachers
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $ 10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Stephen
Angle
PROJECT TITLE: Traditions Into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics
DESCRIPTION: A six‑week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty to bring Confucian and neo‑Confucian texts into dialogue with recent work in Western virtue ethics.
Federal/State
Partnership
Washington,
Humanities Council of
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joy Austin
PROJECT TITLE: Becoming a Washingtonian: What it means to
be American in the Nation's Capital
DESCRIPTION: To support
public programs during DC Emancipation Week in April 2008, a week‑long
institute for 40 high school students, three television programs, reading and
discussion programs for young people; the DC Community Heritage Preservation
Project, and archival resources related to the programs of the Humanities
Council of Washington, DC.
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James Davis
PROJECT TITLE: The Literature of
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
institute for thirty college and university teachers conducted in Spanish on
teaching the literature of
Washington,
American Historical Association $179,423
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John Gillis
PROJECT TITLE: Rethinking
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute for twenty‑five college and university teachers to study
American history in a world‑historical perspective.
Institutes for School Teachers
Washington,
Folger Shakespeare Library $200,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jeremy
Ehrlich
PROJECT TITLE: Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching
Shakespeare 2008 Institute
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
institute for twenty‑five secondary school teachers to examine
Shakespeare's plays.
Washington,
Churchill Centre $131,423
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James
Muller
PROJECT TITLE: Winston Churchill and the Anglo‑American
Relationship
DESCRIPTION: A three‑week
summer institute in
Landmarks of American History
Washington,
National Trust for Historic Preservation $166,180
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Katherine
Malone‑France
PROJECT TITLE: Race and Place: An Examination of African
Americans in
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers on slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, and
segregation in Washington, D. C.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $ 10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Janine
Farver
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: Projects
exploring the relationship between
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ann
Schoenacher
PROJECT TITLE: Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Her
Eatonville Roots
DESCRIPTION: Three one‑week
workshops for 120 school teachers to explore Zora Neale Hurston's life and work
in the context of her hometown,
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Anne Cruz
PROJECT TITLE: Literary Picaros and Picaras and their
Travels in Early Modern
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
seminar for fifteen school teachers on the picaresque literature of early
modern
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Lori
Walters
PROJECT TITLE: Come Back to the Fair
DESCRIPTION: The development
of a recreation of the 1964‑1965 World's Fair as a three‑dimensional
archive.
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Timothy
Crimmins
PROJECT TITLE: The Problem of the Color Line:
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers on southern segregation and the Civil Rights
Movement in
Landmarks of American History for Community
Colleges, WTP
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Stan Deaton
PROJECT TITLE: African‑American History &
Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry:
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 50 community college faculty members on African American life in
rural and urban communities in the Georgia Lowcountry.
Federal/State
Partnership
Hagatna,
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Shannon
Murphy
PROJECT TITLE: The
DESCRIPTION: The research and
content developmen on the early American (1898‑1941) and post‑World
War II periods in
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robert Buss
PROJECT TITLE: We the People: American History, Literature
and Cultural Traditions
DESCRIPTION: A variety of
projects including teacher workshops, on American and local history, programs
to commemorate the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, Literature and Medicine
discussion groups, and History Day.
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Namji
Steinemann
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers to study the history and commemoration of the
Japanese attack on
Public
Programs
Library Programs
Chicago,
American Library Association $300,223
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan
Brandehoff
PROJECT TITLE: Pride and Passion: The African American
Baseball Experience
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling exhibition that would tour to 20 libraries, examining African
Americans' participation in organized baseball from the Civil War to the
present.
Chicago,
American Library Association $218,414
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan
Brandehoff
PROJECT TITLE: Soul of a People: Voices from the Federal
Writers' Project‑‑Library Outreach Programs
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a series of reading and film discussion programs at 30 public libraries,
with a companion web site, that would occur simultaneously with the
broadcasting of the NEH‑supported documentary film Soul of a People: Voices
from the Federal Writers' Project.
NEH On the Road
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan
English
PROJECT TITLE: Public Programming to Accompany Traveling
Exhibition
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
Edwardsville,
Southern
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Caroline
Pryor
PROJECT TITLE: Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers on Abraham Lincoln and his role in American
history, using sites in and near
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David
Raybin
PROJECT TITLE: Chaucer's
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, to be held in
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Colin Allen
PROJECT TITLE: InPhO: the
DESCRIPTION: To support the
development of software to automate searching, navigating, and representing the
relations among philosophical ideas, scholars, and works.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David
Bodenhamer
PROJECT TITLE: Conceptualizing Humanities GIS: An Expert Planning Workshop on Religion in
the Atlantic World
DESCRIPTION: A 3‑day
invitational workshop for 10 experts in historical Geographical Information
Systems, religion in the Atlantic world, and cultural mapping, which will
result in a book on the workshop topic.
Education
Programs
Institutes for School Teachers
Decorah,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Norma
Hervey
PROJECT TITLE: Challenges and Results of Teaching the
Holocaust
DESCRIPTION: A five-week summer institute for thirty high
school teachers on the complex history and continuing relevance of the
Holocaust to be held in Washington, D.C., Berlin, Prague, Krakow, and other
locations.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Julie
Mulvihill
PROJECT TITLE: Kansans Tell Their Stories
DESCRIPTION: To support
projects initiated by
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Virginia
Smith
PROJECT TITLE: Prime Time Family
DESCRIPTION: To support the
Prime Time Family Reading Time family literacy program, Chautauqua
presentations in
Public
Programs
Library Programs
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dianne
Brady
PROJECT TITLE: Prime Time Family
DESCRIPTION: Implementation of 20 bilingual family reading and discussion programs, four programs each in five states.
Media Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nick
Spitzer
PROJECT TITLE: American Routes: Routes to Home: Words and
Music from Migrants, Exiles, Travelers, and Wanderers
DESCRIPTION: Production of
ten two‑hour programs exploring the traveler as an iconic image in
American narrative, songs, and stories.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Victoria
Bonebakker
PROJECT TITLE: Faces of Freedom
DESCRIPTION: The initiative,
"Faces of Freedom" which includes a conference on a classic text of
American literature, a symposium on the place of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
in American history, and reading and discussion programs for adult beginning
readers.
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Karan
Sheldon
PROJECT TITLE: Finding and Using Moving Images in Context
DESCRIPTION: The development of tools and practices for describing and accessing digital film and video materials.
Public
Programs
NEH On the Road
Riverdale,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Tiffany
Davis
PROJECT TITLE: Public Programming to Accompany Traveling
Exhibition
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Margaret
Burke
PROJECT TITLE: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Remembrance
and Reconciliation
DESCRIPTION: A special
initiative on Martin Luther King, Jr. will emphasize the issue of race through
Chautauqua programming, the speakers bureau, the grants program, and Maryland
History Day.
Education
Programs
Institutes for School Teachers
Baltimore,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Therese
Dougherty
PROJECT TITLE: Houses of Mortals and Gods: Latin
Literature in Context
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
institute for twenty‑five middle and high school Latin teachers to
contextualize the study of Latin language and Roman culture through on‑site
study of dwellings in and around
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Doug Reside
PROJECT TITLE: Digital Tools
DESCRIPTION: Development of
the Ajax XML Encoder (AXE), a web‑based tool for tagging text, video,
audio, and image files with XML metadata in a web‑based environment.
Challenge
Grants
Special Initiatives
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Adam
Goodheart
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: Purchase and
renovation of an historic house for use as a fellows' residence, and endowment
for a program of research and writing fellowships on the Founding Era and its
legacy.
Public
Programs
Library Programs
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Elizabeth
Prindle
PROJECT TITLE: John Adams Unbound: The Library of a
President
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling panel exhibition with public programs to go to 20 libraries
nationwide about how
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Anne Rand
PROJECT TITLE: Sailors Speak: Life Aboard Constitution in
1812
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a permanent exhibition about the lives of crew members and how their service
during the War of 1812 affected them and helped to create an American national
symbol.
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $400,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Leslie
Swartz
PROJECT TITLE: Children in
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of an interactive, trilingual traveling exhibition for children exploring
contemporary Chinese culture.
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Henry Gates
PROJECT TITLE: African American Civil Rights Struggles in
the Twentieth Century
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DESCRIPTION: A four week institute for twenty-five college and university teachers on the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth-century United States. |
Institutes for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Peter
Gibbon
PROJECT TITLE: Thomas Jefferson: Personality, Character and Public Life
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
institute for thirty school teachers on the personality, character, and public
life of Thomas Jefferson, to be held in
Worcester, College of the Holy Cross
$199,602
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Todd Lewis
PROJECT TITLE: Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the
Himalayan Region
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute for thirty school teachers on the peoples and traditions of
the Himalayan region.
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
PROJECT TITLE: Inventing
DESCRIPTION: Three one‑week
workshops for 135 school teachers to study
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Helen
Vendler
PROJECT TITLE: Poetry as a Form of Life, Life as a Form of
Poetry
DESCRIPTION: A three‑week
seminar for fifteen school teachers on the patterns of poetry and how they
mirror the patterns of life.
North
Dartmouth,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gerard Koot
PROJECT TITLE: Historical Interpretations of the
Industrial Revolution in
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
summer seminar in
Preservation
and Access
Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital
Partnership
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Gregory
Crane
PROJECT TITLE: Scalable Named Entity Identification in
Classical Studies
DESCRIPTION: Construction of
a testbed of scholarly and cultural documents on the ancient world and the
development of digital, open‑source tools to enable researchers and
librarians to utilize contextual materials available in text‑based
collections.
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Eric Gordon
PROJECT TITLE: The Digital Lyceum: Emerging Frameworks for
Participation in Live Humanities Events
DESCRIPTION: Research
regarding best practices for producing discussion forums that would mix live
and off‑site participants.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Laura
Northridge
PROJECT TITLE: Tories, Timid, or True Blue?
DESCRIPTION: An on‑line
and on‑site program at
Challenge
Grants
Special Initiatives
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Daniel
Carpenter
PROJECT TITLE: The
DESCRIPTION: Endowment and
bridge funding for a visiting faculty position in American Political Thought
and Institutions, graduate student fellowships, and an annual summer institute
for high school teachers.
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History for Community
Colleges, WTP
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael
Daher
PROJECT TITLE: Henry Ford and the History of American
Industry, Labor, and Culture
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 50 community college faculty to study corporate, labor, and
cultural history through primary sources and visits to the River Rouge Plant
and other important landmarks.
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Christian
Spielvogel
PROJECT TITLE: Living in the Valley of the Shadow: The
Creation of a Web‑Based, Role‑Playing Simulation on the Civil War
DESCRIPTION: Development of a
web‑based simulation based on the online Valley of the Shadow archive.
Public
Programs
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Brian
Horrigan
PROJECT TITLE: Our Lives, Our Stories:
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, publications, a web site,
and other public and educational programs exploring the collective experience
of the generation that fought World War II and matured in the postwar decades.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Matthew
Brandt
PROJECT TITLE: Remembering, Preserving, and Preparing:
DESCRIPTION: Conferences will
consider the impact of statehood on the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples and the
contributions of native people to
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Mathew
Brandt
PROJECT TITLE: Building
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers to explore the role of
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barbara
Carpenter
PROJECT TITLE: We the People: Learning Who We Are
DESCRIPTION:
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Suzanne
Marrs
PROJECT TITLE: Eudora Welty's Secret Sharer: The Outside World and the Writer's
Imagination
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers to study landmarks and archival collections
associated with Eudora Welty in their historical context.
Landmarks of American History for Community
Colleges, WTP
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Leslie
McLemore
PROJECT TITLE: Landmarks of American Democracy: From
Freedom Summer to the
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 50 community college faculty anchored in landmarks central to
Freedom Summer and the Sanitation Workers' Strike, important episodes in the
Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael
Bouman
PROJECT TITLE: We the People of
DESCRIPTION: Consultancy and
training programs for
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Edeen
Martin
PROJECT TITLE: Crossroads of Conflict: Contested Visions
of Freedom and the Missouri‑Kansas Border Wars
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers on conflicts in
Public
Programs
Museum Projects
Great Falls,
Trigg C. M. Russell Foundation, Inc. OUTRIGHT: $275,400
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $100,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Anne Morand
PROJECT TITLE: The Bison: American Icon, Heart of Plains
Indian Culture
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a permanent exhibition with a web site and public and school programs about
the history of humans' interaction with bison and how the bison became a symbol
of Native American culture, the American West, and our national identity.
Public
Programs
Special Projects
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $105,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sarah Hood
PROJECT TITLE: Kansas‑Nebraska Chautauqua
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a series of public programs in 12 rural communities in
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sarah Hood
PROJECT TITLE: "We The People‑‑Nebraska"
DESCRIPTION: In partnership
with the Kansas Humanities Council and the state Library Commission, Center for
the Book, and Department of Education: creation of a new Chautauqua, materials
from the Resource Collection made available to schools at a reduced fee, and
the distribution of the "Between Fences" exhibit to six communities
as well as the state capitol.
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Brian
Pytlik Zillig
PROJECT TITLE: Evince Visualization and Analysis Tool
DESCRIPTION: Development of a
proof‑of‑concept prototype of a visualization tool for the analysis
of humanities texts online.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Steve Davis
PROJECT TITLE: Civic Engagement and Online
DESCRIPTION: Continued
development of the Online Nevada Encyclopedia (ONE) and a grant initiative to
develop humanities‑based civic dialogue programs.
NEW
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $ 10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jane
Rutkoff
PROJECT TITLE: A Democratic Vision: Forming a More Perfect
DESCRIPTION: A two‑semester
Clemente study course for low‑income adults in
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Laraine
Fletcher
PROJECT TITLE: Andean Worlds: New Directions in
Scholarship and Teaching
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute in Peru for twenty‑four college and university teachers
to engage in on‑site, interdisciplinary study of Andean cultures in the
pre‑Inkan, Inkan, colonial, and modern periods.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Beverly
Blois
PROJECT TITLE: Bharata Darshan: The Past and the Present
in the Study of
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute in
Landmarks of American History
Mt. Olive,
Save
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dorothy
Hartman
PROJECT TITLE: Ellis Island and Immigration to
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers on the history of late‑nineteenth and early‑twentieth
century immigration at
Landmarks of American History for Community
Colleges, WTP
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Paul Benson
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 50 community college faculty on the Transcendentalists and 19th‑century
reform movements in
Public
Programs
Museum Projects
Isleta,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Henry Walt
PROJECT TITLE: Isletan Images: A Photographic History of
the
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling exhibition and a publication on traditional life and change at
Isleta, using early photographs to show how outsiders saw the pueblo and how
historical information can be gleaned from the photographs.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Craig
Newbill
PROJECT TITLE: What Does it Mean to be a New Mexican?
DESCRIPTION: Planning and
programming for the New Mexico Centennial of Statehood in 2012.
Public
Programs
Interpreting
Catskill,
OUTRIGHT:
$45,900
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $275,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
PROJECT TITLE: Permanent Interpretive Exhibition at the
Home and Studio of Thomas Cole, Founder of the
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a permanent interpretation of Thomas Cole's studio, including a film, docent
tours, a web site, multimedia stations, publications, and public and
educational programs exploring how Cole worked and his contribution to American
art.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Annie
Polland
PROJECT TITLE: Implementation of New Interpretive Program
Elements at the National Historic
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of new interpretive exhibits, publications, and tours examining the
architectural, religious, and cultural history of a historic synagogue and
community in
Media Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: W. Sean
Barlow
PROJECT TITLE: Afropop Worldwide
DESCRIPTION: Production and
distribution of 10 original programs and 14 re‑edited "Hip
Deep" programs for the 2007‑08 season and a prototype of new
knowledge distribution models.
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan
Fraser
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling exhibition examining Charles Darwin's contributions to botany,
scientific inquiry, and humanity's fundamental understanding of nature.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nancy Green
PROJECT TITLE: A Room of Their Own: The Artists of
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a web site, a symposium, and related
programs exploring the visual arts and artists of London's Bloomsbury group.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Enid
Schildkrout
PROJECT TITLE: Splendors of Ancient Life: Dynasty and
Divinity in Yoruba Art
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a scholarly publication, and a web site
on the history and culture of the Yoruba city state of
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ruth Beesch
PROJECT TITLE: Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism
and Postwar
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a major traveling exhibition examining the emergence of abstract art in
postwar America and the political and social context in which it emerged.
Special Projects
Brooklyn,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Greg Sutton
PROJECT TITLE: Reveal the Real: Kids Uncover the Secrets
of
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a three‑year after‑school program that engages middle and high
school students in conducting historical research and producing videos for
public distribution about
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jane
McNamara
PROJECT TITLE: Together‑‑Book Talk for Kids
& Parents
DESCRIPTION: To support
"Together ‑‑ Book Talk for Kids & Parents," the
Council's intergenerational family reading and discussion program focused on
themes drawn from We the People bookshelves.
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Edward
O'Shea
PROJECT TITLE: W.B. Yeats: A Reassessment
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute for twenty‑five college and university teachers
on William Butler Yeats' life
and work, to be held in
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Edward
Kasinec
PROJECT TITLE: The Sources of Russian and Soviet Visual
Cultures, 1860‑1935: Study,
Teaching, and Education
DESCRIPTION: A three‑week
institute for twenty‑five college and university teachers on visual
culture in
Institutes for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Graham
Hodges
PROJECT TITLE: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
in Upstate
DESCRIPTION: A three‑week
institute for twenty‑five middle and high school teachers on abolitionism
and the Underground Railroad, using upstate
Landmarks of American History
Hyde Park,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David
Woolner
PROJECT TITLE: FDR and the World Crisis, 1933‑1945:
Understanding
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers to examine the presidency of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt at his residence in
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Annie
Polland
PROJECT TITLE: Identity and Adaptation: Immigration,
Ethnicity, Religion, and Culture in the Lower East Side of
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers on the development and interaction of Jewish,
African American, Italian, Irish, and Chinese communities in the Lower East
Side of New York City.
Seminars for College Teachers
Geneseo,
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Geneseo $137,243
PROJECT DIRECTOR: William
Cook
PROJECT TITLE: St. Francis of
DESCRIPTION: A six-week summer seminar in
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Eleanor
Leach
PROJECT TITLE: Identity and Self‑Representation in
the Subcultures of Ancient
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
seminar in
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
Boone,
Appalachian
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
PROJECT TITLE: Not Just a
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers to explore the first 75 years of the
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ronald Witt
PROJECT TITLE: Petrarch and
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
seminar for fifteen school teachers to study the writings of Petrarch on site
in
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Matthew
Cohen
PROJECT TITLE: Interface Development for Static Multimedia
Documents
DESCRIPTION: To support a
project to create standards/practices and software for marking up and
representing "static multimedia documents," especially marginalia and
annotations in printed texts.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Janet Daley
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: To support
"North Dakota Reads," the Council's reading and discussion program,
by adding new nonfiction titles including readings related to President Abraham
Lincoln and the impact of the Homestead Act of 1862, grants for scholars to
lead reading and discussion programs, and presentations by
Education
Programs
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Thomas
Isern
PROJECT TITLE: The Great Plains from
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on the history and culture of the
American Great Plains.
Federal/State
Partnership
Saipan,
OUTRIGHT: $51,020
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Herman
Guerrero
PROJECT TITLE: From Many, One: Exploring Democracy in a
Multicultural Commonwealth
DESCRIPTION: Demorcracy
Considered, a series of text‑based community discussions, public lectures
on the fundamentals of democracy and a series of activities that explores the
diverse cultural teaditions present in the Commonwealth.
Public Programs
NEH On
the Road
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Spencer
Crew
PROJECT TITLE: Shipping Subsidy to Accompany Traveling
Exhibition
Education
Programs
Institutes for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Richard
Benedum
PROJECT TITLE: Mozart's World
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute in
Landmarks of American History for Community
Colleges, WTP
Fremont,
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center $107,212
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Steven
Culbertson
PROJECT TITLE: Illustrating the Gilded Age: American
Politics and Culture, 1877‑1901
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 50 community college faculty, to be held at the Rutherford B.
Hayes Presidential Center in
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John King
PROJECT TITLE: Religion in English History and Literature
from THE
TALES through PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on the impact of religion on
literature and history in
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael
Kreyche
PROJECT TITLE: A Bilingual Digital List of Subject
Headings
DESCRIPTION: Development of a
collaborative framework for building a bilingual (Spanish‑English) list
of subject headings for access to libraries materials. The project would exploit Web technologies
for data gathering and enable broad‑based collaboration so that use of
the database contributes added value.
Challenge
Grants
Special Initiatives
Gambier,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Pamela
Jensen
PROJECT TITLE: Center for the Study of American Democracy
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for
the director's salary, fellowships and other programming at a new Center for
the Study of American Democracy.
Public
Programs
NEH On the Road
Idabel,
McCurtain County Art Club $1,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Henry Moy
PROJECT TITLE: Public Programming to Accompany Traveling
Exhibition
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David
Pettyjohn
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: A grant
initiative for public humanities projects that focus on themes and events in
American history.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Cara Ungar‑Gutierrez
PROJECT TITLE: Boarders and Boundaries
DESCRIPTION: The program
initiative, "Borders and Boundaries" which will explore American
history, the priniciples of democracy through lectures, a special issue of
Oregon Humanities magazine and teacher institutes.
Education
Programs
Institutes for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Stephanie
Wood
PROJECT TITLE: Mesoamerican Cultural Heritage: Resources
for Enhancing High School History Classes
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
institute for thirty school teachers to study Mesoamerican history and culture
through artifacts, architectural remains, and manuscript sources.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Laurie
Zierer
PROJECT TITLE: Our Stories, Our Future
DESCRIPTION: To support the
expansion of "Our Stories, Our Future," a statewide project, by
awarding grants, supporting speakers and book groups, all focused on stories
from
Education
Programs
Institutes for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Hilde
Binford
PROJECT TITLE: J.S. Bach in the Baroque and the
Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer institute in
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Deane Root
PROJECT TITLE: Voices Across Time: Teaching American
History Through Song
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
institute for twenty‑five school teachers that would explore topics in
American history, including American values and attitudes, through the lens of
music.
Landmarks of American History
Carlisle,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Matthew
Pinsker
PROJECT TITLE: Landmarks of the Underground Railroad: From
Christiana to
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers to examine the Underground Railroad in
antebellum
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Stephen
Frank
PROJECT TITLE: A Revolution in Government:
the Constitution, 1765‑1791
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers on the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, including visits to key
Villanova,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Marylu Hill
PROJECT TITLE: Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers on Benjamin Franklin's life and contributions
to American civic character, with visits to relevant
Landmarks of American History for Community
Colleges, WTP
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Roderick
McDonald
PROJECT TITLE: The Power of Place: Teaching American
History and Culture through
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 50 community college faculty members linking important themes in
early American history to key sites in
Seminars for School Teachers
Carlisle,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nancy
Mellerski
PROJECT TITLE: Citizenship and Culture: French Identity in
Crisis
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer seminar for fifteen French teachers on the construction of, and
challenges to, French republican identity over the last two centuries.
Philadelphia,
Library Company of
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Richard
Newman
PROJECT TITLE: The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Against
Slavery and Racial Injustice from the American Revolution to the Civil War
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
seminar for fifteen school teachers on the American abolitionist movement from
the Revolutionary War era to the Civil War.
Swarthmore,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Roger Allen
PROJECT TITLE: The Arabic Novel in Translation
DESCRIPTION: A four‑week
summer seminar for fifteen high school teachers on the Arabic novel.
Preservation
and Access
Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital
Partnership
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joan
Saverino
PROJECT TITLE: PhilaPlace: A Neighborhood History and
Culture Project
DESCRIPTION: Development of
PhilaPlace, an interactive Web resource on the history, culture, and
architecture of
photographs, the site will
include an in‑depth Geographic Information System (GIS) model of
Southwark, a neighborhood with a 300‑year history as a center of
industry, transportation, and immigration.
Challenge
Grants
Special Initiatives
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Stephen
Hague
PROJECT TITLE: We the People Challenge grant to expand
humanities programs at Stenton
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for
humanities programs; partial funding for a project coordinator; and
scholarships and transportation costs for underserved students.
Federal/State
Partnership
OUTRIGHT: $83,560
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Juan
Gonzalez‑Lamela
PROJECT TITLE: Broaden the information usefulness of the
DESCRIPTION: Continued
development of the Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Mary‑Kim
PROJECT TITLE: On the Road to Freedom
DESCRIPTION: This
commemoration of the bicentennial of the abolition of slavery will employ
widely attended lectures, live and rebroadcast panel discussions, a documentary
film series of Rhode Island Public Broadcasting, targeted speakers bureau
presentations for community organizations, and grants.
Public
Programs
NEH On the Road
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Mac Harris
PROJECT TITLE: Farm Life: A Century of Change fro Farmers
and Their Neighbors
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robert
Cheatham
PROJECT TITLE: Incorporating the Themes of "We the
People" into the Programming of Humanities
DESCRIPTION: We the People
funding will support sessions devoted to American history and culture at the
Southern Festival of Books; strengthen the six small museums and cultural
organizations hosting the "New Harmonies" exhibit; and make grants,
including one to support a teacher institute on the civil rights movement in
Tennessee.
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Irven
Resnick
PROJECT TITLE: Holy Land (and
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
summer institute for twenty‑five college and university teachers on the
significance of the Holy Land and
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Janice
Leone
PROJECT TITLE: The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson, and
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers held at The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home,
on major themes in nineteenth‑century American history.
Public Programs
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David
Denney
PROJECT TITLE: Forgotten Gateway: Coming to
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a large traveling exhibition, a smaller format traveling version, and
educational and public programs exploring immigration through the
NEH On the Road
Eastland,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ed Allcorn
PROJECT TITLE: Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm
Families and Their Neighbors: NEH on the Road
Miscellaneous
Humanities Projects
Digital Humanities Start‑Up Grants
Austin,
University of
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robert
Freeman
PROJECT TITLE: uTunes: Music 1.01
DESCRIPTION: Development of a
series of audio and video podcasts and additional online elements on the
history and aesthetics of music.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Wei Yan
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: To support the
development of new methods, using
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Cynthia
Buckingham
PROJECT TITLE: We the People
DESCRIPTION: To support
grants fo community projects exploring significant historical themes and
events, history topics for the Council's speakers bureau, historians for the
Great Salt Lake Book Festival, the statewide History Day, an oral history
initiative, weekly public radio programs, and a statewide initiative for
interpretive exhibits at museums.
Education
Programs
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John
Rosenberg
PROJECT TITLE: Authors in the Prado (in Spanish)
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
seminar in Spanish for fifteen Spanish teachers to study dramatic literature
and art on site in
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Larissa
Vigue Picard
PROJECT TITLE: Sharing Our Past, Shaping Our Future
DESCRIPTION: The Vermont
Humanities Council will use talks, living history presentations, lectures,
reading and discussions series for both the general public and low‑literacy
groups, summer humanities camps for at‑risk middle school youth, and
grants to increase knowledge and understanding of American and
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Wanda Mill‑Bocachica
PROJECT TITLE:
DESCRIPTION: To support
"Virgin Islands Voices: A Spoken
Word Celebration," a series of activities in collaboration with several
partners to conduct writing and poetry workshops, to produce a humanities festival
focused on the spoken word, and to organize a book festival to highlight both
the oral and written traditions of the Virgin Islands.
Public
Programs
Interpreting
PROJECT DIRECTOR: James Horn
PROJECT TITLE: From Subjects to Citizens:
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a web site about
Museum Projects
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Susan Stein
PROJECT TITLE: Interpreting Jefferson and
DESCRIPTION: Implementation
of a permanent exhibition in a new visitor's center, including a film, a model
of the plantation, a web site, publications, and four copies of a smaller panel
exhibition.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $ 10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Andrew
Chancey
PROJECT TITLE: We the People in
DESCRIPTION: The study and
public dissemination of
Education
Programs
Institutes for College and University Teachers
Ferrum,
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Peter Crow
PROJECT TITLE: Regional Study and the Liberal Arts:
DESCRIPTION: Four‑week
institute for twenty‑five college and university teachers on Appalachian
history and culture.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ralph Cohen
PROJECT TITLE: Shakespeare's Playhouses Inside and Out
2008
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
institute for twenty‑five college and university teachers on Shakespeare,
to be held at the Blackfriars Playhouse in
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Claire
Griffin.
PROJECT TITLE: Shaping the Constitution: A View from
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops, held at
PROJECT DIRECTOR: William
Harris
PROJECT TITLE: James Madison and Constitutional
Citizenship
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 100 school teachers on James Madison's role in the creation of
the U.S. Constitution, held at
Seminars for School Teachers
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Joseph
Miller
PROJECT TITLE: Roots 2008: Teaching the African Dimensions
of the History and Culture of
the
DESCRIPTION: A five‑week
summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on the African context of the Trans‑Atlantic
slave trade.
PROJECT DIRECTOR: T. Mills
Kelly
PROJECT TITLE: Making Sense of 1989
DESCRIPTION: A two‑week
seminar for fifteen high school history teachers on the events of
1989 that prefigured the
collapse of Communism in
uprising in
Challenge
Grants
Special Initiatives
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Rex Ellis
PROJECT TITLE: "To Form a More Perfect
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for
staffing, programming, and digital technology acquisitions in
a program focused on the role
of African Americans in the founding era of the republic.
Federal/State
Partnership
Seattle,
Humanities Washington OUTRIGHT: $103,240
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR:
PROJECT TITLE: We the People 2007 Across
DESCRIPTION: A tour of the
exhibition, "Key Ingredients," training in the"My United
States" literacy curriculum and a new program of civic reflection
discussion groups.
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dena
Wortzel
PROJECT TITLE: Finding Home:
DESCRIPTION: Launching a new
initiative, this WTP grant will support humanities‑based conferences,
lectures, K‑12 curriculum development, web discussions, newspaper
articles, and sessions at the 2008 Wisconsin Book Festival on the theme of the
state's conservation heritage.
Public
Programs
NEH On the Road
Thermopolis,
Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation $1,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ellen
Blakey
PROJECT TITLE: Early Heroes of Flight
Federal/State
Partnership
ADDITIONAL MATCH: $10,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Victoria
Sherry
PROJECT TITLE: American Journeys: History, Culture and
Counterculture
DESCRIPTION: The Wyoming
Humanities Council will explore American history from the Civil War to the
Civil Rights movement as well as the role of the West in the social and
cultural movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Preservation Access grants will
provide long‑standing support to
Education
Programs
Landmarks of American History
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Marcia
Britton
PROJECT TITLE: Women's Suffrage on the Western Frontier
DESCRIPTION: Two one‑week
workshops for 80 school teachers investigating women's suffrage in the West at
a number of