| 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.