Recent NEH Grants to HSIs
Congratulations to the 44 awardees from HSIs from our most recent grant cycle! Twenty-four HSI faculty members received funding for their research through the Awards for Faculty program and four more received research Fellowships. Two HSIs received funding through the Cultural and Community Resilience program, one HSI was awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, and two received Digital Projects for the Public awards. An additional nine institutions were awarded through the Humanities Initiatives programs. One HSI received a Preservation and Access Education and Training Award, and one a Preservation and Access Research and Development Award.
Here are a few examples of the awarded projects:
University of New Mexico - Outright: $60,000
[Awards for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions]
Project Title: Aurora Lucero-White Lea (1893–1963), Twentieth-Century Pan-Americanism, and Indo-Hispano Folklore
Project Description: A bio-bibliographical study of early twentieth-century New Mexican folklorist Aurora Lucero-White Lea, this project situates Lucero’s vital and often-unattributed work at the crossroads of national identity politics concerning minority-majority New Mexican treaty citizens.
Regis University - Outright: $126,227
[Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions]
Project Title: Placemaking in Practice: Museums, Archives, Gallery Studies Certification and Minor
Project Description: The proposed project involves the development of a 15-credit certificate program and 12-credit minor in museums, archives, and gallery Studies.
University of Arizona - Outright: $349,357
[Preservation and Access Education and Training]
Project Title: Experiential Training of the Next Generation of Museum Professionals through American Southwest Cultural Heritage Collections
Project Description: This project will deliver tailored education and training for diverse groups of undergraduate and postgraduate students working within museum fields.
University of California, Santa Barbara - Outright: $74,928
[Digital Humanities Advancement Grants]
Project Title: Digitization toolkit: a Blueprint for Egalitarian Access to Technology in Low-resource Environments
Project Description: This project aims to develop an integrated digitization toolkit to allow under-resourced institutions, collectives, and communities to digitize their archival collections at low cost.
Lehman College, CUNY - Outright: $150,000
[Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions]
Project Title: Students Archive the Bronx: Building Literacy for Multilingual Learners through Community History Projects
Project Description: The Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Lehman College, City University of New York, is proposing a two-year humanities initiative to create
multilingual pedagogical materials that engage with the rich and diverse cultural histories of our neighborhood: the Bronx, New York.
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras - Outright: $30,000
[Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants]
Project Title: Sitios: A Spatial Story of Puerto Rico's Modernization: Georeferencing the Works of Henry Klumb
Project Description: A pilot project for the georeferencing of architectural buildings, public spaces, or urban proposals, between other architectural documents, that are held in the collections of the Architecture and Construction Archive of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.