NEH Summer Stipend 2016

OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANT AWARDS AND OFFERS, MARCH 2016 ALABAMA (3) $86,127 Auburn University Auburn University Outright: $74,127 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Mark Wilson Project Title: Dialogues on the Experience of War Project Description: A literature and film discussion program, focusing on World War I and Vietnam, for veterans in Alabama communities, and two related semester-length courses in Alabama state correctional facilities. Mobile David Head Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Spring Hill College Project Title: "Wavering on a Tremendous Precipice:" George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the Continental Army Project Description: A book-length study of George Washington's Continental Army and the Newburgh Conspiracy of 1783 as a significant event in the formation of the new nation. Troy Ben Robertson Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Troy State University Main Campus Project Title: The Plays of English Author and Critic Elizabeth Inchbald (1735-1821) Project Description: Preparation of the first complete scholarly edition of plays by English writer, Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821). ALASKA (1) $200,000 Fairbanks University of Alaska, Fairbanks Outright: $200,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Suzan Hahn Project Title: Expanding Online Access to Essential Historical Materials About Alaska and the Polar Regions NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 2 of 47 Project Description: The configuration and implementation of a unified digital access platform for the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives, which includes diverse materials on the history and culture of Alaska. ARIZONA (1) $38,318 Tucson University of Arizona Outright: $38,318 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Molly Kalkstein Project Title: Planning the Harry Callahan Research Portal at the Center for Creative Photography Project Description: Planning and development of a collaborative online portal on the work of American photographer Harry Callahan (1912-1999); it would include a sortable database containing a gallery of 2,700 cataloged prints dating from the 1940s to the 1990s, an interactive chronology, and guides to Callahan's working materials and practice. ARKANSAS (2) $139,755 Jonesboro Arkansas State University, Main Campus Outright: $39,983 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Marti Allen Project Title: Rockabilly Exhibition/Rockabilly Loop Project NEH Planning Grant 2015 Project Description: Planning for a permanent exhibition, a traveling suitcase, and a music trail exploring Rockabilly as a representation of post-World War II American cultural change. Little Rock Central Arkansas Library System Outright: $99,772 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Alex Vernon Project Title: Fiction & Fact: A Dialogue with Veterans Project Description: Four discussion programs for Arkansas veterans and others on the themes of battlefield and homefront, World War I, Vietnam, and war and witness. CALIFORNIA (23) $2,802,308 Arroyo Grande Jamieson Donati Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Unaffiliated Independent Scholar Project Title: Urban Spaces and Social Realities in the Peloponnese (700-100 BCE) Project Description: An article on the development of ancient Peloponnesian urbanization based on a synthesis of existing fieldwork and digital mapping. Berkeley Catticus Corporation [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Jason Cohn Outright: $400,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 3 of 47 Project Title: Mad as Hell! Project Description: Production of an 84-minute documentary about Howard Jarvis (1903–86) and the campaign to pass California's Proposition 13. Naomi Seidman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Graduate Theological Union Project Title: Hebrew and Yiddish Languages in the Work of Sigmund Freud's (18561939) Project Description: Research for a book-length study of the role of the Hebrew and Yiddish languages in the work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). University of California, Berkeley Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Rosemary Joyce Project Title: Creating and Publishing an Online Finding Aid for the Archivo General de Centroamérica (General Archive of Central America) Project Description: The creation of two finding aids (one basic and one enhanced) for 147,000 documents in the Archivo General de Centroamérica (AGCA), the Spanish colonial archive in Guatemala that holds materials ranging in date from 1544 to 1821, using microfilm held at the University of California, Berkeley. The project will also provide open public access to the information by integrating both finding aids into the Online Archive of California of the University of California library system. University of California, Berkeley Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Elaine Tennant Project Title: Raised from the Ashes: Cardinell-Vincent Company Photographs of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition Project Description: Arrangement, description, and rehousing of 2,000 glass plate negatives, 105 panoramic film negatives, and 6,700 photographic prints documenting the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco, and digitization of 2,100 images. Carson California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Gregory Williams Project Title: California State University Japanese American Digitization Implementation Grant Project Description: The digitization of 5,000 personal writings, photographs, poetry, artwork, organizational records, and audiovisual recordings dealing with Japanese internment during World War II and Japanese American experiences more broadly, along with the transcription of 75 oral histories and digitization and transcription of 500 internment camp publications. Chico Allison Madar [Summer Stipends] Outright: $6,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 4 of 47 California State University, Chico Foundation Project Title: A People Between: Servitude and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Virginia Project Description: A book-length study of the legal and social conditions of slavery and servitude in colonial Virginia. El Cerrito Arhoolie Foundation Outright: $140,000 Match: $80,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Tom Diamant Project Title: Digitizing the Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings Project Description: The digitization of 24,000 recordings of Mexican American vernacular music from the Strachwitz Frontera Collection spanning 1901 to 1994. Irvine University of California, Irvine Outright: $19,783 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: William Bridges Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on When War Should End Project Description: The development and teaching of a new lower-division undergraduate course to explore the question of when war should end. Los Angeles International Documentary Association Outright: $50,000 [Media Projects Development] Project Director: David Zeiger Project Title: The Student Revolt of the Nineteen Sixties Project Description: Development of a feature-length documentary about the student movement of the 1960s. Loyola Marymount University Outright: $20,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Anna Harrison Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Grief and Mourning Project Description: The development and teaching of a new upper-division core course for undergraduates on grief and mourning. University of Southern California Outright: $200,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Deborah Holmes-Wong Project Title: The Fire Last Time: Digitizing the Independent and Webster Commission Records on the 1992 L.A. Civil Unrest Project Description: Digitization of 182,264 pages of archival records and 291 hours of audiovisual recordings of the Independent and Webster Commissions, convened to investigate the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 5 of 47 Monterey Park East Los Angeles College Outright: $100,000 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Wooichin Ong Project Title: War Without/War Within Project Description: A two-year project for faculty to develop a curriculum and teaching practices in a new single-semester two-course offering on the theme of warfare and its impact on identity across several periods of human history. Sacramento Mona Siegel Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] California State University, Sacramento Foundation Project Title: Women and the Transnational Promise of 1919 Project Description: Archival research leading toward completion of a book on feminist activism and peace negotiations at the end of World War I. San Bernardino University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB Outright: $99,725 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Jennifer Andersen Project Title: From Ancient Greece to the Contemporary Middle East: Dialogues on the Experience of War Project Description: A reading, viewing, and discussion program, at various sites in the Inland Empire region of California, on classical literature and the Greek-Trojan wars in dialogue with letters, articles, literature and documentaries about more recent conflicts. San Diego Jason Lobel Outright: $50,400 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships] Unaffiliated Independent Scholar Project Title: Documentation of Ponosakan, a Near-Extinct Austronesian Language of Sulawesi, Indonesia Project Description: Fieldwork and research for the preparation of a grammar and dictionary on the endangered Ponosakan language of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Paula De Vos Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] San Diego State University Research Foundation Project Title: Apothecaries and the Art of Pharmacy in New Spain and the Hispanic World Project Description: A history of the pharmaceutical craft and its development as a major industry in Latin America. San Francisco Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Stephen Gong Outright: $400,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 6 of 47 Project Title: The Asian Americans Project Description: Production of a six-hour television series exploring Asian American history from the late 19th century through the present. Irene Cheng Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] California College of the Arts Project Title: The Shape of Utopia: Architecture and Radical Reform in 19th-Century America Project Description: A book-length study of geometric ideal plans for cities and buildings that reflect utopian movements in 18th- and 19th-century America. Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Patricia Fumerton Project Title: EBBA: Rare Broadside Ballad Collections in the US and UK Project Description: The digitization and integration of 900 new images, and 1882 updated images, into an electronic archive of 17th-century English broadside ballads, along with accompanying text transcriptions of ballads and musical scores, recordings, and informational essays. The project would also enhance website displays and add a range of analytical tools for computational analysis and visualized results. Santa Cruz Jennifer Derr Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of California, Santa Cruz Project Title: A History of Hepatitis C in Egypt Project Description: Archival and field work in Cairo and Geneva towards a history of the hepatitis C virus in Egypt. University of California, Santa Cruz Outright: $220,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Gregory O'Malley Project Title: Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database Project Description: The addition of thousands of records of intra-American slave trafficking and a new "Final Passages" web interface into Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Sunnyvale John Keegan Outright: $50,400 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships] Unaffiliated Independent Scholar Project Title: Sara-Bagirmi Languages Database Project, part 2 Project Description: Fieldwork and research to document and preserve Africa's endangered Sara-Bagirmi languages. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 7 of 47 COLORADO (3) $31,966 Boulder Myles Osborne Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Colorado, Boulder Project Title: Pan-Africanism: The Mau Mau Revolt and Its Impact on Rural Society in the Caribbean Project Description: Two months of interviews towards a transnational history of the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya and its impact in the Caribbean. Colorado Springs Brian Duvick Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Project Title: A Translation of Proclus’ 5th-Century Commentary on the Republic Project Description: An annotated English translation of Proclus' Commentary on the Republic from the 5th century CE, which discusses Plato's Republic from the 4th century BCE. Gunnison Western State Colorado University Outright: $19,966 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Kelsey Bennett Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on the Purpose of Art Project Description: The development and teaching of a first-year undergraduate seminar, designed primarily for honors students, to explore the purpose of art. CONNECTICUT (5) $403,000 Bridgeport Barnum Museum Foundation, Inc. Outright: $190,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Adrienne Saint-Pierre Project Title: Creating the P.T. Barnum Digital Collection Project Description: Conserving, cataloging, digitizing, and creating global access to significant collections of artifacts, ephemera, and manuscripts pertaining to P.T. Barnum, his family, and his business endeavors, including famous attractions such as General Tom Thumb, Jenny Lind, Jumbo, and others. This project would digitize approximately 970 objects held by the Barnum Museum and Bridgeport Public Library. Fairfield Jennifer Adair Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Fairfield University Project Title: The Politics of Human Rights and Argentina's Transition to Democracy in the 1980's Project Description: A history of Argentina's transition to democracy in the 1980s. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 8 of 47 New Haven Endangered Language Fund, Inc. Outright: $200,000 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation] Project Director: Bruce Nevin Project Title: Achumawi Linguistic Database Project Description: The completion of a linguistic database for the nearly extinct language Achumawi, a heritage language of the Pit River tribe in Northern California. New London Eileen Kane Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Connecticut College Project Title: Muslim Migrants between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, 1800s-1910s Project Description: Archival research for a book-length manuscript on Muslim migration between the Russian and Ottoman Empires from the 1880s to the 1910s. Lyman Allyn Art Museum [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Jane LeGrow Project Title: NEH on the Road: For All the World to See Outright: $1,000 DELAWARE (2) $247,200 Newark University of Delaware Outright: $75,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Pier Foreman Project Title: The Colored Conventions Project Project Description: Enhancement of a website to document over 120 conventions organized by African-American communities from the 1830s-1880s, including development of a reference database and fifteen interpretive exhibits. Wilmington Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Inc. Outright: $172,200 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Roger Horowitz Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Hagley Museum and Library Project Description: 12 months of stipend support (1-3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (6) $504,430 Washington American University [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Jack Rasmussen Project Title: NEH on the Road: Bandits and Heroes Outright: $1,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 9 of 47 Brian Hochman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Georgetown University Project Title: A History of Wiretapping in the United States Project Description: A history of wiretapping in the United States, from the Civil War to the present. Council of American Overseas Research Centers Outright: $172,200 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Christopher Tuttle Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at American Overseas Research Centers sponsored by CAORC Project Description: 12 months of stipend support (1-3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. Folger Shakespeare Library Outright: $247,800 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Kathleen Lynch Project Title: Long-term Residential Fellowships Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library Project Description: 18 months of stipend support (2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. International Arts & Artists Outright: $40,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Anne Timpano Project Title: Converging Cultures: Asian Diasporas and Latin American and Caribbean Art from 1940 to the Present Project Description: Planning for a traveling exhibition about the impact of Asian immigration on art in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1940 to the present. Stone Soup Productions, Inc. Outright: $37,430 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Andrea Kalin Project Title: The Search for Harmony: Building a Game Development Tool for WordPress Project Description: The development of an educational games module for the WordPress content management system. The prototype game would be associated with an upcoming documentary film on African Americans and classical music. FLORIDA (5) $413,519 Avon Park South Florida State College Outright: $99,619 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Charlotte Pressler Project Title: A Sense of Home: From Cultural Conflict to Coexistence in Florida's Heartland 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 10 of 47 Project Description: A three-year project to bring into the institution's humanities curricula the study of the cultures of Florida's Heartland region, from the history of its indigenous peoples and European adventurers to recent influxes from the Caribbean, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Gainesville University of Florida Outright: $96,900 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Alice Freifeld Project Title: National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on The Experience of War Project Description: A series of public discussions for veterans on experiences and representations of war, to be held at the University of Florida and at Gainesville's Hippodrome State Theater. University of Florida Board of Trustees Outright: $205,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Charles Cobb; Gifford Waters (co-project director) Project Title: Cataloguing Franciscan Missions of La Florida Project Description: The development of an online archive of archaeological materials from three Franciscan mission sites in Florida that document contact between Native Americans and Spanish colonists during the 17th and 18th centuries. The project would catalog and digitize 61,000 artifacts, making them and associated field records, site maps, and photographs publicly available. Tallahassee Jessica Clark Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Florida State University Project Title: Subordinated Heroes: Junior Officers in the Roman Army Project Description: A book-length study on the literature and history of junior officers (military tribunes) in the Roman army. Tampa John Lennon Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of South Florida Project Title: Detroit is Conflict Graffiti from a Global Perspective Project Description: The ethnographic and cultural analysis of conflict graffiti in Detroit and cities in the Middle East. GEORGIA (3) $312,000 Atlanta Georgia Humanities Council [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Douglas Blackmon Project Title: The Harvest Outright: $300,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 11 of 47 Project Description: Production of a 60-minute documentary and related public programming examining race and school desegregation in Leland, Mississippi, from the early 1960s to the present. Gregory Zinman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Georgia Institute of Technology Project Title: The Moving Image Without Photography Project Description: Writing and website development leading to publication of a book on the 19th- and 20th-century history of moving images created without cameras and an online supplement presenting related essays and videos. Valdosta Jacob Jewusiak Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Valdosta State University Project Title: Aging and the Elderly in 19th- and 20th-Century British Novels Project Description: Completion of a book-length study on aging and the elderly in 19th and 20th-century British novels. HAWAII (1) $50,400 Honolulu Hiroko Sato Outright: $50,400 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships] University of Hawaii, Manoa Project Title: Documentation and Morphosyntactic Analysis of Bebeli, an Austronesian Language of Papua New Guinea Project Description: Fieldwork and research for a dictionary, grammar, and scholarly articles on Bebeli, an endangered language of Papua New Guinea. IDAHO (1) $6,000 Moscow Jennifer Ladino Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Idaho Project Title: Affect and Environment at American Memory Sites Project Description: Research for a book on the impact of affect and memory on national memorial sites and their landscapes. ILLINOIS (9) $842,372 Chicago American Institute of Indian Studies Outright: $245,175 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Philip Lutgendorf Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships in India sponsored by the American Institute of Indian Studies Project Description: 18 months of stipend support (2-4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 12 of 47 DePaul University Outright: $74,271 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: John Shanahan; Megan Bernal (co-project director); Robin Burke (coproject director); Antonio Ceraso (co-project director) Project Title: Reading Chicago Reading: Modeling Texts and Readers in a Public Library System Project Description: A pilot study on how analyzing patron responses to a citywide reading program can help scholars and librarians better understand which book genres and styles prove most meaningful to the community. Society of Architectural Historians (NFP) Outright: $125,000 Match: $80,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Gabrielle Esperdy Project Title: SAH Archipedia: New Interpretive Content for Public Access Project Description: Updates to the Society of Architectural Historians' Archipedia and Archipedia Classic Buildings, which together constitute online resources of the American built environment for both public and academic audiences. The project would result in 47 new essays, 370 new building entries, 270 revised building entries, 117,000 bibliographic references, 25 K-12 lesson plans, and 25 public lectures. Crystal Lake McHenry County College Outright: $99,926 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Todd Culp Project Title: The Journey Home: Diminishing Dissonance for Community College Student Veterans Project Description: A three-year project for the redesign and enhancement of two courses in order to provide historical context and literary readings on the effects of wars on nations and to engage in a veterans-focused partnership with the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Decatur Operation Opportunity Foundation Outright: $100,000 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Sidney Ellington Project Title: Warrior-Scholar Project: University of Chicago, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Vassar College Project Description: Summer 2016 academic transition courses for enlisted veterans held at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Vassar College, and a preparatory program for discussion leaders. Operation Opportunity Foundation [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Sidney Ellington Project Title: The Warrior-Scholar Project Outright: $100,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 13 of 47 Project Description: A weeklong academic "boot camp" grounded in humanities texts and writing assignments designed to prepare veterans for the rigors of a four-year undergraduate education, to be conducted at Yale University, Syracuse University, the University of Michigan, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Macomb Febe Pamonag Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Western Illinois University Project Title: Patients' Activism in the Culion Leper Colony, Philippines, 1905-1930s Project Description: A book-length study of the leper colony on Culion Island, the Philippines, during the period of American governance, 1898-1950 Urbana John Karam Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Project Title: Arabs at a South American Border Remaking the Hemisphere Project Description: A book-length study of Arab immigrants in the border region of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Tamara Chaplin Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Project Title: Postwar French Media, and the Struggle for Gay Rights Project Description: A book-length study of the history of French lesbian activism since World War II. INDIANA (7) $454,821 Bloomington Trustees of Indiana University Outright: $240,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Albert Valdman Project Title: The Preparation of a Differential, Historical, and Etymological Dictionary of Louisiana French Project Description: The preparation of linguistic resources on Louisiana French, one of approximately 19 varieties of French spoken outside of France. These include a print and online dictionary and lexical entries for an international database of non-standard French vocabulary. Trustees of Indiana University Outright: $71,108 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Edward Lazzerini Project Title: Historical Demography and Population Behavior among Muslims in Russian Central Eurasia, 1828-1918: The Case of Kazan City Project Description: Development of a public database that would enable research into the Muslim community of the Russian Empire from 1828-1918 by converting information found within parish registers from the city of Kazan. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 14 of 47 Indianapolis Butler University Outright: $38,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Robin Turner; Lee Garver (co-project director); Antwain Hunter (coproject director); Ania Spyra (co-project director) Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Freedom Project Description: The development and teaching of a new college course for sophomores on freedom. Children's Museum of Indianapolis Outright: $30,000 Match: $10,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Jennifer Pace Robinson Project Title: Galleries for American Arts and Popular Culture Project Description: Planning for a permanent exhibition, related changing exhibition space, programming, and educational resources about the ways that American popular culture has influenced and has been influenced by the public. Muncie Ball State University Outright: $39,713 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Diana Saiki; Valerie Birk (co-project director) Project Title: 3D Modeling for Textile Collections Project Description: The development of a prototype web application of threedimensional models of historic clothing for use by researchers, teachers, and the general public. The test collection would consist of World War II-era American clothing from the Beeman Historic Costume Collection. Valparaiso The Lutheran University Association,Inc.,dba Valparaiso Univ Outright: $20,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Allison Schuette Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on the Concept of the Neighbor Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on questions about neighborliness. West Lafayette Christopher Lukasik Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Purdue University Project Title: The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature Project Description: An book-length study of the relationship between illustration and text in American literature. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 15 of 47 KANSAS (6) $122,999 Hiawatha Brown County Historical Society, Inc. [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Eric Thompson Project Title: NEH on the Road: House and Home Outright: $1,000 Lawrence Erik Scott Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Kansas, Lawrence Project Title: Soviet Defectors and the Borders of the Cold War World, 1945-1991 Project Description: Two months of archival work toward a book-length manuscript on Soviet defectors during the Cold War (1945-1991). Lawrence Arts Center Outright: $50,000 [Media Projects Development] Project Director: Randal Jelks Project Title: I, Too, Sing America: Langston Hughes Unfurled Project Description: Development of a two-part, 100-minute documentary about Langston Hughes's life and art. University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc Outright: $19,999 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Ani Kokobobo Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Ethics and Community Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on the ethical boundaries of community. University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc Outright: $40,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Maryemma Graham Project Title: Black Book Interactive Project Project Description: Preliminary steps toward developing a metadata schema that accounts for race in order to increase scholarly access to archival materials. Manhattan James Machor Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Kansas State University Project Title: Mark Twain: Historical Reception and Iconic Authorship Project Description: A book-length study of the reception history of Mark Twain and his works. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 16 of 47 KENTUCKY (1) $19,121 Lexington University of Kentucky Research Foundation Outright: $19,121 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Claire Clark Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Morality, Habit, and Health Project Description: The development and teaching of a new upper-level undergraduate seminar on morality, habits, and health. LOUISIANA (3) $284,190 Monroe Ouachita Parish Public Library [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Angela Greer Project Title: NEH on the Road: Power of Children Outright: $1,000 New Orleans Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation, Inc. Outright: $222,190 Match: $60,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Erin Greenwald Project Title: Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865 Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition with artifacts, a panel exhibition, an exhibition guide, and related public programs on the domestic slave trade from 1808 to 1865. Port Allen West Baton Rouge Museum [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Angelique Bergeron Project Title: NEH on the Road: Spirited Outright: $1,000 MAINE (3) $224,416 Orono University of Maine, Orono Outright: $73,168 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Anne Knowles Project Title: Visualizing Spatial Experience in the Holocaust Project Description: Employing computational linguistics and natural language processing techniques to study how Holocaust survivors use spatial terms to describe their experiences. Testimonies from the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Center collection would provide the sources for the preliminary study. Portland Maine Humanities Council [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Elizabeth Sinclair Outright: $82,248 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 17 of 47 Project Title: Telling the Story: A Book Group for Veterans Project Description: A series of discussion groups for Maine veterans based on classical Greek and modern humanities sources. Wells York County Community College Outright: $69,000 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: David Susman; Doreen Rogan (co-project director) Project Title: New American Studies Concentration Project Description: A two-year project to establish American studies as the first humanities concentration in the Liberal Studies program, leading to an Associate of Arts degree, at York County Community College. MARYLAND (2) $88,693 Baltimore April Oettinger Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Goucher College Project Title: Lorenzo Lotto and the Sublime Turn in Venetian Landscape Art Project Description: A book-length study on the landscape paintings by the Venetian Renaissance master Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480-1557). College Park University of Maryland, College Park Outright: $82,693 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Marian Jones Project Title: One Hundred Years of American Women in Uniform Project Description: Four fifteen-member discussion groups for veterans, to be held at University of Maryland, College Park and the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC on the experiences of female veterans in World War I and the current Iraq and Afghanistan wars. MASSACHUSETTS (14) $1,276,880 Amherst Jane Degenhardt Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Massachusetts, Amherst Project Title: Chance, Providence and Overseas Exploration in Early Modern English Drama Project Description: Completion of a book-length study on British maritime exploration, ethics, and the concept of fortune in 17th-century English drama. Boston Emerson College [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Kenneth Feil Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Comedy Outright: $20,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 18 of 47 Project Description: The development and teaching of a new upper-level undergraduate course to explore the social, political, and cultural impact of comedy. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Christina Nielsen Project Title: Providing Global Access to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Treasured Collection Project Description: Cataloging, digital photography, and item-level description of 2,600 works of art, furniture, books, photographs, letters, and artifacts on permanent view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This project would create comprehensive documentation of the full collection, to be made freely accessible through the museum's EmbARK collection management system and a redesigned Web site. Massachusetts Historical Society Outright: $177,600 Match: $21,000 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Conrad Wright Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society Project Description: 16 months of stipend support (2-4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. Northeastern University Outright: $74,778 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Julia Flanders Project Title: TEI and Humanities Pedagogy: Building TAPAS Classroom Project Description: The development of a platform for teaching the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), which would allow for shared instruction materials, collaborative teaching, student evaluation, all built within the NEH-funded TAPAS infrastructure. Pablo Muchnik Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Emerson College Project Title: Rawls and Kant on the Public Use of Reason Project Description: A chapter of a book-length study on Kant's notion of religion and politics. Cambridge President and Fellows of Harvard College Outright: $230,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Afsaneh Najmabadi Project Title: Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Project Description: The preservation and digitization of primary sources related to the social and cultural history of women during the Qajar dynasty (1785–1925) in Iran; these materials would be made available through the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Web site. President and Fellows of Harvard College [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Peter Der Manuelian Outright: $235,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 19 of 47 Project Title: The Giza Project: Consolidated Archaeological Reference Database II Project Description: Continued development of an online resource linking an archaeological archive with 3D visualizations derived from excavations at the Giza pyramids in Egypt over the past century and a half. Phase one of the project, now complete, entailed development of a database; phase two proposes integration of 3D models into the database. Chestnut Hill Lori Harrison-Kahan Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Boston College Project Title: Pioneering Jewish Women Writers in the Progressive Era Project Description: A book-length study of a group of American women Jewish writers based in San Francisco. Trustees of Boston College Outright: $20,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Jon Burmeister Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Work and Leisure? Project Description: The development and teaching of a new intensive six-week summer course for undergraduates on the meaning of work and leisure. Fitchburg Fitchburg State University Outright: $40,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Catherine Buell; William Seeley (co-project director); Ricky Sethi (coproject director) Project Title: Scientific Workflows, Image Analysis, and Visual Stylometry in the Digital Analysis of Art Project Description: The development of an alpha-level prototype for a tool that would help statistically identify artistic style, and a workshop to discuss the tool's use and implications in the study of art history. Northampton Jeffrey Ahlman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Smith College Project Title: History, Culture, and the Power of Postcolonial Afterlives of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), Leader of Ghana Project Description: Two months of field-work and archival research in Ghana for an ethnographic study on the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), Ghana's first prime minister and president. Mass Humanities Outright: $74,835 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: David Tebaldi Project Title: Community College Public Humanities Centers Initiative 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 20 of 47 Project Description: The planning of three humanities centers at community colleges in Massachusetts and public programming examining recent immigration to the state. Wellesley Hills Clemente Course in the Humanities, Inc (Clemente) Outright: $99,667 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Lela Hilton Project Title: The Courage to Come Home: The Clemente Veterans' Initiative Project Description: Four six-part dialogues to be conducted at four different sites in four locations—Seattle, Phoenix, Antioch University, and Bard College—focused on the theme of coming home from war. MICHIGAN (8) $895,000 Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Outright: $40,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Alexandra Stern Project Title: Digital Histories of Eugenic Sterilization: Developing a Multi-Modal Prototype and Best Practices for Sensitive Health Data Project Description: Planning and development of a prototype for an online database, with digital research tools, for 18,000 medical records documenting the history of involuntary sterilization in California from 1921 to 1953. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Paul Schaffner Project Title: The Middle English Compendium Reborn: Expanding Content, Improving Access, and Stabilizing Technology Project Description: Upgrades to the Middle English Compendium (MEC), three interlinked digital resources related to the study of Middle English: the electronic Middle English Dictionary (eMED); an expanded version of the HyperBibliography of Middle English (HB), a bibliography of primary sources cited in the dictionary; and the Corpus of Middle English (CME), a substantial collection of Middle English primary texts. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Paul Conway; Kelly Askew (co-project director) Project Title: Ethical Access to "Music Time in Africa" Project Description: The digitization and creation of online access to archival materials, dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, which document African popular music, including approximately 7,500 hours of audio recordings, as well as program scripts and field notes. The materials were collected and created by Leo Sarkisian for the radio program Music Time in Africa. Detroit Detroit Institute of Arts Outright: $40,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Maria Ketcham Project Title: NEH Foundation Project to Assess the Detroit Institute of Arts Archives 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 21 of 47 Project Description: Foundations-level assessment of a collection of 11,000 linear feet of the Detroit Institute of Arts's administrative records, dating back to the museum's founding. Assessment will include 30 years of unprocessed artists' correspondence, acquisition records, director's files, and curators' exhibition papers. East Lansing Jyotsna Singh Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Michigan State University Project Title: Muslim and Christian Identities in the Early Modern World Project Description: A study of Christian-Muslim encounters in the early modern period. Houghton Michigan Technological University Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Donald Lafreniere Project Title: Copper Country Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure Project Description: The creation of the Copper Country Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure, a digital resource that will provide information on the history and environment of the copper mining region of Upper Michigan through a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) portal containing digitized maps and archival documents. Ypsilanti Eastern Michigan University Outright: $28,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: William Koolage; Darlene Leifson (co-project director) Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Artistic and Scientific Discovery Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on discovery in the arts and sciences. Ypsilanti District Library [NEH on the Road] Project Director: John Connaghan Project Title: NEH on the Road: Wild Land Outright: $1,000 MINNESOTA (7) $230,250 Minneapolis Michael Gallope Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Project Title: Musical Notation and the Mid-Century Avant-Garde Project Description: Completion of an e-book about the philosophy and practice of avantgarde performance in the twentieth century. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Outright: $27,973 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Nancy Luxon; Robert Nichols (co-project director) Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Political Community 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 22 of 47 Project Description: The development and teaching of a new writing intensive, lowerdivision course for undergraduates on the making of political community. New Brighton Alessandro Jaker Outright: $50,400 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships] Unaffiliated Independent Scholar Project Title: The Verb System of Tetsot'ine Yatie: Lutselk'e, Dettah, and Ndilo Dialects Project Description: Fieldwork and research to produce a verb grammar of the endangered Yellowknife dialect, a Northern Athabaskan language variety, spoken in northwestern Canada. Northfield Paul Petzschmann Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Carleton College Project Title: Student Exchanges Between the United States and Nazi Germany 1933-1941 Project Description: Archival research on student exchanges between the US and Fascist Germany during the 1930s. St. Olaf College Outright: $19,945 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Michael Fuerstein Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Value in the Marketplace Project Description: The developmentand teaching of a new upper-level undergraduate course to examine themarketplace critically and morally. St. Paul Minnesota Humanities Center Outright: $100,000 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Susannah Ottaway; Trista Matascastillo (co-project director) Project Title: Echoes of War Project Description: A public discussion program offered by the Minnesota Humanities Center for veterans to explore the lived and recorded experiences of war through literature and war memorials. Winona Winona State University Outright: $19,932 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Rafael Narvaez Vargas Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Soul, Mind, and Body Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on the relationship between the mind and the body. MISSISSIPPI (4) $19,000 Greenwood Museum of the Mississippi Delta [NEH on the Road] Outright: $1,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 23 of 47 Project Director: Cheryl Thornhill Project Title: NEH on the Road: Power of Children Hattiesburg Rebecca Tuuri Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Southern Mississippi Project Title: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle Project Description: A book-length study of the National Council of Negro Women. Mississippi State Julia Osman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Mississippi State University Project Title: Warfare and the Changing Relations Between French Soldiers and Civilians, 1600-1789 Project Description: A book-length project on warfare and the changing relationship between French soldiers and civilians, 1600 to 1789. University Hilary Becker Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Mississippi, Main Campus Project Title: Commerce in color: A Study of the Ancient Roman Pigment Industry Project Description: A book-length study of the economic and technological history of color pigments in the Roman Empire. MISSOURI (1) $1,000 St. Joseph Rolling Hills Consolidated Library [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Martin Canchola Project Title: NEH on the Road: Spirited Outright: $1,000 MONTANA (1) $28,000 Helena Carroll College Outright: $28,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Gerardo Rodriguez; Soumitree Gupta (co-project director) Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Race and Identity Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on literary and theological narratives of race. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 24 of 47 NEW HAMPSHIRE (3) $160,511 Concord New Hampshire Humanities Outright: $79,590 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Kathy Mathis Project Title: Dialogues on the Experience of War Project Description: A reading and discussion program for veterans focused on The Odyssey and contemporary literature about war, to be conducted in several locations in New Hampshire. Durham Julia Rodriguez Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of New Hampshire Project Title: Nineteenth Century Anthropology and the Scientific Reconquest of the Americas Project Description: A history of the development of Americanist anthropology as a collaboration between scientists in Latin America and Europe. Hanover Dartmouth College Outright: $74,921 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Pramit Chaudhuri Project Title: Classical Intertextuality and Computation Project Description: A research project on how techniques originally developed for computational biology, such as sequence alignment, can illuminate influences and stylistic attributes among classical Latin and Greek texts. NEW JERSEY (1) $1,000 Union Kean University [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Neil Tetkowski Project Title: NEH on the Road: For All the World to See Outright: $1,000 NEW YORK (44) $6,634,440 Albany Kendra Smith-Howard Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] SUNY Research Foundation, Albany Project Title: The Evolving Definition of “Clean” in 20th-Century America Project Description: A book-length study of how changing technologies and industry transformed the idea of cleanliness in American culture during 20th-century. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 25 of 47 Annandale-on-Hudson Omar Cheta Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Bard College Project Title: Empire, Law and Capitalism in the Modern Middle East Project Description: Archival work in Istanbul toward a book-length manuscript on law in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire. Bronx Fordham University Outright: $20,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Sarit Kattan Gribetz Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Time and Its Value Project Description: The development and teaching of a new upper-division capstone course for undergraduates on the value of time. New York Botanical Garden Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Susan Fraser Project Title: Digitizing and Transcribing the John Torrey Papers: Natural Science and Exploration in 19th Century America Project Description: Digitization and transcription of 28,000 pages (7,000 documents) of the papers of John Torrey, a pioneer of American botany who lived from 1796 to 1873, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and botanical illustrations. The transcriptions would be crowd-sourced by volunteers and made available to the public through the library's content management system. Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Outright: $150,000 Match: $150,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Paul Pearson Project Title: Waterfront at Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO Project Description: Implementation of a new permanent exhibition at the Brooklyn Historical Society's new Empire Stores museum interpreting the long history of Brooklyn's waterfront. Green-Wood Historic Fund Outright: $40,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Anthony Cucchiara Project Title: Gone But Not Forgotten: Digitizing the 177 Year-Old Legacy of New York City's Green-Wood Cemetery Project Description: A planning project to catalog and digitize archival records of New York City's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the site of 570,000 burials dating from c. 1838 to the present. New York Foundation for the Arts [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Oren Rudavsky Outright: $400,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 26 of 47 Project Title: Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People Project Description: The production of a 90-minute film exploring the life of Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911) and the emergence of mass media in late 19th- and early 20thcentury America. Radio Diaries Outright: $250,000 Match: $50,000 [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Joe Richman Project Title: The History of Now Project Description: Production of a series of 20 radio documentaries to be distributed as public radio broadcasts and online podcasts examining significant events in 20th-century United States history. StoryCorps, Inc. Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Virginia Millington Project Title: StoryCorps Public Archive Project Description: The creation of the StoryCorps Public Archive, a freely available online collection of 65,000 interviews (40,000 hours) of persons from throughout the United States recorded since 2003. Buffalo Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc. Outright: $400,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Joseph Horowitz Project Title: Music Unwound Project Description: Implementation of orchestra performances, lectures, recitals, and related programs exploring the history and culture informing works by composer Kurt Weill. Hempstead Joanna Grossman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Hofstra University Project Title: Parentage Law and Social Change Project Description: Research and writing on the development of parentage law in light of the changing legal landscape. Ithaca Cornell University Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Rerodriqources] Project Director: Katherine Reagan Project Title: Documenting the Origins of Hip Hop: Arrangement, Description, and Access for the Archive of Afrika Bambaataa Project Description: The arrangement, description, and partial digitization of the Afrika Bambaataa Archive, 550 linear feet documenting the work of one of the founders of Hip Hop music and culture. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 27 of 47 Rachel Weil Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Cornell University Project Title: Prisoners and Gaolers in Early Modern England Project Description: A book-length project pertaining to imprisonment and detention in England, 1600-1800. Long Island City CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College Outright: $99,956 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Christopher Schmidt; Allia Abdullah-Matta (co-project director) Project Title: Global Cities: Diaspora and Cosmopolis Project Description: A two-year interdisciplinary faculty and curricular development project focused on global cities. New York American Academy in Rome Outright: $74,200 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Mark Robbins Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the American Academy in Rome Project Description: 16 months of stipend support (1.5 fellowships) for one year and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. American Council of Learned Societies Outright: $131,400 Match: $113,400 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Andrzej Tymowski Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships in China sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Project Description: 27 months of stipend support (2-4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. American Museum of Natural History Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: David Kohn Project Title: Charles Darwin’s Library and Charles Darwin’s Evolution Papers: Complementary Digital Collections Project Description: The digitization of 16,200 pages of publications containing annotations and marginalia of Charles Darwin, along with over 3,800 pages of original Darwin manuscripts, all relating to the scientist's theoretical and experimental observations pertaining to evolution. Aquila Theatre Company Inc. Outright: $98,512 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Peter Meineck Project Title: Between Athens and Afghanistan: Ancient and Modern Expressions of War Project Description: Four veteran discussion groups and two large-scale public events focused on war-related themes in classical and contemporary literature and other art forms, to be conducted at locations in the greater New York City area. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 28 of 47 Outright: $63,485 CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center C [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Stephen Brier Project Title: Beyond Citation: Critical Thinking About Digital Research Project Description: Further development of Beyond Citation, a web-based guide to research databases in the humanities. During this phase, the project would result in thematic guides to databases in fields such as art history, history, and literature, as well as a prototype tool for use by research libraries. CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College Outright: $90,594 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Christa Acampora; Mariann Weierich (co-project director) Project Title: The Experience of War: Moral Transformation, Injury, and Repair Project Description: A discussion series on war and morality, principally for veterans from Hunter College and other campuses of the CUNY system. CUNY Research Foundation, Manhattan Community College Outright: $99,998 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Soniya Munshi Project Title: Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom Project Description: A one-year professional and curricular development program in Asian American studies for fifteen community college faculty members. Kim Hall Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Barnard College Project Title: "Othello Was My Grandfather": Shakespeare and Race in the African Diaspora Project Description: Research for a book on the relationship between William Shakespeare's play Othello and African American culture, 19th century to the present. Library of America Outright: $550,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Max Rudin Project Title: World War I: A Centennial Exploration Through the Words of Americans Who Lived It Project Description: Implementation of nationwide library programs, a traveling exhibition, a website, and a publication of an anthology exploring how World War I reshaped American lives. New School Outright: $19,980 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Claire Potter Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Incarceration Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on the purpose of incarceration. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 29 of 47 New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Outright: $40,000 [Media Projects Development] Project Director: David Pultz Project Title: The Bones Speak Project Description: Development of a 55-minute documentary about the role of New York City's Spring Street Church in the abolitionist movement and about the lives of its congregants. New York Public Library Outright: $35,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Doug Reside; Gregory Lord (co-project director) Project Title: NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theater Division - 3D Visualization of Theatrical Lighting Designs Project Description: Initial planning and a feasibility study to determine how virtual simulation software could be re-purposed to create representations of historical theater designs based on archival sources. New York University Outright: $230,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Timothy Johnson Project Title: Unbound Movements: Documenting U.S. Social Reform in the Twentieth Century Project Description: The arrangement and description of 1,543 linear feet of periodicals (over 9,000 titles) published by organizations associated with social reform and protest movements during the latter half of the 20th century. New York University Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Jonathan Soffer Project Title: Digitizing The City Record 1873 to 1998: Making Transparent New York City Government Infrastructure and Political Economy Project Description: The digitization of the City Record, an official publication providing a detailed record of political, social, and economic developments in New York City during the period from 1873 to 1998. New-York Historical Society Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Henry Raine Project Title: Access to the New-York Historical Society's American Historical Manuscript Collection, Phase Two Project Description: The cataloging and conservation of 6,000 manuscript collections documenting the history of New York and the United States more generally, spanning the 18th to 20th centuries. New-York Historical Society [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Louise Mirrer Outright: $400,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 30 of 47 Project Title: The Vietnam War Traveling Exhibition and Educational Initiative Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the Vietnam War that would also include a smaller panel exhibition, educational materials, a website, and companion volume. Rachel Heiman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] New School Project Title: An Ethnography of Suburban Re-Design Project Description: Research and writing for a book-length study of the future of suburbanization in America. WNET Outright: $400,000 [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Stephen Segaller Project Title: Shakespeare Uncovered: Series Three Project Description: Production of the third season of Shakespeare Uncovered, a six-part PBS/BBC documentary television series focusing on the plays of William Shakespeare. WNET Outright: $400,000 [Media Projects Production] Project Director: Michael Kantor Project Title: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer Project Description: Production of a 90-minute documentary and related digital components on Bob Hope (1903–2003) and the history of 20th-century popular entertainment. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Match: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Roberta Newman Project Title: The YIVO Vilna Collections Project Project Description: The arrangement and description of 301 linear feet of manuscripts and archives and the creation of over 458,000 digital images from these sources, which form part of the "Vilna Collections" held by the YIVO Institute, a repository housed in the Center for Jewish History. Images created by YIVO will be merged with extant holdings of the Lithuanian Central State Archive and National Library of Lithuania as part of a larger seven-year initiative. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Outright: $300,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Alexandra Munroe Project Title: Theater of the World: Art and China after 1989 Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a catalog, a website, and associated public programs about experimental Chinese art between 1989 and 2008. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 31 of 47 Plattsburgh Michael Devine Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] SUNY Research Foundation, College at Plattsburgh Project Title: Poetry, Film, and the Battle for a National Art, 1895-1930 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book-length study of the connections between poetry and cinema in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Pleasantville Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc. Outright: $39,759 [Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)] Project Director: Edie Demas Project Title: Created Equal: Image, Sound, and Story (teaching civil rights history through primary sources and film) Pocantico Hills Historic Hudson Valley Outright: $30,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Michael Lord Project Title: Historic Hudson Valley: Washington Irving and the Art of Storytelling Project Description: Planning for public programs, including support for research, concept design, audience evaluation, and design workshops exploring the stories and life of Washington Irving at his home. Poughkeepsie Barry Lam Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Vassar College Project Title: Soldier Philosophers: The Ethics of War from Soldiers who Served Project Description: A digital one-hour audio podcast on soldier-philosophers. Queens Amy Gansell Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] St. John's University, New York Project Title: Feminine Beauty in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Court at Nimrud, c. 883-612 BCE Project Description: A book-length study of the depiction of women in the art and artifacts at the Assyrian Northwest Palace at Nimrud. Rochester Peter Christensen Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Rochester Project Title: Architecture and the German Construction of the Ottoman Railway Network in the 19th Century 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 32 of 47 Project Description: A book-length manuscript on the construction of the Ottoman railway network in the 19th century. University of Rochester Outright: $19,317 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Susan Uselmann Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Creativity Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on historical, cultural, and scientific approaches to creativity. University of Rochester Outright: $19,341 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Thomas Devaney Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Death and Dying Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate seminar on what it means to die. Troy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Outright: $39,498 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: James Malazita; Dean Nieusma (co-project director) Project Title: 3D Printing as Humanistic Inquiry Project Description: A set of experiments with 3D printing and a three-day workshop in which scholars explore the philosophical and practical implications of fabrication and "making" in a humanities context. NORTH CAROLINA (9) $683,673 Boone Jason White Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Appalachian State University Project Title: The Levant Company Between the English State and the Muslim World, 1581-1688 Project Description: Preparation of a monograph on the English Levant Company, a trading company which had a monopoly on all English trade with the Ottoman Empire until 1754. Davidson Patricia Tilburg Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Davidson College Project Title: The Parisian Workingwoman, 1880-1936 Project Description: A book-length study of French women garment workers in the latenineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Durham Southern Documentary Fund [Media Projects Development] Outright: $50,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 33 of 47 Project Director: Ashley York Project Title: A History of Rural Appalachian Culture Project Description: Development of a feature-length documentary film focusing on media portrayals of American mountain and rural populations over the past one hundred years. Greensboro Joan Titus Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of North Carolina, Greensboro Project Title: Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Music for Stalinist Cinema Project Description: Research for a book on Soviet film music composed by Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) from 1936 to 1953. Linda Rupert Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of North Carolina, Greensboro Project Title: Flight to Freedom: How Fugitive Slaves Shaped Imperial Policy in the Early Modern Caribbean Project Description: A study of the impact of fugitive slaves on colonial relationships in the early modern Caribbean. New Bern Tryon Palace Council of Friends Outright: $50,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Alyson Rhodes-Murphy Project Title: Making a Way Out of No Way: A Century of African-American Entrepreneurship in North Carolina 1800-1900 Project Description: Planning of a traveling exhibition that would explore the history of 12 free and enslaved black entrepreneurs of 19th-century North Carolina. Raleigh Wake Technical Community College Outright: $99,673 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: James Neilson Project Title: America's Wars: Individual Experience and Collective Memory Project Description: A two-year project to incorporate the perspectives of veterans into courses in English, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, to support two symposia, one for faculty, one for students, and to create a digital archive of oral histories. Research Triangle Park National Humanities Center [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Richard Schramm Project Title: Exploring the Experience of War Outright: $100,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 34 of 47 Project Description: A program of reading and discussion groups for veterans in the Raleigh/Durham area and other locations in North Carolina on the themes of patriotism, loyalty, duty, sacrifice, and heroism. Winston-Salem Old Salem, Inc. Outright: $360,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Paula Locklair Project Title: The Moravian Way of Health and Healing Project Description: Implementation of a new permanent exhibition on Moravian colonial healthcare, beliefs, and practices. NORTH DAKOTA (1) $99,998 Fort Yates Sitting Bull College Outright: $99,998 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Michael Moore; Mark Holman (co-project director) Project Title: Standing Rock Lakota/Dakota Language Project Project Description: A three-year project to record, preserve, and provide educational access to interviews with tribal elders who are fluent native speakers of the Lakota/Dakota language. OHIO (5) $188,726 Cincinnati Stefan Fiol Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Cincinnati Project Title: Dialects of Dhol-Damaun: Drumming as Historiography in the Uttarakhand Himalayas Project Description: Research leading to the publication of a book with accompanying maps and musical notation documenting the role of ceremonial drumming in preserving the social and religious history of the central Himalayas. Columbus Columbus State Community College Outright: $95,783 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Benjamin Pugno; Dea Boster (co-project director) Project Title: History of Western Medicine Project Project Description: A two-year project to develop a two-course sequence in the history of Western medicine, disease, and public health. Ohio Historical Society Outright: $74,943 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Ty Pierce Project Title: TourSites for WordPress: Digital Tour Experiences for Multi-site Museum Networks 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 35 of 47 Project Description: The development of a platform that supports the sharing of humanities content through mobile tours in both exterior and interior spaces, building on Curatescape and Wordpress platforms. Dayton Dorian Borbonus Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Dayton Project Title: Tombs and Burial Practices in Ancient Rome Project Description: A book-length survey of tombs and funerary culture in Rome from 200 BCE to 200 CE. Oberlin Megan Long Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Oberlin College Project Title: Modality and Tonality in English, French, German, and Italian Vernacular Songs, 1590-1620 Project Description: Preparation of a book on western European music and the transition from the church modes to the major and minor system, 17th-19th centuries. OKLAHOMA (3) $130,295 Norman Kathryn Schumaker Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Oklahoma, Norman Project Title: Civil Rights at the Schoolhouse Gate: Student Protest and the Struggle for Racial Reform Project Description: Archival research in Mississippi, Colorado, and Washington, DC on the struggle for constitutional rights by students during the 1960s and 1970s. University of Oklahoma, Norman Outright: $39,838 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Daniel Swan; Amanda Minks (co-project director); Joshua Nelson (coproject director) Project Title: Community Archiving of Native American Music: Best Practices for Institutional Facilitation Project Description: A planning project to develop, in consultation with Native American communities, protocols for best practices for preserving and digitizing audio and audiovisual recordings of Native American music held in various community archives and at the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma, Norman Outright: $84,457 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Alfred Bradford Project Title: The Experience of War Project Description: A series of discussion sessions for an undergraduate course on war and military service, to be conducted at the University of Oklahoma. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 36 of 47 OREGON (2) $81,000 Eugene University of Oregon Outright: $75,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Daniel Rosenberg Project Title: Time Online Project Description: The development of digital prototypes of historical graphic artifacts, such as timelines and time charts, from 1600 to 1900. The project also would investigate methods of maintaining and publishing these prototypes. Salem Allison Hobgood Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Willamette University Project Title: Disability in English Renaissance Literature Project Description: Completion of a book-length study of disability in English Renaissance literature. PENNSYLVANIA (11) $672,900 Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr College Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Eric Pumroy Project Title: College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters Colleges Project Description: The digitization of 50,000 pages of letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photo albums, and other materials produced by female college students in the 19th to early 20th centuries, housed in the archives of the "Seven Sisters" academic institutions. Carlisle Amy Wlodarski Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Dickinson College Project Title: The Postwar Humanism of American Composer George Rochberg (19182005) Project Description: Preparation of a book about the music of American composer George Rochberg (1918-2005). Greensburg Jessica Ghilani Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Campus Project Title: Advertising for US Army Volunteers since 1914 Project Description: Research and manuscript revisions leading to publication of a book on the history of twentieth-century recruitment advertising by the U.S. Army. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 37 of 47 Haverford Ken Koltun-Fromm Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Haverford College Project Title: Depiction of the Sacred in Visual and Textual Forms Project Description: A book-length study of the visual features of religious expression. Lancaster Matthew Butterfield Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Franklin and Marshall College Project Title: The Swing Phenomenon: A History of Meaning Project Description: Preparation of an article on the term "swing" and African American music, 1890s-1930s. Lewisburg Jason Leddington Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Bucknell University Project Title: The Art of the Impossible: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Aesthetics of Magic Project Description: A book-length philosophical analysis of the aesthetics of theatrical magic. Philadelphia Historical Society of Pennsylvania Outright: $39,500 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Margery Sly Project Title: In Her Own Right: Women Asserting their Civil Rights, 1820-1920 Project Description: A planning project to develop a digital collection of archival sources pertaining to women's rights in the 19th to early 20th centuries and held by 11 Philadelphia-area repositories, and to digitize an initial set of 1,500 items and produce a prototype website. Library Company of Philadelphia Outright: $197,400 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: James Green Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Library Company of Philadelphia Project Description: 14 months of stipend support (2-3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. National Museum of American Jewish History Outright: $40,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Ivy Weingram Project Title: Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music Project Description: Planning for a traveling exhibition, a scholarly catalog, and curriculum materials exploring the life, music, and influence of composer Leonard Bernstein. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 38 of 47 Reading Reading Area Community College Outright: $100,000 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Jodi Corbett; Danelle Bower (co-project director) Project Title: Conexiones: Linking Berks County Latino Communities to a Larger World Project Description: A two-year professional and curricular development program for fifteen community college faculty on Latino history and culture. University Park Kate Merkel-Hess Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus Project Title: The Regional Warlords in Modern China Project Description: Research and writing leading to publication of a book on the role of regional warlords in twentieth-century Chinese history. RHODE ISLAND (1) $247,800 Providence John Carter Brown Library Outright: $247,800 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions] Project Director: Neil Safier Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library Project Description: 18 months of stipend support (3-4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows. SOUTH CAROLINA (1) $6,000 Columbia Julie Hubbert Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of South Carolina, Columbia Project Title: Music in New Hollywood Film Project Description: Archival research leading to publication of a book on the history of cinematic sound and sound technology in Hollywood film of the 1960s and 1970s. TENNESSEE (3) $18,000 Knoxville Hilary Havens Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Tennessee, Knoxville Project Title: From Manuscript to Print: Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel Project Description: A book-length study of how 18th-century British novelists revised their works, using new digital software that recovers deleted text from manuscripts. Katy Chiles [Summer Stipends] University of Tennessee, Knoxville Outright: $6,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 39 of 47 Project Title: The Idea of Authorship in Early African American and Native American Literatures Project Description: A book-length study of collaborative authorship in early African American and Native American literature. Nashville Bryan Lowe Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Vanderbilt University Project Title: Beyond Founders, Sects, and the Nation-State: A Networks Approach to Buddhism in Ancient Japan Project Description: The translation and analysis of a 9th century text describing the spread of Buddhism in medieval Japan. TEXAS (13) $542,230 Arlington University of Texas, Arlington Outright: $40,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Brenda McClurkin Project Title: The Disability History/Archives Consortium: A Portal to Disability History Collections Project Description: A planning project to develop an online portal to primary sources on the social, political, and medical history of disability, which would provide links to digitized sources and archival collections held throughout the United States. Austin Daniel Law Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Texas, Austin Project Title: Syntactic Structure and Political Authority in Classic Mayan Texts Project Description: Writing two articles and the preparation of a third on the use of complex sentence structures in texts by Maya and later Spanish missionaries. The Telling Project Outright: $68,830 [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Project Director: Max Rayneard Project Title: Planting the Oar Project Description: A series of humanities discussion groups on homecoming from military service, held at four locations around the United States. Beaumont Jeffrey Forret Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Lamar University Project Title: Williams' Gang: A Slave Trader, His Cargo, and Justice in the Old South Project Description: To support a book-length study of slave trader William H. Williams and the legal questions related to slave trading. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 40 of 47 College Station Katherine Unterman Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Texas A & M University, College Station Project Title: Law and Imperialism in Guam, 1898-1950 Project Description: A book-length study of the relationship between law and American empire in Guam, 1898-1950. Corpus Christi Sandrine Sanos Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi Project Title: War Displacement, and Gender in France, 1954-1967 Project Description: A book-length study of intellectual and cultural responses to France's colonial conflicts in Indochina and Algeria after World War II. Denton Nicole Smith Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of North Texas Project Title: A Christian Mannes Bileeve: A Critical Edition of a Middle English Commentary on the Apostle's Creed Project Description: A scholarly edition of A Christian Mannes Bileeve, a 14th-century commentary on the Apostles' Creed written in Middle English. University of North Texas Outright: $300,000 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation] Project Director: Timothy Montler Project Title: Saanich Texts and Grammar Project Description: The preparation of resources for Saanich, a severely endangered Salishan language now spoken by only a few elders living on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The project would produce the transcription, translation, and analysis of a set of texts and a comprehensive reference grammar for Saanich. Willem de Reuse Outright: $50,400 [Documenting Endangered Languages - Fellowships] Unaffiliated Independent Scholar Project Title: Documentation of the Dilzhe'e Variety of Western Apache Project Description: Fieldwork and research to create a lexical database, compilation of texts, and sketch grammar of Dilzhe'e, an endangered variety of Western Apache belonging to the Southern Athabaskan language family. El Paso City of El Paso [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Jaime Knoedler Project Title: NEH on the Road: For All the World to See Outright: $1,000 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 41 of 47 Houston Elora Shehabuddin Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Rice University Project Title: Feminism, Muslim Women, and Empire Project Description: A book-length study about the development of various forms of Muslim feminism from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Judith Steinhoff Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Houston Project Title: Grief in Italian Gothic Art Project Description: A book-length study of the relationship between images of grieving in paintings and the public display of grief in late medieval Italy. William Marsh Rice University Outright: $40,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Benjamin Brochstein; Suzanne Kemmer (co-project director); Erez Lieberman-Aiden (co-project director); Chad Shaw (co-project director) Project Title: Genealogy of Texts and Ideas: Looking Back and Forth through Early English Books Online Project Description: A two-day workshop and follow-up activities for early modern literature scholars, linguists, and computer scientists to consider how the Bookworm textual analysis tool could be used with the Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership corpus. UTAH (2) $2,000 Park City Park City Historical Society and Museum [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Sandra Morrison Project Title: NEH on the Road: House and Home St. George St. George City Government [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Deborah Reeder Project Title: NEH on the Road: Wild Land Outright: $1,000 Outright: $1,000 VERMONT (1) $6,000 Burlington Mark Usher Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Vermont Project Title: Ancient Greek Thought on Sustainability and Complex Systems Project Description: A book-length study tracing ideas about sustainability and complex systems from the ancient world to today. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 42 of 47 VIRGINIA (14) $1,062,172 Arlington Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Assoc. Outright: $300,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Implementation] Project Director: Anne Harrington Project Title: The Vietnam War Expanded Engagement Project Description: Implementation of public programs and discussions nation-wide to accompany the eighteen-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, The Vietnam War. Charlottesville Neeti Nair Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Virginia Project Title: A History of Blasphemy Laws in South Asia Project Description: Research and writing of a book-length study of the history of laws regulating relations between religious communities in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. University of Virginia Outright: $74,577 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Worthy Martin; Lilla Kopar (co-project director); Daniel Pitti (coproject director); Nancy Wicker (co-project director) Project Title: Project Andvari Project Description: Pilot implementation of Project Andvari, an online portal to aggregate digital collections of northern European, early medieval art and artifacts from a range of cultural institutions. Fairfax Garry Sparks Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] George Mason University Project Title: Translating Kislak Manuscript 1015: A Priest’s Early Fieldnotes Among the Maya Project Description: A scholarly transcription, annotation, and translation of sections of a sixteenth-century Mayan manuscript. George Mason University Outright: $200,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Sheila Brennan Project Title: Mapping Early American Elections Project Description: The geo-coding of records from 23,607 elections in the United States from 1787 to 1826, compiled for the resource "A New Nation Votes" (NNV), for use with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), along with the production of 84 interactive maps of national and state elections as well as tutorials and contextual essays to facilitate use. George Mason University [Dialogues on the Experience of War] Outright: $81,597 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 43 of 47 Project Director: Jesse Kirkpatrick; Edward Barrett (co-project director) Project Title: Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War Project Description: Three discussion programs on the moral, psychological, and spiritual impact of military service, to be held at three locations in the Washington, DC area. Forest Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest Match: $50,000 [Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Planning] Project Director: Wayne Gannaway Project Title: Paths to Freedom, Paths to Happiness: Site-wide Interpretive Exhibits at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Project Description: Planning of interpretive media and visitor experiences at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest retreat. Harrisonburg John Ott Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] James Madison University Project Title: The Visual Culture of Racial Integration, 1931-1954 Project Description: Research toward a book-length study on African-American art in the 1930s and 40s. Matthew Rebhorn Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] James Madison University Project Title: Mind-Body Relationship in Animate Body in Antebellum American Literature Project Description: A book-length study of the relationship between mind and body in antebellum American literature. Lexington Washington and Lee University Outright: $74,592 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Rebecca Benefiel; Sara Sprenkle (co-project director) Project Title: Ancient Graffiti Project: Tools for Analyzing Personal Communication Project Description: Prototype development of a web-based resource documenting handwritten inscriptions found within the ruins of the early Roman Empire, with a focus on the town of Herculaneum as a pilot case. Martinsville Patrick Henry Community College Outright: $100,000 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Angela Wright Project Title: Humanities Honors Program Project Description: A three-year project to create a humanities honors program with thematic emphasis on Appalachian culture at Patrick Henry Community College. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 44 of 47 Newport News Christopher Newport University Outright: $20,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Brent Cusher Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Ambition Project Description: The development and teaching of a new undergraduate elective in the Leadership Studies curriculum on the nature of ambition. Richmond J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Outright: $97,406 [Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges] Project Director: Jane Rosecrans; Stephen Brandon (co-project director) Project Title: Community College Humanities Education and Local Engagement Project Description: A three-year project involving a series of curricular development activities that would incorporate the resources from local historical and cultural institutions in Richmond, Virginia, into humanities courses at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Organ Historical Society Outright: $40,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Roy Petty Project Title: Long Live the King of Instruments! Preserving and Providing Access to the Library & Archives of the Organ Historical Society Project Description: A planning project to enhance preservation of and access to a collection of 14,000 books and periodicals and 1,200 linear feet of organizational archives, photographs, sound recordings, moving images, and other sources pertaining to the history of the pipe organ and its uses, primarily in the United States. WASHINGTON (1) $6,000 Seattle Michael Blake Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Washington Project Title: Justice, Migration, and Mercy Project Description: A book-length study on the morality of migration, the rights of citizenship, and asylum law. WEST VIRGINIA (1) $6,000 Huntington Michael Woods Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Marshall University Research Corporation Project Title: Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy Project Description: A book-length study of the disagreements between Senators Stephen Douglas and Jefferson Davis that led to pre-Civil War division in the Democratic Party. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 45 of 47 WISCONSIN (6) $439,909 Beloit Beloit College Outright: $99,948 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Nicolette Meister Project Title: Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College—Bristol Collection Reference Resources Project Project Description: Cataloging 436 historic Mexican textiles and related artifacts from the Frances Bristol Collection and Archive, as well as rehousing related archival materials, digitizing 7,444 slides and 276 archival images, and creating a comprehensive finding aid for the collection as a whole. Eau Claire University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Outright: $28,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: Matthew Meyer; Kristin Schaupp (co-project director) Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Happiness Project Description: The development and teaching of a new course for first- and secondyear college students on the topic of happiness. Madison Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Outright: $230,000 Match: $30,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: James Leary Project Title: Local Centers/Global Sounds: Historic Recordings and Midwestern Musical Vernaculars Project Description: Archival processing, digital reformatting and preservation, and increased access to nearly 800 hours of 78 rpm and field recordings and supporting archival materials related to musical cultures of European ethnic communities in the Upper Midwest. Peter Vranas [Summer Stipends] University of Wisconsin, Madison Project Title: New Foundations for Imperative Logic Project Description: A book-length study on imperative logic. Outright: $6,000 Wisconsin Library Services Outright: $39,961 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Emily Pfotenhauer Project Title: Listening to War: Uncovering Wisconsin's Wartime Oral Histories Project Description: A planning project to prepare for the digitization of oral history interview recordings documenting 20th-century military conflicts as experienced by residents of Wisconsin, held by libraries, archives, and historical societies throughout the state. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 46 of 47 Milwaukee Joseph Peschio Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Project Title: The St. Petersburg Censorship Committee and the Early Bureaucratization of Russian Censorship Project Description: Archival research towards a book-length study on the 19th-century St. Petersburg Censorship Committee. -------------------------------------------------- NON -- U.S.A ------------------------------------------------ CANADA (1) $160,000 Toronto, Ontario University of Toronto Outright: $80,000 Match: $80,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Stephen Pelle; Robert Getz (co-project director) Project Title: Dictionary of Old English Project Description: The preparation of entries for the "Dictionary of Old English," a historical dictionary based on the entire extant corpus of Old English texts written between 600 and 1150 C.E. CHINA (1) $6,000 Hong Kong Jeffrey Levenberg Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Chinese University of Hong Kong Project Title: Italian Compose Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613): Insights from Giovanni d'Avella's Regole di musica Project Description: Preparation of an article and monograph on the music of Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613). ISRAEL (1) $6,000 Tel Aviv Yoav Fromer Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Tel Aviv University Project Title: The Literary Origins of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Political Imagination Project Description: Research and writing on the literary influences on Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's political imagination and rhetoric. LEBANON (1) $260,000 Beirut American University of Beirut Outright: $260,000 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Kaoukab Chebaro Project Title: The Palestinian Oral History Archive at the American University of Beirut Libraries 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov NEH Grant Offers and Awards, March 2016 Page 47 of 47 Project Description: The creation of an online searchable platform for 1,062 hours of oral histories recording the experiences of first-generation Palestinians in Lebanon following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov