Exploring Ethnicity, Diversity, and Identity

FAIN: BC-50467-09

Humanities Iowa (Iowa City, IA 52242)
Christopher R. Rossi (Project Director: March 2009 to May 2011)

To support a variety of council-conducted projects and to award grants, with a particular emphasis on projects that examine the relevance of cultural and ethnic diversity in Iowan life and in the formation of civic identity on the local, regional and national levels.

Humanities Iowa proposes to administer Council-conducted programs and to make re-grants to Iowan nonprofits. Applicants for WE THE PEOPLE funding will be encouraged to design programs and projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas. Of special interest are projects that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges our collective ideas of identity, particularly our identity as Americans and Iowans.