The Institute for Military History and 20th-Century Studies: Humanities Research and Outreach at Kansas State University

FAIN: CH-50149-05

Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS 66506-0100)
Mark P. Parillo (Project Director: May 2004 to December 2010)

Symposia, graduate fellowships, and fund raising, and endowment for a faculty chair, faculty and graduate fellowships, programs, and acquisitions in an Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies.

Kansas State University's Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies requests $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and will raise $2 million from non-federal sources to support humanities and public outreach initiatives. The Institute will allocate $1 million to endow one permanent position and $850,000 for one rotating position at K-State for leading scholars of military history or closely related fields; $193,000 will endow a new public lecture, symposium and conference series; $220,000 will endow a fund to support the research and writing of one K-State graduate student each year; $50,000 will be used to establish an endowed fund to enhance the University Library's military history collection.