AB-226623-15 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Virginia Union University | Teaching African-American Heritage through Learning Communities | 1/1/2015 - 6/30/2017 | $98,456.00 | Zakir | | Hossain | | | | Virginia Union University | Richmond | VA | 23220-1784 | USA | 2014 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 98456 | 0 | 98372.55 | 0 | A project to establish an interdisciplinary Learning Community Program in the humanities at Virginia Union University, centered on African-American heritage.
This grant supports the implementation of a Learning Community Program (LCP) that involves three humanities departments at Virginia Union University. The LCP focuses on teaching African American Heritage in humanities. The LCP’s mission is to create an educational environment where students acquire and expand their intellectual and academic skills through an interdisciplinary core of courses, with a group of faculty achieving a coordinated effort to deliver the best academic preparation in humanities. The LCP’s vision is to promote student ownership of their learning experience, gain a deeper appreciation of the African American Heritage, and encourage life-long study through high quality educational experiences. The LCP supports the VUU mission to “provide a nurturing intellectually challenging and spiritually enriching environment for learning; empower students to develop strong moral values for success; and develop scholars, leaders, and lifelong learners of a global society.” |
AB-226757-15 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Dillard University | Defining, Documenting, and Teaching New Orleans Creole Culture | 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2017 | $100,000.00 | Mona Lisa | | Saloy | | | | Dillard University | New Orleans | LA | 70122-3043 | USA | 2014 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 95756.36 | 0 | A project at Dillard University to infuse New Orleans Creole culture, history, and literature into humanities courses and to produce digital and media materials for the university and the wider public.
The project, "Defining, Documenting, and Teaching New Orleans Creole Culture at Dillard," aims to create a digital archive and enhanced humanities course offerings at Dillard University that explore critical aspects of the historic, multi-cultural, and racial identity in New Orleans. Using selected oral histories to document the evolution of Creole culture, the first area of course enhancement is to create themed freshmen writing courses open to cohorts of students majoring in humanities programs. Additionally, faculty will create a new English course, "Black Creole New Orleans" and create enhanced content on Creole culture to be infused into existing English courses, "Caribbean Literature" and "Linguistics," and the African World Studies course, "Black New Orleans." The oral histories collected will form a new digital archive at Dillard University, and be presented in a short documentary. A culminating event will consist of a panel of Creole scholars from Dillard, LSU, and Tulane. |
AB-226792-15 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Morehouse College | Humanities Teaching and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection at Morehouse College | 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2017 | $99,976.00 | Vicki | Lynn | Crawford | | | | Morehouse College | Atlanta | GA | 30314-3776 | USA | 2014 | U.S. History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99976 | 0 | 95749.36 | 0 | A series of activities to incorporate primary documents from the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection into humanities teaching.
The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection provides an unparalleled intellectual resource in teaching across the humanities. Containing approximately 13, 000 original items belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and housed in the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, the collection offers a rich pedagogical tool for deep teaching and learning with primary source materials. This proposal comprises four components: 1) curriculum enhancement; 2) college-museum partnership; 3) digital resource development initiative; 4) public programming. A major element of the project entails deepening and expanding humanities instruction through the study and use of primary documents from the Morehouse College King Collection. Core faculty participants will develop project-based instructional modules to enhance courses in history, English, African-American Studies and Philosophy. The college-museum partnership will engage both faculty and museum educators. |
AB-226799-15 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Virginia State University | Imagining Sustainable Environments: Place and Culture in the Global Community | 1/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 | $94,581.00 | Maxine | J. | Sample | | | | Virginia State University | Petersburg | VA | 23803-2520 | USA | 2014 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 94581 | 0 | 93628 | 0 | A summer faculty development institute, curricular enhancement activities, and a series of campus and community dialogues on environmental history and literature at Virginia State University.
Imagining Sustainable Environments: Exploring Culture and Place in a Global Community proposes ways that faculty can promote students' global learning through humanistic approaches that explore the intersection of history, culture, gender, class, ethnicity and nationality and environmental issues. This approach helps redefine narrow concepts of environment and unravel the complexities of humankind's engagement with the natural and built spaces we occupy. Through integrating environmental thought and representation into humanities courses, students gain cross-cultural perspectives of global environmental challenges that communities encounter daily. Thinking and writing critically about these connections enable students to understand complex debates about ethics and the cultural parameters of the environment. The program includes a Summer Faculty Development Institute on Environmental Humanities; Curriculum Enhancement in the Humanities; and Campus Awareness/Community Dialogue. |
AB-234269-16 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | Sheshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative in Literature, Language, and Criticism | 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016 | $100,000.00 | Dana | A. | Williams | | | | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2015 | Literature, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 67197.49 | 0 | A series of activities, including developing digital tools, conducting a summer faculty development workshop, and modifying course curricula, that would enhance humanities teaching and learning at Howard University.
“Sheshat: A Howard University Digital Humanities Initiative” aims to improve the quality of humanities teaching and learning by providing faculty (and, by extension, students) with tools that can be used to expand the parameters of humanistic inquiry. The proposed project, developed in collaboration with the College Language Association (CLA) and the Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW), will also digitize the first fifty years of College Language Association Journal (CLAJ) and select African American novels as well as redesign four existing humanities division courses that will be designated as DH specific and offered each semester at Howard University (HU). |
AB-234469-16 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Hinds Community College | Black Man's Burden: William Holtzclaw and the Mississippi HBCU Connection | 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2017 | $99,582.00 | Dan | | Fuller | | | | Hinds Community College | Raymond | MS | 39154-9799 | USA | 2015 | African American History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99582 | 0 | 99095.03 | 0 | A two-year program that would bring the history of William Holtzclaw, an important but overlooked black educator, to the institution he founded, to the region, and to the nation.
The topic, Black Man’s Burden: Holtzclaw and The Mississippi HBCU Connection, will allow us the opportunity to integrate the history of the institution into our humanities courses by developing summer faculty workshops; creating curriculum and teaching toolkits; and digitizing the work product. The founder, William H. Holtzclaw, utilized his connection to Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee to implement the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute model to create educational opportunities for African Americans in Mississippi. Holtzclaw was a pioneer of the ‘sustainable agriculture’ movement. |
AB-253407-17 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | Inscribing the Institute for the Arts and Humanities' National Black Writers Conference, 1975-1983 | 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $100,000.00 | Dana | A. | Williams | | | | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2016 | American Literature | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 85876.84 | 0 | A project to digitize,
provide critical commentary on, and develop a series of short films about
material from the National Black Writers’ Conference, 1975-1983, for use by scholars
and teachers.
Between 1974 and 1983, the Howard University Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) sponsored the largest single regular convening of African American writers, artists, critics and culture workers as part of its “National Black Writers Conference” series. As part of the ongoing work of documenting and elevating key moments and figures in contemporary African American arts and letters, especially as they emerged at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the “Reading the Oral Archive as an Act of Recovery” project, which we refer to throughout as “ROARR,” has three primary objectives: (1) reformatting/digitizing audio/visual recordings of the National Black Writers Conferences to make them available to researchers/scholars in viewable form; (2) creating critical commentary for each major conference and the contexts out of which the conferences and the writers who participated in them emerge; and (3) generating a ROAAR “Preview” video along with six “Fireside Chats.” |
AB-253419-17 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Bethune-Cookman University | Bridging the Gap through Public History | 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $98,897.00 | Anthony | | Dixon | | | | Bethune-Cookman University | Daytona Beach | FL | 32114-3012 | USA | 2016 | Public History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 98897 | 0 | 97664.64 | 0 | A two-year project that would establish a center for
historic preservation at Bethune-Cookman University and that would enhance the
program in public history at the institution.
The intent of this program is to bridge the gap between academia and the public through research, publications, presentations, and public programming while training the next generation of historic preservationists. In order to accomplish this goal, this project will assist in the creation of a Historic Preservation Center. This center will provide academic research (which includes preservation practicums) with public programming (which is geared toward community development through historic preservation). The creation of a new Public History academic program completes the foundation necessary to complete the overall task at hand. It will be combined the Swisher Library Archives and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation and Museum. However, the creation of a Historic Preservation Center will consolidate the work and efforts of the three entities in a concerted effort. |
AB-253450-17 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Albany State University | "Strength from Adversity": A Reading, Discussion, and Mentorship Program | 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $101,209.00 | Timothy | | Sweet-Holp | | | | Albany State University | Albany | GA | 31705-2796 | USA | 2016 | History, Criticism, and Theory of the Arts | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 101209 | 0 | 64265.22 | 0 | A two-year program of book discussions, field trips to museums,
concerts, and historical sites as well as related creative activities on the
theme of strength from adversity for twenty-five General Education Development
students paired with twenty-five Albany State University undergraduate adult
learners.
The idea of “strength from adversity” is a central theme in the Humanities and it is expressed within great works of literature, art, music, history and philosophy. The underlying theme of our project, reflected in the selected readings and activities, is one of understanding and overcoming adversity. Our project impacts students actively working on earning their General Educational Development (GED) and others that are currently enrolled in college, who have been sidetracked by adversity, such as poverty. By pairing the students, and then introducing them to literature, performing arts, fine arts, and history, our program enhances their capacity to better understand their experiences and how those experiences are often shared by others. In addition, authors that have overcome adversity will share their stories and lead book discussions. |
AB-258958-18 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Albany State University | Creating a Museum and Heritage Studies Minor | 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2021 | $99,980.00 | Charles | R. | Williams | | | | Albany State University | Albany | GA | 31705-2796 | USA | 2017 | Arts, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99980 | 0 | 57724.38 | 0 | Faculty development workshops leading to the establishment of a Museum and
Heritage Studies Minor at Albany State University.
The Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Albany State University seeks funding for the development of a multi-disciplinary minor in Museum Studies. The minor serves the common good by promoting diversification of museum fields and providing training for staff and trustees of regional organizations through open workshops with guest lecturers. Additionally, the program has the potential to supplement the regional workforce with student interns during field studies experiences. ASU is the largest HBCU in the state and geographically located to extend these opportunities to a more diverse and underserved population. The need for this initiative is two-fold: to prepare African-American students for fields involving museology, preservation and archiving, and to create career paths for humanities majors while extending opportunities in the humanities to students working in other areas of study. Finally, the Museum Studies minor is part of a larger, ongoing objective to promote the holdings of the university and the cultural institutions in the area. |
AB-258961-18 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | The Africana Theatre and Dance Collection as a Teaching Resource | 1/1/2018 - 12/31/2019 | $99,948.00 | Ofosuwa | M. | Abiola | | | | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2017 | Theater History and Criticism | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99948 | 0 | 98373.84 | 0 | Student training in archival methods, cataloguing,
and digitization, leading to the establishment of an Africana Theatre and Dance
Collection in Howard University’s Founders Library.
This project seeks to establish an Africana Theatre and Dance Collection in Howard University’s Founders Library. The Africana Theatre and Dance Collection will make an extensive number of rich primary sources which are currently uncatalogued and housed in Founders, available for Howard University students, faculty, and staff, area colleges and universities, and the community at large. |
AB-258964-18 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Tuskegee University | "Lifting the Veil:" Seeing the Built Environment through the Lens of the Humanities | 1/1/2018 - 8/31/2020 | $99,673.00 | Carla | Jackson | Bell | Lisa | | Bratton | Tuskegee University | Tuskegee | AL | 36088-1923 | USA | 2017 | Architecture | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99673 | 0 | 86326.11 | 0 | A two-year faculty and curricular development project at Tuskegee University to integrate humanities study and architectural training and create an interdisciplinary minor in African-American studies.
The“Lifting the Veil” initiative seeks to integrate humanities approaches into the professional training of architects; it also seeks to expand humanities offerings by developing a new minor in African-American studies. The initiative will begin by exploring, both historically and philosophically, African-American education. Booker T. Washington advocated educating the whole individual—the hand, heart, and mind; he also advocated “co-relation,” applying academic study to practical work. Similar questions in our own time probe how to best connect humanities study to the professions. As one of only seven HBCUs currently offering accredited degrees in architecture, Tuskegee University provides an ideal setting to uncover past and current educational theories and philosophies. Tuskegee's Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science (TSACS) will lead this initiative by developing an African-American Studies minor and enriching its architecture history. |
AB-264042-19 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Tuskegee University | Literary Legacies of Macon County and Tuskegee Institute: Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray | 1/1/2019 - 9/30/2021 | $99,381.00 | Adaku | Tawia | Ankumah | Rhonda | Michelle | Collier | Tuskegee University | Tuskegee | AL | 36088-1923 | USA | 2018 | American Literature | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99381 | 0 | 98750.77 | 0 | A two-year project to produce new curricular
materials, digital humanities resources, and community engagement activities
focused on the writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray.
The proposed project seeks
to advance humanities education and scholarship at Tuskegee University as our
students become acquainted with literary and cultural icons Zora Neale Hurston,
Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray, each of whom was connected biographically and
artistically to Tuskegee Institute and Macon County, Alabama. In studying the works
of these pre-eminent authors of the twentieth century, engaging with scholars
knowledgeable about these authors, our students, mainly in the sciences and
social sciences, will be able to understand and contextualize twenty-first
century challenges in culture and society. The project, through course
enhancements, workshops for teachers and faculty, and community engagement
activities, also seeks to create a digital humanities site to disseminate and
historical documents, teaching materials, and cultural artifacts and to
preserve them for future generations.
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AB-264116-19 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Spelman College | The SIS Oral History Project: Transformative Teaching and Learning in the Humanities | 1/1/2019 - 12/31/2021 | $99,916.00 | Gloria | Wade | Gayles | | | | Spelman College | Atlanta | GA | 30314-4399 | USA | 2018 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99916 | 0 | 68510.41 | 0 | Curricular improvements to an oral history course
focused on African American women from the rural and small-town South, as well
as archival preservation of interviews with these community elders.
In August of 2002, students at Spelman College
were introduced to The SIS Oral History Project, a new course that would: (1)
open the lens of age in studies of history and literature; (2) identify oral
history as a major methodology for research in the humanities; and (3), through
student-conducted interviews, give voice and visibility to African American
women elders of the South. That “new course” is, today, a demanding project
that transforms teaching and learning in the humanities. The project meets
criteria for NEH funding for Humanities Initiatives at HBCUs in the following
ways: (1) it strengthens students’ skills in writing, critical thinking, oral
articulation, and research across disciplines; (2) through a partnership with
AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives Research Center, it insures that
project research will be preserved and disseminated for use in humanities courses
across the nation; and (3) it produces age-conscious scholars for the
twenty-first century. |
AB-264248-19 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Virginia State University | Re-visioning Virginia Foremothers through their Lives and Legacies | 1/1/2019 - 6/30/2022 | $99,307.00 | Merry | Lynn | Byrd | | | | Virginia State University | Petersburg | VA | 23803-2520 | USA | 2018 | Literature, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99307 | 0 | 80645.34 | 0 | A three-year program of faculty development,
curriculum enhancement, and community engagement focused on eight important
Virginia women from the colonial era into the twentieth century.
This literature and history based program will
provide faculty enrichment and course development opportunities as well as a
bridge immersion program for honors students as we study the lives, legacies,
and textual representations of eight Virginians from colonial times to the
twentieth century. |
AB-264285-19 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | Reviving the Bethel Literary and Historical Association in the 21st Century | 1/1/2019 - 12/31/2021 | $100,000.00 | Dana | A. | Williams | Elsie | | Scott | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2018 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 68770.22 | 0 | A project to digitize the archives
of an important early African American literary and cultural society and to
carry forward its legacy through interdisciplinary public lectures and forums.
Collaborating with the
Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) and Metropolitan
African Methodist Episcopal Church (MAME), the Department of English at Howard
University requests funds to support “Bethel 21,” a project that revives and
reimagines the Bethel Literary and Historical Association in the 21st century.
Like the original society, this project will consist of lectures from scholars
and public figures and literary and cultural arts presentations from authors
and performers. This iteration of the Bethel, however, as a collaborative
project in the humanities between a historical society and a university, will
also include critical engagement with the archives of the Bethel Literary and
Historical Association’s collection at MRSC and will organize public forums for
the community to promote civil, civic discourse as a life skill.
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AB-269178-20 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Tuskegee University | Making an Institute: Tuskegee University Virtual Campus Tour | 2/1/2020 - 1/31/2022 | $99,921.00 | Worth | | Hayes | John | Randolph | Tilghman | Tuskegee University | Tuskegee | AL | 36088-1923 | USA | 2019 | U.S. History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99921 | 0 | 71765.4 | 0 | A
two-year project to create a digital interactive map of Tuskegee University’s historic
campus that would be incorporated into courses at Tuskegee and nearby high
schools.
Tuskegee University proposes a project, with assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to develop a web based historic interactive map of Tuskegee’s campus for the purpose of research and pedagogy. |
AB-269212-20 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Grambling State University | Creating an Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Humanities | 2/1/2020 - 1/31/2023 | $92,919.00 | James | M. | Clawson | Edward | Lawrence | Holt | Grambling State University | Grambling | LA | 71245-2715 | USA | 2019 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 92919 | 0 | 74226.34 | 0 | A
three-year curriculum development project that would create a new
interdisciplinary minor in digital humanities.
Grambling State University's departments of English and History will design and implement a new interdisciplinary minor in Digital Humanities. Grant funding will go toward bringing outside expertise onto campus to train humanities faculty in interdisciplinary techniques and in pedagogy appropriate to the Digital Humanities during planning stages for the minor. |
AB-277598-21 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Hampton University | Black History Matters: Documenting the Legacy of Charles H. Williams on the Campus of Hampton University | 2/1/2021 - 3/31/2024 | $149,267.00 | Ronald | J. | Kloster | Beverly | Cordova | Duane | Hampton University | Hampton | VA | 23668-0108 | USA | 2020 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 149267 | 0 | 117198 | 0 | A two-year initiative to create teaching and archival resources about dance and campus architectural history and to integrate them into the university curriculum.
The “Black History Matters” Architecture and Dance initiative seeks to promote the humanities at Hampton University by creating a digital teaching resource for three programs – the Pre-College/Summer Bridge program, University 101 and ARC314. Inspired by the research conducted by Dr. Mary Ann Laverty in her book, “Charles H. Williams and the Hampton Institute Creative Dance Group and Their Use of African Diasporic Dance 1934-1948,” this resource will provide archival information on dance and campus architectural history at Hampton University during Charles H. Williams’ tenure and its significance to broader issues of race and inclusion at that time. |
AB-277734-21 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Southern University at New Orleans | Pontchartrain Park Pioneers: An Oral History of New Orleans’ Civil Rights Era Segregated Black “Suburb in the City” | 2/1/2021 - 8/31/2022 | $46,150.00 | Clyde | | Robertson | | | | Southern University at New Orleans | New Orleans | LA | 70126-0002 | USA | 2020 | African American History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 46150 | 0 | 39230.52 | 0 | A one-year curriculum development project integrating local oral histories into six humanities courses.
This project utilizes oral histories of New Orleans African Americans who achieved the “American Dream” of homeownership in the second oldest American all-black “suburb in the city” in the 1950s and early 1960s and the first in New Orleans to tell a larger story. Denied by “redlining” from buying homes in the rest of the city, they formed their own community. The project strengthens the teaching and study of the humanities at SUNO by developing new resources in the form of these oral histories, creating a digital Teaching Module for sharing them in humanities courses, teaching them in humanities courses, and preserving them digitally. |
AB-284546-22 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Oakwood University | "That Dreded Life" Living Museum | 2/1/2022 - 7/31/2023 | $129,366.00 | Denise | | Shaver | | | | Oakwood University | Huntsville | AL | 35896-0001 | USA | 2021 | African American History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 129366 | 0 | 129366 | 0 | A one-year project creating a living history museum based on the life of Dred Scott.
The project entails creating a plantation Living Museum on a Historically Black College and University based on the life of Dred Scott. This would result in the revision of a course and engage and educate the campus and larger community. |
AB-284570-22 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | North Carolina Central University | Digital Exploration of North Carolina Central University's History | 6/1/2022 - 12/31/2024 | $98,420.00 | Rachelle | Suzanne | Gold | | | | North Carolina Central University | Durham | NC | 27707-3129 | USA | 2021 | African American History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 98420 | 0 | 89110 | 0 | A two-year project organizing digital humanities workshops for faculty to incorporate digitized materials about campus history.
Faculty and staff from Humanities disciplines within the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at North Carolina Central University will form a cohort to participate in a two-year project (2022-2024) that uses the NCCU materials at Digital NC (especially the newspapers and yearbooks) and the materials in the NCCU Archives to develop teaching materials to be implemented in their courses. In the first year, we will coordinate with the Digital Humanities Research Institute at CUNY for workshop materials and instructors who would be willing to run a week of workshops. After the workshop, faculty members will be expected to create and implement course modules using this digital archival material. In the second year, faculty members will participate in a symposium discussing their results and will engage with other faculty members in their disciplines as well as the greater university community and the citizens of Durham, NC. |
AB-284640-22 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | Developing an Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities | 2/1/2022 - 1/31/2025 | $149,996.00 | Dana | A. | Williams | Jimisha | | Relerford | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2021 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 149996 | 0 | 148559 | 0 | A two-year project to create a digital humanities graduate certificate.
The proposed project will create an Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at Howard University. |
AB-290067-23 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | Exploring the Dimension of Russia and Otherness | 5/1/2023 - 4/30/2025 | $150,000.00 | Brunilda | | Lugo de Fabritz | Kelly | | Knickmeier-Cummings | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2022 | Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 150000 | 0 | 150000 | 0 | A two-year project to develop an open educational resource textbook that would examine Black intellectuals’ engagement with Russian/Soviet intellectuals and the cultures of the Soviet Union.
The project “Exploring the Dimension of Russia and Otherness” will focus on an underexamined aspect of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES): how African Americans and Black intellectuals have interpreted their encounters with Russian/Soviet intellectuals, and how Russian/Soviet intellectuals have interpreted their encounters with African Americans and Black intellectuals and their culture(s), to include cultural exchanges with national minority cultures of the former Soviet Union and Russia’s near abroad. |
AB-295684-24 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | South Carolina State University | Developing an Asynchronous Online MA in English | 3/1/2024 - 2/28/2027 | $145,877.00 | Janice | | Hawes | Thomas | J. | Cassidy | South Carolina State University | Orangeburg | SC | 29115-4427 | USA | 2023 | Literature, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 145877 | 0 | 145877 | 0 | A three-year project to develop a 30-credit online asynchronous graduate program in English.
The English Program at SC State proposes to develop an online, asynchronous M.A. in English Program with a focus on Intersectional Studies, a framework with the goal of understanding how aspects of individual identity (which can include but are not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and religion) intersect to construct different degrees of power and powerlessness. This graduate program will be part of the continuing initiatives in the English Program for outreach to adult learners interested in the Humanities and for development of more programs in Intersectional Studies. |
AB-295751-24 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Prairie View A & M University | Deepening African American Studies Curriculum and Faculty Development | 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2026 | $150,000.00 | Jeanelle | Kevina | Hope | Marco | | Robinson | Prairie View A & M University | Prairie View | TX | 77445-6850 | USA | 2023 | Social Sciences, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 150000 | 0 | 150000 | 0 | A two-year project to develop faculty, curriculum, and other resources for a humanities-centered African American studies program.
Prairie View A&M University, a federally designated Historically Black College and University (HBCU), seeks funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for faculty enrichment and curriculum development to bolster support for the university’s newly launched African American studies program. |
AB-295805-24 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Morgan State University | Buried Blueprints of Black Education | 2/1/2024 - 1/31/2026 | $150,000.00 | Gretchen | | Rudham | Kendrick | | Kenney II | Morgan State University | Baltimore | MD | 21251-0001 | USA | 2023 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 150000 | 0 | 150000 | 0 | A two-year curriculum development project focused on the histories of Black education in the United States.
Buried Blueprints will illuminate the unknown, or often invisible, contributions of Black educators as founders of pedagogy and practice of Black education in America from the Colonial period to Civil Rights era. This Humanities Initiative illuminates the legacies of founding Black educators missing from curriculum and classrooms. This initiative aims to deconstruct oversimplified stories and caricatures of a few exceptional Black educators, and reconstruct a more full rendering of the beliefs, philosophies, practices, influences, curriculum, challenges, and insights—of the blueprints they left behind. As a recovery project for erased knowledge, Buried Blueprints offers a more complete story of the widespread efforts of many Black people, reframing Black architects of education from exceptions to the norm. This project will sync two new courses: Buried Blueprints of Black Education and Digital Storytelling as Curriculum, disseminating the courses at 25 partnering HBCUs. |
AB-50009-06 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | Advancing Humanities and Genetics Teaching and Scholarship at HBCUs | 4/1/2006 - 11/30/2008 | $74,981.00 | Georgia | M. | Dunston | | | | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2006 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 74981 | 0 | 74981 | 0 | A collaboration between the GenEthics Center of the National Humane Genome Center at Howard University and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care to enhance the links between genetics and humanities at HBCUs.
We propose to advance teaching and scholarship in humanities and genetics by creating a pioneering, multidisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration between the GenEthics Unit of the NHGC and the Tuskegee Bioethics Center. The goals of the collaboration are to: 1) Develop Howard and Tuskegee faculty in the integration of humanities and genetics; 2) Incorporate humanities and genetics themes into relevant courses at Howard and Tuskegee; 3) Produce the curriculum for a humanities and genetics summer course for HBCU faculty; and 4) Plan and execute the inaugural offering of the HBCU faculty humanities and genetics course. |
AB-50016-06 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Xavier University of Louisiana | The Diaspora in segregated Louisiana: an archival and oral history research initiative | 4/1/2006 - 8/31/2009 | $30,000.00 | Gary | A. | Donaldson | | | | Xavier University of Louisiana | New Orleans | LA | 70125-1056 | USA | 2006 | U.S. History | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | A project to involve faculty and students in the recovery of the cultural heritage of the African diaspora in Louisiana by locating and preserving transcripts of original interviews produced in the Federal Writers' Project and by incorporating additional interviews and other relevant resources.
The History Department at Xavier University of Louisiana proposes to create a national repository of materials capturing the life experiences of African Americans in segregated south Louisiana between 1890 and 1964. The project will build on research faculty and students have conducted during the last three years. We will: train students in research methods, develop new upper division courses and collect print materials from the Louisiana Federal Writers Project. The project will enrich the teaching experiences of faculty in a variety of courses and offer new opportunities for professional development for all faculty members at Xavier University. |
AB-50018-07 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Kentucky State University | Reinvigorating Humanities Teaching and Learning through a Comparative Approach to World Literature | 2/1/2007 - 5/31/2008 | $29,862.00 | George | P. | Weick | | | | Kentucky State University | Frankfort | KY | 40601-2334 | USA | 2006 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 29862 | 0 | 29862 | 0 | A program to enhance the comparative study of classic works of Western civilization along with selected non-Western and African American works for ten faculty members engaged in revising the core curriculum.
The project seeks to reinvigorate humanities teaching and learning at Kentucky State University by engaging a group of humanities faculty in reading and relating "paired texts" from selected "classic" texts in the Western tradition to African and African-American literature under the guidance of Dr. Thee Smith of Emory University who has developed a field-theory approach to comparative study of works from different cultures. Faculty participating in the project are also members of a curriculum review and revision committee for KSU's Integrative Studies Program (IGS), thus the project's outcomes have direct bearing on changes to the IGS curriculum, which consists of a sequence of four three-semester-credit-hour courses required of virtually all baccalaureate-degree seeking students at KSU. The primary project goal is to improve faculty teaching and to enhance student learning. After-project dissemination plans would extend the impact of the project to other insitutions. |
AB-50019-07 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Prairie View A & M University | Reeling Them In: Invigorating the Humanities Through Film At Two Texas Historically Black Colleges | 1/1/2007 - 5/31/2008 | $74,843.00 | James | M. | Palmer | | | | Prairie View A & M University | Prairie View | TX | 77445-6850 | USA | 2006 | Film History and Criticism | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 74843 | 0 | 74843 | 0 | A collaboration between Prairie View A & M University and Texas Southern University to prepare faculty at both institutions to develop and teach courses on the history and the critical interpretation of film.
Recognizing the social, aesthetic, and economic importance of cinema for the history of the twentieth century, Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern Universities seek an NEH grant to help develop and enhance courses that address history, literature, and culture through film. We will collaborate to create new film courses and establish resources for these courses. An NEH grant is sought because training and funding (as Andrew Garrison, director of the NCTE Commission on Media, has noted) rank as the two biggest hurdles to incorporating film and television successfully into the classroom. Creating a collaborative workshop, in consultation with experts in the field, would be one way to help improve the quality and teaching in the humanities, while a yearlong faculty forum on film is another. |
AB-50020-07 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Mississippi Valley State University | Richard Wright: A Mississippi Writer | 1/1/2007 - 12/31/2007 | $30,000.00 | Jianqing | | Zheng | | | | Mississippi Valley State University | Itta Bena | MS | 38941-1400 | USA | 2006 | American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | A project on Richard Wright and his works, to include workshops and the development of teaching materials, for faculty and school teachers from the Mississippi Delta.
Funds from this project will be used to enhance MVSU faculty and area school teachers' knowledge of Richard Wrights literary works. The focus will encompass his fiction, non-fiction and little-known haiku. The program areas targeted by this proposal include: 1) to fund visiting scholars to review the university's humanities programs; and 2) to build ties between institutuions of higher learning and secondary schools. Our participants will be faculty and English teachers from the local school districts in the Delta. |
AB-50024-07 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Virginia State University | FREEDOM, ECONOMICS AND RELIGION: Race and African American Experience in the Atlantic World: The Case of Petersburg, VA | 2/1/2007 - 6/30/2008 | $30,000.00 | Dirk | Peter | Philipsen | | | | Virginia State University | Petersburg | VA | 23803-2520 | USA | 2006 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | Four workshops on the history of Petersburg, aimed at developing a model for teaching local history in a global context.
VIrginia State University proposes a collaborative effort between University faculty and staff, community leaders in the City of Petersburg, the Governor's School and outside scholars to develop a program on Race and the African American History in the Context of the Atlantic World - Case Study Petersburg, VA. Our goal is to create a field of specialization for the VSU Graduate Program in History. Significant resources, instructional materials and pedagogical approaches will also be made available to regional k-12 schools and scholars worldwide through a newly created website. Petersburg represents an illuminating case study showing, in an international context, the development of race relations and the African American experience in the U.S. |
AB-50029-07 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Grambling State University | Enhancing the Comprehension, Appreciation and Teaching of Western Literature: from Homer to Shakespeare at HBCUs | 1/1/2007 - 12/31/2007 | $75,000.00 | Hugh | F. | Wilson | | | | Grambling State University | Grambling | LA | 71245-2715 | USA | 2006 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | A month-long summer program of study of Homer, Dante, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, and Shakespeare for six to eight faculty members at Grambling and participants selected from neighboring Historically Black College and Universities.
Our month-long program is designed to enhance the comprehension, appreciation and teaching of world literature by exposing teachers from historically black colleges and universities like Grambling State University, Southern University at Baton Rouge, and Xavier University to nationally recognized scholars from elitte institutions like UC-Berkeley, Dartmouth, Barnard, Rice, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and the University of Chicago. Major scholars from major institutions have agreed to lead sessions on important figures from the western canon: Homer, Dante, Christine de Pizan, and Shakespeare. |
AB-50037-08 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Virginia State University | Local History in a Global Context: Petersburg's African American History in the Context of the Atlantic World | 2/1/2008 - 12/31/2010 | $74,322.00 | Christina | | Proenza-Coles | | | | Virginia State University | Petersburg | VA | 23803-2520 | USA | 2007 | History, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 74322 | 0 | 74322 | 0 | To Support: A one-year project to create a research center, a website, and a graduate history curriculum on the history of Petersburg, Virginia's African American community.
To establish a national center of study for "Petersburg and the Atlantic World" that focuses on Petersburg's African American History as a principal theme. The goal of the program is to provide original pedagogical and research opportunities to strengthen Petersburg's educational institutions and establish a center of study and historica preservation that will help to revitalize the area. |
AB-50053-09 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Norfolk State University | Waterways to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Virginia | 7/1/2009 - 12/31/2011 | $100,000.00 | Cassandra | L. | Newby-Alexander | | | | Norfolk State University | Norfolk | VA | 23504-8050 | USA | 2009 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | A project to create a historical simulation of the Underground Railroad in Virginia by using interactive gaming technology to educate high school and college students.
Waterways to Freedom: the Underground Railroad in Virginia, will create a digital simulation with historical content and interactive educational features. We are calling this approach Empathetic Simulation Competition Accessing Past Experiences (ESCAPE). Abolitionism was just as important in the South as it was in the North, albeit as an underground movement. For port areas, such as Hampton Roads, Virginia that lay on the east coast's most important waterways, the story about how individuals and networks of people organized this resistance continues to captivate the public's imagination. However, common myths circulating about the activities of the Underground Railroad distract from the realities of the stories, in part because these myths are dramatic and elicit empathy. By approaching this material using ESCAPE, we hope to combine realism and dramatic simulation to our educational objectives by infusing historically possible dialogue, motivations, and actions. |
AB-50061-09 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Jackson State University | Collaboration for Digital Access for Margaret Walker Archives | 7/1/2009 - 6/30/2013 | $100,000.00 | Robert | | Luckett | | | | Jackson State University | Jackson | MS | 39217-0001 | USA | 2009 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 97087.09 | 0 | A project to digitize and provide intellectual context for the papers of African-American writer Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998), which are housed in the university's Sampson Library.
The Jackson State University Alexander Research Center (the Center) and the H. T. Sampson Library (the Library) request a two-year $100,000 grant to implement training acquired during Ford Foundation workshops on digitizing the Walker archives for greater access by students, researchers, and teachers. It is the largest single archive of a twentieth-century African American woman writer, Margaret Walker (Alexander) [1915-1998]. The Center has a 110- linear-foot Walker literary archives and the Library has a 22-linear-foot Walker administrative archives. Walker was an award-winning poet, novelist, and influential educator. NEH funding will help digitize 40 percent of the Walker archives and use CONTENTdm to store and manage them. Three humanities scholars and two high school teachers will annotate the archives and write a ten-page essay, a five-page curriculum guide, and a print and online brochure to supplement class room instruction in secondary and post secondary education. |
AB-50069-11 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Alcorn State University | Stories That Heal: Embedding Narrative Medicine in the Sciences, English, and Nursing Curricula | 5/1/2011 - 5/31/2013 | $97,603.00 | Cecile | Dianne | Bunch | | | | Alcorn State University | Lorman | MS | 39096-7510 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 97603 | 0 | 97505.55 | 0 | A two-year project on narrative medicine for twenty science and humanities professors to enrich undergraduate and graduate health care programs with literary studies.
The purpose of the project is to train science, English,and nursing faculty at Alcorn State University in the field of literature and medicine. During year one of the project, we will use seminars and guest speakers to disseminate information on narrative medicine. In addition, a year-long reading group will meet and discuss seminal texts on literature and medicine. The final phase of the project will conclude with a three day seminar during which science, English and nursing faculty will design courses in literature and medicine. |
AB-50084-11 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Savannah State University | STUDYING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN SAVANNAH AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA: DEVELOPING RESOURCES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLO | 1/1/2011 - 6/30/2015 | $99,929.00 | Robert | W. | Smith | | | | Savannah State University | Savannah | GA | 31404-5255 | USA | 2010 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99929 | 0 | 96094.37 | 0 | An eighteen-month forum, consisting of public lectures, colloquia, and curriculum development activities, on the African-American experience in Savannah and Southeast Georgia during the historical periods of slavery and emancipation.
This project seeks to enhance knowledge of the African American experience among faculty, build collaborations to create innovations in interdisciplinary humanities teaching and learning, and establish an on-going forum for exploring the African American experience in Savannah and Southeast Georgia. Activities will include developing an interdisciplinary learning community of faculty, hosting several nationally recognized scholars for public lectures and colloquia, and creating new teaching and learning resources that can be integrated in the Savannah State curriculum and shared with others. The primary focus will be on the historical periods of slavery and emancipation, a focus suggested in part by commemorations of the Civil War’s 150th anniversary between 2011 and 2015, with other time periods and issues explored in the future. The project should lend momentum for institutionalizing an ongoing program of innovative interdisciplinary activities. |
AB-50086-11 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Rust College | Center for the Study of Ida B. Wells and the African American Heritage in North Mississippi | 1/1/2011 - 8/31/2013 | $100,000.00 | Marco | | Robinson | | | | Rust College | Holly Springs | MS | 38635-2330 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 99949.33 | 0 | The development of a website and searchable database on the life work of pioneer journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells.
Rust College proposes to develop an online repository (database) with an innovative front-end website entitled, The Center for the Study of Ida B. Wells and the African American Heritage in North Mississippi. We propose a collaborative effort involving three humanities faculty members (in English, journalism and music) and one Social Science (history) faculty member to create content and educational material using web-based technology. Funds will be used to develop an electronically searchable collection of electronic texts written in or about Ida B. Wells and the African-American community of Holly Springs/Marshall County and North Mississippi from which she was born. |
AB-50097-12 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Claflin University | Reading Classical and Contemporary Literature from South Asia through an Interdisciplinary Literary Lens | 1/1/2012 - 12/31/2013 | $99,922.00 | Mitali | Pati | Wong | | | | Claflin University | Orangeburg | SC | 29115-6815 | USA | 2011 | Comparative Literature | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99922 | 0 | 98695.58 | 0 | A two-year series of faculty workshops, course development, and public lectures on classical and contemporary literature from South Asia.
"Classical and Contemporary Literature from South Asia" is a two-year series of faculty workshops, public lectures, and course development at Claflin University on classical and contemporary literature from South Asia. Ten faculty members participate in three major project activities: faculty study workshops; discussion forums following four public lectures by visiting scholars Muhammad Umar Memon, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thibaut d'Hubert, University of Chicago; Waqas Khwaja, Agnes Scott College; and Deepika Bahri, Emory University; and faculty-student presentations at Claflin University's annual Regional English and Language Arts Pedagogy Conference. They also create an interdisciplinary special topics course, South Asia: Texts and Contexts, in both on-campus and studyabroad formats. Readings from the Classical period include the autobiography of Mughal dynasty founder Zaheeruddin Babur and the memoir of his daughter Gulbadan Begum, as well as works by Persian poets Abolqasem Firdousi and Shamsuddin Hafiz; Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib; Indian poets Amir Khusro and Kabir Das; and Indian philosopher Tulsi Das. Colonial-era readings include the writings of M. K. Gandhi, novels by Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao, a memoir by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, and works by Indian, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani poets Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Sir Muhammad Iqbal. Postcolonial and contemporary readings include works by the Afghan novelists Khaled Hosseini and Atiq Rahimi; other novels by Salman Rushdie, Mohsin Hamid, and Arvind Adiga; the memoirs of poets Meena Alexander and Bapsi Sidhwa; and works by Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Jewish Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel. The selected texts contribute to an understanding of the diverse literary heritage of South Asia and build upon Claflin University's existing faculty and student exchange programs with nine universities in the Indian subcontinent. |
AB-50103-12 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Albany State University | Albany, Georgia: Gateway to the National Civil Rights Struggle | 1/1/2012 - 12/31/2013 | $100,458.00 | Kimberly | | Harper | Kimberly | | Harper | Albany State University | Albany | GA | 31705-2796 | USA | 2011 | American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100458 | 0 | 96296.86 | 0 | A humanities bridge program over two summers for selected high school students on the history, literature, art, and music of the Civil Rights Movement.
"Albany, Georgia: Gateway to the National Civil Rights Struggle" is a two-year project at Albany State University (ASU) supporting a humanities summer bridge program for students from Dougherty and nearby counties in Southwest Georgia. The project allows under-achieving students to learn about the history, literature, art, and music of the Civil Rights Movement. Under the leadership of project director Marva Banks (African-American, African, and Caribbean literature), the program engages tenth and eleventh graders in the study of the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on the catalytic Albany Movement (1961-1963), a collective protest against Jim Crow laws that laid the foundation for subsequent demonstrations in the South and throughout the nation. The project's goals are to improve the participants' critical reading, writing, and communications skills; to lead students in an examination of the history, art, and music of the era; and to involve them in collecting oral histories of surviving participants in the Albany Movement. "ASU alumni helped launch the Albany Movement," notes the project director, "while other activists joined students at Albany State . . . to advance the cause of Civil Rights." During each of two summers, twenty-five students spend six weeks learning about this important history. They study, for example, the role of Charles M. Sherrod, now on the history faculty at ASU and available for interview, as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who "helped lead the charge against segregation laws and policies in the city"; and that of former ASU student Bernice Johnson Reagon (Sweet Honey in the Rock) as one of the original Albany "Freedom Singers." They read works by Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Rudolph Fisher, Ernest J. Gaines, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, and Amy Tan, as well as study Billie Holiday's rendition of "Strange Fruit," an anti-lynching piece. They also travel to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia, to visit other sites related to the Civil Rights Movement in addition to those visited in Albany. |
AB-50109-12 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Winston-Salem State University | Integrating Teaching and Learning about India in the Curriculum through the Humanities and the Liberal Arts | 1/1/2012 - 12/31/2015 | $99,285.00 | Joti | | Sekhon | Robert | N. | Anderson | Winston-Salem State University | Winston-Salem | NC | 27110-0001 | USA | 2011 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99285 | 0 | 98003.62 | 0 | A three-year series of faculty study workshops, guest lectures, and seminars providing an overview of India from historical and contemporary perspectives.
"Integrating India into the Liberal Arts Curriculum" is a three-year series of faculty study workshops, guest lectures, and follow-up seminars at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) providing an overview of India from historical and contemporary perspectives. As a part of the project, an interdisciplinary group of twelve WSSU faculty members (consisting of a core group of five humanities faculty, one faculty member each from the School of Business and Economics and the School of Health Sciences, and five faculty members chosen at large from across the campus) undertake an overview of India from historical and contemporary perspectives. The study group's focus is on classical and modern Indian literature, the country's diverse religious traditions, mainstream and subaltern perspectives on Indian history, Indian art and musical traditions, language diversity in India, and Indian women. In addition to the core group, eleven invited scholars participate in a kick-off workshop, deliver lectures, and lead seminars over three semesters. They are: South Asian studies scholars Afroz Taj, Pamela Lothspeich, and John Caldwell (all University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Neil DeVotta (Wake Forest University); anthropologists Lisa Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) and Sandya Hewamanne (Wake Forest University); historian Ramnarayan Rawat (University of Delaware); religious studies scholar Christian Lee Novetzke (University of Washington); English and communications studies professor Sheila Nayar (Greensboro College); art historian Rebecca M. Brown (Johns Hopkins University); international business professor Jacobus Boers (Georgia State University); women's studies scholar Anita Nahal (Howard University); and social work professor Murali Nair (Cleveland State University). The aim of the project is to develop new courses focusing on India and to infuse existing courses with knowledge about Indian culture and society in a global context to enrich the Humanities and Liberal Arts foundation of the WSSU curriculum. |
AB-50120-12 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Lincoln University, Pennsylvania | Lincoln University of Pennsylvania's Global Heritage and Legacy: a Humanities Initiative | 1/1/2012 - 6/30/2015 | $100,000.00 | Marilyn | | Button | Chiekde | | Ihejirika | Lincoln University, Pennsylvania | Lincoln University | PA | 19352-9141 | USA | 2011 | African American Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | A two-year program of study, framed by two conferences, in which ten faculty would conduct research and develop teaching modules on Lincoln University's diasporic heritage.
"Lincoln University of Pennsylvania's Global Heritage and Legacy" consists of a two-year program of study, framed by two conferences, in which ten faculty members conduct research and develop teaching modules on Lincoln University's diasporic heritage. This project seeks to revive the humanities at what has become an increasingly science-dominated institution. It does so by shaping a program that harnesses Lincoln University's distinctive history as the first institution of higher learning for African Americans (1854), ample legacy of prominent graduates, and ongoing connections with Africa and the Caribbean. Lincoln University taught Liberian boys beginning in 1873 and, nearly a century later, students from the Caribbean and emerging African nations. It graduated the first president of independent Nigeria and the first prime minister of Ghana. Lincoln University's distinctive humanities alumni include Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance; the late writer and musician Gil Scott Heron; Larry Neal, founder of the Black Arts Movement; and film historian Donald Bogle. The program opens with a four-day summer institute with topics including "Lincoln University poets and their impact on the world; the University's impact on African history and Africa's impact on the University; the University and the Civil Rights Movement; and Frederick Douglass as a catalyzing figure for humanities studies." Sessions also introduce faculty to the university's online archives and collection of African art. During the following academic year, ten core faculty, selected through competition, conduct research and develop course modules that build on the institute topics and university resources. They present this work at a two-day humanities conference in the fall of 2013. Though the summer institute and fall conference are be open to all faculty and the general public, priority for the core faculty would be given to those who teach first-year students in order to maximize the program's impact. |
AB-50131-13 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Norfolk State University | Observing 1619: The African Diaspora in American History and Culture | 10/1/2012 - 12/31/2014 | $69,529.00 | Cassandra | L. | Newby-Alexander | | | | Norfolk State University | Norfolk | VA | 23504-8050 | USA | 2012 | History, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 69529 | 0 | 69528.99 | 0 | Two symposia, several teacher workshops, and the development of educational resources on the African diaspora in the New World, with a focus on the arrival of twenty Africans at Old Point Comfort (Fort Monroe, Virginia) in August 1619.
The Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center of Norfolk State University (NSU) proposes two symposia and teacher workshops to focus on the arrival of the "20. and odd" West-Central Africans to the Chesapeake shores in 1619. These meetings will use the approaching 400th anniversary of this landmark year to fulfill three objectives related to teaching and studying the humanities. First, these sessions will broaden the way in which Virginia primary and secondary school instructors view and teach the history of American race relations. Second, they will create a forum for educators from all levels to gather and discuss the direction of Atlantic studies and scholarship on the African Diaspora. Finally, these meetings will provide a jumping off point for a series of public and commemorative events to be held throughout the Hampton Roads region of Virginia that will mark and publicize the significance of 1619 to American society. |
AB-50132-13 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Howard University | From Classics to Ancient Mediterranean Studies: Departmental Innovation | 1/1/2013 - 12/31/2015 | $59,147.00 | Molly | Myerowitz | Levine | | | | Howard University | Washington | DC | 20059-0001 | USA | 2012 | Classics | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 59147 | 0 | 29846.09 | 0 | A three-year series of faculty workshops, public lectures, and course development activities leading to the transformation of Howard University's Classics Department into a Department of Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
The Department of Classics at Howard University requests NEH support for a series of workshops and public lectures by visiting scholars who work in two areas: (1) cultural connections in the ancient Mediterranean and (2) the classical tradition with emphasis on Classica Africana. The planned workshops will provide the intellectual underpinning for our process of transformation into a Department of Ancient Mediterranean Studies. The public lectures will introduce the Howard community to a new degree program in ancient Mediterranean studies planned to replace the former Classical Civilization degree, terminated as of 2015. The grant proposal requests funds to develop the full Ancient Mediterranean Studies degree program, especially (1) to provide funds to bring in outside scholars as guest lecturers/workshop leaders; (2) to procure reading materials to be used as shared readings for our core team; (3) to create opportunities for our core team to study, innovate and plan together. |
AB-50148-13 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Mississippi Valley State University | African-American Literary Heritage: Three Mississippi Writers | 1/1/2013 - 6/30/2014 | $55,755.00 | Jianqing | | Zheng | | | | Mississippi Valley State University | Itta Bena | MS | 38941-1400 | USA | 2012 | Literature, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 55755 | 0 | 42697.82 | 0 | An eighteen-month program of study and curriculum development for university faculty and school teachers on Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Sterling Plumpp.
Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Sterling Plumpp are the three famous modern and contemporary African American writers who have represented Mississippi in their literary achievements. The hunger for knowledge presented in Wright’s fiction, the awareness of heritage and freedom in Walker’s novel and poetry, and the Jazz/blues tradition in Plumpp’s poetry should still be meaningful topics in the 21st-century humanities programs, specifically in the curriculum at HBCUs in the state of Mississippi. Therefore, it is significant to re-recognize, through this project, the literary achievements of these three writers and emphasize their importance in African American Studies. It is equally significant to examine the philosophical, political, and literary values in their works. This project will certainly turn a new page in the study of these three Mississippi writers. |
AB-50158-14 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Tuskegee University | A Critical Reappraisal of Booker T. Washington: A Tuskegee Humanities Initiative | 1/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 | $99,999.00 | Loretta | S. | Burns | | | | Tuskegee University | Tuskegee | AL | 36088-1923 | USA | 2013 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99999 | 0 | 99999 | 0 | A two-year archival digitization, faculty-student research, and course development project on the work and legacy of Booker T. Washington, to take place at Tuskegee University.
This project seeks to strengthen humanities education and scholarship at Tuskegee University by re-examining Booker T. Washington's influence in education, politics and civil rights, business, and literature and the arts. Although considerable scholarship on Washington already exists, the extent of his regional, national, and global impact has not been fully explored. The project will include faculty-student research collaborations; enrichment of existing English and History courses; development of a new interdisciplinary, team-taught course; a public symposium; creation of a new section of the Tuskegee University Archives Web site to include previously unexplored archival materials on Washington's life and work; and initiation of an ongoing Humanities Institute. |
AB-50185-14 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Grambling State University | Enhancing the Teaching of Ancient Greek Drama at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | 1/1/2014 - 12/31/2014 | $99,848.00 | Hugh | F. | Wilson | | | | Grambling State University | Grambling | LA | 71245-2715 | USA | 2013 | Literature, General | Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities | Education Programs | 99848 | 0 | 98461.19 | 0 | A three-week curricular development institute on teaching ancient Greek drama for faculty from multiple Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that would be held at Grambling State University.
In order to bridge the chasm between minority and majority culture, several faculty members at Grambling propose a three week summer institute that will focus on the resonance of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the plight of those often marginalize. Our program is meant to improve the comprehension and appreciation of classics of world literature in order to encourage scholarship, improve teaching, and enhance student learning. We already have tentative commitments from three prominent senior scholars who will lead discussions. There will be four daily sessions, each for one and a half hours, five days a week for three weeks. Discussion sessions, led by senior scholars, will be supplemented by pertinent films in the week-day evenings. Each week will be led by two senior scholars and we will invite participants to apply for fellowships from other HBCUs and regional universities. |
AC-226761-15 | Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions | Modesto Junior College | The Search for Common Ground: Culture in California's Central Valley | 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 | $99,882.00 | Chad | | Redwing | | | | Modesto Junior College | Modesto | CA | 95350-5800 | USA | 2014 | U.S. Regional Studies | Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions | Education Programs | 99882 | 0 | 99882 | 0 | A curricular development project to bring humanities faculty from Central Valley community colleges to Modesto Junior College to study the local and regional culture of California’s Central Valley.
Five faculty members from the humanities disciplines (humanities, history, philosophy, and literature) will explore the diverse cultural backgrounds of the populations in our community in order to make the curriculum in these disciplines more relevant to the students in humanities courses. The project includes lectures by imminent scholars from California universities; multi-week seminars on specific topics; exploration of arts, museums, centers and festivals; development of learning modules that reflect the findings of the seminars; and a symposium to share findings with community college faculty from around the Valley. Humanities curriculum will be revised to reflect the local and regional culture of the people of California's Central Valley. |