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Production of a ninety-minute documentary film about author, educator, activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (1928-2016).

AMERICAN MASTERS--Elie Wiesel: Soul On Fire, a feature length documentary, will explore Elie Wiesel’s life through his own words, through interviews with his immediate family, friends, students and scholars who have studied him and through his work as a writer, teacher and public figure. It will air nationwide as part of this PBS series.

The creation of a digital research platform and tools for accessing and studying photographic archives spanning a total of fourteen collections.

PHAROS: The International Association of Photo Archives, a collaboration between fourteen North American and European art historical photo archives, aims to create an open and freely accessible digital research platform allowing for comprehensive and consolidated access to photo archive images and associated scholarly documentation. Following a three-year Mellon grant to build a pilot, support from the NEH will enable the platform to move into production and make the project sustainable. The planned work will result in a robust, scalable, and seamless research platform for art historians, digital humanists, data scientists, and the general public. The semantically enriched and structured data can contribute to a vibrant culture of open scholarship and collaboration among researchers from multiple disciplines, disrupting barriers that have been posed by the difficulties of navigating proprietary art historical databases in which information is siloed.

The purchase of digital storage equipment for a collection of digitized photographs, audiovisual recordings, ephemera, business records, and correspondence documenting the history of New York City’s Apollo Theater.

This grant would support the purchase of digital storage devices necessitated by the recent unprecedented growth of the Apollo Theater Digital Archives, which was established just five years ago. The organization anticipates a large volume of newly digitized materials to be delivered to the theater over the next year, which would overwhelm the Theater's current on-site storage server capacity, preventing the adequate execution of its digital preservation strategy. With NEH grant funds, the Apollo will be able to add 64 terabytes of additional local storage to both the archives storage server and the database server. The materials that comprise the Apollo's collection are in active daily use by several internal and external stakeholders. The addition of this digital storage will greatly increase the speed at which archived materials can be accessed.

A general preservation assessment for the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s collection of over 2,500 photographs, focused on contemporary American photography from the 1970s to the present.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) seeks NEH funding to conduct a professional in-depth assessment of its nationally significant collection of historical and contemporary photographs. This collection of over 2,500 photographs has been formed over the 45-year evolution of CPW as one of the nation's leading centers of photographic teaching and exhibition. The NEH grant would support the work of a photographic conservator, who would assess the current status of the collection, evaluate its current condition and documentation, and create a model plan for its future preservation, archival housing, storage, and public accessibility.

Production of a ninety-minute documentary film chronicling the life and work of jazz musician and artist Sun Ra (1914–93). 

Firelight Media is seeking a production grant in the amount of $700,000 for a project on the life of jazz musician, composer, arranger, poet, philosopher and performer Sun Ra and his influence on today’s burgeoning Afrofuturist movement. The centerpiece of the project is a documentary film with the working title Sun Ra and the Roots of Afrofuturism that will be broadcast as part of PBS’ American Masters series. Sun Ra used his talent, intelligence, and originality to imagine his way out of racism and create a vision for a Black space age future.

The continued development of a digital archive and tools for researching klezmer music. 

The Klezmer Archive (KA) project is creating a universally accessible, useful digital archival tool for interaction, discovery, and research on available information about klezmer music and its network of contemporary and historical people.

Sustainable improvements to the building’s envelope and HVAC system in the Meeting House at Watervliet Shaker National Historic District, the site’s primary storage location for its collections. 

Shaker Heritage Society (SHS) requests funding to support two key upgrades to the environmental system in the 1848 Meeting House: the addition of an energy recovery ventilator to a new air-source heat pump system to be installed in 2023, and the addition of blown-in cellulose insulation in the ceiling of the Meeting Hall.

A preservation assessment for the Binghamton University Art Museum’s collection of over 4,400 objects, including works by Henry Moore, Benjamin West, Thomas Hart Benton, Milton Avery, and Philip Guston.

The Binghamton University Art Museum (BUAM) requests $9971 for a general conservation assessment of the BUAM permanent collections to assist with the goal of long-term preservation planning for the Museum. West Lake Conservators (likely soon-to-be the non-profit organization West Lake Art Conservation Center) will be contracted to assess the Museum’s diverse collections to guide 1) a future that will inform a thorough general assessment and 2) the development of feasible strategies for preservation through preventative conservation of the collection.

The training of five history keepers and five apprentices to conduct oral histories, facilitate community archiving, and produce public programming documenting the South Bronx neighborhood Mott Haven.

This project will identify and support the people within the South Bronx’s Mott Haven community who are already serving as “history-keepers,” expanding what counts as humanities work and who counts as humanities workers. We will honor, invest in, and learn from the people who hold our neighborhood’s history and who are not professional, credentialed humanities workers. Each history-keeper will be provided with a significant stipend, training, and a paid apprentice. They will be supported to deepen the work they are already doing, and share it within their neighbors through a public exhibit, performance, or event. Working with the Bronx County Historical Society, history-keepers will have the opportunity to preserve, digitize and archive any materials they choose to share, including oral histories. Through amplifying the knowledge of long-time residents, this project will strengthen social networks and build on existing practices for resilience and creativity.

The development of open-source machine learning methods for quickly processing historical migrant records. 

Migrants and the State will facilitate and expand access to a set of historical migrant records held by the U.S. National Archives (NARA) gathered in what are known as A-files. A-files contain a wide variety of documentation specific to the experiences of individual migrants and the implementation of U.S. immigration law. While in the public domain, these A-files are currently accessible only on a file-by-file basis. This project will use 550 A-files to develop machine learning models for segmenting the contents of A-files, identifying document types (e.g. government forms, correspondence, employment records, etc.), and adding detailed metadata about them, making it possible to examine them at scale and discern currently untraceable stories and patterns across a large number of A-files. The project will also create a minimal web interface to enable focus group testing with immigration historians to gather feedback and plan for the project's next phase.

The purchase and installation of storage furniture and supplies for the nursery collection of the Seward House Museum.

This grant would support the purchase of more upgraded storage solutions for the Seward House Museum (SHM) to continue fulfilling collections safety in direct accordance with our Facilities Master Plan, our 2019-2023 Strategic Plan, our Conservation Assessment Plan (CAP), and with current industry standards. Funds from NEH’s Preservation Assistance Grant would allow the SHM to continue to upgrade from its current shelving units to enclosed and/or more secure cabinets to better protect collections objects not on display. As recommended by our CAP report, long-range collections storage will always be a priority and the current set-up poses a multitude of dangers and risks to the objects. The SHM is not currently temperature or humidity regulated via an HVAC unit, so therefore the Museum must focus on other methods of mitigation for the collection. The new Director of Collections and Exhibitions (DCE) will purchase additional archival furniture and install six new cabinets in the curren

A three-week, residential institute for 25 middle and high school teachers on the history of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad.

Colgate University proposes a three-week summer institute from July 7-26, 2024, on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad (UGRR) in North America from the colonial era through the Civil War. This request builds upon the experiences and lessons of eight previous such institutes and seminars conducted by Graham Hodges, director of this proposed institute, between 2008-2022. This institute will bring together 25 middle and high school teachers with Hodges, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, Senior Lecturer and Vice-Chair at Teachers College/Columbia University as pedagogy leader. In addition to her valuable contribution to the 2022 institute, Simmons has co-directed two successful NEH Summer Institutes for Teachers on Slavery in the Colonial North. The institute will feature ten distinguished guest lecturers, and five site hosts.

A two-week, combined format institute for 30 middle and high school teachers on the histories of LGBTQ+ communities in the United States.

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (ASHP/CML) proposes a two-week summer institute, entitled LGBTQ+ Histories of the U.S.

A two-week residential institute for 30 K-12 educators on the migration experience of New York City’s Puerto Rican communities expressed through the arts.

Somos Boricuas: Understanding Puerto Rican Migration and Community Building through the Arts and Humanities, summer institute uses Puerto Rican migration to the mainland United States as a case study to explore key humanities questions that are at the heart of the American migration experience: Who is a citizen? What rights is a citizen entitled to and what obligations does citizenship carry with it? What roles do cultural traditions and expressive arts play in how migrant communities forge identities in their new homes and maintain cultural connections to their places of birth?

Two one-week residential programs for 40 higher-education faculty and humanities professionals on interdisciplinary approaches to experiential learning and environmental humanities, using New York City as a case study.

New York as Port City will support two identical week-long workshops for forty higher education faculty and humanities professionals to explore the histories, cultures, and geographies of New York as a port city. In addition to readings and visiting scholar presentations, our workshop will use the city itself as a classroom, with visits to maritime landmarks, historic waterfront areas, and harbor remediation projects.

Two one-week residential programs for 40 higher-education faculty and humanities professionals on the significance of place within the study of immigration and public art in New York City.

"Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces" will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning through an exploration of Italian American public art in New York City. It will examine how monuments and landmarks are created, interpreted, forgotten, or become sites of conflict. One-week residential workshops will be held at FIT and at sites throughout NYC. Content will feature diverse perspectives from history, art, social science, labor and city planning, with an examination of the immigrant experience and how socio-cultural concerns relate to aesthetics, power and belonging. The program will include lectures, site visits, readings, film and discussion groups. Participants will share ideas and resources, with the intention of disseminating learning materials nationally on web-based platforms. Ultimately, the workshops will enable educators to devise resources for place-based learning in higher education that offer critical, nuanced understandings of public artworks and their histories.

A two-week, residential institute for 36 middle and high school teachers on the histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

This institute, designed especially for grade 6-12 teachers, will explore the intersection of the im/migrant and racialized experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander populations. The institute will feature leading scholars on the topic as well as representatives from these communities, thereby letting the Asian and Pacific Islanders who made and are making history share their own history. The institute will also recognize the resilience and honor the accomplishments of these groups. Framed most broadly, shifting the focus of American history to Asia and the Pacific world equips educators to put European and African histories centered around the Atlantic Ocean in conversation with the historical legacies of Asian and Pacific Islander experiences and migrations across the Pacific. This institute provides teachers with rigorous, research-based content knowledge and resources easily adaptable to their classrooms.

A three-day, residential institute followed by a series of virtual sessions on best practices for the development of digital open educational resources for use in the humanities classroom for 15 participants. The institute will be hosted at the CUNY, Graduate Center.

We propose the “Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice” (OEPI), an advanced digital humanities summer institute that will help DH scholars create OER publications and classroom assignments that build out from the community-based concerns of their students and that consciously foreground diverse perspectives.

A two-day planning meeting of partner libraries and archives to advance the development of ZineCat, an online union catalog providing descriptive and holdings information for zines.

In partnership with the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the MLA will hold a two-day convening with key stakeholders to discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on reading, writing, and languages.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) seeks $30,000 from the NEH in support of a two-day convening that would gather key stakeholders at the crucial intersection of reading, writing, and languages. The meeting will advance essential steps in building a humanities-driven intervention to address the impact of generative AI through a framework for critical AI literacy.

Design work on the new University of Buffalo James Joyce Museum in New York to share the world’s largest collection of James Joyce materials with a broader audience.

The Poetry Collection, part of the University at Buffalo Libraries, is home to the world’s largest collection of James Joyce materials. The UB James Joyce Collection has been an international destination for scholars for more than 70 years but has never had an adequate exhibition space that would allow the general public to experience it. With the 100th anniversary of the publication of Joyce’s Ulysses in 2022, UB is committed to creating the UB James Joyce Museum, a new landmark attraction on its South Campus in the city of Buffalo, New York. The proposed museum will allow UB to share this significant collection with a broad global audience. To create a visitor experience befitting the world-class stature of the collection and inspire investment by donors, UB’s Director of Campus Planning has advised UB Libraries to partner with a professional museum design consultant as phase 1 of this capital project.

Research and writing leading to a book on Cornell Capa (1918-2008), a photographer and curator, and the International Photography Center (ICP), which he founded in 1974.

This project offers a new account of photography’s institutional development in the late 20th century. It focuses on Cornell Capa – the Jewish-Hungarian born, naturalized American, brother of the famed photojournalist Robert Capa, who dedicated himself to preserving the work of news photographers whose massive archives were in danger of being discarded and forgotten. In 1974, Capa founded the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York’s first museum, archive, and educational forum devoted exclusively to photography. Based in exclusive access to Capa’s papers and ICP’s institutional records, I offer the first critical analysis of ICP’s origins and Cornell Capa’s 60-year career as a photojournalist, curator, publisher, and institution-builder. By looking at Capa and ICP, I demonstrate not only how major historical events became equated with a few iconic news photographs, but also how the history of press photography became entangled with the language of the art world.

Research and writing leading to a web-based publication that explores how Artificial Intelligence, Geographic Information Systems, and satellite imagery can be deployed to describe land use in the Alas Merta Jati forest of Bali, and how these descriptions interact with local knowledge and sustainability strategies.

The nexus of geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial intelligence (AI) has created a powerful class of analytical visual products that offer new perspectives on planet earth. High resolution satellite imagery – once a rarefied asset reserved for military intelligence operations and geoscience experts - is now hyper-available, and algorithm-derived insights gained from those images percolate into numerous fields. In this project, I will attend to the pathways along which satellite networks, GIS, and AI (S-GIS-AI) create visual artifacts that describe landscapes and land use. I will reflect on the logic of assumptions made and arguments constructed by S-GIS-AI machinery in a specific context: the forests of Alas Merta Jati on Bali, Indonesia. Specifically, I will reflect on how the creation of land-cover categories by these systems can be deployed to support particular needs, ambitions, and opportunities related to sustainability. I seek an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication to complete a multimedia and software-in-action research artifact that tells a story of how this nexus operates in debates over the Alas Merta Jati.

Research and writing leading to a book about Soviet education and children’s musical practices in Soviet Ukraine, from 1934 to 1991.

Spectacles of musical childhood were widespread in Soviet life. Children’s groups performed at political events, factories, and international festivals. They were showcased on Soviet radio and television and institutionalized in "Palaces of Pioneers." Inculcating children into Soviet norms of citizenship, gender, and musicality was a vital project to ensure the longevity of the USSR, yet both children and music present unruly vectors through which to achieve the goals of norming. My research follows the “imperial turn” in Soviet historiography to Soviet Ukraine, where I interpret the dynamic arena of children’s musical practices through newly discovered archival materials and original interviews. My research reveals how Soviet Ukrainian children and their educators creatively recast the prerogatives of Soviet education, with its promise of a stateless Communist future. Soviet Ukrainian children’s music captures the tensions inherent in imposing Soviet ideology on musical practice.

Research and writing leading to a book about hip hop history, showing how the record collections and home-DJ practices of Black women and Latinas in the 1970s Bronx shaped the artform’s birth, sound, and development.

This project enacts a paradigm shift in hip hop history, showing how the record collections and home-DJ selecting practices of Black women and Latinas in the 1970s Bronx dramatically shaped the artform’s birth, sound, and development. Through archival evidence, textual analysis, and a new oral history archive co-created with Bronx women, this book performs three interventions: reconceiving gender in hip hop historiography, rethinking the figure of the “mother” in popular music studies and record collecting culture, and documenting the selecting practices of Black women and Latinas. In narrating their lives and relationships to music, Bronx women reveal how they used records to create new forms of identity, motherhood, and family structures, as well as how crucial their collecting and selecting have been to major social, political, and artistic movements in the United States.