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Preparation of a trilingual (English, Spanish, Kreyol) translation and critical edition of “Unbroken Nostalgia: Haitian Kreyol Poetry in Cuba” by Hilario Batista Félix (1955- ), an important Haitian-Cuban writer.

I will complete a scholarly edition (with introduction, translation, and annotations) of Nostalji san pwen ni vigil: pwezi kreyòl nan peyi Kiba (2015) by Haitian-Cuban writer Hilario Batista Félix, in collaboration with the author. A descendant of Haitian migrant workers to Eastern Cuba during the mid-twentieth century, Batista embodies and expresses Cuba’s cultural and linguistic diversity. His writing affirms Black agency by evoking Haiti’s spiritual traditions and revolutionary legacy of 1804, while also contesting enduring patterns of discrimination towards Haitians in Cuba and issues of internalized racism within the Haitian-Cuban community. The poems also convey a sense of longing for a shared heritage and homeland, a desire for belonging within the present, and a forceful commitment to anti-racist discourse. My project, the first to address Batista’s collection, sheds light on Eastern Cuba's Haitian cultural heritage and helps expand the corpus of diasporic Haitian literature.

Collaboration between two liberal arts colleges on a three-year project to develop a new sustainability studies curriculum. 

Building from a new collaboration between Ripon College and Marian University, this three-year project will bring together faculty members at the two institutions and other community partners to develop a more robust and sustainable approach to humanities education in the southern Fox Valley region of Wisconsin. Through visiting lectures, workshops, and regular faculty and course development opportunities, participants in our cross-campus Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) will reimagine the humanities for the twenty-first century, emphasizing sustainability, diversity, and place-based instruction as the three keys to preserving and expanding humanities offerings and enrollments at small liberal arts colleges. The result will be an approach to humanistic inquiry that is more responsive to local needs and resources, including a strengthened network of regional connections between humanities scholars, educators, and students at multiple institutions.

Historical and technical research for an app-based mobile walking tour about the diverse religious traditions in colonial and Revolutionary-era Philadelphia.

The Dialogue Institute is requesting a $30,000 Digital Projects for the Humanities Discovery grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the research phase of the “Diversity in Early America Tour App” that will guide visitors through uniquely historic religious and cultural sites that are connected to Independence National Historical Park and the broader historic district in Philadelphia. The completed app will be available for download onto a user’s phone or other mobile device. The content will tell the story of the unique religious diversity found in Philadelphia during the colonial and Revolutionary eras and how it is tied together with the more famous sites of early American history found in and around the park. The project aims to promote the virtues of religiously-diverse democracies and use history to stimulate dialogue about the challenges of majority-minority relations, racial justice, and the rise of Christian nationalism in the contemporary U.S.

A one-year project to establish a minor in art conservation

Our project seeks to establish a Minor in Art Conservation by creating a set of interdisciplinary courses integrating the study of Chemistry and Art History. We plan to recruit conservation practitioners as lecturers and instructors to support our faculty in introducing full hands-on, experiential engagement in our new courses.  We will also involve professionals working at museums and other venues both as consultants for curriculum development and as potential providers of internships for our students. The program will intertwine the study of material science with artistic understanding issues, which involve cultural, historic, and ethical questions. The Minor will serve a student population that includes a relevant percentage of underrepresented groups, hoping to encourage diversity in conservation studies. At the same time, it will foster active collaboration between the School of Science and the School of Liberal Arts, bringing together faculty from multiple disciplines.

A two-year project to revise seven humanities courses in the general education curriculum

Thomas Edison State University (TESU), New Jersey’s public university for adult education, seeks a Spotlight on Humanities Grant to revise and incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) concepts and content into seven selected humanities courses. DEI is reshaping how higher education is addressing inequality in our society, and it is providing strategies to institutions and educators on how to transform student learning to meet DEI goals. Despite the research and progress within the humanities, many academic programs and courses still do not feature diverse and inclusive content. This project aims to address these deficiencies in our selected courses. These courses are taught entirely online, and our primary audience are those students who are considered nontraditional. Grant funds will support the cost of subject matter experts and an external DEI consultant. TESU’s Center for Learning and Technology staff will assist the subject matter experts in course development.

A two-year project for a faculty learning community to develop courses that integrate humanities study and professional skills    

Saint Mary's College of California proposes the creation of a Faculty Learning Community to develop innovative and high impact course experiences designated for the new humanistic practice requirement of the undergraduate Core Curriculum. This new requirement introduces students to the various ways humanities disciplines are adopting 21st century technologies, communication media, and opportunities for positive social change. The application of humanities disciplinary content with practiced skills promotes diversity in humanities as students in the historically underrepresented groups in academia can more easily recognize and articulate the utility of classroom based learning to prospective post-graduation outcomes. This proposed project will provide faculty with centralized support from Academic Affairs to create and adapt skills-based humanities practices for broader undergraduate audiences through the Core Curriculum.

The creation of the Detroit Historian position to spearhead state humanities projects using a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility lens.

The Michigan History Center (MHC), the state’s history agency, is requesting $200,000 to advance our mission in Detroit in the light of the ongoing double pandemic. As we reshape our work through a diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility lens, we will continue our pandemic-delayed program development in Detroit, centered on reinterpreting the Ulysses and Julia Grant Home and auditing and expanding the city’s Michigan Historical Markers. NEH funding will help MHC move these important projects forward while giving us breathing space to rebuild our financial capacity.

Construction expenses and campaign fundraising costs for the expansion of the museum’s La Jolla campus, creating capacity for display of the permanent collection alongside temporary exhibitions.

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) requests a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant of $750,000 to support a transformational expansion of our flagship La Jolla campus. For the first time in our history, the expansion will allow MCASD to consistently display our collection along with compelling temporary exhibitions. MCASD’s holdings include more than 5,000 objects in all media. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the expansion will nearly double the size of the facility and quadruple current gallery space (from 10,000 sq. feet to 40,000 sq. feet). Over 400 objects will fill the new collection galleries, which will comprise approximately 30,000 SF in the renovated facility. The galleries will provide visitors with opportunities to contextualize well-known masterworks alongside a diversity of other perspectives, emphasizing the voices of women artists, artists of color, and artists working outside the US, particularly Latin America.

Completion of a book on Louchébem, a secret, highly endangered language (argot) spoken by Parisian butchers since the 13th century.

Louchébem, the secret language of Parisian butchers, is often classified as extinct, yet my recent fieldwork reveals otherwise. An argot borrowed from thieves’ slang that emerged in the nineteenth-century Villette slaughterhouse, Louchébem is still spoken in butcher shops, though in decline. The pressures on the butchers’ profession since the late 1980s lend urgency to the task of documenting Louchébem, especially given that scholarly research has overlooked this singular argot. Based on ethno-linguistic fieldwork, including data collected from 227 Parisian butchers, this book project chronicles Louchébem by tracing it to its origin, recording its history, and evaluating its current status. This project investigates an endangered cultural and linguistic phenomenon while shedding light on wider issues of modernity, including the role of tradition, the relationship between language and consumption, and the value of linguistic diversity in a world where languages are rapidly dying off.

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

With the General Operating Support Grant, Guam Humanities Guam brings the humanities to life through subawards and/or public programming in Guam. The council tailors its subaward-making and public programs to the needs, resources and interests of Guam. In doing so, it delivers on its mission to foster community engagement and dialogue, inspire critical thinking, celebrate diversity and enrich the quality of life of island residents through the the power of the humanities.

General operating support for state or territorial humanities council

Colorado Humanities will continue to work toward meeting the goal of integrating the humanities into public life in Colorado through objectives stated in the 2019-2023 plan: 1. Engage Colorado communities in important conversations about contemporary issues that reflect diverse narratives. 2. Provide humanities-based opportunities to encourage lifelong learning. 3. Develop programs that recognize racial, ethnic or cultural diversity. 4. Develop programs with geographic diversity with emphasis on issues of import to rural Coloradans. 5. Develop programs that employ as broad an array of humanities disciplines as possible. 6. Build partnerships to promote collaboration with existing and prospective program partners statewide. 7. Increase Colorado Humanities' financial capacity and resources to achieve objectives. 8. Use a range of technologies to deliver and promote programs.

The creation of a new museum education coordinator position and expansion of existing programs.

The “Celebrating America’s Dental History: An Educational Initiative at the National Museum of Dentistry” project is designed to take place between October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022 and establish the foundation for humanities focused educational experiences relating to America’s dental history, and promoting the themes of celebrating diversity, encouraging innovation, and reinforcing the idea that the dental profession is more than an annual visit.

The hiring of a curator and funding for two current staff, along with contracting for design and fabrication services, to install a long-term exhibition that explores the diversity of southwestern Connecticut’s seventeenth and eighteenth-century history.

Fairfield Historical Society (DBA Fairfield Museum / FMHC) seeks $125,565 to create a new long-term exhibition exploring CT’s diverse and complex 17th and 18th c. history. The exhibit will include new research and archeological discoveries on pre-colonial Native American history, the English subjugation of those Native communities, the role of African Americans in CT’s early economy, and how regional dynamics of race and class influenced early social and political life. The proposed exhibition will provide vital context for FMHC’s school and community programs planned to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 by presenting a more complete historical look at how race, gender, and class dynamics influenced the establishment of colonial Connecticut, how those forces continue to reverberate in contemporary society, and how citizens today can draw from those perspectives to help create a more just, inclusive and sustainable society for the future.

The retention of two staff members, the hiring of a research specialist, and funding of interns engaged in cataloging, digital management, and public programs, along with equipment purchases, to increase access to historical biocultural collections at one of the largest botanical gardens in North America.

The biocultural collection at the Missouri Botanical Garden includes plant-based arts, crafts, tools, foods, medicines, and other material culture artifacts. The disruptions caused by COVID-19 have underscored the urgency of protecting this collection, and shown the potential for increasing access through online cataloging and events. Requested funds would bridge current financial unpredictability to ensure this collection is curated and catalogued, shared through online event programming via the Garden's Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, and made widely accessible through the expansion of the Garden's publicly available Tropicos biodiversity database to include artifacts. Outcomes will be: restored and enhanced preservation of and access to ~12,000 cultural artifacts, the creation and retention of specialized positions, the resumption of public programming, and the creation of a novel functionality to integrate a plant-based cultural collection within a botanical database.

The hiring of students and compensation for faculty advisors to continue and develop humanities programming with a focus on diversity and outreach.

The College of Liberal Arts at UCO delivers the university's humanities education and outreach. The requested funds are vital for bridging the gap between the current budget crisis and a more stabilized financial future. Most of our projects and programs included in the request are directly related to "A More Perfect Union," an NEH area of special focus, as they emphasize equity, diversity, and inclusion. As a university in a traditionally underfunded state, we are also hoping this grant will help encourage further NEH applications from UCO and enrich the experience of our students and stakeholders. Projects will include: English Department journals & lectures; "Diverse Oklahoma" lecture series; digitization of the Herland Archives; Minority Graduate Student Mentoring Program; Interdisciplinary Cohort; History Ed. assessment; "Central Diversity" podcasts and documentaries.

The hiring of a community engagement educator and the retention of six staff to develop ongoing virtual programs.

The American Folk Art Museum requests funding from the NEH to bolster Education Department initiatives: supporting and enhancing ongoing virtual programming and the addition of a new staff position, a Community Engagement Educator. Support will allow the Museum to build on the initial successes of virtual educational programs developed during the pandemic that reach a wide national audience. Support will also be used to hire a Community Engagement Educator, a new position that will capacity of the Education Department and deepen our engagement with diverse communities in New York and beyond. Both activities were identified as a priority in our new Strategic Plan, adopted December 2020, to increase our DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion) engagement and impact.

Implementation of six public discussion programs at the William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum.

Through the Preserving Voices of Freedom project, the William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum (GFC) seeks to hold six Live & Learn Civic Dialogue and community discussions. Through these discussions, we plan to incorporate the expertise of living history interpreters, civic dialogue facilitators, and novels to engage attendees in culturally relevant discussions in a safe environment while encouraging a mindset of equity and diversity of viewpoints. The Preserving Voices of Freedom project will additionally provide the ability to retain GFC’s part-time museum manager position and provide funds to aid the salary of the GFC’s administrative director.

The partial retention of three faculty and the addition of language experts and student workers to expand, through digital technology, two initiatives at the University of Oregon that encourage the preservation and teaching of Indigenous language restoration in the United States. 

The Northwest Indian Language Institute and the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages share a common mission to support Indigenous language restoration efforts in the United States. These institutes endeavor to increase capacity within Native American communities for the preservation of their unique cultural, historical, and linguistic heritage. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the ability of both institutes to carry out their work, which is primarily accomplished through in-person trainings. In the past year, both programs have pivoted toward online learning and on-demand trainings to continue a modified version of normal operations, expand program accessibility, and meet the varying needs of program participants. This project seeks funding to support humanities positions and to build upon the emerging online experience and resources to create a robust catalog of distance learning offerings that follow best practices in online pedagogy.

Planning public programs to highlight diversity in the population of Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin.

“Adding Chippewa Valley Voices” works to better understand and communicate the diversity of people and experiences in Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley. A variety of public programs will showcase this diversity. These programs offer students of all ages different levels of engagement depending upon their needs and interests. The project builds upon the museum’s experiences with historically under-represented groups and seeks to build a stronger, more representative museum. It also preserves critical humanities-based positions.

The creation of at least thirteen new positions, including part-time faculty appointments, tenure-track positions, and student researchers, as well as the purchase of equipment to support humanities programs across the institution.

Gustavus Adolphus College strives to fulfill its mission to equip students to lead purposeful lives and act on the great challenges of our time through an innovative liberal arts education of recognized excellence. Without a strong humanities component to the curriculum, excellent humanities faculty, and broad humanities programs we cease to be a liberal arts institution. This grant would support humanities faculty positions, curriculum, faculty development, research, and community engagement that may not otherwise be possible in the coming years. The financial losses associated with the pandemic have been immense and felt College-wide. Students enroll at Gustavus for its academic excellence, its signature events, its commitment to diversity, and its vast array of activities in which all students can participate. We are ultimately a tuition driven institution and our students and community deserve and demand that humanities remain a vibrant core part of their Gustavus experience.

Staff salaries at the applicant organization and salaries at partner organizations for the development of in-person and online collaborative school programs that focus on African American history in the  Albany, New York, region. 

In anticipation of the return of onsite visitation and in-person programming, pending new pandemic guidelines, Historic Cherry Hill now proposes to partner with the Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC), housed at the Stephen and Harriet Myers residence and the Albany County Historical Association at Ten Broeck Mansion (TB) to: (1) develop thematically-linked programs with concrete connections to the NYS curriculum. Together, the field trips will to build a stronger understanding of historical issues and the diversity of voices and opinions that have made and are making history in the United States. Together, the field trips will to build a stronger understanding of historical issues and the diversity of voices and opinions that have made and are making history in the United States. In support of the project, we will (2) work with Teaching the Hudson Valley to build a site to promote these programs and provide access to pre- and post-visit materials teachers can utilize.

A continuing education and training program to prepare three post-baccalaureate students, one fellow per year for three years, for application to graduate training programs in conservation of cultural heritage. Selected students, as junior fellows, would pursue required coursework and work closely with the faculty and collections of the Harvard Art Museums.

The Harvard Art Museums respectfully requests consideration by the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Preservation and Access Education and Training grant to launch a pre-program continuing education and training program, which aims to increase access, diversity, and inclusive excellence in the field of art conservation. This type of post-baccalaureate, paid junior fellowship will be one of the first among very few such emerging professional development opportunities in the country and will provide focused, intensive 1:1 learning, resulting in an opportunity to prepare a successful application for recognized graduate training programs in conservation of cultural heritage. Building on the Harvard Art Museums’ extensive graduate and post-graduate training programs, the proposed program will host one post-bacc junior fellow per year for the first three years.

A two-year project to develop 10 new courses and a certificate program in comic studies.

Scholars who study comics and graphic novels have long recognized their power to perpetuate harmful stereotypes; but also, more recently, their capacity to challenge injustice. Through engagement with issues like racial discrimination, gender inequality, sexual identity, and immigration, the ever-changing medium of comics is a change-maker. Humanists are well-positioned to trace that change and, through scholarship and teaching, make meaning of its power. Comics@SDSU seeks $150,000 for a two-year initiative to 1) develop ten new courses that will deepen and expand our humanistic comics curriculum, 2) use these courses to populate a proposed certificate in Comic Studies, and 3) support workshops that bring scholars to campus to energize comic studies at our Hispanic Serving Institution. The humanistic approach to the study of comics that we will cultivate through workshops, courses and a certificate program will empower thousands of students to visualize and manifest a more just future.

Preserving and providing access to the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, a collection of over 75,000 pieces, including artists’ books, typography, and other artistic works that combine writing and images. The project would produce an archival finding aid for the collection, catalog records for approximately 4,500 items, and a website featuring collection highlights. 

The Sackner Archive is the world’s largest repository of material documenting the international avant-garde movement of artists and writers who combined words and visual elements to create a new kind of artwork. Now contextualized by complementary collections of Dada, Fluxus, book arts, and more, this new collection at the University of Iowa Libraries promises to significantly expand the potential for scholarship in 20th Century avant-garde. The Sackner Archive exists as a largely “hidden collection” due to the enormous amount of work needed to organize, catalog, and preserve the materials to make them accessible to researchers, educators and the general public. This Implementation Project will make the materials available to all by providing staffing to aid in the housing of objects, the standardization of metadata, and the creation of new finding aids, allowing improved discoverability for a large selection of collection material.

Writing to complete a manuscript on colonial revival design and American identity in the 1930s and 1940s based on three popular case studies.

This book project examines three popular attractions that thrilled American audiences by seeming to bring the past truly back to life: Colonial Williamsburg, the Thorne Miniature Rooms, and the Index of American Design. These colonial revival designs invited viewers to learn American history through aesthetic experience, not through reading or writing but through seemingly direct contact with the look and feel of history itself. This experience of feeling history produced uncanny effects, in which viewers underwent strange disconnects of time and space, and it helped naturalize ideologies of American exceptionalism and white nationalism. Yet relatively marginalized Americans, including women, recent immigrants, queer people, and people of color, took park in constructing these designs. By interrogating colonial revivalism, this book analyzes how an aesthetic experience of the past became effective at empowering new groups of Americans to take part in the design of American identity.