The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced last week $18.2 million in grants for 208 humanities projects. These projects range in size and focus, including digitization, film production, traveling exhibitions, and preservation and access to historic collections.
We are happy to see a number of historians on the list of grant recipients. Below is a detailed summary of AHA Member awardees, including titles of their award winning projects.
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, University of Missouri, Columbia
Project Title: The Resurgence of the Atlantic Slave Trade to Angola, c.1780-1867
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
Project Title: World-Historical Gazetteer
Ryan Kashanipour, Northern Arizona University
Project Title: Magic and Medicine in Eighteenth Century Yucatan
Steve Hindle, Huntington Library
Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at The Huntington Library
Eve Buckley, University of Delaware
Project Title: Transforming Brazil’s Desert: Drought, Poverty and Technocratic Tensions in
Modern Latin America
Denver Brunsman, George Washington University
Project Title: British Naval Impressment in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Project Title: Technological Change, Society, and Development in Argentina’s Agricultural Sector,
1860-1940
Jennifer Guiliano, University of Maryland, College Park
Project Title: Transforming the Afro-Caribbean World (TAW)
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University
Project Title: Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran
Elizabeth Foster, Tufts University
Project Title: Catholics and the End of French Empire in sub-Saharan Africa
Liette Gidlow, Wayne State University
Project Title: Black Women’s Disfranchisement and the Fight for Voting Rights, 1920-1945
Lane Demas, Central Michigan University
Project Title: Sports, Race, and American Culture: A History of African Americans in Golf
Thomas Travers, Cornell University
Project Title: Indian Petitioning and the Making of the British Empire in South Asia, 1765-1800
Valerie Paley, New York Historical Society
Project Title: Long-Term Research Fellowships at the New-York Historical Society
Lawrence Frohman, SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook
Project Title: Surveillance, Privacy and the Politics of Personal Information in West Germany,
1960-1990
J. Mark Souther, Cleveland State University
Project Title: Curating Kisumu: Adapting Mobile Humanities Interpretation in East Africa
Project Title: Iran and America since 1600
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