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

John Ghazvinian

Project Title: Iran and America since 1600

This post first appeared on AHA Today.