[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] WASHINGTON (July 21, 2014) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $34 million in grants for 177 humanities projects, including the creation of an online digital archive that would make publicly accessible nearly 5,000 oral histories conducted by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel, and the archeological excavation of the site of a Spanish colonial forced resettlement in Peru to determine how indigenous communities adapted to challenges of life in new settlements under a new political-economic regime.
This funding will support a wide variety of projects including traveling exhibitions, the creation of new digital research tools, the preparation and publication of scholarly editions, professional development opportunities for teachers and college faculty, the preservation of cultural collections, collaborative humanities research, and the production and development of films, television, and radio programs.
Congratulations to UCSC Professor of Literature, Sharon Kinoshita, and Brian Catlos for receiving an NEH grant for 2015 Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, “Negotiating Identities in the Christian-Jewish-Muslim Mediterranean.” [/vc_column_text] [vc_separator height=”20″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_button size=”small” style=”light” url=”http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2014-07-21″ label=”Read more” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]