Humanities Program
1998 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved In Support of
Humanities Institutions

1998

American Academy in Rome
New York, New York

For endowment of post-doctoral research fellowships in the Humanities

$100,000

American Council of Learned Societies
New York, New York

For a two-year grant to support the ACLS Fellowship Program in fields of the Humanities

$150,000

The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Washington, D.C.

For general operating support

$32,500

American Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Toronto, Canada

For the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, in honor of Leonard Boyle, O.P. (jointly funded with the Research Library Program)

$5,000

Americans for Oxford, Inc.
New York, New York

For the Bodleian Incunabula Project at Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England

$25,000

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

For a project to produce digital images of inscriptions from Eleusis in Attica for study on the Internet

$5,000

Drew University
Madison, New Jersey

For a lecture series on the History of the Book (jointly funded with the Research Library Program)

$10,000

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

For an exhibition Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000

$10,000

Linda Hall Library Trust
Kansas City, Missouri

For fellowship support of visiting scholars conducting research at the Library (jointly funded with the Research Library Program)

$6,000

Marymount Manhattan College
New York, New York

For the development of a new Liberal Arts major

$28,500

The Newberry Library
Chicago, Illinois

For the1998 summer institute in medieval Latin paleography and codicology

$14,000

The New York Academy of Medicine
New York, New York

For a Humanities in Medicine program: to encourage humanities education in regional medical schools

$47,000

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, New York

For The Past Present, a series of history programs for public radio

$10,000

Oglethorpe University
Atlanta, Georgia

For an endowment to develop a core curriculum in the Humanities

$25,000

Ohio State University Research Foundation
Columbus, Ohio

For a project to produce digital images of dated decrees of the Athenian assembly for study on the Internet

$20,000

The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

For a symposium on Jean Cocteau, Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities

$5,000

People and Stories - Gente Y Cuentos Inc.
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

For administrative support and management consulting services

$25,000

Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

For a joint meeting of the Association for Computing and Humanities and the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing

$5,000

Regents of the University of California
Irvine, California

For participation of European scholars in the Humanities Research Institute's program, Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge

$27,500

Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York, New York

For the Database of Classical Bibliography, sponsored by the Graduate School and University Center

$10,000

Rutgers, The State University
Newark, New Jersey

For an International Conference on Portugal and Portuguese-speaking literatures

$5,000

Rutgers University Foundation
New Brunswick, New Jersey

For editing The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

$20,000

Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts

For summer archaeology fellowships for under-represented students

$30,000

U.C. Santa Cruz Foundation
Santa Cruz, California

For final editing of the Cambridge Grammar of English

$8,000

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, Texas

For endowing publications in the Classics and the Ancient World series, University of Texas Press

$25,000

University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, Wisconsin

For the Dictionary of American Regional English

$20,000

Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
New York, New York

For the stage adaptation of Dante's Inferno, produced by the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program)

$15,000