Humanities Program
1999 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

1999

Adirondack Historical Association
New York, New York

For The Lynn H. Boillot Endowment Fund to support The Adirondack Museum programs, publications, and the acquisition of library research materials on the arts of the Adirondacks

$50,000
American Academy in Rome
New York, New York

For completion of a matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research fellowships

$111,750
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, New York

For an electronic publishing initiative for scholarly monographs in history

 $30,000
The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Washington, D.C.

For The Poetry Reader: a publication featuring essays, letters, speeches, and poems on the art of poetry

$30,000
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, New York

For support of BAM's theater initiatives in the 1999 and 2000 seasons and for humanities programming in connection with Kurt Weill's Eternal Road (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program)

$25,000
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

For a symposium on Ancient Monumental Painting in the Mediterranean and Near East: a collaborative effort between Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania

$5,000
Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.

For editing and publication of The Library of Early Christianity

 $25,000
Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.

For the John Duns Scotus Critical Edition of Questions on Aristotle's Book On the Soul

 $25,000
Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

For faculty honoraria at summer poetry workshops and retreats for African American poets

 $5,000
The Concord Review
Concord, Massachusetts

For establishment of the National Review Board to improve the quality of academic writing at the high school level

 $10,000
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

For a two-year seminar American Studies: Through Russian and American Eyes, at Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia

 $14,000
The Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
San Marino, California

For a three-year program of graduate student seminars in Paleography

 $25,000
MUSE Film and Television
New York, New York

For a documentary film based on the Book of Kells manuscript

 $10,000
People and Stories - Gente y Cuentos, Inc.
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

For general operating support

 $35,000
Poetry Society of America
New York, New York

For general operating support for the Poetry in Motion program

 $10,000
Regents of the University of California
Irvine, California

For Rhetoric in the Public Sphere: honoraria, accommodations, and travel expenses for guest Humanities professors

 $6,000
Regents of the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

For the Middle English Compendium; an electronic resource for research and teaching in the Humanities

 $25,000
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

 $25,000
The Trustees of Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

For the Princeton Dante Project, an annotated electronic text of Dante's Divine Comedy

 $25,000
University of Maryland Foundation, Inc.
College Park, Maryland

For plenary speakers' expenses and graduate student subventions at a symposium, Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change

 $12,000
University of Nebraska Foundation
Omaha, Nebraska

For the Bethsaida Excavation Project: student participation in biblical archaeology at the ancient city of Bethsaida in Israel

 $15,000
University of Texas Foundation
Austin, Texas

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

 $30,000
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

For the Dictionary of Old English: research support for the 1999-2000 academic year

 $15,000
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

For digitization of Iter Italicum: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued manuscripts of the Renaissance

 $21,000
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

For student scholarships in the Ancient Studies Program

 $10,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, Wisconsin

A two-year grant for the Dictionary of American Regional English

 $60,000
Young Men's & Women's Hebrew Association
New York, New York

For the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center series: Society Unbound, a trio of verse dramas

 $5,000