Humanities Program
2000 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2000

American Ireland Fund
New York, New York

For the Tercentenary Fund for Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland (jointly funded with the Research Library Program)

$5,000
California State University, Fresno Foundation
Fresno, California

For a Latin/Humanities curriculum in a new charter high school at California State University, Fresno

$50,000
Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

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

$10,000
Centro Studi Americani
Rome, Italy

For a symposium on Managing Culture: Museums, Cultural Institutions and Libraries: Examples from Italy and the United States

 $10,000
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

For a joint graduate and postdoctoral seminar in the Humanities (with emphasis on Venetian culture) at Venice International University, to take place in Venice during the late summer of 2001 and spring of 2002 (jointly funded with the Venetian Research Program)

$47,250
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey

For the humanities participants in a program on Information Technology, New Media, and the Social Sciences:2000/1

$100,000
The Medieval Academy of America
Cambridge, Massachusetts

For two European participants in the American Historical Association session entitled, Frederic C. Lane's Role in European Historiography: A Centennial Retrospective

$2,000
Nassau Community College Foundation Inc.
Glen Head, New York

For development of a web site for The New Variorum Hamlet

 $15,000
National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

For an endowment fund to support the residential fellowship program

 $50,000
New Art Publications, Inc.

For matching funds to create BOMB Magazine's online archive of interviews with artists, writers, musicians

 $10,000
New York University
New York, New York

For a Faculty Resource Network seminar: Performing Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

 $25,000
Queens Library Foundation Inc.
New York, New York

For a humanities program series: Writing American: Literature, Memory and Diversity; workshops and lectures featuring works of Chinese and Hispanic immigrant writers at the Queens Borough Public Library

 $25,000
Rutgers, The State University
Newark, New Jersey

For a lecture by Nobel Laureate José Saramago as part of a festival celebrating Portuguese culture

 $5,000
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, New York

For a visiting guest lecturer in the Humanities, and publication subventions for a summer program at the US Pavilion of the VII International Architectural Biennale in Venice

 $15,000
Trustees of Columbia University
New York, New York

For an interdisciplinary conference: Aragon, Elsa Triolet: art and politics in the Cold War

 $6,000
University of Calgary
Alberta, Canada

For a summer institute in the Humanities for secondary school students: Great Books, Great Languages, Great Technologies

 $30,000
The University of Central Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas

For a state-wide UCA Humanities Fair for high school students to celebrate and further their understanding and appreciation of the Humanities

 $5,000
University of Notre Dame du Lac
Notre Dame, Indiana

For a matching grant for residential faculty fellowships in Medieval Studies

 $50,000
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

For the Dictionary of Old English: research support for the 2000-2001 academic year

 $25,000
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

For fellowship support in the Ancient Studies program

 $10,000