Humanities Program
2000 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2001

Bennington College Corporation
Bennington, Vermont

A three-year grant to help launch a new Master of Arts program in teaching a second language

$100,000
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

To support the coordination and conversion into EAD form of Walt Whitman manuscripts in the archives of various institutions

$10,000
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

To support the publication of Books in Native American Languages in the Collection of the John Carter Brown Library: A Catalogue with Illustrations (jointly funded with the Research Library Program) ($15,000 total)

$10,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

To support the computer assisted text-reading project at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, England.

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

To support the publication of Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, Volume VIII

$5,000
Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

For faculty honoraria for the 2001 Summer Workshop/Retreat for African-American poets

$10,000
The City University of New York
New York, New York

To support a year-long series of poetry workshops and educational readings at the Poetry Outreach Center

$5,000
The City University of New York
New York, New York

To support the 30th anniversary of the Annual Spring Poetry Festival at the Poetry Outreach Center

$5,000
The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio

For support of a conference to explore the role of pity in Athenian society and literature

$6,000
The Concord Review
Sudbury, Massachusetts

To provide general operating support in 2002, for the better writing of historical research at the secondary school level

$5,000
International Center of Medieval Art
Upton, New York

To support the Provenance Study of Limestone used in medieval and Egyptian sculpture

$25,000
Library Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support the creation of a long-term Dissertation Fellowship

$50,000
The Medieval Academy of America
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support a new named dissertation grant in honor of Frederic C. Lane

$10,000
Missouri Southern State College
Joplin, Missouri

To expand web-accessible resources in South Asian art history, archaeology, and literature

$15,000
The New York Historical Society
New York, New York

To support Library Research fellowships

$40,000
Pace University
New York, New York

A 2-year grant to support a documentary edition of papers by and about the 19th-century author, abolitionist, and reformer Harriet Jacobs

$30,000
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

to produce a catalogue for an exhibition, Reflections of Divinities and History in the Everyday Folk Arts of Northern India

$20,000
The Trustees of Amherst College
Washington, DC

For the Folger Shakespeare Library, to support a scholarly conference on the Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early Modern Europe

$15,500
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

To support the planning phase for a scholarly electronic encyclopedia of the ancient world at the Columbia University Center for the Ancient Mediterranean

$12,000
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland

To support a series of workshops for secondary history teachers to improve the teaching of U.S. and Latin American history in the public schools of Montgomery County, Maryland, and at the University of Maryland, College Park

$5,700
University of Nebraska Foundation
Omaha, Nebraska

To support the Bethsaida Excavation Project of graduate student participation in biblical archaeology at the ancient city of Bethsaida in Israel

$20,000
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

To establish and implement an authority list for identification of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts

$100,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, Wisconsin

A two-year grant to support NEH matching funds and to complete Volume IV of the Dictionary of American Regional English

$70,000
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Princeton, New Jersey

To support Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities for the academic year 2001-2002

$100,000
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Princeton, New Jersey

To support a preparatory conference and pilot program for the Woodrow Wilson Flexible Fellowships project

$100,000
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Princeton, New Jersey

To support a two-year pilot program of the Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowships for recently tenured humanities faculty

$141,000
Yale University Press
New Haven, Connecticut

To support the publication of Yale Companion to the Classical Tradition

$50,000