Humanities Program
2002 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2002

The Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support the Online Poetry Classroom project

$10,000
American Folk Art Museum
New York, New York

To support the exhibition Fraktur Treasures from the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (jointly funded with the Research Library Program) ($10,000 total)

$5,000
American Philological Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For operational support of the American Office for the bibliographical annual L'Année Philologique

$10,000
American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support the printing and design of the publication of the APR

$2,000
American Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Corp.
Toronto, Ontario

To support the establishment of a Chair in Manuscript Studies in memory of Father Leonard Boyle

$10,000
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois

To support an international symposium entitled Encounters with Islam: The Medieval Mediterranean Experience

$5,000
Classical Association of New England
Storrs, Connecticut

To support the Summer Institute in the Classical Humanities at the University of Connecticut

$3,500
Corporation of Haverford College
Haverford, Pennsylvania

To provide support over three years for entries into Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index, an online index to women's and gender studies

$20,500
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

To support a summer 2002 program, American Studies: Through Russian and American Eyes

$5,000
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

To support fuller coverage of European history on the new website World History Matters

$21,000
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

A one-time, one-year grant to support The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project

$25,000
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.

To help disseminate and evaluate an educational video on Death, Dying and the Living Arts: A symposium to integrate arts into end-of-life care

$5,000
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support an electronic version of the biographical dictionary, Notable American Women, at Schlesinger Library

$15,000
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey

A two-year grant to help endow a Membership in East Asian Studies in the School of Historical Studies

$200,000
The Medieval Academy of America
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To provide additional support to fully endow a new named dissertation grant in honor of Frederic C. Lane

$10,000
National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

To support the fellowship program for the 2002-2003 academic year

$60,000
Poetry Society of America
New York, New York

To support the tenth anniversary of Poetry in Motion

$10,000
Regents of the University of California
Los Angeles, California

To support a conference on Jewish Communities in Early Modern Italy, to be held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (jointly funded with the Research Library and Venetian Research Programs) ($15,000 total)

$5,000
Renaissance Society of America, Inc.
New York, New York

To support travel stipends to New York city for scholars to attend a one-day meeting of groups developing data bases in women's and gender studies

$5,500
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York, New York

To help match an NEH grant for the Database of Classical Bibliography

$25,000
TV-Turnoff Network
Washington, D.C.

To support a More Poetry newsletter, Know It By Heart

$5,000
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

To support the Harry Ransom Center Imprint Series

$25,000
University of Texas System
San Antonio, Texas

To support the medical humanities and ethics program, with the Anatomy of Anatomy photography exhibit and panel discussion

$10,000
The University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

To support the Dictionary of Old English to help complete a National Endowment for the Humanities matching grant

$25,000
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York

A two-year grant to support a multidisciplinary faculty and student project on the theme Europe and its Boundaries

$154,900
Walters Art Gallery Endowment Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland

To honor Dr. Patricia K. Woolf, a Trustee of the Walters Museum from 1975 to 1985

$25,000
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association
New York, New York

To support the Unterberg Poetry Center's production of Electra

$5,000
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association
New York, New York

To support the production of Milton's Samson Agonistes

$5,000