Humanities Program
2003 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2003

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, New York

To suppoort BAM's production of Handel's Siroe with the Venice Baroque Orchestra

$15,000
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

To support the work of the Women Writers Project to create guidelines for scholars using the Text Encoding Initiative (jointly funded with the Research Library Program) ($25,000 total)

$10,000
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC

For travel grants to bring American graduate students and junior faculty to the International School of the Ius commune in Erice, Sicily

$7,500
Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

To support the 2003 summer poetry workshop and retreat for African American poets

$5,000
Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, Illinois

To support Classics in Context colloquia for high school teachers

$5,000
Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts

Toward publication of a catalogue to accompany the exhibition, Hope and Healing: The Plague and Italian Painting, 1500-1750

$10,000
Council of Independent Colleges
Washington, DC

To support a series of workshops on the transformation of the library in liberal arts colleges (jointly funded with the Library Research Program) ($30,000 total)

$15,000
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

A two-year grant to support American Studies: Through Russian and American Eyes Project in collaboration with several Russian universities

$6,000
The Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
San Marino, California

A three-year grant to support a graduate student/junior faculty seminar in Renaissance paleography

$25,000
Medici Archive Project, Inc.
Bloomfield, New Jersey

To support the upsizing of a database Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities in the Medici Granducal Archive: 1537-1743

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

A three-year grant to support the Center's fellowship program

$225,000
The 92nd Street Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association
New York, New York

To support the production of poet Anne Carson's translation of Hecuba as part of the 2003/2004 Main Reading Series Poets' Theatre

$5,000
People and Stories – Gente Y Cuentos
Trenton, New Jersey

For general operating support

$30,000
Poetry Society of America
New York, New York

Toward support of Poetry in Motion and other activities in 2003

$10,000
University of California Santa Cruz Foundation
Santa Cruz, California

To support a two-day conference, Mark Twain at the Turn-of-the-Century (1890-1910)

$4,000
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

To support the Italian Women Writers project; specifically the digitization of early Venetian texts (jointly funded with the Research Library Program) ($20,000 total)

$5,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Toward a matching NEH grant for the Great Barrington Atlas Project

$25,000
University of Notre Dame Du Lac
Notre Dame, Indiana

Toward support of a workshop on Ancient Philosophy

$10,000
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

A two-year grant for continuing support to improve access to manuscript studies by adding to Iter’s bibliography and increasing Iter Italicum searchability

$145,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, Wisconsin

A two-year matching grant for support of Volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English

$20,000