Humanities Program
2004 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2004

American Academy in Rome
New York, New York

A two-year grant to support the development of a feasibility study for the renovation and restoration of the Academy Library

$200,000

American Folk Art Museum
New York, New York

To support public programs in connection with the exhibit Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

$5,000

Amherst College Trustees
Amherst, Massachusetts

Toward support of a 2006 conference on the History of the Book on the Continent at the Folger Shakespeare Library (jointly funded with the Research Library Program) ($20,000 total)

$10,000

Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Toward support of an NEH matching grant for a program of internships for the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and the History of Art

$24,000

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

Toward support of the 2004 summer workshop and retreat for African American poets

$5,000

College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Toward support of a scholarly conference, Health and Medicine in the Era of Lewis & Clark

$20,000

Davidson College
Davidson, North Carolina

Toward support of a two-week residency by England's Royal Shakespeare Company

$5,000

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

A two-year grant to support the Summer Humanities Institute at Venice International University (jointly funded with the Venetian Research Program) ($100,000 total)

$50,000

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support the publication of a one-volume reference work, The Classical Tradition

$36,000

Hastings College
Hastings, Nebraska

A two-year grant to help support the Fillmore County Museum student internship program

$6,000

History of Science Society, Inc.
Silver Spring, Maryland

Toward the establishment of a position of History and Social Science Bibliographer (jointly funded with the Research Library Program) ($30,000 total)

$15,000

Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, Illinois

To support the University's preservation of Native American artifacts

$5,000

Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey

A three-year grant for the support of visiting scholars in the School of Historical Studies

$150,000

MUSE Film and Television
New York, New York

For continuing support for the production of the documentary film, Beatus of Liebana

$10,000

New York University
New York, New York

To support the Faculty Resource Network summer 2005 seminar, Global Mythologies

$15,000

The 92nd Street Young Men & Young Women’s Hebrew Association
New York, New York

To support a staged reading of The Rage of Achilles as part of the 2004 Main Reading Series Poets' Theatre

$5,000

People and Stories – Gente Y Cuentos
Trenton, New Jersey

For general operating support

$15,000

Poetry Society of America
New York, New York

Toward support of the Poetry in Motion program

$10,000

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, New York

Toward support of Corvettes to Cuisinarts: Six Decades of Diversity in Industrial Design exhibition catalogue

$4,695

The Queens Library Foundation, Inc.
Jamaica, New York

To support the conservation and exhibition of prints and paintings from the Federal WPA collection

$20,000

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

To support the production of an on-line edition of inscriptions from the Etruscan Texts Project

$10,000

University of Notre Dame Du Lac
Notre Dame, Indiana

To support the publication of essays, Academia Eolia Revisited: Breath in Renaissance Architecture, from the International Symposium

$12,000

University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Toward support of the Dictionary of Old English, a major research project of the Centre for Medieval Studies

$25,000

Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Vilnius, Lithuania

To support a curriculum of secular Jewish culture and history in Lithuania entitled From Ignorance-Towards Knowledge

$10,000

Wenatchee Valley College Foundation, Inc.
Wenatchee, Washington

To support the active study of the Latin language through the Conventiculum Rusticum seminar

$5,000

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Princeton, New Jersey

A three-year grant to support the Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowships, a flexible fellowship program for recently tenured faculty

$371,000