Humanities Program
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2005

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY

for renewed support for the Online Poetry Classroom project

$5,000

American Friends of the Warburg Institute
New York, NY

toward support of the 2006 conference "The Renaissance and the Ottoman World", held in London, England

$6,000

American Friends of the Warburg Institute
New York, NY

toward support of a conference in memory of Vittore Branca and a subvention, Caro Vitto: Essays in Memory of Vittore Branca

$5,000

The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Washington, DC

to support the creation and distribution of an anthology of children's poetry titled 'WORD PLAY'

$5,000

Catholic University of America
Washington, DC

toward support of the International School of the Ius Commune in Erice, Sicily

$4,000

Catholic University of America
Washington, DC

toward a matching NEH grant to support research on John Duns Scotus's Reportatio Parisiensis

$20,000

Cave Canem, Inc.
New York, NY

to help support the 2005 Summer Workshop for African American Poets

$5,000

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL

for renewed support of the 'Classics in Context' program

$5,000

Council of Independent Colleges
Washington, DC

a two year grant toward support of the 'Ancient Greece in the Modern College Classroom' project

$50,000

Frick Collection
New York, NY

toward support of the exhibition Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice

$15,000

Trustees for Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Cambridge, MA

toward support of an electronic edition of the tenth century manuscript of Homer's Iliad known as the Venetus A

$5,000

Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI

to help support the Archeological Field School at the Villa of Maxentius project in Rome, Italy

$5,000

La Casa del Libro
San Juan, Puerto Rico

toward support of an exhibition featuring Venetian books from the 15th and 16th centuries

$10,000

Mark Twain House and Museum
Hannibal, MO

to help support the museum's exhibition, Marks On Paper: Mark Twain's Personal Library

$5,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dibner Institute
Cambridge, MA

to help support the Michael of Rhodes manuscript project
$5,000

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL

toward support of two residencies on the History of the Book in early modern Italy (jointly funded with Research Libraries Program, $10,000 total)

$5,000
New York City Ballet
New York, NY

toward support of the NYC Ballet Archives (jointly funded with Research Libraries and Performing Arts Programs, $70,000 total)

$20,000

people & stories/gente y cuentos
Trenton, NJ

toward general operating support for the 2005-2006 grant cycle

$10,000

University of Maryland
College Park, MD

toward support of a conference, Attending to Early Modern Women --- and Men

$2,200

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

a seed grant to support student tuition for the Rare Book School program at the University of Virginia (jointly funded with Research Libraries, $5,000 total)

$2,500

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd St. Y
New York, NY

to support a staged reading of Robert Fagles? translation of Homer's The Odyssey

$5,000