Humanities Program
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2006

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY

toward general operating support

$10,000

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
Chicago, IL

toward support of the Chicago Maps Festival

$10,000

Alice Lloyd College
Pippa Passes, KY

toward support of the Caney Scholars Program

$10,000

Allentown Art Museum
Allentown, PA

to support an exhibition, Knights in Shining Armor: Myth and Reality, 1450-1650 and accompanying publication

$15,000

American Friends of the Warburg Institute
New York, NY

toward support of a conference, The Renaissance and the Ottoman's World

$6,000

Burlington Magazine Foundation, Inc.
London, England
UK

to support the publication of a special issue, Art in Venice and the Veneto, November, 2006

$3,000

University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

toward support of a conference and anthology on Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations, to be held in Venice, Italy

$10,000

Catholic University of America
Washington, DC

a two-year grant to support the International School of the Ius commune in Erice, Sicily

$16,000

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL

toward support of the Classics in Context program

$5,000

Davidson College
Davidson, NC

toward support the 2007 two-week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company

$5,000

Graduate Center, CUNY
New York, NY

to support a matching NEH grant for the Database of Classical Bibliography

$15,000

Huntington Library
San Marino, CA

a two-year grant to support a graduate seminar in English Renaissance paleography

$20,000

International Center of Medieval Art
New York, NY

for publication support of a special volume of Gesta, including the papers of
participating scholars at a symposium to be held at the Metropolitan Museum in October, 2006

$15,000

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

support for the Dibner Institute's Michael of Rhodes project

$15,950

Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY

toward support of the Eighth National Black Writers Conference

$5,000

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA

toward support of the Museum's conservation and exhibition of Italian Renaissance sculpture

$10,000

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC

toward support of a brochure to accompany the exhibit, The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art

$11,500

National Humanities Center
Research Triangle Park, NC

a three-year grant, (2007-2010) for fellowship support

$300,000

New York Choral Society
New York, NY

toward performance costs for a cultural exchange program between New York City and Venice, Italy

$5,000

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY

a one-year grant to support archival work for the Lincoln Kirstein centennial tribute (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program, $75,000 total)

$25,000

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

in support of a conference, The Feminine Divine in Cross-Cultural Perspective

$5,000

Poetry Society of America, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of the Poetry in Motion project

$10,000

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA

toward support of a new archives and records management program (jointly funded with the Research Library Program, $25,000 total)

$12,500

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA

toward support of the Etruscan Texts Project, creating a new mode of research for Etruscan scholars

$10,000

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

toward support for five graduate students involved in the Distichs of Cato project

$20,000

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

toward support of a matching NEH grant for the expansion phase of The World of Dante

$10,000

University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, WI

a one-year grant to support work on Volume V of the Dictionary of American Regional English

$15,000

Works and Process, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support

$5,000

Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY

to support a historic public project exhibition of the Yaddo Archive at the New York Public Library (jointly funded with the Research Library Program, $10,000 total)

$5,000

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

toward support of the Poet's Theatre's staged reading of Euripides Orestes

$5,000