Humanities Program
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Humanities Institutions

2007

Alice Lloyd College
Pippa Passes, KY

to support the Caney Scholars program

$10,000

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY

to support the publication of an exhibition catalogue, Steps Off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth Century Photographs of Rome and its Environs

$60,000

American Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum
New York, NY

toward support for the conservation and installation of a 16th Century Venetian lantern

$15,000

American Philological Association
Philadelphia, PA

to support a summer scholarship for minority students who are Classics majors, and toward a matching NEH grant

$40,000

American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, PA

toward general operational support of the Museum

$50,000

Catholic University of America
Washington, DC

toward research support for the first volume of Reportatio Parisiensis; the lectures of John Duns Scotus

$20,000

Century Association Archive Foundation
New York, NY

toward conservation support of Charles A. Platt's Italian Gardens of 1893-94 albumen prints

$16,000
Character Studies Production, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of a one-hour PBS special, Living and Dying in 'Our Town'

$10,000

Council of Independent Colleges
Washington, DC

a two-year grant toward support of faculty development seminars on Ancient Greece in the Modern College Classroom

$64,000

Duke University
Durham, NC

to help support a program on training and teaching graduate students in a collaborative semester-long program on site in Italy

$16,000

Frick Collection
New York, NY

to help support Masterpieces in Bronze, an exhibition dedicated to Riccio, a Renaissance bronze master

$25,000

Frick Collection
New York, NY

to help support a symposium entitled, Before Peggy Guggenheim: American Women Art Collectors, in Venice, Italy

$5,000

Harvard University (Trustees for)
Cambridge, MA

to support the electronic edition of the tenth-century manuscript of the Homeric Illiad, known as the codex Venetus A, at the Center for Hellenic Studies

$25,000

Harvard University (Trustees for)
Cambridge, MA

toward assistance with the Sassetta Project at Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy

$50,000

Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ

to support two memberships in the School of Historical Studies

$100,000

Mark Twain Home Foundation
Hannibal, MO

toward general operating support

$5,000

Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY

toward support of a 2008 National Conference, Black Writers: Reading and Writing to Transform Their Lives and the World

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

toward support of the 2007 Lincoln Kirstein Tribute (jointly funded with Performing Arts Program, $75, 000 total)

$25,000

Paul Smith's College
Paul Smiths, NY

toward support of the Joan Weill Adirondack Library

$5,000

People & Stories/gente y cuentos
Trenton, NJ

to help support the expansion of programs for economically disadvantaged youth and adults in New York City

$5,000

The Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY

to support the digitization of classical music manuscripts (jointly funded with the Research Library Program, $25,000 total)

$15,000

Red Bull Theater
New York, NY

for general operating support of the 2007 season (jointly funded with Performing Arts Program, $2,500 total)

$1,250

San Diego State University
San Diego, CA

to help support the renovation of two WPA era murals located on campus

$10,000

State University of New Jersey Rutgers, New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

toward support of a publication of proceedings of a 2006 Princeton University conference honoring Glen W. Bowersock.

$2,000

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA

to support continued development of an archives and records management program (jointly funded with the Research Library Program, $21,480 total)

$10,740

University of California at Davis (Regents of the)
Berkeley, CA

to support the translation and publication of Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Protection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art

$4,000

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

to support the publication of selected lectures from the Joseph Warren Beach Lectures in Literature program

$5,000

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

toward support of a NEH matching grant for Byzantine Studies initiatives at the Medieval Institute

$20,000

University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

toward support of the Graduate Education in Medical Humanities: Models and Methods, 20th Anniversary Conference 2008

$20,000

University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, WI

toward support of a catalogue documenting the collection of 303 European medal and plaquettes at the Chazen Museum of Art

$10,000

University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, WI

toward support of DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English

$10,000

USS Constitution Museum Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA

toward support of an exhibit, Old Ironsides, to open in 2009

$15,000

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

toward support of The Psalms: A Reading and Conversation, for the 2007-2008 Main Reading Series

$5,000