NHA Lauds Latest Round of NEH Grants
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Humanities Alliance released the following statement today from its Executive Director Stephen Kidd on the December announcement of $33 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 213 humanities projects nationwide:
“With this announcement, the National Endowment for the Humanities is funding the first round of grants made with the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, aimed at encouraging digital humanities collaboration between our two countries. Humanities Initiatives grants will support humanities work in higher education institutions throughout the U.S., including at HBCUs, TCUs, HSIs, and community colleges. And Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge grants will support large projects at institutions from Alaska to Maine.
“We are immensely proud of the NEH’s impact across the U.S. and will continue advocating for increased federal support for future grants in 2021 and beyond.”
The following grants were awarded to HSS members:
Gabrielle Hecht
Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
Stanford University
Project Title: Inside-Out Earth: Residual Governance Under Extreme Conditions
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the governance of mining waste and other residues in Africa.
Benjamin Breen
Outright: $32,500
[Awards for Faculty]
University of California, Santa Cruz Project
Title: Experimental Drugs, Cold War Science, and the Future that Never Arrived, 1945–1965
Project Description: Writing leading to a book on scientific and social scientific experimentation with mind- or body-altering drugs during the postwar era (1945–1965).
Lakshmi Krishnan
Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
Georgetown University
Project Title: The Doctor and the Detective: A Cultural History of Diagnosis
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the intersection of medical diagnoses and detective literature in England, France, and the U.S. from the nineteenth century to mid twentieth century.
Bianca Premo
Outright: $45,000
[Awards for Faculty]
Florida International University
Project Title: The Smallest Subject: History, Science and Peru’s Youngest Mother in the World
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the popular and scientific media coverage of Lina Medina, the youngest mother in the world, in mid twentiethcentury Peru.
Indiana University
Outright: $149,954
[NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship]
Project Director: William Newman; Joel Klein (co-project director); James Voelkel (coproject director)
Project Title: Digital Approaches to the Capture and Analysis of Watermarks, Using the Manuscripts of Isaac Newton as a Test Case
Project Description: A research project on identifying and analyzing watermarks in digitized collections using watermarks found in Isaac Newton’s manuscripts as a case study. The U.K. partner is the University of Cambridge.
Olivia Weisser
Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
University of Massachusetts, Boston Project
Title: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the medical and social history of venereal disease in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London.
Ann Kibbie
Outright: $40,000
[Fellowships]
Bowdoin College
Project Title: Obstetrics and the Disabled Maternal Body in Nineteenth-century Great Britain
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the medical dilemmas of treating pregnant women in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
Outright: $149,445
[Humanities Initiatives: HSIs]
Project Director: Rachel Pearson
Project Title: The HIV Storytelling Project: Narratives from South Texas
Project Description: A collaborative project to collect and archive oral histories of the HIV epidemic, bringing together medical students, faculty, and members of the San Antonio community.