Jan 5, 2006
NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE (Vol. 12, #1; 4 JANUARY 2006)
by Bruce Craig (editor) NATIONAL COALITION FOR HISTORY (NCH) Website at http://www.h_net.org/~nch/
1. SENATE CONFIRMS BRUCE COLE FOR SECOND TERM AS NEH CHAIR
2. NEH ANNOUNCES $12 MILLION IN AWARDS AND GRANTS
3. BITS AND BYTES: Preserve America Grants; SAA Call for Awards Nominations
4. ARTICLES OF INTEREST: No posting this week
1. SENATE CONFIRMS BRUCE COLE FOR SECOND TERM AS NEH CHAIR On 21 December 2005, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Bruce Cole was unanimously confirmed for a second four-year term as head of the NEH by the U.S. Senate. Cole is only the second individual to be nominated and confirmed to a second term as Chair of the NEH.
After his confirmation Cole issued the following statement: "I am grateful to President Bush and the United States Senate as I begin a second-term as Chairman of the NEH. It is a great honor to serve the American people for another term. Over the past four years, we've seen a number of successes at the NEH, including the 'We the People' initiative and major budget increases that enabled new humanities programming. I am confident that over the next four years the endowment will build upon these accomplishments and continue to provide the wisdom and vision needed to sustain our vibrant democracy...I am honored to serve at its helm."
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the NEH supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom learning, create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs in libraries and other community places. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities, its grant programs, and the 'We the People' initiative is available on the Internet at: http://www.humanities.gov .
2. NEH ANNOUNCES $12 MILLION IN AWARDS AND GRANTS On 21 December 2005, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that 346 successful applicants are to receive a total of $12 million in grants or offers of matching funds for projects in the following programs: NEH's special initiative, 'Recovering Iraq's Past'; the U.S.
Newspaper program; fellowships and faculty research awards; and preservation and access grants to help cultural institutions protect and preserve their collections.
Fifty of the successful grants announced were designated as 'We the People'
projects, a special
recognition by the NEH for model projects that advance the study, teaching, and understanding of American history and culture. According to NEH Chairman Bruce Cole, "The humanities convey the story of civilization, and today's NEH grant recipients are deeply engaged in advancing that story through new scholarly research and taking important strides to preserve the material record of our history and culture. The NEH supports projects that are rigorous, wide-ranging, and substantial in their examination and illumination of the great events and great ideas of the past in our own nation and throughout the world."
In this award cycle, institutions in 42 states and the District of Columbia received support from the NEH; three U.S. scholars working in other nations also received awards. A complete state-by-state listing of grants is available in four Adobe PDF files: Arizona to Indiana (12-page PDF), Iowa to Montana (13-page PDF), New Hampshire to Oregon (12-page PDF), and Pennsylvania to Wyoming (13-page PDF). The 346 new NEH grants and matching offers come from the agency's special initiative, 'Recovering Iraq's Past,' and two of the Endowment's major program areas -- research programs and preservation and access programs.
'Recovering Iraq's Past' is a special initiative that supports projects to preserve and document cultural resources in Iraq's archives, libraries, and museums; new grant awards were made to the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (Chicago, Ill.); Simmons College (Boston, Mass.); the University of Chicago; and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
The U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP) is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government (NEH and the Library of Congress) to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. With new USNP awards, both designated as 'We the People' projects, the Chicago Historical Society will microfilm Illinois newspapers, and the Pennsylvania State University will microfilm that state's historically significant newspapers.
The Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Among the recipients of 2006 NEH Fellowships are Lynn Jacobs (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Ellen Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge), Todd Hickey (University of California, Berkeley), Suzanne Smith (George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.), and James Stokes (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point). Faculty Research Awards support research in the humanities by faculty members at Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. Awards for
2006 include ones to Ben Olguin (University of Texas, San Antonio), Ping Yao (California State University, Los Angeles), and Elizabeth Horodowich (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces).
Fellowships and Faculty Research awards support the equivalent of six to twelve months of full-time work. Though the NEH does not advertise it, individuals and institutions that failed to secure grants should contact the NEH and request copies of the committee evaluator comments; these are particularly helpful should an applicant opt to reapply for an NEH grant at a future date.
Preservation and Access education and training grants support national or regional (multi-state) education and training programs on the care and management of, and the creation of intellectual access to, library, archival, and material culture collections. New education and training grants include ones made to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (Andover, Mass.), the University of Delaware (Newark), the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (Washington, D.C.), and the University of Texas, Austin. Research and development grants support projects that advance the nation's capacity to preserve and provide access to humanities resources, with one award made to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-size institutions, such as libraries, museums, and historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. Awards made include ones to the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center (Clarksville, Tenn.), Iowa's Des Moines Art Center, Michigan's Detroit Historical Museum, Louisiana's East Baton Rouge Parish Library, and the Homesteader Museum (Powell, Wyo.).
Programs, total number of projects, and total dollar amounts for grants and matching funds are as
follows: 'Recovering Iraq's Past' (special initiative) (4) $385,060; Research Programs (166) $6,368,000 of which Fellowships for University Teachers are (76) $2,928,000; Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (79) $3,032,000; Faculty Research Awards (9) $328,000; Fellowships for Advanced Research on Japan (2) $80,000.
The 176 Preservation and Access grants totals $5,237,209 and include: the U.S. Newspaper Program
(2) $992,559; Education and training projects (8) $2,927,067 outright; $167,000 matching funds; Research and development projects (1) $389,883; Preservation Assistance Grants (165) $760,700.
NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Throughout the year, humanities experts outside of the Endowment and members of the National Council on the Humanities consider all applications and advise NEH on the quality and significance of each proposed project. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available on the Internet at http://www.humanities.gov .
3. BITS AND BYTES
Item #1 -- Preserve America Grants: Preserve America grants offer funding from the Federal Government to support communities that have demonstrated a commitment to recognizing, designating, and protecting local cultural resources. For additional information, tap into:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hpg/PreserveAmerica/index.htm
Item #2 -- SAA Call for Award Nominations: The Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks nominations for the 2006 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award. The award, given annually by SAA, recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for education, instructional, or other public purpose. Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, and organizations are all eligible for the award.
Nominations should be submitted to the SAA Awards Committee by 28 February 2006. They will be considered only if all materials, including books and other supporting documentation, are postmarked by the deadline. For more information and to submit a nomination, download a nomination form using the link tap into the following Award website:
http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12_hamer.asp
4. ARTICLES OF INTEREST
No posting this week.
1. SENATE CONFIRMS BRUCE COLE FOR SECOND TERM AS NEH CHAIR
2. NEH ANNOUNCES $12 MILLION IN AWARDS AND GRANTS
3. BITS AND BYTES: Preserve America Grants; SAA Call for Awards Nominations
4. ARTICLES OF INTEREST: No posting this week
1. SENATE CONFIRMS BRUCE COLE FOR SECOND TERM AS NEH CHAIR On 21 December 2005, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Bruce Cole was unanimously confirmed for a second four-year term as head of the NEH by the U.S. Senate. Cole is only the second individual to be nominated and confirmed to a second term as Chair of the NEH.
After his confirmation Cole issued the following statement: "I am grateful to President Bush and the United States Senate as I begin a second-term as Chairman of the NEH. It is a great honor to serve the American people for another term. Over the past four years, we've seen a number of successes at the NEH, including the 'We the People' initiative and major budget increases that enabled new humanities programming. I am confident that over the next four years the endowment will build upon these accomplishments and continue to provide the wisdom and vision needed to sustain our vibrant democracy...I am honored to serve at its helm."
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the NEH supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom learning, create and preserve knowledge, and bring ideas to life through public television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions, and programs in libraries and other community places. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities, its grant programs, and the 'We the People' initiative is available on the Internet at: http://www.humanities.gov .
2. NEH ANNOUNCES $12 MILLION IN AWARDS AND GRANTS On 21 December 2005, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that 346 successful applicants are to receive a total of $12 million in grants or offers of matching funds for projects in the following programs: NEH's special initiative, 'Recovering Iraq's Past'; the U.S.
Newspaper program; fellowships and faculty research awards; and preservation and access grants to help cultural institutions protect and preserve their collections.
Fifty of the successful grants announced were designated as 'We the People'
projects, a special
recognition by the NEH for model projects that advance the study, teaching, and understanding of American history and culture. According to NEH Chairman Bruce Cole, "The humanities convey the story of civilization, and today's NEH grant recipients are deeply engaged in advancing that story through new scholarly research and taking important strides to preserve the material record of our history and culture. The NEH supports projects that are rigorous, wide-ranging, and substantial in their examination and illumination of the great events and great ideas of the past in our own nation and throughout the world."
In this award cycle, institutions in 42 states and the District of Columbia received support from the NEH; three U.S. scholars working in other nations also received awards. A complete state-by-state listing of grants is available in four Adobe PDF files: Arizona to Indiana (12-page PDF), Iowa to Montana (13-page PDF), New Hampshire to Oregon (12-page PDF), and Pennsylvania to Wyoming (13-page PDF). The 346 new NEH grants and matching offers come from the agency's special initiative, 'Recovering Iraq's Past,' and two of the Endowment's major program areas -- research programs and preservation and access programs.
'Recovering Iraq's Past' is a special initiative that supports projects to preserve and document cultural resources in Iraq's archives, libraries, and museums; new grant awards were made to the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (Chicago, Ill.); Simmons College (Boston, Mass.); the University of Chicago; and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
The U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP) is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government (NEH and the Library of Congress) to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. With new USNP awards, both designated as 'We the People' projects, the Chicago Historical Society will microfilm Illinois newspapers, and the Pennsylvania State University will microfilm that state's historically significant newspapers.
The Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Among the recipients of 2006 NEH Fellowships are Lynn Jacobs (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Ellen Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge), Todd Hickey (University of California, Berkeley), Suzanne Smith (George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.), and James Stokes (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point). Faculty Research Awards support research in the humanities by faculty members at Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. Awards for
2006 include ones to Ben Olguin (University of Texas, San Antonio), Ping Yao (California State University, Los Angeles), and Elizabeth Horodowich (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces).
Fellowships and Faculty Research awards support the equivalent of six to twelve months of full-time work. Though the NEH does not advertise it, individuals and institutions that failed to secure grants should contact the NEH and request copies of the committee evaluator comments; these are particularly helpful should an applicant opt to reapply for an NEH grant at a future date.
Preservation and Access education and training grants support national or regional (multi-state) education and training programs on the care and management of, and the creation of intellectual access to, library, archival, and material culture collections. New education and training grants include ones made to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (Andover, Mass.), the University of Delaware (Newark), the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (Washington, D.C.), and the University of Texas, Austin. Research and development grants support projects that advance the nation's capacity to preserve and provide access to humanities resources, with one award made to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-size institutions, such as libraries, museums, and historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. Awards made include ones to the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center (Clarksville, Tenn.), Iowa's Des Moines Art Center, Michigan's Detroit Historical Museum, Louisiana's East Baton Rouge Parish Library, and the Homesteader Museum (Powell, Wyo.).
Programs, total number of projects, and total dollar amounts for grants and matching funds are as
follows: 'Recovering Iraq's Past' (special initiative) (4) $385,060; Research Programs (166) $6,368,000 of which Fellowships for University Teachers are (76) $2,928,000; Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (79) $3,032,000; Faculty Research Awards (9) $328,000; Fellowships for Advanced Research on Japan (2) $80,000.
The 176 Preservation and Access grants totals $5,237,209 and include: the U.S. Newspaper Program
(2) $992,559; Education and training projects (8) $2,927,067 outright; $167,000 matching funds; Research and development projects (1) $389,883; Preservation Assistance Grants (165) $760,700.
NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Throughout the year, humanities experts outside of the Endowment and members of the National Council on the Humanities consider all applications and advise NEH on the quality and significance of each proposed project. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available on the Internet at http://www.humanities.gov .
3. BITS AND BYTES
Item #1 -- Preserve America Grants: Preserve America grants offer funding from the Federal Government to support communities that have demonstrated a commitment to recognizing, designating, and protecting local cultural resources. For additional information, tap into:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hpg/PreserveAmerica/index.htm
Item #2 -- SAA Call for Award Nominations: The Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks nominations for the 2006 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award. The award, given annually by SAA, recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for education, instructional, or other public purpose. Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, and organizations are all eligible for the award.
Nominations should be submitted to the SAA Awards Committee by 28 February 2006. They will be considered only if all materials, including books and other supporting documentation, are postmarked by the deadline. For more information and to submit a nomination, download a nomination form using the link tap into the following Award website:
http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12_hamer.asp
4. ARTICLES OF INTEREST
No posting this week.