1. | U. of Virginia | $12,449,428 | 74 | Endowment for equipment, computer-hardware, and software acquisitions; staff salaries and training; and bridge funding for the university’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (only $243,333 of the $750,000 challenge grant was eventually paid out) | Worthy N. Martin | $750,000 | 2007 |
2. | U. of California at Berkeley | $8,575,617 | 55 | Preparation for print and digital publication of two volumes of works by Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad and “San Francisco Writings”; Volume 7 of his letters; a comprehensive bibliography of Twain’s works; the digital release of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; and completion of upgrades to the search engine and image database of the Mark Twain Project Online | Robert H. Hirst | $700,000 | 2016 |
3. | Harvard U. and Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College | $7,600,969 | 44 | Production of an immersive website exploring the history, culture, and archaeology of the Giza Plateau, in Egypt | Peter Der Manuelian | $350,000 | 2018 |
4. | Indiana U. at Bloomington and its trustees | $6,726,051 | 40 | Research-and-development project to design an online ontology for the field of philosophy and to develop tools for managing metacontent in a dynamic reference work. | Colin Allen | $400,000 | 2009 |
5. | New York U. | $6,206,341 | 49 | Arrangement and description of one million items, with full cataloging of 1,200 monographs, 600 serials, and 1,100 pamphlets from a collection at NYU’s Tamiment Library on the history of labor and radicalism in the United States | Chela Scott Weber | $332,760 | 2009 |
6. | U. of Wisconsin at Madison | $6,126,222 | 34 | Completion of three volumes and work on two more volumes of documents related to the ratification of the Constitution | John P. Kaminski | $455,000 | 2011 |
7. | U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | $6,080,236 | 55 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Illinois newspapers, dating from 1860 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (only $1,223,412 of the approved $1,409,137 award was eventually paid out) | Kyle Rimkus | $1,409,137 | 2009 |
8. | George Mason U. | $5,801,343 | 37 | Endowment for partial salaries for a digital historian, a web designer, a computer programmer, and two graduate research assistants, as well as new software and equipment, at the university’s Center for History and New Media (only $503,822 of the $750,000 challenge grant was eventually paid out) | Robert I. Matz | $750,000 | 2008 |
9. | U. of California at Los Angeles | $5,726,380 | 40 | Second phase of development of the online UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, with 1,000 peer-reviewed entries on the history and culture of Egypt from 5500 B.C. to 641 A.D. | Willemina Z. Wendrich | $350,000 | 2008 |
10. | U. of Chicago | $5,722,966 | 41 | Digitization of audio recordings and edited transcriptions of course lectures given by the philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) | Nathan S. Tarcov | $350,000 | 2009 |
11. | U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | $5,407,413 | 43 | Endowment for two education positions and related humanities programs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, as well as direct funds for software development for humanities resources | Kathryn Huss | $500,000 | 2014 |
12. | U. of South Carolina at Columbia and Research Foundation | $5,111,818 | 32 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of South Carolina newspapers, dating from 1860 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Kate Foster Boyd | $975,883 | 2009 |
13. | Columbia U. | $5,034,260 | 29 | Endowment for a junior-faculty position focused on global health and for related programming at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health | Ronald Bayer | $725,000 | 2010 |
14. | U. of Texas at Austin | $4,788,377 | 42 | Graduate education of conservators and preservation administrators in the care of library and archival collections in the humanities, at the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record, then in the university’s School of Information | Mary Lynn Rice-Lively | $524,204 | 2008 |
15. | U. of Maryland at College Park | $4,740,754 | 44 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Maryland newspapers, dating from 1836 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Douglas P. McElrath and Robin Pike | $865,000 | 2012 |
16. | Pennsylvania State U. at University Park | $4,681,687 | 30 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Pennsylvania newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Lydia Suzanne Kellerman | $1,108,665 | 2008 |
17. | U. of Nebraska at Lincoln and its Board of Regents | $4,558,141 | 27 | Endowment for programs at the university’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (only $397,095 of the $500,000 challenge grant was eventually paid out) | Katherine L. Walter | $500,000 | 2011 |
18. | U. of Southern California | $4,348,457 | 35 | Production and distribution of a first-person video game based on the writings and reflections of Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) during his year at Walden Pond | Tracy J. Fullerton | $350,000 | 2016 |
19. | Yale U. | $4,264,080 | 23 | Work toward the completion of Volumes 40 through 44 of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) | Ellen R. Cohn | $450,000 | 2008 |
20. | U. of Pennsylvania and Trustees of U. of Pennsylvania | $4,179,844 | 34 | Development by the university’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of a traveling exhibition, a podcast guide, online resources, educational materials, and a publication on the ancient and modern Maya concepts of time, based on recent archaeological findings at Copán, in Honduras | Julian Siggers | $400,000 | 2011 |
21. | U. of California at Santa Barbara | $4,070,600 | 28 | Addition of 30,000 entries to the university library’s comprehensive Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (1900-50), an open-access searchable electronic database | David Seubert | $350,000 | 2009 |
22. | U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $3,835,049 | 38 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of North Carolina newspapers, dating from 1836 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | John A. Blythe | $678,192 | 2012 |
23. | Duke U. | $3,692,010 | 28 | Unified efforts to prepare doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences for non-academic careers by expanding their intellectual horizons and analytical skills, and by fostering a cultural transformation in how the university envisages the societal impacts of humanistic experience | Edward J. Balleisen | $350,000 | 2016 |
24. | U. of Delaware | $3,689,941 | 22 | Endowment for graduate-student summer research stipends, public-engagement institutes, and symposia in the study of American material culture | Debra H. Norris | $500,000 | 2008 |
25. | U. of Notre Dame | $3,638,943 | 40 | Endowment for two professorships, acquisitions, conferences, and visiting lectures in Byzantine studies | Olivia Remie Constable | $800,000 | 2007 |
26. | Michigan State U. | $3,549,006 | 24 | Preserving and providing access to the historic videotape collection and supporting production materials from the series American Black Journal produced by Detroit Public Television | Dean Rehberger | $349,980 | 2008 |
27. | Stanford U. | $3,483,742 | 23 | Preparation for publication of Volumes 8 and 9 of the papers of American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68), covering the years 1962 to 1964 | Clayborne Carson | $350,000 | 2015 |
28. | Rutgers U. at New Brunswick | $3,428,068 | 18 | Preparation for publication of Volumes 9 and 10 of the selected papers of the inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931), covering the period 1888 to 1892 | Paul B. Israel | $525,000 | 2017 |
29. | George Washington U. | $3,302,891 | 27 | Preparation for publication of Volumes 3, 4, and 5 of the planned five volumes of the papers of the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) | Christopher Brick | $350,000 | 2011 |
30. | U. of Oregon | $3,262,754 | 33 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Oregon newspapers, dating from 1860 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Karen Estlund | $925,393 | 2009 |
31. | Rochester Institute of Technology | $3,150,495 | 18 | Investigation of the impact on paper-based collections of short-term fluctuations in environmental conditions resulting from the dynamic management, through temporary setbacks and shutoffs, of climate-control systems, with publication of a guide on sustainable approaches for cultural institutions | Jean-Louis Bigourdan | $399,926 | 2010 |
32. | U. of Tennessee at Knoxville | $3,058,951 | 27 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Tennessee’s microfilmed newspapers, dating from 1836-1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Laura Kristina Bronstad | $995,165 | 2010 |
33. | U. of Arizona | $2,852,968 | 24 | Renovation of a donated property as home for La Búsqueda (The Search), a Southwest-focused humanities institute, as well as an endowment for its activities | Jennifer L. Jenkins | $500,000 | 2016 |
34. | Arizona State U. | $2,753,730 | 23 | Development of a digital archive of the archaeology of the Huhugam of Arizona, an ancient culture known for its irrigation systems and large, sustainable towns | Keith Kintigh | $295,000 | 2017 |
35. | U. of Florida and Board of Trustees and Libraries | $2,682,704 | 23 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Florida and Puerto Rico newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Patrick Reakes | $923,000 | 2013 |
36. | Emory U. | $2,604,995 | 27 | Creation of African Origins, a web-based resource on the names, cultural identification, and migration patterns of Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade between 1819 and 1845 | David Eltis | $349,641 | 2008 |
37. | Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis and its trustees | $2,524,581 | 15 | International research collaboration leading to publication of a book that will examine the political, social, and medical processes of the emergence of HIV/AIDS in Africa | William H. Schneider | $290,000 | 2013 |
38. | City U. of New York Graduate Center Research Foundation | $2,489,359 | 16 | Cooperative agreement for a faculty and curriculum-development project on Latino/a history for 36 community-college faculty members and administrators in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania | Pennee Bender | $359,659 | 2013 |
39. | U. of Kansas and Center for Research | $2,479,264 | 29 | Endowment for programs designed to advance collaborative research in the humanities at the university’s Hall Center for the Humanities and in the community | Victor Bailey | $425,000 | 2012 |
40. | Washington U. in St. Louis | $2,434,312 | 35 | Four-week institute for 25 schoolteachers to examine the jazz and Motown musical genres in the context of changing American culture during the third quarter of the 20th century | Gerald Early | $225,175 | 2010 |
41. | U. of California at Santa Cruz | $2,418,482 | 29 | Addition of thousands of records of intra-American slave trafficking and a new Final Passages web interface into Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database | Gregory O’Malley | $220,000 | 2016 |
42. | Ohio State U. and Research Foundation | $2,414,065 | 30 | Creation of the Ancient Ohio Trail website and ancillary downloadable materials interpreting the major earthworks of the Ohio River region, focusing especially on heritage driving tours | Richard Douglas Shiels | $400,000 | 2010 |
43. | U. of Massachusetts at Dartmouth | $2,241,624 | 15 | Five-week summer seminar for 16 schoolteachers comparing the development of modern economic systems in the Dutch Republic and Great Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries (only $190,093 of the approved $200,445 award was eventually paid out) | Gerard M. Koot | $200,445 | 2010 |
44. | Boston U. | $2,208,721 | 21 | Archaeological excavation and analysis of a second millennium BC site at Kaymakçi in the Marmara Lake Basin in western Turkey | Christina Luke and Christopher H. Roosevelt | $281,645 | 2013 |
45. | U. of North Texas | $2,192,181 | 17 | Endowment to extend the reach of the Portal to Texas History, which provides free public access to historical resources | Dreanna Belden | $500,000 | 2016 |
46. | Texas A&M U. at College Station and its Research Foundation | $2,086,185 | 24 | Creation of advanced reference works and user tools for the online reference resource Syriaca.org, for the study of Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic that was widely spoken throughout the Near East for more than a millennium | Daniel L. Schwartz | $300,000 | 2015 |
47. | U. of Washington | $2,079,313 | 21 | Endowment to support faculty and student fellowships, graduate courses on digital humanities, other humanities programs, and a part-time research assistant for the Digital Humanities Commons at the university’s Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities | Kathleen M. Woodward | $625,000 | 2009 |
48. | Northeastern U. | $2,056,645 | 17 | Development of a data repository for the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service, or Tapas; TEI refers to the Text Encoding Initiative | Julia Hammond Flanders | $300,000 | 2014 |
49. | U. of New Mexico | $2,037,687 | 19 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of New Mexico newspapers, dating from 1840 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Kevin J. Comerford and Michael Kelly | $880,641 | 2010 |
50. | U. of Vermont | $2,031,545 | 12 | Digitization of 90,000 pages of Vermont newspapers, dating from 1836 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | Jeffrey D. Marshall | $976,552 | 2010 |
51. | U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities | $2,026,000 | 29 | Expansion of a project that engages recent immigrant and refugee communities in creating and sharing digital video narratives about their lives and experiences, to be made publicly available through the Minnesota Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America | Erika Lee and Elizabeth Venditto | $324,121 | 2015 |
52. | SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo State College | $1,909,957 | 16 | Fellowships for graduate students training to be conservators specializing in the preservation of humanities collections, including ethnographic and archaeological materials, works on paper, books, and photographs | Patrick Ravines | $250,000 | 2011 |
53. | Amherst College | $1,897,586 | 20 | Two one-week Landmarks of American History workshops for 80 schoolteachers to study the poetry of Emily Dickinson in relation to her biography and surroundings (only $175,245 of the approved $176,677 award was eventually paid out) | Cynthia S. Dickinson | $176,677 | 2013 |
54. | Princeton U. | $1,896,996 | 24 | Analysis and translation into English of 100 to 200 medieval Jewish and Islamic legal and administrative documents from the Geniza chamber of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, in preparation for open-access digital publication; and preparation for print publication of a multi-author handbook on the documents and the institutions that created them | Marina A. Rustow | $300,000 | 2014 |
55. | San Jose State U. and Research Foundation | $1,832,394 | 12 | Endowment for the purchase of library resources and to support programs in the humanities (only $225,762 of the $375,000 challenge grant was eventually paid out) | Ruth Kifer | $375,000 | 2009 |
56. | Brown U. | $1,803,910 | 21 | Research-and-development project to produce software that would allow the searching of Sanskrit manuscripts and their integration into a digital library | Peter M. Scharf | $301,540 | 2009 |
57. | Tufts U. | $1,766,422 | 23 | Research on core functions for the automatic analysis of historical languages (Greek and Latin), with the intention of creating a dynamic lexicon for a text corpus in a digital library | Gregory R. Crane | $285,000 | 2008 |
58. | Cornell U. | $1,761,986 | 14 | Creation of a Freedom on the Move digital resource that allows access to 100,000 runaway-slave advertisements published in American newspapers through the end of the Civil War | Edward E. Baptist and William C. Block | $374,581 | 2017 |
59. | U. of Pittsburgh main campus | $1,653,205 | 17 | Creation of content, standards and digital infrastructure for a World-Historical Gazetteer: a spatially and temporally comprehensive index of significant world historical place names, and a system for collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale | Ruth Mostern | $315,000 | 2017 |
60. | U. of Illinois at Chicago | $1,637,792 | 13 | Redesign of a core exhibition at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to incorporate new scholarship about Hull-House, Jane Addams (1860-1935), and the settlement-house movement, and to create opportunities for civic reflection and dialogue | Lisa Yun Lee | $350,000 | 2009 |
61. | U. of Massachusetts at Lowell | $1,636,811 | 9 | Creation of the Southeast Asian Digital Archives by processing and digitizing eight archival collections documenting the history of Southeast Asian refugees in the greater Lowell, Mass., region in the late 20th century | Sue J. Kim | $239,000 | 2017 |
62. | Bard College | $1,605,573 | 16 | Endowment for speaker series, fellowships for junior scholars, workshops, and other programs at the college’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities | Roger S. Berkowitz | $425,000 | 2012 |
63. | Georgia State U. and its Research Foundation | $1,600,344 | 18 | Creation of a digital collection of maps, photographs, oral histories, and other materials related to the development of Atlanta during the 20th century (only $186,409 of the approved $210,000 award was eventually paid out) | Joseph A. Hurley | $210,000 | 2013 |
64. | Northwestern U. | $1,592,893 | 26 | Development of an open-source tool for characterizing and monitoring the development of metal-soap formation on Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings | Marc S. Walton | $349,988 | 2018 |
65. | Case Western Reserve U. | $1,590,227 | 15 | Endowment for seminars, courses, and other humanities programs for faculty, students, representatives of local cultural institutions, and the general public at the university’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, as well as salary support for a digital-humanities coordinator | John Orlock | $650,000 | 2009 |
66. | Delta State U. | $1,571,449 | 9 | Two one-week institutes for 72 schoolteachers on the history and culture of the Mississippi Delta, with music as a focus | Rolando Herts | $189,387 | 2017 |
67. | U. of Massachusetts at Amherst | $1,562,978 | 17 | Digitization of 169 linear feet of text and image materials on the life of the African-American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | Robert S. Cox | $314,787 | 2010 |
68. | U. of Rochester | $1,561,538 | 19 | Digitization of 10,000 to 12,000 public-domain musical scores and books selected from the collections of the Sibley Music Library and documenting musical composition, performance, and scholarship from the 19th and early 20th centuries | James Farrington | $300,000 | 2011 |
69. | Dartmouth College | $1,527,143 | 16 | Six case studies to further methods in aerial thermography, an imaging process that allows nondestructive photography and data collection for archaeological sites | Jesse J. Casana | $324,930 | 2017 |
70. | U. of California at Davis | $1,498,928 | 17 | Three-week institute for 30 schoolteachers on the historical roots of the wave of protests and rebellions known as the Arab Spring | Omnia El Shakry | $185,000 | 2012 |
71. | U. of Iowa | $1,478,262 | 22 | Conservation treatment, digitization, and preparation for crowdsourced transcription of 150 oversize scrapbooks documenting the Benjamin Keith and Edward Albee vaudeville theater circuit by the university’s Libraries | Bethany Davis | $300,000 | 2014 |
72. | U. of Missouri at Kansas City and its Libraries | $1,476,744 | 11 | Renovation of the university’s library to bring the Division of Special Collections into a single space, purchase and installation of digital technology, and an endowment to support student-research scholarships, and part of the salary of a director of special collections | Bonnie S. Postlethwaite | $500,000 | 2014 |
73. | U. of Georgia and Research Foundation | $1,468,021 | 16 | Digitization of interviews from the Linguistic Atlas Project, including 6,400 hours of audio interviews with speakers of American English from the 1960s to the 1990s | William Kretzschmar Jr. | $349,600 | 2008 |
74. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $1,368,272 | 11 | Creation of a traveling exhibition on the work of Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908), a Spanish-immigrant builder whose innovations transformed American architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | John A. Ochsendorf | $350,000 | 2011 |
75. | U. of Hawaii-Manoa | $1,345,055 | 15 | Digitization of 25,000 pages of Hawaii newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (only $841,277 of the approved $875,938 award was eventually paid out) | Martha Chantiny | $875,938 | 2008 |
76. | Carnegie Mellon U. | $1,341,757 | 9 | Implementation of three studies and creation of software tools that computationally analyze visual information about printed books, in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library and the HathiTrust Research Center | Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and David Bamman | $325,000 | 2017 |
77. | U. of Colorado at Boulder | $1,333,385 | 22 | Documentation of the Arapaho language, an endangered language of the Algonquian family that was originally spoken on the Great Plains of the United States, with production of a lexical database and a bilingual dictionary in print and electronic formats (only $169,462 of the approved $172,290 award was eventually paid out) | J. Andrew Cowell | $172,290 | 2014 |
78. | U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville | $1,311,942 | 14 | Creation of a digital archaeological atlas of selected sites from the greater Near East (North Africa to Central Asia) based on declassified Corona spy-satellite images | Jesse J. Casana | $338,045 | 2008 |
79. | Louisiana State U. at Baton Rouge | $1,295,314 | 10 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of Louisiana newspapers, dating from 1860 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (only $826,091 of the approved $846,380 award was eventually paid out) | Gina Costello | $846,380 | 2009 |
80. | California State U. at Northridge and its University Corporation | $1,286,974 | 6 | The arrangement, description, and selected digitization of a collection of 35,000 images produced by the American photojournalist Richard Cross (1950-83), documenting civil wars in Central America during the 1970s to ‘80s and daily life in Palenque de San Basilio, Colombia, which is populated by descendants of the oldest community of escaped slaves in the Americas | José Luis Benavides | $315,000 | 2018 |
81. | Wesleyan U. (Conn.) | $1,276,353 | 14 | Endowment for archivist/curator position in the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, a major repository of materials on the motion-picture arts, culture, and industry | Jeanine D. Basinger | $425,000 | 2012 |
82. | Fairfield U. | $1,223,059 | 10 | Endowment for programs in and maintenance of the university’s new art museum | Jill Johnson Deupi | $500,000 | 2009 |
83. | Fordham U. | $1,214,475 | 15 | Endowment of a faculty-in-residence research fellowship, an annual dissertation-completion fellowship, and humanities programming in Orthodox Christian studies | George Demacopoulos | $500,000 | 2013 |
84. | Oberlin College | $1,209,700 | 7 | Purchase of state-of-the-art storage furniture for more than 3,800 paintings and objects from the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s collection of world art | Stephanie Wiles | $590,900 | 2008 |
85. | San Diego State U. and Research Foundation | $1,202,967 | 11 | Six-week seminar for 16 schoolteachers on the political theory of the philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75), regarding the problem of evil, the uses of terror, and the origins of totalitarianism | Kathleen B. Jones | $150,812 | 2009 |
86. | Vanderbilt U. | $1,188,829 | 21 | Development of an online portal to reference resources on the study of Syriac, a Middle Eastern language and culture, including an encyclopedia, a prosopography tool for information related to Syriac sources, a classified bibliography, and other research tools | David A. Michelson | $249,771 | 2012 |
87. | U. of Utah and Natural History Museum of Utah | $1,181,229 | 11 | Creation of a long-term Native Voices exhibition focused on the history, geography, linguistics, and contemporary life of the indigenous people of Utah for the university’s Natural History Museum of Utah | Rebecca T. Menlove | $300,000 | 2010 |
88. | Howard U. | $1,131,295 | 11 | Endowment for salary supplements for visiting scholars, a humanities seminar, and a humanities atelier, and bridge funding for those activities (only $250,000 of the $500,000 challenge grant was eventually paid out) | Dana A. Williams | $500,000 | 2011 |
89. | Brigham Young U. | $1,125,930 | 8 | Multispectral imaging of 400 illegible, or legibly problematic, papyri from collections at Columbia University and the Universities of Michigan at Ann Arbor and California at Berkeley, to be disseminated through the Advanced Papyrological Information System (only $254,828 of the approved $349,155 award was eventually paid out) | Roger Thomas Macfarlane | $349,155 | 2009 |
90. | West Virginia U. and Research Corporation | $1,123,930 | 6 | Digitization of 100,000 pages of West Virginia newspapers, dating from 1836 to 1922, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program | John Cuthbert | $766,373 | 2011 |
91. | U. of Montana | $1,119,339 | 17 | Excavation, analysis, and interpretation of a single semi-subterranean dwelling with 13 superimposed floors occupied between 1,450 and 1,150 years ago at Bridge River in present-day British Columbia | Anna M. Prentiss | $250,000 | 2011 |
92. | North Carolina State U. | $1,117,108 | 9 | Further work on a 3D immersive model of the visual and aural environment of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Churchyard as they stood in London during the early 17th century, along with further development of open-source software for the modeling and representation of sound in historic spaces | John N. Wall and David B. Hill | $324,135 | 2015 |
93. | Johns Hopkins U. | $1,114,697 | 16 | Digitization and creation of freely-accessible e-books for 200 out-of-print classic humanities texts from Johns Hopkins University Press in the areas of American history, European history, literary criticism, and philosophy, for the Humanities Open Book Program | Gregory M. Britton | $200,000 | 2018 |
94. | U. of Kentucky and its Research Foundation | $1,109,414 | 18 | Preparation of a three-volume print edition, a selected reader, and an open-access digital edition of the works of John Dickinson (1732-1808), one of the country’s founding fathers (only $190,522 of the approved $200,000 award was eventually paid out) | Jane E. Calvert | $200,000 | 2010 |
95. | Washington State U. | $1,095,746 | 9 | Development of Mukurtu Mobile, an open-source mobile platform for collecting and exhibiting indigenous digital cultural heritage | Kimberly Christen | $319,331 | 2013 |
96. | College of William & Mary | $1,092,863 | 14 | Documentation of Creek, an endangered Muscogean language, originally spoken in the southeastern United States, and now spoken by the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations in Oklahoma, and the Seminole tribe in Florida | Jack B. Martin | $300,000 | 2015 |
97. | U. of Connecticut | $1,083,600 | 15 | Two one-week workshops for 80 schoolteachers in which they will use the arts to explore the history and cultural memory of the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who worked on islands off the shores of South Carolina and Georgia (only $189,604 of the approved $191,873 award was eventually paid out) | Robert W. Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda | $191,873 | 2012 |
98. | Tulane U. | $1,050,589 | 13 | Production of 20 hours of radio programming for American Routes on the role of music in shaping cultural memory and defining new cultural traditions | Nicholas R. Spitzer | $269,675 | 2014 |
99. | Colgate U. | $1,045,700 | 15 | Four-week institute for 25 schoolteachers on upstate New York’s national role and leadership in conducting fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad line to Canada | Graham R. Hodges | $193,100 | 2009 |
100. | St. John’s College (Md.) | $1,043,800 | 3 | Endowment for faculty study groups, preceptorials, acquisitions, lectures, and outreach programs dealing with American founding documents and topics | Pamela A. Kraus | $1,000,000 | 2008 |
101. | Loyola U. Maryland | $1,033,682 | 9 | Endowment for faculty salary and co-curricular programming for the university’s Messina first-year undergraduate seminar program | Douglas B. Harris | $500,000 | 2014 |
102. | U. of Massachusetts at Boston | $1,018,008 | 10 | Two-day public forum and related debates, with broadcast and digital-media dissemination, about the meaning of civility and its role in the functioning of American democracy | Ira A. Jackson | $400,000 | 2011 |
103. | Jackson State U. | $1,015,917 | 8 | Three-week institute for college teachers on the civil-rights movement in Mississippi and its relationship to national developments | Mario J. Azevedo | $216,585 | 2016 |
104. | U. of Oklahoma at Norman | $1,008,665 | 14 | Fieldwork on the grammar, lexicon, and storytelling traditions of the Plains Apache, speakers of an endangered Athabaskan language in Oklahoma, resulting in a database that would be used to produce a dictionary and a collection of texts (only $270,751 of the approved $348,800 award was eventually paid out) | Sean O’Neill | $348,800 | 2008 |