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A four-week residential institute for 30 higher education faculty on José Martí (1853 - 1895) and the immigrant communities of Florida.

This 4-week Level II Institute will study the rise of the U.S. as a global hegemonic power as a consequence of its military intervention in Cuba’s War of Independence (1898) from the perspective of the Cuban émigré communities of Florida, who, from their late-19th century cigar-manufacturing enclaves in Key West, Ybor City, and West Tampa, played a critical role in the anti-colonial struggle against Spain. These communities constitute an extraordinary chrysalis in which to observe and understand the complex cultural and political evolution of the U.S. at the dawn of what is often referred to as “the American century.” The close study of this seminal period from the perspective of the working class immigrants who organized, financed, and in many cases fought and died for a patriotic ideal that they helped inspire and formulate by their example, will enrich any cross-cultural, multidisciplinary approach to the teaching of U.S. History.

A two-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. 

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center proposes a two-week, residential, Level II summer institute from July 10 to July 21, 2023 for 25 college and university teachers to study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. The institute will focus on the era’s visual media—including fine arts, ephemera, photography, cartoons, maps, and monuments—to examine how information and opinion about the war were recorded and disseminated, and ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ views on both sides of and before and after the conflict.

The team behind Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, based at Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University is applying to host a National Endowment for the Humanities Level II Institute for Higher Education Faculty on data-informed methods in slavery studies. The program, designed for fifteen participants, will run for four weeks in the summer of 2023, with two weeks on-site at Michigan State University followed by two weeks of virtual work. Year one of this two-year project (2022-2024) will focus on preparing for and hosting the institute. During the second year, the project will publish, in the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation, data articles, datasets, and supporting data documentation created by institute participants.

A two-week, residential institute for 25 higher education faculty members to engage in cross-disciplinary study of the Rust Belt region.

This summer institute for higher education faculty centers on interrogating, defining, teaching, and crafting the story of the Rust Belt region in which we live and teach from the inside out. For too long, the narrative of the Rust Belt has been one of emptiness, decay, decline, and vacancy—and often, our stories are neglected in the national sphere or controlled by cultural outsiders. This seminar would emphasize the power of regionally-based storytelling and the importance of uplifting local voices. Together, the faculty working group would think collectively about what it means to read, teach, and think from a rooted positionality. How do we leverage civically and publicly engaged humanities practices to equip our students to shape the future of the Rust Belt, identify and contribute to social solutions, and to reimagine the role of the humanities within this sphere? How do we read, interpret, and create the texts that define and map our regional experience?

A four-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty members to study the works and life of author Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964).

Twenty-five (25) participants will engage in a four-week, Level II, residential program at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Ga, from June 1 to June 29, 2023 on “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor.”

A two-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty focused on the study of ensemble-based devised theater and its impact.

Devised theatre is a highly collaborative but uniquely fragile art form that has existed for generations in communities across the United States. Despite its proliferation as a professional and educational training practice, it suffers from limited scholarship, criticism, and academic study. The Institute will address that misalignment with a deep critical examination of company-based devised theatre, past and present. This two-week, residential Institute will foster new collaborations among working artists, conservatory faculty, college and university professors of theatre and performance studies and their students, resulting in improved preservation, innovations in teaching methods, and heightened cultural awareness relating to American ensemble-based devised theatre and its impact over time.

A two-week, residential institute for 25 college and university faculty on transcendentalism and social reform.

This program will provide a two-week residential Level II Summer Institute for twenty-five college and university teachers to be held in Concord, Massachusetts from June 26 to July 9, 2022.

A two-week, residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to consider the diverse nature and experience of the Black diaspora in the United States.

Out of many, one. Charleston, South Carolina recently erected a monument to soldiers from Saint Domingue (Haiti) who traveled to the area in 1799 to make common cause with the American Revolutionary War. Jamaican immigrants contributed to the Harlem Renaissance, the cultural movement that cross-pollinated ideas of African Americans and Afro-Caribbean creatives into a uniquely American flowering. A cause célèbre of Harlem Renaissance was support for Ethiopian resistance to Italian incursions. Decades later, with the end of quotas in 1965, Ethiopians and Nigerians would make up the largest groups of African immigrants. Tapping into Montgomery College, Howard University, and Washington, DC’s wealth of resources, and interrogating the terms “African American,” and “Diaspora,” this institute will feature scholars from a range of disciplines sharing their research with participants who will acquire insights and resource resources to support publication or diversification of their curricula.

A two-week, residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to learn about Hindu and Buddhist ritual practices.

The College of the Holy Cross requests $142,995 from the NEH Institutes for Higher Education Faculty grant program to support a two-week summer institute that will provide an overview of the distinctive rituals and the associated ritual arts of the great world religions found across South and Southeast Asia. To balance the usual college course emphasis on doctrine defining religious traditions, this institute will focus on the distinctive forms of praxis that express and act upon each faith’s central beliefs. Understanding both doctrines and practices is essential in the study of Hinduism and Buddhism and expands traditional pedagogy beyond philosophy or the confines of learning to what the small literate elite did or thought. By highlighting and observing these practices, the institute will provide avenues for participants to convey the full importance of these religions in communities, seeing how Hindu and Buddhist traditions sustain both transcendental and pragmatic human needs.

A three-week, hybrid institute for 25 higher education faculty to study modern Brazil.

This Institute will introduce scholars to the social, racial and cultural diversity of Brazil. We will discuss the aftermath of colonization and slavery in the Americas, the emergence of racial ideologies and contrasting images of urban and rural spaces. Through an exploration of scholarly sources like films, music, ethnographic texts, fiction and historical images and documents, we will examine topics such as modernity, racial politics, and urban spaces, along with social and cultural marginality, gender, class, and ethnicity. Participants will learn to include Brazil in their own courses and research by producing a module/syllabus or draft research project reflecting the themes and issues discussed. Beyond expanding and deepening the scholars' knowledge and understanding of Brazil, the Institute will enable colleagues to develop new insights for interdisciplinary teaching extending beyond Latin America, as many themes are applicable to developing areas of the world and the U.S.

A three-week, residential institute for 25 college and university faculty on social and landscape history in Washington, DC, focusing on African American and Indigenous contributions.

An NEH Summer Institute for twenty-five higher education faculty to convene at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC from June 12 to July 1, 2022, led by Dr. Roberts (Texas A&M) and Dr. Way (Harvard). The Institute brings together humanist scholars to explore new approaches to the scholarship and teaching of landscape histories, centering Black and Indigenous historical narratives in the founding of the United States and the District of Columbia. Participants will develop a web-based repository of teaching modules focused on Washington DC and eight selected sites across the nation. While seminars organize the program, field trips contribute to stewarding a landscape scholarship of integration for educators and researchers. Participants will detect new ways and disciplinary frames for understanding and teaching place meaning, experience and significance as they collectively create a model for a peoples history of landscapes of the United States.

A two-week, hybrid institute for 36 higher education faculty to study varying perspectives on the Vietnam War.

Coastline College's project will enhance undergraduate teaching and learning about the intricacies and complexities of the Vietnam War. The Institute program is designed to meet educator needs in community colleges and universities who are introducing students to culturally relevant curriculum and providing veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content. The program will focus on sources from experienced writers, veterans, researchers, historians, and artists on new and multifaceted perspectives on the Vietnam War, including deep and context-rich engagement with key themes, research, reflection, and primary texts. It will engage such themes as war, diaspora, narrative and narratology, cultural pluralism, and international relations. This program will build connections with higher education professionals locally, nationally, and internationally. This project supports the NEH “Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War” area of interest.

A four-week institute for 25 higher education faculty to study early modern cartography. 

The Newberry Library requests $218,363.49 to support a Level I summer institute for higher education faculty titled “Mapping the Early Modern World.” The four-week institute will be co-organized by James Akerman, Director of the Newberry’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, and Lia Markey, director of the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies. The institute’s 25 participants will pursue a program of seminars and workshops, discussion, and research exploring interdisciplinary approaches to the study of maps in connection with the global intellectual, cultural, and geographical transformations of the world between 1400 and 1700. The course of reading and discussion will consider five major “theaters” in which the production, use, and interpretation of maps operated: the world, the city, the land, the sea, and the skies.

A four-week institute for 25 college and university faculty to study the history, accomplishments, and cultural legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project.

LIU-Brooklyn proposes a 4-week summer institute for 25 college and university faculty to study the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), part of the federally funded unemployment relief agency known as the Works Projects Administration under FDR during the Great Depression. The institute will focus on the FWP’s history, accomplishments, and literary legacy as our country’s first government-sponsored public history project, particularly with respect to its mission to document underrepresented stories about everyday American life and its impact on American literature. Given the extraordinary impact former FWP writers had on American literature, participants will also study creative works by former FWP writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, Richard Wright, and Meridel Le Seuer, alongside archival materials these same writers generated for the FWP. We invite applicants from diverse backgrounds and will reserve space for at least five non-tenure track or adjunct faculty.

A three-week institute for 22 college and university faculty and three advanced graduate students, on giving and receiving care, and their philosophical implications.

The Summer Institute will introduce recent work on care and caregiving in Anglophone moral and political philosophy and foster development of related pedagogical and research projects. Our investigation will be guided by three goals. The first is to explore the distinct questions which arise when caregiving is taken as central in moral and political philosophy. The second is to build on existing research to address new questions posed by recent economic and technological changes. The third is to nurture teaching and research attentive to different perspectives on care - those of caregivers and care recipients - and sensitive to the complexities of age, disability, race, class, and gender.

A summer institute for college faculty on the history and culture of Middle Eastern Christians in the Middle East and American society.

*Middle Eastern Christianity: A Historic and Living Tradition* prepares educators to integrate the topic of Middle Eastern Christianity into various courses relevant to Middle Eastern Christians, both in the Middle East, and in their immigrant roles in American society.

A two-week summer institute for 25 higher education faculty on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath.

This two-week institute in July 2020 will study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. The institute will focus on the era’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, photography, cartoons, maps, and monuments— to examine how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ views on both sides of and before and after the conflict. Participants will hear lectures by noted historians, art historians, and archivists and attend hands-on sessions in major museums and archives. A team of three institute faculty that represents the range of work in the field will introduce participants to the rich body of new scholarship that addresses or incorporates Civil War and postwar visual culture, prompt them to do further research, and help them to use visual evidence to enhance their scholarship and teaching about the war and its short- and long-term effects.

A three-week institute for 25 college and university faculty on geography and the humanities.

The Humanities Center at Northeastern University in Boston requests funds to host a three-week Summer Institute on the theme “Engaging Geography in the Humanities” in the summer of 2020. The three-week summer institute, to be held from July 6 through July 24, 2020, will explore the possibilities and productive tensions at the intersection of geography and the humanities. Through engagement with readings, lectures, discussions, workshops, and field visits, the Institute will introduce university and college faculty from the humanities and related disciplines to concepts and methods from geography, as participants and faculty collectively think through how these approaches can enhance their own research and teaching.

A four-week institute for 30 college and university faculty on the Scottish thinker David Hume.

Hume in the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment This Institute is designed to pursue intensive study of multidisciplinary perspectives on the work of eighteenth-century Enlightenment giant David Hume. In his time, Hume was an innovator in his application of the experimental method to many disciplines. This Institute will feature a rotating faculty of eminent scholars. While they will explore Hume’s impact in epistemology, ethics, history, and economics, a notable feature of this Institute is a treatment of the implication of Hume’s thought in non-traditional areas. Faculty will address Hume’s approach in relation to Eastern thought, the status of women (including early modern woman philosophers' responses to Hume), race, the status of animals, and the environment. Participants will come away with an expansive context and diverse resources to facilitate their own teaching and research projects on these themes. The Institute will also offer them a sample of the engagement of a