NEH grants total $17 million

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $17 million in grants and offers for 208 humanities projects.

Institutions and independent scholars in 42 states and the District of Columbia will receive NEH support. Complete state-by-state listings of grants are available here (39-page PDF).

Grants were awarded in the following categories:

America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants support projects that create new ways to excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways.
America’s Media Makers: Development Grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare programs for production.
America’s Media Makers: Production Grants support the preparation of a media program for distribution.
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants encourage innovations in the digital humanities by supporting the planning stages of projects.
Enduring Questions Grants allow faculty members to develop a new undergraduate course that grapples with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities.
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions provide scholars with research time and success to resources that might not be available at their home institutions.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grants allow institutions to preserve and provide access to collections essential to scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities.
NEH On the Road Grants help small sites defray the cost of hosting an NEH traveling exhibition.
Summer Stipends support full-time work by a scholar on a humanities project for a period of two months.