The National Endowment for the Humanities has made $20 million in grant awards/offers to 197 humanities projects.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
The funding announced today will support a variety of projects in diverse fields of the humanities. Projects receiving support will, for example, provide college faculty the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in the humanities to enhance undergraduate instruction; support high-quality media projects for public audiences that explore significant ideas and events in the humanities; enable researchers to record and archive languages facing extinction; and encourage the development of innovations in the digital humanities.
This award cycle, institutions and individuals in 36 states and the District of Columbia will receive NEH support. Projects undertaken by American scholars working outside the United States are also receiving support. A complete state-by-state listing of grants and offers of matching funds is available below:
- Alabama to Maryland (11-page PDF),
- Massachusetts to New York (11-page PDF), and
- North Carolina to Wisconsin and abroad (11-page PDF).