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Indiana Organizations Get $1.4 Million In Humanities Grants

WFIU | By Alexander McCall
Published June 30, 2020 at 4:32 PM EDT

The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving Indiana nearly $1.5 million in grants to fund seven different humanities-related projects across the state.

Those projects receiving funding include state library efforts to digitize U.S. newspaper archives and university workshops and institutes.

The NEH announced those grants, totaling $1,405,731, on Tuesday. The Hoosier State received only a fraction of the total amount. The endowment gave $36.6 million to 212 projects across the country.

Here's a breakdown of the different Indiana projects being funded:

Bloomington

  • Project: "Arts of Survival: Recasting Urban Lives in Africa and the African Diaspora."

    • Organization: Trustees of Indiana University – Institutes for College and University Teachers

    • Funding: $191,592

      • Fort Wayne

      • Project: "From Plessy to Brown: The African-American Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century."

        • Organization: Indiana University, Purdue University at Fort Wayne – Institutes for School Teachers

        • Funding: $200,000

          • Indianapolis

          • Project: "Indiana Digital Newspaper Project, Phase Three."

            • Organization: Indiana State Library

            • Funding: $220,000

            • Project: "The Works of George Santayana."

              • Organization: Indiana University, Indianapolis – Scholarly Editions and Translations

              • Funding: $225,000, plus a $23,623 match

              • Project: "The Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies Project."

                • Organization: Indiana/Purdue University, Indianapolis – Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

                • Funding: $249,817

                  • Notre Dame

                  • Project: "The Unexpected Origins of Modern Religious Liberty."

                    • Organization: University of Notre Dame – Public Scholar Program

                    • Funding: $50,400

                      • West Lafayette

                      • Project: "Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities, Theories, Methods and Practice."

                        • Organization: Purdue University – Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

                        • Funding: $245,299

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