Festival of International Books and Arts 2010: Remembering the Revolution: A Study of the Impact of the Mexican Revolution

Recipient: Guerra, Dahlia Ann (Edinburg, TX 78539 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Pan American

Goal: The preparation and implementation of a week-long multidisciplinary conference on the Mexican Revolution.

Description: The Festival of International Books and Arts (FESTIBA) is an annual event which takes place during the last week of March at the University of Texas-Pan American. The theme of FESTIBA 2010 is to study the impact of the Mexican Revolution on the language, literature, culture, and role of women in South Texas. Since 2010 will be the centennial anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, this study will create a timely opportunity for faculty, students, and community members of South Texas to investigate the profound effect of this chapter of Mexican history on our region and culture. The ultimate goal of FESTIBA 2010 is to bring outstanding scholars to our university and community who will contribute their expertise, encourage intellectual inquiry and exchange, and improve our capacity to understand and thereby teach the humanities.

Grant: 196884 / AC-50068-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Humanities Initiatives for Faculty: HSIs,   Year Awarded: 2009

The Caribbean and Puerto Rico

Recipient: Gonzalez-Lamela, Juan M (San Juan, PR 00902-3920 USA) in affiliation with Fundacion Puertorriquena de las Humanidades

Goal: The development of new content and interactive features for Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia (PROE).

Description: The purpose of this project is to supplement the Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia by adding additional resources about the Caribbean, its histories, societies and cultures, and augmenting the interactive features of the encyclopedia. Also, to explore significant themes and ideas about the artistic and historic heritage displayed in the Picturing America Program reproductions in an activity yet to be determined.

Grant: 192475 / BC-50450-08,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2008

Broaden the information usefulness of the Puerto Rico On-line Encyclopedia

Recipient: Gonzalez Lamela, Juan M (San Juan, PR 00902-3920 USA) in affiliation with Fundacion Puertorriquena de las Humanidades

Goal: Continued development of the Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia.

Description: Help develop a portion of the contents of the Puerto Rico On-line Encyclopedia website, writing texts for nine subject categories, translating them into English, increasing their interactive features and developing bilingual teacher guides for four of the subject categories.

Grant: 189177 / BC-50376-07,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Grants for State Humanities Councils,   Year Awarded: 2007

EPCC Chicana/o Studies Humanities Institute

Recipient: Rodriguez, Mauricio (El Paso, TX 79998 USA) in affiliation with El Paso Community College

Goal: A series of workshops on Chicano/Mexican-American studies for faculty at El Paso Community College.

Description: EPCC will develop a Humanities Institute whose purpose will be to build a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework to guide its newly approved Chicana/o Mexican American Studies Program. This project will create an opportunity for humanities faculty members to study together while improving their capacity to teach the humanities in this newly created academic program of study. Renowned humanities scholars from Chicano/Mexican-American Studies programs throughout the U.S. with extensive expertise will lead these workshops. The topics for the lectures/forums will focus on issues directly affecting the U.S.-Mexico border and will lay the foundation for scholarly enhancement and faculty professional development necessary to formally develop a sound program in Chicana/o Studies in El Paso, Texas.

Grant: 184607 / AC-50041-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Humanities Initiatives for Faculty: HSIs,   Year Awarded: 2007

Digitizing and Cataloging the Frontera Collection of Mexican American Recordings

Recipient: Diamant, Tom (El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA) in affiliation with Arhoolie Foundation

Goal: The digitization of 10,000 45-rpm records in the Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings, the creation of images of the record labels and a finding aid, and the mounting of the audio recordings on the bilingual UCLA Digital Library Web site.

Grant: 179527 / PA-52002-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Creating a Digital Library of Materials that Document Puerto Rican History and Culture

Recipient: Perez-Puigdollers, Evangelina (San Juan, PR 00931-3302 USA) in affiliation with University of Puerto Rico, San Juan (San Juan, PR 00936 USA)

Goal: Cataloging and digitization of 9,992 documents and visual materials related to the history and culture of Puerto Rico in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections include manuscripts, photographs, maps, engravings, posters, and drawings.

Grant: 162766 / PA-50176-03,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Garifuna Project: A Vanishing Culture Speaks

Recipient: Spillman, Susan Fitch (New Orleans, LA 70125 USA) in affiliation with Xavier University of Louisiana

Goal: A project to conduct interviews with members of the Garifuna community, a Spanish-speaking Afro-Latin group concentrated in New Orleans, and to incorporate this and other related projects into the teaching of an interdisciplinary seminar for undergraduates.

Grant: 119029 / HI-21054-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2003

Strengthening the Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico Cayey: The Study of Puerto Rican Diaspora

Recipient: Noble, George (Cayey, PR 00736 USA) in affiliation with University of Puerto Rico, Cayey University College

Goal: A project to prepare faculty to teach courses in emergent literatures and the cultures of diasporic communities and to help students understand Puerto Rican cultural identity in relation to the migrations of the island's population.

Grant: 119021 / HI-21046-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Latino Cultural Thread: 500 Years of Latino Culture and Literature

Recipient: Augenbraum, Harold (New York, NY 10016 USA) in affiliation with Mercantile Library of New York (New York, NY 10017 USA)

Goal: A yearlong series of sessions on U.S. Latino literature and culture for fifteen high school humanities teachers who teach in New York City.

Grant: 165901 / ED-50252-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2003

Arranging and Describing Records on Puerto Rican Migration History

Recipient: Perez, Nelida (New York, NY 10021-0000 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College (New York, NY 10021 USA)

Goal: Processing 902 cubic feet of records documenting Puerto Rican migration to the United States that were created by agencies of the Puerto Rican government that operated in New York and other states from 1930 to 1933.

Grant: 158310 / PA-24050-02,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2002

Creating an Historical Encyclopedia of Women of Latin American Birth or Heritage in the United States

Recipient: Sanchez-Korrol, Virginia (Brooklyn, NY 11210-0000 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY 11210 USA)

Goal: The preparation of a two-volume historical encyclopedia that documents the contributions of women of Latin American birth or heritage to American economic and cultural development since the 16th century.

Grant: 158152 / PA-23681-01,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2001

Arranging and Describing Records on Puerto Rican Migration History

Recipient: Perez, Nelida (New York, NY 10021-0000 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College (New York, NY 10021 USA)

Goal: To support the arrangement, description, and cataloging of a document collection related to the migration experience of Puerto Ricans in the United States from 1930 to 1993.

Grant: 158007 / PA-23271-99,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 1999

The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle

Recipient: Tejada-Flores, Rick (Emeryville, CA 94608 USA) in affiliation with Paradigm Productions, Inc. (Berkeley, CA 94702 USA)

Goal: To support production of a 90-minute documentary film on the history of the United Farmworkers Union and its leader, Cesar Chavez.

Grant: 156873 / GN-25100-95,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1995

Upper Rio Grande Hispano Farms: A Cultural and Natural History of Land Ethics in Transition, 1850-1994

Recipient: Pena, Devon G (Colorado Springs, CO 80903-0000 USA) in affiliation with Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO 80903 USA)

Goal: To support a study of Hispanic family farms in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico from 1850 to 1994, focusing on regional cultural values and prac- tices that have survived, as well as those that have been changed or abandoned.

Grant: 160643 / RO-22707-94,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Basic Research,   Year Awarded: 1994

The Americas: Hispanic History and Culture

Recipient: Ferguson, Robert (Big Rapids, MI 49307 USA) in affiliation with Michigan Humanities Council (Lansing, MI 48912-1270 USA)

Goal: To support for Detroit-area K-12 teachers two series of six symposia each, a summer institute, a minigrant program, and a curriculum unit for statewide distribution on the theme, "The Americas: Hispanic History and Culture."

Grant: 162298 / SO-21106-91,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: State Programs (SO),   Year Awarded: 1991

Project to Provide Access to Mexican-American Archival Collections

Recipient: Billings, Harold W (Austin, TX 78713-8916 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712 USA)

Goal: To support the cataloguing of 69 Mexican-American archival collections in the university's Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection and the preparation ofa printed guide.

Grant: 159250 / RC-21810-90,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Access,   Year Awarded: 1990

Brooklyn's Hispanic Communities

Recipient: Kahn, David M (San Diego, CA 92101 USA) in affiliation with Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA)

Goal: To support planning for a temporary exhibition and related public programs about Brooklyn's Hispanic communities.

Grant: 155725 / GM-24276-90,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1990

An Exhibition and Symposium on Mexican American Fiction

Recipient: Billings, Harold W (Austin, TX 78713-8916 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712 USA)

Goal: To support planning for a public symposium and a small exhibition on the thematic, technical, and linguistic aspects of Mexican-American literature from1960 to the present.

Grant: 154894 / GL-21021-90,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1990

Nuevo Santander: The Confluence of Cultures in South Texas

Recipient: Graham, Joe S (Kingsville, TX 78363-8202 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M University at Kingsville

Goal: To support planning for a traveling exhibition, catalogue, and related educa- tional programs exploring aspects of the Hispanic presence in South Texas from 1750 to 1940.

Grant: 155544 / GM-23683-88,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1988

Puerto Ricans in New York: Voices of the Migration

Recipient: Bonilla, Frank (New York, NY 10021-0000 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hunter College (New York, NY 10021 USA)

Goal: To support development of public education programs that will illuminate the Puerto Rican migration and the formation of communities from 1898 to the present. Areas to be covered in this segment of U.S. social history include work experience, musical and oral traditions, and literature.

Grant: 135268 / GP-21087-83,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1983