The Latino Americans

Recipient: Bieber, Jeff (Arlington, VA 22206 USA) in affiliation with GWETA, Inc. (Washington, DC 20013 USA)

Goal: Development of two one-hour scripts for an eight-part film series to be broadcast nationally, with a companion radio series on National Public Radio and an accompanying website that would examine the history of Latino Americans through the lens of immigration.

Description: "The Latino Americans" will be an eight-hour film series, the chronicle of the arrival and lives of Latinos in the United States in the last 200 years -- a story of people, politics and culture from 1800-2008. WETA, the Washington, DC PBS station, will join forces with Latino Public Broadcasting to co-produce this project. The series will be created for national PBS broadcast, with a companion radio series on National Public Radio (NPR), and will include a major outreach and promotional campaign. All programs and outreach will also be distributed via Spanish language media (broadcast, radio and web) to connect with Latino communities nationwide.

Grant: 194693 / TD-50032-09,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: America's Media Makers Development,   Year Awarded: 2009

Juan Quezada: From Paquime to the Master Potters of Mata Ortiz

Recipient: de la Paz, Alejandra (Washington, DC 20009 USA) in affiliation with Mexican Cultural Institute

Grant: 191873 / GI-50055-08,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: America's Historical & Cultural Organizations Implementation,   Year Awarded: 2008

The Humanities in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recipient: Cruz, Barbara C (Tampa, FL 33620 USA) in affiliation with University of South Florida

Goal: A twelve-session workshop for social studies and foreign language teachers that would examine the history, literature, and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Grant: 177240 / EZ-50156-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2005

Visions of the Americas from Eugenio Maria de Hostos and Jose Marti: 19th-Century New York as a Crossroads for Freedom

Recipient: Hernandez, Orlando (Bronx, NY 10451 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hostos Community College

Goal: A four-week summer seminar for college teachers to study English and Spanish-language sources on the lives and ideas of two Caribbean reformers living and working in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century: Eugenio María de Hostos and Jose Martí.

Grant: 171920 / FS-50046-04,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2004

Mexico: Integrating History, Language and Culture

Recipient: Bastiani, Mary S (Milwaukie, OR 97222 USA) in affiliation with Oregon International Council (Salem, OR 97303 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute in Puebla, Mexico, for 30 K-8 teachers to integrate Mexican history, language, and culture into a media-based Spanish language course.

Grant: 165450 / ES-50003-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

Eugenio Maria de Hostos: Trailblazer of the Americas

Recipient: Zoe, Lucinda (Bronx, NY 10451 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, Hostos Community College

Goal: The completion of a seminal collection of works by and about Eugenio Maria de Hostos in order to advance the study of humanities through expanded curricular offerings, symposia, community lectures, and exhibitions.

Grant: 118988 / HI-21013-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2003

Latin American Humanist Enrichment at East Los Angeles College

Recipient: Vasquez, Irene (Monterey Park, CA 91754 USA) in affiliation with East Los Angeles College

Goal: A project to develop three foundation courses, one in literature, one in history, and one in art, for Latin American studies at a community college that would transfer to neighboring four-year institutions.

Grant: 118993 / HI-21018-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2003

The African Roots of Latin Music

Recipient: Hernandez, Ana Maria (Long Island City, NY 11101 USA) in affiliation with CUNY Research Foundation, LaGuardia Community College

Goal: The development of curricular modules that explore the integration of African musical traditions into Caribbean culture and their influences on American music in the twentieth century.

Grant: 165884 / ED-50241-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Magical Reality of Oaxaca

Recipient: Haas, Mari B (Santa Fe, NM 87505 USA) in affiliation with Teachers College, Columbia University (New York, NY 10027 USA)

Goal: A five-week summer institute in Oaxaca, Mexico, for 25 elementary and middle school teachers on Oaxacan cultural, literary, and artistic traditions.

Grant: 95685 / ES-23180-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

Enhancing Research on Latin American and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Studies

Recipient: Brunk, Samuel (El Paso, TX 79968-0532 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, El Paso (El Paso, TX 79968 USA)

Goal: To support the acquisition of microfilm reading equipment and bibliographic resources for courses in Latin American and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands studies.

Grant: 157740 / HI-20998-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2002

Integrating Latin American Studies Content Into Existing General Humanities Courses

Recipient: Mulholland, Kevin (Orlando, FL 32802-3028 USA) in affiliation with Valencia Community College (Orlando, FL 32802 USA)

Goal: To support the integration of Latin American humanities content into six humanities courses.

Grant: 157742 / HI-21002-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2002

Preservation Microfilming of Collections on Latin American History and Culture, Phase II

Recipient: Clark, Cynthia D (New York, NY 10018 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library

Goal: The preservation microfilming of 8,527 brittle books from the collections on the history and culture of Latin America published between 1850 and 1950.

Grant: 158165 / PA-23744-01,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2001

The Americas of Jose Marti

Recipient: Conniff, Michael (San Jose, CA 95112-0135 USA) in affiliation with University of South Florida (Tampa, FL 33620 USA)

Goal: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on the life and writings of Jose Marti (1853-1895), Cuban author and revolutionary.

Grant: 142750 / EH-22301-01,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2001

Hispanic Gendering of the Americas: Beyond Cultural and Geographical Boundaries

Recipient: Lavrin, Asuncion (Tempe, AZ 85287 USA) in affiliation with Arizona State University

Goal: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on women in 20th-century Latin America and Hispanic North America.

Grant: 142756 / EH-22310-01,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2001

The Reorientation of Latin American Studies at the Univer- sity of Utah

Recipient: Horn, Rebecca (Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0311 USA) in affiliation with University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA)

Goal: A yearlong faculty seminar to study Latin America diaspora communities and future institutional directions for Latin American studies.

Grant: 142079 / ED-22165-01,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2001

Humanities Scholar in Residence

Recipient: Brooks, Clifford (Emerson, NJ 07630 USA) in affiliation with Emerson Junior-Senior High School (Emerson, NJ 08540 USA)

Goal: An NEH/Dodge Foundation Scholar in Residence project in which a team of seven teachers would engage in a seminar with a scholar on the history, geography, literature, art, and culture of Latin America.

Grant: 143800 / EY-20011-01,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Humanities Scholar in Residence Program/Dodge Fdn. Funds,   Year Awarded: 2001

Vistas: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, 1520-1820

Recipient: Leibsohn, Dana (Northampton, MA 01063 USA) in affiliation with Smith College

Goal: The development of a CD-ROM and website to support the teaching of colonial Latin America's visual culture through the interpretation of images to be collected from various sites in the United States and Latin America.

Grant: 142004 / ED-21835-00,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2000

The Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in (Latin) American Studies

Recipient: Costigan, Lucia H (Columbus, OH 43210 USA) in affiliation with Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, OH 43212 USA)

Goal: A five-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers to examine the course of Brazil's historical development, with its distinct Portuguese heritage, as an integral part of Latin America.

Grant: 142738 / EH-22268-00,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2000

Aztec Codex Aubin Translation Project

Recipient: Hassig, Ross (Norman, OK 73019 USA) in affiliation with University of Oklahoma, Norman

Goal: To support the preparation of a critical edition and English-language translation of the Codex Aubin, a Nahuatl pictorial and textual history of the Aztecs from 1168 through 1608.

Grant: 161753 / RZ-20632-00,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 2000

Mexican Independence from Spain

Recipient: Perez, Severo (Los Angeles, CA 90012 USA) in affiliation with KOCE-TV Foundation (Huntington Beach, CA 92647 USA)

Goal: To support consultation with advising scholars to develop a two-hour documentary film exploring the conditions and events leading to Mexico's independence from Spain, 1750-1824.

Grant: 157011 / GN-25948-00,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2000