Native Cultures of Western Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Coast

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A four-week college and university teacher institute for twenty-four participants on the native cultures of the Pacific Northwest, to be held in Alaska and British Columbia.

Description: CCHA requests funding for a NEH Summer Institute for 24 faculty from community and four-year colleges and universities on the topic, "Native Cultures of Western Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Coast," on-site in Alaska and British Columbia June 13- July 12, 2010. The indigenous peoples of this region developed complex societies with rich histories that were recorded in oral traditions, and they are noted for producing a great world artistic tradition. These cultures were intensively studied in the 19th and 20th centuries, yet in many ways only now are beginning to be understood. Our Institute will present the latest perspectives on the most recent scholarship on Northwest Coast history and culture, as presented by eleven visiting scholars and local artists. Northwest Coast peoples have been in the vanguard of a cultural renaissance. The study of the Northwest Coast cultures, from prehistoric to contemporary times, is an opportunity to expand the reach of America Studies.

Grant: 197411 / EH-50189-09,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Plymouth, Massachusetts: Landmark of Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians

Recipient: Paquette, William Arthur (Gainesville, VA 20155 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on landmarks in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Description: CCHA requests funding for NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops on the topic, "Plymouth, Massachusetts: Landmark of Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians," on site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, July 11-17 and July 18-24, 2010. Plymouth is the landmark site for the Pilgrim settlement, the interaction with the Wampanoag Indians, and the enduring political, religious, literary and arts traditions of early American and colonial history. Recent scholarship that emphasizes careful historical interpretation will be emphasized by four major scholars, Dr. Peter J. Gomes, Dr. Kathleen Bragdon, Dr. James Weiss, and Jonathan Leo Fairbanks. The project has the support of three Plymouth, Massachusetts institutions: Plimoth Plantation, Pilgrim Hall Museum, and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Participants will return to their campuses with new curriculum units of study and research projects for future scholarship.

Grant: 197549 / BI-50102-09,   Category: American History,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2009

Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the Nineteenth Century

Recipient: Delano, Sterling (Blue Bell, PA 19422 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on the Transcendentalists and nineteenth-century reform movements in Concord and its vicinity.

Description: CCHA requests funds to sponsor two Workshops, July 11-17 and July 18-24, 2010, for 50 community college faculty on "Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century." Two one-week workshops (25 teachers/week) will examine how Concord served as a center for antebellum social reform activities, with emphasis on the antislavery movement, the women's movement, and the utopian movement. Five prominent visiting scholars will conduct seminars each week. Guided visits to major historic and literary sites will supplement the seminars. Participants will depart Concord with a wealth of ideas and materials that can be used to reinvigorate their classrooms.

Grant: 197541 / BI-50094-09,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2009

Remembering the Alamo: Landmarks of American History and Culture

Recipient: Lester, Carole N (Dallas, TX 75243-2199 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Description: The Community College Humanities Association will sponsor two one-week workshops for 50 K-12 school teachers at The Alamo, a site, symbolic of personal and political independence and a monument to American individualism. Each six-day workshop (June 21- June 26 and June 28 - July 3, 2009), will be devoted to new scholarship related to the Alamo, the history, culture, literature and the symbolic importance of the struggle for personal and political freedom. The workshops will feature prominent scholars who will address Spanish colonial expansionism, Mexican settlement; and other historic issues including the role of women and slavery. K-12 teachers, selected from a national competition will have the opportunity to conduct guided research using resources housed at the Daughters of the Republic of Texas collection, the Institute of Texan Cultures, the LBJ Presidential Library and other institutions to develop curriculum and teaching materials for infusion into classroom exercises.

Grant: 192071 / BH-50260-08,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History,   Year Awarded: 2008

Landmarks in American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Faculty Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Trans

Recipient: Delano, Sterling (Blue Bell, PA 19422 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Description: CCHA requests funds to sponsor two Workshops, July 12-18 and July 19-25, 2009 for 50 community college faculty on "Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century." Two one-week workshops (25 teachers/week) will examine how Concord served as a center for antebellum social reform activities, with emphasis on the antislavery movement, the women's movement, and the utopian movement. Four prominent visiting scholars will conduct seminars each week. Guided visits to major historic and literary sites will supplement the seminars. Participants will depart Concord with a wealth of ideas and materials that can be used to reinvigorate their classrooms.

Grant: 192054 / BI-50080-08,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2008

Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching

Recipient: Fletcher, Laraine Anne (Garden City, NJ 11530-4299 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute in Peru for twenty-four college and university teachers to engage in on-site, interdisciplinary study of Andean cultures in the pre-Inkan, Inkan, colonial, and modern periods.

Description: The Community College Humanities Association will sponsor a four-week Summer Institute for twenty-four faculty participants from community and four-year colleges, to be held on-site in Peru from June 29-July 29, 2008, on the topic, "Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching." The Institute is an in-depth survey of Andean cultural history with emphasis divided between pre-Inkan, Inkan, colonial and contemporary manifestations of Andean culture. Study will encompass materials from the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, and literary history and criticism. Based in Lima, Chiclayo, Huanchaco, Pisac, and Cusco in Peru, and with fields trips to archaeological and cultural sites in the countryside, the Institute will feature seven U.S. scholars from a variety of discipliens who will offer seminars and conduct archeological and ethnographic field studies, in conjunction with local guides, docents and archaeologists.

Grant: 187125 / EH-50122-07,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Past and Present in the Study of India's History and Culture

Recipient: Blois, Beverly (Sterling, VA 20164 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute in India for twenty-four college and university teachers to engage in on-site, interdisciplinary study of India's history and culture.

Description: The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) proposes a four-week, summer institute to be held in Shimla and New Delhi, India, 7 July-1 August 2008. Beverly Blois (Northern Virginia Community College) and Daniel Ehnbom (University of Virginia) will serve as project co-directors, and David A. Berry, executive director of CCHA, will serve as project manager. This project will allow twenty-four humanities faculty from two- and four-year colleges and universities to study current scholarship of India's cultural and historical development with some of the foremost Indian and American scholars in humanities fields such as history, art history, literature, religion and philosophy. The institute locations, at the Shimla conference facility in Northern India and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, will facilitate first-hand study of the cultural and historical monuments of India.

Grant: 187133 / EH-50130-07,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Concord Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Reform in the 19th Century

Recipient: Benson, Paul Francis (Dallas, TX 75211 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty on the Transcendentalists and 19th-century reform movements in Concord and its vicinity.

Description: CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS:A CENTER OF TRANSCENDENTALISM AND SOCIAL REFORM IN THE 19TH CENTURY is the title of a pair of workshops to be held in the historically significant Concord, Massachusetts. These workshops are built entirely around the concept that Concord, Massachusetts holds a special place in American culture. The Transcendentalist writers, philosophers, and lecturers who lived, wrote, and lectured in Concord during the 19th Century are among America?s most important creative minds. Another important reason to hold the workshops in this unique setting is in the richness of historic sites and archives within a few miles of the workshops? main meeting sites. Also, the surrounding area, particularly Boston, has many significant opportunities for site visits. And so to more deeply study this very historic locale and appreciate the seminal individuals in American thought who where once there, these workshops are being proposed.

Grant: 187217 / BI-50060-07,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2007

American Cities and Public Spaces

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A residential program at the Library of Congress for ten community college humanities faculty members, during which the latter would undertake guided research and participate in lecture/discussion sessions around the topic of American cities and public spaces.

Description: The Community College Humanities Association, in colloboration with the Office of Scholarly Programs at the Library of Congress, will offer to ten competitively selected community college humanities faculty from across the United States the opportunity to conduct systematic, guided research at the Library of Congress on individual projects within the general topic of "American Cities and Public Spaces." The project will consist of three periods of residence in Washington, D.C.: from June 3 through June 16, 2007; from January 13 rhrough January 19, 2008: and from June 1 through June 6, 2008. Participants will have support for a total of twenty-three research days the Library of Congress over a 13-month period. Three distinguished scholars in the fields of urban history and cultural studes serve as Institute faculty: Thomas Bender (NYU), Clement Price (Rutgers), and Mary Ryan (Johns Hopkins). LOC professional staff will serve as on-site research consultants.

Grant: 185031 / EZ-50196-07,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2007

Oaxaca: Crossroads of a Continent

Recipient: Fletcher, Laraine Anne (Garden City, NJ 11530-4299 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer institute, in Oaxaca, Mexico, for twenty-four college and university teachers to engage in on-site, interdisciplinary study of Zapotec and Mixtec indigenous cultures.

Description: The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) requests funding for a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for twenty-four faculty from community colleges and four-year colleges and universities on the topic of "Oaxaca: Crossroads of a Continent," based on-site in Oaxaca, Mexico, a region of the Americas where some of the most important cultural developments in human history have taken place, such as early agriculture, writing and monumental architecture. Building on our previous successful NEH institutes on the topics of Andean, Maya, Aztec and Puebloan cultures, this project is designed as part of an on-going effort to ehance current knowledge and teaching about the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The project aims at highlighting the history and culture of the Zapotec and Mixtec indigenous peoples from prehispanic through colonial to contemporary times.

Grant: 182097 / EH-50071-06,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2006

Concord, Massachusetts, and American Utopian Thought in the Early 19th Century

Recipient: Benson, Paul F (Dallas, TX 75211 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty to study the Transcendentalists and other utopian movements and communities in the early 19th century in Concord and surrounding sites.

Grant: 179737 / BI-50029-06,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2006

Remembering the Alamo

Recipient: Lester, Carole N (Dallas, TX 75243-2199 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for fifty community college teachers on the history and significance of the Alamo.

Description: The Community College Humanities Association will sponsor two one-week workshops for 50 community college faculty at the Alamo, a historic site, symbolic of personal and political independence, courage, self-sacrifice, and a monument to both the Texas Revolution and American individualism of the mid-nineteeth century. Each seven-day workshop (June 17-23 and June 24-30, 2007) will feature five prominent scholars who will address the topics of Spanish colonial expansionism and Mexican settlement; issues of mid-19th century American history including slavery, Manifest Destiny, the role of women on the frontier, the Texas Revolution, and the historical significance of architectural preservation. Participants will be able to engage in systematic guided research using sources archived in the DRT Alamo Library, the Center for American History and the Institute of Texan Cultures as they develop curriculum or teaching materials for infusion into new or existing courses.

Grant: 182296 / BI-50043-06,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2006

Maya Worlds of Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A six-week institute for twenty-four college and university teachers on the Maya of Chiapas and in Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize, to take place on site in Mexico, Honduras, Belize, and Guatemala.

Grant: 176916 / EH-50068-05,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2005

Remembering the Alamo

Recipient: Lester, Carole N (Dallas, TX 75243-2199 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 50 community college teachers on the history and symbolic importance of the Alamo.

Grant: 174545 / BI-50003-05,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP,   Year Awarded: 2005

Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching

Recipient: Fletcher, Laraine Anne (Garden City, NJ 11530-4299 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A five-week summer institute for twenty-four college teachers to engage in on-site, interdisciplinary study of Andean cultures in the pre-Inkan, Inkan, colonial, and modern periods.

Grant: 171940 / EH-50028-04,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2004

American Cities and Public Spaces

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A study program at the Library of Congress for twelve community college faculty to study the development of American cities and the American urban experience.

Grant: 172180 / EZ-50025-04,   Category: Humanities,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2004

Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A six-week institute for 24 college teachers on the historical and cultural connections between Mesoamerica and the American Southwest.

Grant: 165523 / EH-50016-03,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity and Change

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A six-week national institute for 25 non-specialist college and university teachers to combine field and academic study of Maya archaeological sites, colonial era history, and contemporary Maya culture.

Grant: 142760 / EH-22319-01,   Category: Interdisciplinary,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2001

Advancing the Humanities in Teacher Preparation Programs at Community Colleges

Recipient: Eisenberg, Diane U (Newark, NJ 07102 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association

Goal: A nationwide mentoring project to strengthen the role of humanities faculty members in community colllege programs for future teachers.

Grant: 142035 / ED-22009-01,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2001

Cities and Public Spaces in Comparative Cultural Contexts

Recipient: Scheper, George L (Baltimore, MD 21217 USA) in affiliation with Community College Humanities Association (Newark, NJ 07102 USA)

Goal: A study program on urban histories and related comparative topics for twenty community college faculty members, under the auspices of the Community College Humanities Association and the Library of Congress.

Grant: 142036 / ED-22010-01,   Category: Education,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2001