Here are few that caught my eye:
Azusa Pacific University: Outright: $149,910
[Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions]
Project Director: Nori Henk
Project Title: Engaging Ethnic Studies and the Humanities
Project Description: A three-year curricular development project to create and pilot three new ethnic studies certificate programs and their academic service-learning components.
Alice Baumgartner Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
University of Southern California
Project Title: Slavery After Abolition: How Freedom Seekers from New Mexico to Alaska Invoked the Thirteenth Amendment to End Slavery in the United States (1862–1977)
Project Description: Research leading to a book on laborers’ use of the Thirteenth
Amendment to seek relief from coercive work conditions in the American West (1862–1877).
Northwestern University Outright: $29,950
[Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants]
Project Director: Spencer Striker
Project Title: The People Who Created “America’s City” (New York, 1770–1800)
Project Description: Research and consultations with scholarly and educational advisers to create a role-playing game about New York City during and after the American Revolution.
Elizabeth Patton Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Project Title: Representation as a Form of Resistance: Documenting African-American Spaces of Leisure during the Jim Crow Era
Project Description: Research and writing of a book about Black leisure and tourism in the Jim Crow era.
Francois Furstenberg Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: The American Palimpsest: A Layered History of Persistence and Change
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the environmental, Indigenous, settler colonial, and imperial history of the continental United States up to the twentieth century.
University of Missouri System Outright: $149,855
[Digital Humanities Advancement Grants]
Project Director: David Trowbridge; Diane Mutti Burke (co-project director)
Project Title: Immersive Digital History Trails: A New Platform for Place-Based Interpretation with Prototypes for the History of Jazz, Baseball, and BBQ in Kansas City
Project Description: Development of a location-based notification system that will be tested through the creation of three new heritage tours in Kansas City, and then deployed for the more than 1400 local history trails on the Clio website.
Wendy Roberts Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Project Title: Phillis Wheatley Peters’s Poetic Worlds
Project Description: Transcription of archival documents and writing a book on Phillis Wheatley Peters’s (c. 1753–1784) poetry production in the context of transatlantic manuscript culture.
Kirsten Swinth Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
Fordham University
Project Title: A Cultural History of the Working Family in Postindustrial America, 1970–2020
Project Description: Writing a book on the emergence and impact of the working family in late twentieth-century discourse and public policy.
Dialogue Institute Outright: $30,000
[Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants]
Project Director: David Krueger
Project Title: Diversity in Early America Tour App
Project Description: Historical and technical research for an app-based mobile walking tour about the diverse religious traditions in colonial and Revolutionary-era Philadelphia.
Nico Slate Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
Carnegie Mellon University
Project Title: The Highlander Folk School and the Role of Education in the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1932–1984
Project Description: Writing a book on the Highlander Folk School’s role in the civil rights movement and other social movements.
Rebecca Brannon Outright: $60,000
[Fellowships]
James Madison University
Project Title: Old Age in the Wake of the American Revolution
Project Description: Writing a book on old age in the early American republic.
See the entire list of winners here.