State History

Albany

SUNY Research Foundation, Albany Outright: $49,587 [Digital Humanities Advancement Grants] Project Director: David Hochfelder; Ann Pfau (co-project director); Stacy Sewell (coproject director) Project Title: Picturing Urban Renewal Project Description: Development of a website featuring historical photographs and maps that explores the process of urban renewal in large and small cities across New York State.

Amherst

Carole Emberton Outright: $60,000 [Public Scholar Program] SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo Project Title: An Intimate History of Freedom: The Biography of Emancipated Slave Priscilla Joyner Project Description: Research and writing leading to the publication of a book about the experience of emancipated American slaves told primarily through the life of former slave Priscilla Joyner. NEH Grant Offers and Awards, August 2018 Page 27 of 39 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov

Annandale-on-Hudson

Bard College Outright: $132,340 [Scholarly Editions and Translations] Project Director: Aaron Glass; Judith Berman (co-project director) Project Title: Transcription and Translation of Franz Boas’s Kwakwaka’wakw Field Notes for a Critical Edition of His 1897 Monograph Project Description: Preparation of print and digital translation-editions of anthropologist Franz Boas’s field notes on the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) North American peoples.

James Romm Outright: $50,000 [Public Scholar Program] Bard College Project Title: The “Sacred Band” of Thebes and the Last Days of Greek Freedom (379– 338 BCE) Project Description: Research and writing leading to publication of a book on the “Sacred Band,” a special infantry unit of the city of Thebes from 379–338 BCE, in the context of ancient Greek history, politics, and philosophy.

Blue Mountain Lake

Adirondack Historical Association Outright: $350,000 [Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections] Project Director: Doreen Alessi-Holmes Project Title: Enhanced Environmental Conditions for Humanities Exhibitions Project Description: Replacement of outdated environmental control systems in the Adirondack Historical Association’s 1969 “Life in the Adirondacks” building, whose exhibitions and collections explore early settlements; extractive industries such as logging and mining; the birth of tourism based on nature and recreation; early environmental conservation movements; and the Native American experience from precontact through the 21st century. The project would install energy-efficient equipment including air handlers, chillers, a new boiler, particulate filtration, and an emergency generator.

Bronx

New York Botanical Garden Outright: $460,000 [Exhibitions: Implementation] Project Director: Joanna Groarke Project Title: Roberto Burle Marx: Modern Nature of Brazil—A Garden-Wide Humanities Exhibition Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition on Brazilian artist and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94).

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences Match: $700,000 [Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grants] Project Director: Susan Fisher Project Title: Mobilization of Collection through Storage Assessment Project Description: A systematic review of the Brooklyn Museum’s onsite and offsite storage in order to facilitate collection sharing, expand humanistic knowledge, improve the preservation and visibility of holdings, and accommodate a new collection gallery and additional onsite storage. NEH Grant Offers and Awards, August 2018 Page 28 of 39 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov

Cortland

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Cortland Outright: $165,198 [Landmarks of American History] Project Director: Kevin Sheets Project Title: Forever Wild: The Adirondacks in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Project Description: Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers using the Adirondacks to explore the interconnections of urban and wilderness environments in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

Geneseo

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Geneseo Outright: $1,000 [NEH on the Road] Project Director: Cynthia Hawkins-Owen Project Title: NEH on the Road: Bandits & Heroes Project Description: Ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road: Bandits & Heroes traveling exhibition.

Hamilton

Colgate University Outright: $98,395 [Seminars for School Teachers] Project Director: Graham Hodges Project Title: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad Project Description: A three-week seminar for 16 school teachers on the history of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad.

Hempstead

Julie Byrne Outright: $60,000 [Public Scholar Program] Hofstra University Project Title: American Catholicism and the Cantor Fitzgerald Employees Who Lost Their Lives on 9/11 Project Description: Research and writing leading to publication of a book about five men killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, focused on their shared cultural and religious background.

Ithaca

Cornell University Outright: $80,160 [Seminars for College Teachers] Project Director: Shirley Samuels Project Title: Situating Democratic Writers in Western New York: Tocqueville, Cooper, Stanton, and Douglass Project Description: A two-week seminar for 16 college and university teachers to study the works of significant nineteenth-century writers in the historical and literary context of western New York.

New York

American Musicological Society Outright: $205,000 [Scholarly Editions and Translations] Match: $46,000 Project Director: Andrew Kuster Project Title: Music of the United States of America (MUSA) Project Description: Preparation for publication of five volumes in the series Music of the United States of America. NEH Grant Offers and Awards, August 2018 Page 29 of 39 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov

Futuro Media Group Outright: $75,000 [Media Projects Development] Project Director: Charlotte Mangin Project Title: Unladylike Project Description: Development of a series of short documentary films and related digital components about the lives and accomplishments of women during the Progressive Era.

Interfaith Center of New York Outright: $173,038 [Institutes for School Teachers] Project Director: Henry Goldschmidt Project Title: Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity Project Description: A three-week institute for 25 school teachers on religious diversity in New York City.

New-York Historical Society Outright: $173,056 [Institutes for School Teachers] Project Director: Mia Nagawiecki Project Title: American Women in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars Project Description: A three-week summer institute for 30 school teachers on the role of women in the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. Civil War.

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Manhattan Outright: $350,000 [Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections] Project Director: Jared Stahler Project Title: Nevelson Chapel Environmental Systems Replacement Project Description: Installation of a dedicated environmental control system and LED lighting in Louis Nevelson’s 28-seat Chapel of the Good Shepherd in Saint Peter’s Church in New York City.

Theatre for a New Audience Outright: $153,877 [Institutes for School Teachers] Project Director: Kathleen Dorman Project Title: Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays through Scholarship and Performance Project Description: A two-week summer institute for 25 school teachers on the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays.

WNET Outright: $75,000 [Media Projects Development] Project Director: Michael Kantor Project Title: American Masters—Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands Project Description: Development of a script and trailer for a sixty-minute documentary film on the popular singer Marian Anderson.

Pocantico Hills

Historic Hudson Valley Outright: $109,490 [Institutes for School Teachers] Project Director: Jacqueline Simmons Project Title: Slavery in the Colonial North Project Description: A one-week institute for 25 school teachers on slavery in the colonial North. NEH Grant Offers and Awards, August 2018 Page 30 of 39 400 7th Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20506 P 202.606.8446 www.neh.gov

Sunnyside

Hugh Eakin Outright: $40,000 [Public Scholar Program] Project Title: Picasso’s Dealer: Paul Rosenberg and the 1939 Exhibition that Changed America Project Description: Research and writing leading to publication of a book about the 1939 Picasso exhibition put on by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Art Institute of Chicago, the transfer of European art to the United States prior to World War II, and its impact on American culture. Read more...