NEH Announces $41.3 Million for 280 Humanities Projects Nationwide
Grant awards support new NEH American Tapestry projects related to climate change and technology, as well as collaborative and individual humanities research, books, exhibitions, documentaries, and education programs.
Project Title: “Moby-Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age”
Project Description: A three-week combined-format institute for 25 secondary school educators on ways of teaching Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Project Director: Naomi Slipp; Mary Bercaw Edwards (co-project director); Wyn Kelley (co-project director); Timothy Marr (co-project director)
National Endowment for the Humanities: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at www.neh.gov.