NEH Awards $24 Million in Grants

Apr 14, 2021

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $24 million in grants for 225 humanities projects across the country. Among the projects are several involving books, literature and publishing. These include, a project titled "Understanding Historical LGBTQ Spaces through Gay Travel Guides" at California State University at Fullerton, given $349,894; a grant to Laila Amine to research and write one chapter of a book examining Anglophone Black literature’s representation of mobility in the African diaspora; $50,000 to plan for an exhibit that examines the impact of French Orientalist depictions of the American west in art, literature, and popular culture at the Denver Museum of Art; and Erin Smith received $6,000 to research a book on American crime fiction depicting the cold war.

A full list of projects, organized by state, is online.

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