Since its creation in 1965, NEH has awarded more than $5.6 billion for humanities projects through more than 64,000 grants. Congratulations to the following AAR members for being awarded this year:
David Krueger, Dialogue Institute
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.
Emily McRae, University of New Mexico
Project Title: Moral Ignorance in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about the obstacles to moral knowledge according to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism philosophy
Jennifer Graber, University of Texas, Austin
Project Title: A New History of the Ghost Dance
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the history and cultural influence of the Ghost Dance (1870s–1970s).
Lynn Kaye, Brandeis University
Project Title: Power and the People: Lay People’s Voices in Ancient Jewish Adjudication
Project Description: Research and writing towards a book on interactions between judges and lay advocates in the Babylonian Talmud (sixth century CE).
Manuela Ceballos, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Project Title: Between Dung and Blood: Ritual Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Project Description: Research and writing leading to a comparative history of Spanish Catholic Saint Teresa de Ávila (d. 1582) and Moroccan Sufi Sīdī Riḍwān al-Januwī (d. 1583).