Celebrating the AAR Members Awarded 2025 NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $34.79 million in grants for 97 humanities projects across the country, including three projects led by AAR members.
Said NEH Acting Chairman Michael McDonald:
“The National Endowment for the Humanities is proud to support research, exhibitions, teacher training, and preservation projects that examine and illuminate our history, literature, and culture. These NEH grants will produce new resources and media that will help Americans meaningfully engage with the nation’s founding principles as we approach the U.S. Semiquincentennial and ensure that educators, students, and the public have access to accurate, informative materials that deepen our understanding of the American story.”
Please join us in congratulating the following AAR members.
Whittney Barth and Silas Allard
Project
Law and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for the Humanities
Scholar
A two-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty about interdisciplinary connections between religion and law in modern American jurisprudence.
Pictured, top to bottom: Whittney Barth (Project Director), Silas Allard (Project Co-Director)
Christopher Ocker
Project
Philology, Sacred Texts, and Cross-Cultural Exchange
Planning and holding two workshops to advance international scholarship on philology’s contributions to understanding scripture and religion.
Michael Satlow
Project
Knowledge Transmission and Cultural Interactions Among Communities Through the Ages: An AI-Based Analysis of a Textual Corpus Spanning Two Millennia of Jewish Literary Creation
Research and development leading to a database and website analyzing knowledge transmission across Jewish communities (200–2000 CE).