The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the Federal Government. Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The dates and duration of each project are listed under each title. The application deadline is March 2, 2009 (postmark).

Amount of Award
All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses: $2,000 (2 weeks), $2,600 (3 weeks), $3,200 (4 weeks), $3,800 (5 weeks), or $4,400 (6 weeks).

Eligibility
Full-time teachers in American K-12 schools, whether public, private, or church-affiliated, as well as home-schooling parents, are eligible to apply to seminars and institutes. Americans teaching abroad are also eligible if a majority of the students they teach are American citizens. Librarians and school administrators may also be eligible. Applicants should consult the guidelines and application information received directly from seminar and institute directors concerning any additional eligibility requirements specific to the project. Selection committees are directed to give first consideration to applicants who have not participated in an NEH-supported seminar or institute in the last three years.

How to Apply
Please mail or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions to the seminar and institute directors listed; in some cases, these materials will also be available on project Web sites. When writing or e-mailing, please include your regular mailing address because directors may send application material through the mail. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than one project. The application deadline is March 2, 2009 (postmark).

Information
Please direct all questions concerning individual seminars and institutes, as well as all requests for application materials, to the appropriate director. General questions concerning the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed to 202/606-8463 or e-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.

Equal Opportunity
Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information about NEH’s EEO policy, write to the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506. TDD (for the hearing impaired only):
202/606-8282.

Seminars

Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps
June 22–July 10, 2009 (3 weeks)
James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, and
Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois-Chicago
Information: Sarah Frank, Program Assistant
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312/255-3659
franks@newberry.org
www.newberry.org/smith/summermaps.html

The Isle of Man: Crossroads of Medieval Cultures
and Languages
June 28–July 31, 2009 (5 weeks)
Clinton Atchley, Henderson State University and
Charles MacQuarrie, California State University, Bakersfield
Information: Clinton Atchley
1100 Henderson Street
Henderson State University
Arkadelphia, AR 71999
870/230-5276
atchlec@hsu.edu
(Seminar Location: Douglas, Isle of Man and University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1914
June 29-July 24, 2009 (4 weeks)
Edmund Burke III, University of California, Santa Cruz
Information: Center for World History
HAS, Humanities Bldg.
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz CA 95064
831/459-2287
NEHseminar@ucsc.edu
cwh.ucsc.edu/NEHseminar

The Thirteenth-Century “Lives” of St. Francis of Assisi
June 22-July 30, 2009 (6 weeks)
William R. Cook
Department of History
SUNY Geneseo
Information: William R. Cook
Wabash College
301 West Wabash Avenue
Crawfordsville, IN 47933
585/703-2665
cooksem@geneseo.edu
www.geneseo.edu/~cooksem
(Seminar Locations: Siena and Assisi, Italy)

The Frontier Experience in the American Midwest:
Greater Illinois to 1860
June 28-August 1, 2009 (5 weeks)
James E. Davis
Illinois College
Department of History
1101 West College Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650
217/245-3426
NEHSeminar@ic.edu
www.ic.edu/neh/

Reading Don Quixote
June 29-August 7, 2009 (6 weeks)
Salvador J. Fajardo, Binghamton University
Information: Lisa K. Fajardo
c/o Salvador J. Fajardo
Dept. of Romance Languages
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
607/797-8783
fajardo@binghamton.edu

Visions of the Dark Years: World War II
and Its Legacy in France
June 28-July 30, 2009 (5 weeks)
Richard J. Golsan and Nathan Bracher
Information: Nathan Bracher, Richard J. Golsan, and Nancy Golsan
Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures
205 Academic Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4215
979/862-4442 or 979/845-0470
rjgolsan@tamu.edu; nbracher@tamu.edu; i-golsan@tamu.edu
euro.tamu.edu/neh/
(Seminar Locations in France: Paris, Lyon, and Normandy)

The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt:
The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism
June 28-August 6, 2009 (6 weeks)
Kathleen B. Jones
Department of Women's Studies
San Diego State University
Information: Simone Arias
P.O. Box 17308
San Diego, CA 92117
sarias2@earthlink.net
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~arendt/

The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and a European World Economy
June 28-July 31, 2009 (5 weeks)
Gerard M. Koot, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Information: Gerard M. Koot
History Department
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
508/999-8305 or 508/999-8301
gkoot@umassd.edu
www.umassd.edu/euro
(Seminar locations: London, U.K.; The Netherlands)

Paradise Lost and the Contemporary Reader
June 22-July 23, 2009 (5 weeks)
Albert C. Labriola
Department of English
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
412/396-6388
labriola@duq.edu
www.duq.edu/milton

Philadelphia's Economy in an Age of Atlantic
World Revolutions
June 22-July 17, 2009 (4 weeks)
Cathy Matson, University of Delaware, and Director, Program
     in Early American Economy and Society, Library Company
     of Philadelphia
Information: Debbie Shapiro
Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215/546-3181
dshapiro@librarycompany.org
www.librarycompany.org/neh

The History and Philosophy of the Peaceful Revolution
in East-Central Europe
June 28-July 25, 2009 (4 weeks)
Christiane Olivo, University of Northern Colorado
Information: Renee Dent
Department of Political Science
University of Northern Colorado
Campus Box 130
Greeley, CO 80639
970/351-2058
nehgermanyseminar@unco.edu
www.unco.edu/psci/nehseminar/
(Seminar locations: Berlin and Leipzig, Germany)

Shakespeare: Enacting the Text
June 28-August 1, 2009 (5 weeks)
Leslie Reidel and Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware
Information: Wanda McCracken
English Deptartment
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
302/831-2363
wtm@udel.edu
www.english.udel.edu/neh/
(Seminar Locations: University of Delaware and Stratford-upon-Avon, U.K.)

Say Something Wonderful: Teaching the Pleasures
of Poetry
June 29-July 24, 2009 (4 weeks)
Eric Murphy Selinger, DePaul University
Department of English
802 West Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
773/325-4475
Information: Alecia Person
aperson@depaul.edu
condor.depaul.edu/~english/pedagogy/poetry/neh/index.html

Dante’s Commedia
June 26-August 6, 2009 (6 weeks)
William A. Stephany, University of Vermont, and
Ronald Herzman, SUNY Geneseo
Information: Ronald Herzman
Department of English
State University of New York, Geneseo
1 College Circle
Geneseo, NY 14454
585/245-5273
herzman@geneseo.edu
neh.geneseo.edu/
(Seminar Location: Siena, Italy)

The President and Congress: Constitutional Principles
and Practices That Have Shaped Our Understanding
of the War Powers
July 13-24, 2009 (2 weeks)
Michael Uhlmann
Department of Politics and Policy
Claremont Graduate University
150 E. 10th Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Information: Susannah Patton
202/965-3335
sgpatton@verizon.net
www.warpowers.org
(Seminar location: Washington, D.C.)

Theatricality and Reality in Modern French Drama
June 29-July 24, 2009 (4 weeks)
Mary Ann Frese Witt, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
North Carolina State University
Information: Marjorie McNamara
320 Trail One
Burlington, NC 27215
336/227-0077
nehmcnamara@triad.rr.com
www.chass.ncsu.edu/nehwitt2009
(Seminar Location: Avignon, France. Seminar conducted entirely in French.)

An institute for school teachers, typically led by a team of core faculty and visiting scholars, is designed to present the best available scholarship on important humanities issues and works taught in the nation's schools. The 25 to 30 participating teachers compare and synthesize the various perspectives offered by the faculty, make connections between the institute content and classroom applications, and often develop improved teaching materials for their classrooms.

National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare
July 5-August 1, 2009 (4 weeks)
Kevin G. Coleman, Shakespeare & Company
Information: Jo Ann Valle
70 Kemble Street
Lenox, MA 01240
413/637-1199, ext. 123
jvalle@shakespeare.org
www.shakespeare.org/nits
(Institute location: Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts)

South Africa: History and Culture
June 23-August 4, 2009 (6 weeks)
Richard A. Corby, University of Arkansas-Monticello
Social and Behavioral Sciences
562 University Drive
University of Arkansas-Monticello
Monticello, Arkansas 71656
870/460-1847
corby@uamont.edu
www.uamont.edu/facultyweb/corby/nehsouthafrica
(Institute location: South Africa)

George Washington and His Legacy: Myths, Symbols,
and Reality
July 19-August 7, 2009 (3 weeks)
Peter H. Gibbon, Boston University School of Education
Information: Peter H. Gibbon
Boston University School of Education
Two Sherborn Street
Boston, MA 02215
781/934-1524
peterhgibbon@comcast.net
www.georgewashingtonmythsymbolandreality.org/

Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens
July 11-August 1, 2009 (3 weeks)
Will Harris, Center for the Constitution at James Madison's
     Montpelier and University of Pennsylvania
Information: John Hale
Center for Civic Education
5145 Douglas Fir Rd.
Calabasas, CA 91302-1440
818/591-9321 or 800/350-4223
hale@civiced.org
www.civiced.org/index.php?page=training_detail&&eid=20760
(Institute location: Los Angeles, California)

From Chang'an to Xi'an: Ancient Capital to Modern Metropolis
July 6-August 8, 2009 (5 weeks)
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, China Institute, and
Annette Juliano, Rutgers University
Information: Kevin Lawrence
China Institute
125 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
212/744-8181, ext. 129
klawrence@chinainstitute.org
www.chinainstitute.org/edu/NEH2009
(Institute locations in China: Beijing and Xi'an)

Picturing John James Audubon
July 7-31, 2009 (4 weeks)
Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University
Information: Alita Hornick
Indiana University
Department of English
Ballantine Hall 442
1020 East Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
812/855-8226
ahornick@indiana.edu
www.iub.edu/~engweb/PicturingJohnJamesAudubon.html

Picturing Early America: People, Places, and Events,
1770-1870
July 5-31, 2009 (4 weeks)
Patricia Johnston, Salem State College
Information: Pamela Poppe
Art Department
Salem State College
352 Lafayette Street
Salem MA 01867
978/542-7225
hpicturing-america@salemstate.edu
www.salemstate.edu/picturing-america

Making Sense of the Reformation
June 29-July 17, 2009 (3 weeks)
Karin Maag and Robert Schoone-Jongen, Calvin College
Information: Karin Maag
H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Hekman Library
Calvin College
1855 Knollcrest Circle SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402
616/526-6089
kmaag@calvin.edu
www.calvin.edu/meeter/NEH/makingsenseofthereformation.htm

Slavery in the Rise of New England Commerce, Industry,
and Culture to 1860
July 19-31, 2009 (2 weeks)
Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky, and
C. Morgan Grefe, Rhode Island Historical Society
Information: Marie Parys, RIHS
110 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI 02906
401/331-8575, ext. 39
mparys@rihs.org
www.rihs.org/education_NEHmain.html
(Institute Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)

Maritime America in the Age of Winslow Homer
July 12-August 8, 2009 (4 weeks)
Arlene Black Mollo, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
and Mary Malloy, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole
Information: Arlene Mollo
College of Visual & Performing Arts
UMass Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
508/999-9204
amollo@umassd.edu
www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/mawh/
(Institute locations: Dartmouth and New Bedford, Massachusetts)

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Real and
the Imagined Middle Ages
July 13-August 13, 2009 (5 weeks)
Robin Anne Reid and Judy Ann Ford
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Information: Robin Anne Reid
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429
903/886-5268
Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu
community.livejournal.com/lotr_middleages/profile

Daily Life in Ancient Times: Archaeology of Israel
and Jordan
July 1-24, 2009 (4 weeks)
Rhonda Root and Gloria London, Andrews University
Information: Gloria London
7701 Crest Dr. N.E.
Seattle, WA 98115-5215
206/522-6426
glondon@earthlink.net
home.earthlink.net/~galondon/NEH2009/
(Institute location: Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan)

The Art of Teaching Italian through Italian Art in Rome, Italy
June 21-July 17, 2009 (4 weeks)
Roberto Severino, Georgetown University; Maria Wilmeth,
     Italian Cultural Society of Washington, D.C.; and Luigi
     De Sanctis, Embassy of Italy
Information: Maria Wilmeth
Italian Cultural Society of Washington, D.C., Inc.
4848 Battery Lane, Suite 100
Bethesda, MD 20814
301/215-7885
maria.wilmeth@gmail.com
(Institute location: Rome, Italy. Institute conducted entirely in Italian)

John Steinbeck, Voice of a Region, Voice for America
July 12-25, 2009 (2 weeks)
Susan Shillinglaw, San Jose State University, and
Mary Adler, California State University, Channel Islands
Information: Maria Judnick
Department of English
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192
408/924-4487
mjudnick@gmail.com
www.steinbeckinstitute.org/
(Institute location: Monterey, California)