Division of Education Programs

Two programs fall under Education Development and Demonstration. The first, National Education Projects, supports the development of educational materials of national significance. In collaboration with high school and college faculty and regional museum educators, North Shore Community College in Massachusetts will develop and beta-test an interactive website for teaching about the life and work of nineteenth-century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The website includes documents, art work, photographs, and artifacts to support the study of Hawthorne in literature, history, and American studies courses in high schools and colleges. The second program, Humanities Focus Grants, promotes learning among groups of teachers working together in the same or neighboring institutions. The Rochelle Lee Fund, a nonprofit educational agency, will conduct a series of reading and discussion sessions for twenty Chicago public school faculty members about children's and adult literature with the theme of life's "Journey." At the end of their study, participants will receive a voucher for quality paperback children's books for use in the classroom.

The Schools for a New Millennium program enables elementary and secondary schoolteachers to learn to use technology in their studying and teaching of the humanities. Rice University received support for a project at Hogg Middle School, a diverse inner city school in Houston, to examine their community through its history, and its state, national, and global contexts. As a part of the project, students learn about World War II by using videotape and digital technology to interview veterans and neighbors about their experiences during the war. The project is the outcome of an earlier NEH planning grant that involved the school, the university, the Texas State Historical Association, and other community partners. The project will link the curriculum and website development to the state teaching and learning standards at each grade level.

Seminars and Institutes support faculty development projects each summer at colleges, universities, and research centers. During the summer of 2001, Michael Bachem of Miami University in Ohio will conduct a four-week seminar for kindergarten through ninth-grade teachers on the tales collected by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This seminar looks at the universality of folk and fairy tales, describes the details of the historical background of the Grimm tales, and makes participants aware of research tools and scholarship of folklore studies. The seminar will give teachers classroom strategies for teaching the subject.

The division conducted a special competition in FY 2000 called Humanities Scholars in Residence. This program was for states that have received a disproportionately low share of funds from the Endowment and for schools that have not benefited from our regular grant programs. These small consultant grants enable elementary and secondary schools to work with expert humanities scholars to lay the foundation for improvements of school curricula. Montana's Corvallis School District Number 1 received support for a mentored program of study with a prominent scholar of Western history on Montana history and literature, focusing on the recurring historical displacement of people in the area and the battle for resources. The school has encouraged students to interview inhabitants of the Bitterroot Valley, to conduct related research on the history of the area, and to bring the results of their inquiry back to a virtual museum online.

Finally, in collaboration with the NEH Office of Enterprise, WorldCom, and the Council of the Great City Schools, the Division of Education Programs sponsors EDSITEment (edsitement.neh.gov), a popular online resource for humanities educators. EDSITEment comprises seventy-one individual humanities websites, each nominated by a peer review panel for its content, interactive design, and usefulness in the classroom. EDSITEment has received national recognition, including an education award in the Smithsonian Computerworld competition. The site currently logs an average of forty thousand user sessions a month, and includes a search engine, lesson plans for grades six through twelve, and take-home activities for students. EDSITEment training sessions have been held in 973 schools in forty-one school districts. In the future, EDSITEment will expand to include more websites and new lesson plans for kindergarten through sixth-grade.

Candace Katz
Director
Division of Education Programs

Education Development and Demonstration

Academy of American Poets
New York, NY Kelleen Zubick
$120,000 The Online Poetry Classroom

American Councils of International Education
Washington, DC Maria Lekic
$35,000 Regional Russia, Culture and Diversity: Language-Learning Modules

American Historical Association
Washington, DC Noralee Frankel
$1,000* Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Reconceptualizing the Introductory Survey Course

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ Roger L. Bedard
$100,000 Navajo Exemplary Humanities Project

Assumption College
Worcester, MA John F. McClymer
$160,000 American History and Culture on the Web

Beaufort County School District
Beaufort, SC Margaret D. Rushton
$100,000 Creating a Sense of Place

Boston Latin Academy
Boston, MA Robert Largess
$22,332 A Comparative Study of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty

Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY Deborah F. Schwartz
$91,000 Brooklyn Community Collaborations

Brown University
Providence, RI Edward J. Ahearn
$75,000* Texts and Teachers: The Interdisciplinary Challenge

California State University
Fresno, CA Vida Samiian
$180,000 Crossing Academic Borders: Integrating Technology with Interdisciplinary Learning

Carleton College
Northfield, MN Dana Strand
$25,000 Individual and Community: A Faculty Seminar at Carleton College

City School District of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, NY Senta F. Stich
$25,000 Humanities for the New Millennium

Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
Chicago, IL Nisan Chavkin
$10,000 The American Jury: Bulwark of Democracy

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA Ronald W. Bailey
$5,000* Nubianet: A Network and Internet Resource for Ancient African and World Civilizations

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA William Tally
$230,000 Picturing Modern America: Historical Inquiry through Primary Sources

Ferrum College
Ferrum, VA Bettina L. Hanlon
$24,996 Teaching Appalachian Literature

Five Colleges, Inc.
Amherst, MA Robert Schwartzwald
$25,000 Rethinking the Americas: Creating a Transdisciplinary Foundational Course at the Five Colleges

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Hyde Park, NY Thomas J. Thurston
$4,700* The New Deal Network: An Online Teaching Resource on the Public Works and Arts Projects of the New Deal

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA Roy A. Rosenzweig
$245,000 History Matters: The U.S. History Survey on the Web

Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA Gregory A. VanHoosier-Carey
$5,000 Griffith in Context: A Multimedia Exploration of The Birth of a Nation

Greensboro College
Greensboro, NC Nancy M. McElveen
$24,994 Faculty Development in Women's Studies

Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA Tyler T. Roberts
$25,000 Revisioning the Introduction to Religious Studies

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN Phyllis R. Klotman
$170,000 African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN Douglas R. Parks
$5,000* Teaching Native American Language through History and Culture: The Arikara Model

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture
Santa Fe, NM Wade Chambers
$100,000 The Native Eyes Project: Indian Perspectives on Knowledge and Culture

Kennesaw State College
Kennesaw, GA Sarah R. Robbins
$223,000 Keeping and Creating American Communities

Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles, CA Teresa M. Hudock
$115,000 World History and Literature Using Web Conferencing

Macalester College
St. Paul, MN James von Geldern
$150,000 Digital Sourcebook of Soviet Russian History

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI James A. Marten
$170,000 Children in Urban America Project: A Digital Archive

Memphis City Schools
Memphis, TN Elsie Lewis Bailey
$160,000 The Memphis Civil Rights Movement: Exploring Its History, Assessing Its Impact

Miami University
Oxford, OH Stephen A. Nimis
$5,000* The VRoma Project: A Virtual Community for the Teaching of Classics

Millersville University
Millersville, PA Tracey Weis
$166,509 Underground Railroad Text and Context: Researching, Teaching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad

Modern Language Association of America
New York, NY Phyllis Franklin
$30,000** Staffing in Undergraduate Humanities Programs

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ Fawzia Afzal-Khan
$24,089 Integrating Cultural Studies into the Public Teaching University Curriculum

Motheread, Inc.
Raleigh, NC Nancye B. Gaj
$60,000 HomeWork: A Motheread/Fatheread Curriculum for Working Parents

Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA Margaret L. Switten
$6,613* Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology: New Windows on the Medieval World

Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY Kathy Benson
$25,000 Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City

New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Trenton, NJ Elissa A. Greenwald
$25,000 Women and the Holocaust

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL James R. Akerman
$240,000 Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms

North Carolina Humanities Council
Greensboro, NC Lynn Wright-Kernodle
$25,000 Voices of Democracy and Dissent

North Shore Community College
Danvers, MA Terri L. Whitney
$247,600 Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Museum and the Classroom: A Collaboration of Salem Museums and English Instructors

Ohio State University Research Foundation
Columbus, OH Francis Abiola Irele
$155,000 CD-ROM of Oral Literature: Southern African Praise Poetry

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA Timothy C. Neumann
$175,000 Teaching American History Utilizing Digital Resources in a Rural Middle/High School Collaborative

Primary Source
Watertown, MA Anna Roelofs
$29,600* Teaching Resources on African
American Intellectual History and Democratic Leadership

Rice University
Houston, TX Leslie M. Miller
$175,000 Community in History: A Middle School Implementation

Rochelle Lee Fund
Chicago, IL Michelle R. Rosenthal
$25,000 Developing Readers: Teachers and Their Students II

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY Wade L. Robison
$24,552 Philosophy in Technology

SUNY Research Foundation/College at Cortland
Cortland, NY Jean W. LeLoup
$10,000* FL Teach: Communication
Technologies for Professional Development and Foreign Language Instruction

SUNY Research Foundation./College at Purchase
Albany, NY John R. Howard
$25,000 Integrating African American Arts into Social Studies Curricula

Sealaska Heritage Foundation
Juneau, AK Rosita F. Worl
$90,000 Teaching Indigenous Humanities Traditions and Technology and Knowledge through Modern Technology-based Curriculum

Smith College
Northhampton, MA Dana Leibsohn
$180,000 Vistas: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, 1520-1820

Supreme Court Historical Society
Washington, DC Maeva Marcus
$175,000 Institute for Constitutional Studies

Unified School District #497
Lawrence, KS Karen D. Vespestad
$140,000 Community Connections: Celebrating Diversity, Promoting Pluralism

University of California
Irvine, CA Robert G. Moeller
$25,000 World History in the Schools

University of California
Santa Barbara, CA Alan Y. Liu
$1,800* Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information Project

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA Lauren H. Rabinovitz
$175,819 Yesterday's Wonderlands: Introducing Modernism to America

University of Maryland
College Park, MD Catherine W. Ingold
$175,000 Building a Web-based Infrastructure for Teaching Spanish Language and US Latino Cultures to Heritage Students

University of Maryland
College Park, MD Adele Seeff
$150,000 Jubilee: In Pursuit of the American Dream of Equality

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI Jonathan Smith
$24,370 Science and Technology Studies of the Automobile

University of Michigan
Dearborn, MI Camron M. Amin
$222,396 Modern Middle East Sourcebook Project

University of Pennsylvania
Philadephia, PA Joseph A. Farrell
$10,000* The Vergil Project

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY Linda Ware
$24,998 A Collaboration Inquiry on Understanding Disability

University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME Janice L. Thompson
$25,000 Course Development in the Honors Program at the University of Southern Maine

University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI Steven M. Nadler
$24,975 Expanding the Humanities: University and High School Workshops

University of Wisconsin
River Falls, WI Geoffrey W. Scheurman
$180,245 Still Searching for America: Conversations on National Identity

Utah Valley State College
Orem, UT G. Eugene England
$25,000 Enriching Humanities Curricula: Mormon Studies

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI Gwen A. Gorzelsky
$24,998 English Studies Internship Exchanges: Teaching Language and Literature in Diverse Contexts

World History Association
Philadelphia, PA Heidi S. Roupp
$250,000 Developing a New Teaching Field: World History for the 21st Century

Humanities Scholar in Residence

Alta Vista Charter School
Kansas City, MO Cynthia C. Gusman
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Burlington City High School
Burlington, NJ Kathy DeCristofaro
$10,000*** Integrating the Study of International Relations and World History into the Social Studies Curriculum

Corvallis School District #1
Corvallis, MT Tava I. Smathers
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Green Valley High School
Henderson, NV Donna J. Servello
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Howard M. Phifer Middle School
Pennsauken, NJ Curt R. Wrzeszczynski
$10,000*** The Story of Us

Hyde Park Middle School
Las Vegas, NV Sandra L. Ransel
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Idaho Humanities Council
Boise, ID Terri Schorzman
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus
Mercedita, PR Hector Alvarez-Trujillo
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

James Caldwell High School
West Caldwell, NJ Sarah Van Gunten
$10,000*** Exploring the Rights of Children in China and India

Loyola University
New Orleans, LA John P. Travis
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Mainland Regional High School
Linwood, NJ Judith C. Perkins
$10,000*** Recreational Reading Environments and the High School Language Arts Curriculum

Maureeen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Missoula, MT Jennifer Copley
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Maywood Middle School
Renton, WA Alice E. Finch
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Owasso Seventh Grade Center
Owasso, OK Yvette J. King
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Rickards High School
Tallahassee, FL Elisa A. Scherff
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Ridgewood Public Schools
Ridgewood, NJ Jane M. Blakely
$10,000*** Realigning the Ninth Grade English and World History Curriculum

Seminole High School
Seminole, FL Donald J. Peet
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Snohomish School District
Snohomish, WA Diana J. Plumis
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Spring Creek High School
Spring Creek, NV Joe D. de Braga
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Storey County School District
Virginia City, NV Craig J. Rock
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

West Geauga High School
Chesterland, OH JoAnn G. Houser
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Westlake High School
Austin, TX Bill D. Martin
$10,000 Humanities Scholar in Residence

Humanities Teacher Leadership Awards

Mary P. Clark
Upper Montclair, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Ellen R. Davila
Pennington, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Robert G. Evans
Elmer, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Joseph P. Fanning
Glen Ridge, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Roslyn Z. Gerken
Somerset, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Marc J. Gold
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Douglas E. Golde
New York, NY
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Wende L. Greenberg
Piermont, NY
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Susan R. Jones
Mt. Lakes, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Susan E. Kearney
Palmyra, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Anne D. Mackintosh
Westmont, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Christopher C. Marchetti
Hopewell, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Diane E. Neal
Belle Mead, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Dominick V. Pisa
Livingston, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Daniel J. Ward
Bayonne, NJ
$2,000*** Humanities Teacher Leadership Program

Seminars and Institutes

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY Elizabeth Bartman
$92,785 Topographies of Collecting

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY Richard J. Talbert
$12,147 Representing Geography and Communities in the World of Imperial Rome

Amherst College
Amherst, MA Austin D. Sarat
$107,370 Punishment, Politics, and Culture

Brigham Young University
Provo, UT John R. Rosenberg
$75,574 Four Hundred Years of Spanish History through the Theater of Antonio Buero Vallejo

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
New York, NY Joel H. Rosenthal
$138,757 Moral Choices: Ethics and Supranationalism

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH Colin S. McLarty
$80,354 Proofs and Refutations Today

Center for Applied Linguistics
Washington, DC Joy K. Peyton
$20,000 Building the Knowledge and Expertise of Teachers of Spanish to Heritage Spanish Speakers

China Institute in America, Inc.
New York, NY Marleen Kassel
$150,210 China and the World

Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO Jane E. Kneller
$169,717 Nature, Art, and Politics after Kant: Re-evaluating Early German Romanticism

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY Valerie J. Bunce
$89,383 The Postcommunist Experience: The First Decade

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY Robert G. Calkins
$137,609 The Gothic Cathedral as a Mirror of Medieval Culture

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH Elisabeth I. Perry
$1,600 Feminist Classics in American Culture

Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA Albert C. Labriola
$81,631 Paradise Lost and the Contemporary Reader

East-West Center
Honolulu, HI Elizabeth B. Buck
$178,061 Continuities and Crises: The Interplay of Religion and Politics in China

Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC Kathleen A. Lynch
$158,895 Experience and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA Robert C. Carriker
$72,089 Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: From the Pacific Ocean to St. Louis

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
$224,000 Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement

Illinois State University
Normal, IL Ron Fortune
$170,570 Literary Study in a Manuscript Culture: Keats, Dickinson, and Eliot

Jewish Theological Seminary of America
New York, NY Alan Mintz
$89,978 Cultural Responses to the Holocaust in America and Abroad

Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Brookville, NY Katherine C. Hill-Miller
$7,018 Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels

Madonna University
Livonia, MI Richard Sax
$140,974 Forging the 20th Century Urban Identity

Miami University
Oxford, OH Michael Bachem
$75,715 The History, Uses, and Reverberations of the Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm

New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA Laurie J. Robertson-Lorant
$154,217 Melville and Multiculturalism: Teaching and Learning about Literature amid Historic Sites

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL James R. Akerman
$175,288 Popular Cartography and Society

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL Jeremy D. Popkin
$91,932 Revolution and the Making of Identities: France, 1787-1799

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ James B. Fitzmaurice
$152,320 Laying Claim: American Indian Literature and Narrative, Traditions and Legacies in Context

Ohio State University Research Foundation
Columbus, OH Lucia H. Costigan
$177,000 The Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies

Ohio State University Research Foundation
Columbus, OH John N. King
$113,105 Foxe's Book of Martyrs: A Paradigm for Early Modern English Print Culture

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
University Park, PA Daniel C. Beaver
$147,247 Space and Society in the Past: Landscape, Power, and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
University Park, PA John J. Stuhr
$96,387 American Pragmatism and Culture: Art and Society

Rice University
Houston, TX Maria-Regina J. Kecht
$136,434 The People of Vienna in a Century of Turmoil, 1848-1955

SUNY Res. Fdn./College at Geneseo
Geneseo, NY William R. Cook
$105,401 The 13th-Century "Lives" of St. Francis of Assisi

Saint Mary's College of California
Moraga, CA Carl J. Guarneri
$75,344 Major American Utopias

San Diego State University Foundation
San Diego, CA Charles D. Hamilton
$102,064 Greek Values in Crisis: Thucydides, Sophocles, Plato

Social Science Education Consortium
Boulder, CO Barbara A. Miller
$155,000 Perceiving the American West: Expectations and Outcomes

Society for Values in Higher Education
Portland, OR Albert Rabil
$155,380 A Literature of their Own? Women Writing-Venice, London, Paris-1550-1700

Society for Values in Higher Education
Portland, OR Albert Rabil, Jr.
$1,000 Worlds of the Renaissance

Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR Alan R. Armstrong
$152,253 Shakespeare in Ashland: Teaching from Performance

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA Miles Orvell
$94,062 American Ethnic Autobiography: Identity, Language, and Culture

University of Alaska
Anchorage, AK James A. Liszka
$173,533 Environmental Ethics and Issues: Alaska as a Case Study

University of California
Irvine, CA Alexander Gelley
$99,265 Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Commodity Fetishism, and the Aesthetics of the City

University of California
Los Angeles, CA Katherine N. Hayles
$98,729 Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information Technologies

University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA Stefan Tanaka
$99,171 Foreigners Perceived: Travelers and Meiji Japan

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL Gladstone L. Yearwood
$138,000 Black Film Studies: Integrating African American Cinema into the Arts and Humanities Curriculum

University of Dayton
Dayton, OH Richard P. Benedum
$86,934 Mozart: The Man, His Music and His Vienna

University of Delaware
Newark, DE Jay L. Halio
$104,534 Shakespeare: Enacting the Text

University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS Janet Sharistanian
$68,703 American Women as Writers: Wharton and Cather

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, MA Gerard M. Koot
$3,350 Historical Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution

University of Missouri
Columbia, MO Marvin A. Lewis
$167,154 Teaching the African Diaspora: An Afro-Romance Approach

University of North Carolina
Asheville, NC Robert F. Yeager
$84,398 Beowulf and the Heroic Age

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC John R. McGowan
$103,917 Literature and Values

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC Siegfried E. Mews
$3,945 Berlin 2000: Literature, Culture and Politics from Zero Hour to the Berlin Republic

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN Christopher Fox
$100,444 Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA Roger M. Allen
$80,162 The Arabic Novel in Translation

University of Texas
San Antonio, TX Ellen R. Clark
$170,000 Derrumbando Fronteras/Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Mexican American and Latino Literatures in Secondary Curriculum

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT William A. Stephany
$1,618* Dante's Commedia

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT William A. Stephany
$131,394 Dante's Commedia

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA William G. Thomas, III
$80,439 Jamestown and the Formation of an American Culture: Natives and Newcomers in Text, Image, and Artifact

University of Wisconsin
River Falls, WI Carole J. Gerster
$141,439 Picturing America: Cinematic Representations of America's Ethnic Diversity

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Charlottesville, VA Joseph C. Miller
$162,754 Roots 2001: The African Dimension of Early American History and Culture (Through the Transatlantic Slave Trade)

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI Paul E. Szarmach
$128,007 Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts

Yale University
New Haven, CT R. Howard Bloch
$3,801 The Arthurian Illuminated Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages

Yale University
New Haven, CT Lee W. Patterson
$126,615 The Canterbury Tales and Medieval Culture

* Federal Matching Funds
** Chairman's/Emergency Awards
*** Denotes grants funded in whole or part by external sources