Montgomery Bertis English Outright: $52,500 [Awards for Faculty] Alabama State University Project Title: Oscar Adams Jr.: Legal Pacemaker in the Heart of Dixie, 1947 to 1997 Project Description: Research and writing of a biography of prominent civil rights activist and lawyer Oscar Adams Jr., the first Black member of the Birmingham Bar Association, founder of the city’s first Black law firm, and Alabama’s first Black Supreme Court
Berkeley Catticus Corporation Outright: $400,000 [Digital Projects for the Public: Production Grants] Project Director: Richard Wormser Project Title: The Barbara Johns Project Project Description: Production of an interactive website about the student movement to desegregate Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia.
Marit MacArthur Outright: $30,000 [Fellowships] University of California, Davis Project Title: Listening to Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly Black Rooms Project Description: Research and writing leading to a digital publication analyzing the oral performance of poetry by 101 contemporary Black women poets.
Althea SullyCole Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] California State University, Monterey Bay Project Title: Mandé Instruments at the Met: Analyzing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of an African Musical Instrument Collection Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about how 23 musical instruments from the Mandé region of West Africa, currently held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illuminate African cultural heritage and musical traditions
New America Foundation Outright: $30,000 [Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants] Project Director: Lisa Guernsey Project Title: The Library Sit-In of 1939: An Immersive Learning Space Project Description: An online exhibition exploring the 1939 civil rights protest by five African American men against the segregated policies of the public library in Alexandria, Virginia
Benjamin Hebblethwaite Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Florida Project Title: The Songs and Prayers of Sèvis Ginen Project Description: Translations and analyses of a corpus of Vodou songs and rites resulting in a book showing the African linguistic substrates of Kreyol language and practice
Miami Dade College North Campus Outright: $30,000 [Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants] Project Director: Jose Vazquez Project Title: Going Overtown Digital Project for Miami Project Description: Planning an immersive virtual reality experience and a website examining the history of vanished African American neighborhoods of Miami
Courtnay Micots Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] Florida A&M University Project Title: Status, Modernity and Resistance: African Colonial Residences on the Gold Coast Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about prominent homes built on the Gold Coast (known today as Ghana) during the colonial period, from the 1860s to 1957, and how these structures variously adapted or resisted modern European architectural styles and communicated wealth and status
Maria Ryan Outright: $30,000 [Fellowships] Florida State University Project Title: Ambivalent Listening: Race, Music, and Slavery in the British Colonial Caribbean, 1750–1838 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about race, music, and slavery in the British colonial Caribbean, from 1750 to 1838
Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. Outright: $75,000 [Digital Humanities Advancement Grants] Project Director: Elizabeth West; Joshua Jackson (co-project director) Project Title: Data Mining and Mapping Antebellum Georgia Project Description: A digital mapping project focused on determining the feasibility of using digitized genealogical records and archival state maps to identify and geolocate enslaved African Americans
Elizabeth Hamilton Outright: $10,000 [Awards for Faculty] Fort Valley State University Project Title: Figuring It Out: Black Womanhood through the Figurative in Alison Saar’s Oeuvre Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about Black American artist Alison Saar (b. 1956), her biography, and the themes and techniques evident in her sculptures, installations, prints, and public works.
Hermann von Hesse Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Illinois Project Title: Love of Stone Houses: Urban Merchants, Ancestral Spaces and Sacred Objects on Africa's Gold Coast, 1700–1890 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on stone houses in the Gold Coast (Ghana) as durable buildings that reflected ancestral status and accumulation of wealth in 1700–1890
University of Illinois Outright: $137,780 [Cultural and Community Resilience] Project Director: Karen Flynn Project Title: Resilience and Care in Black Communities: The COVID-19 pandemic in East St. Louis, Illinois Project Description: The collection of twenty oral histories with African American elders and first responders, and the facilitation of three community archive-creation events, to document participants’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The oral histories and digitized objects would be made available online via the University of Illinois Library.
Illinois College Outright: $149,178 [Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities] Project Director: Brittney Yancy Project Title: Reimagining African American Studies Project Description: A three-year project to revise an African American studies program
Feed the Second Line Outright: $24,970 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Tinice Williams Project Title: The Kongo Ancestry of Mardi Gras Indian Performances Project Description: New humanities-based programming on the history, culture, and global heritage of Mardi Gras Indian traditions in New Orleans
Patrick Otim Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] Bates College Project Title: Caught in Between: The History of Everyday Life in Northern Uganda, 1950–2015 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on civilians’ agency during the civil war between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from 1986–2008.
Megan DeVirgilis Outright: $20,000 [Awards for Faculty] Morgan State University Project Title: Gothic Foundations: The Civilizing Project of a Forgotten Nineteenth- Century Novel by Colombia’s First President of African Descent Project Description: Research and writing of an article about Rosina o La prisión del castillo de Chagres [Rosina or The Prison at Chagres Castle], a Gothic novel written by Juan José Nieto Gil (1804–1866), the first Colombian president of African descent
Morgan State University Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities] Project Director: Gretchen Rudham; Kendrick Kenney II (co-project director) Project Title: Buried Blueprints of Black Education Project Description: A two-year curriculum development project focused on the histories of Black education in the United States
Kim Evelyn Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] Bowie State University Project Title: Travelers in Caribbean Texts: 1950s–2020s Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about the literary depictions of visitors to English-speaking Caribbean islands, returning Caribbean migrants, and inter and intra-island travelers in the Caribbean from 1950s–2020s
Joseph Rezek Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] Trustees of Boston University Project Title: The Racialization of Print Project Description: Writing of a book on the history of the transmission of racial knowledge and racial ideology through reading, 1598–1840
Greta Krippner Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Project Title: Race, Gender, HIV, and the Individualization of Risk, 1900–2020 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on how 20th century anti- discrimination movements to change American private insurance risk assessments led to a general culture of individualized risk
National Blues Museum Match: $114,664 [Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants] Project Director: Erin Simon Project Title: Blues Power: Collections and Museum Infrastructure Project Description: Improvement of the HVAC system and renovation of the storage space to protect collections at the National Blues Museum in St. Louis, Missouri
Justin Gifford Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Nevada, Reno Project Title: Time Considered as a Helix: The Life of Samuel R. Delany Project Description: Research and writing of a biography of Black science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942).
Laura Edmondson Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] Dartmouth College Project Title: Performing Contagion and Care in Central Africa Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about theater, dance, poetry, film, and performance art in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and how these artworks address themes of illness, disease, and violence
Agnieszka Tuszynska Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] CUNY Research Foundation, Queensborough Community College Project Title: “A Damn Hard Fight”: The Life of Willard Motley Project Description: Research and writing for a critical biography of African American novelist Willard Motley (1909–1965).
Benjamin Holtzman Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] Lehman College, City University of New York Project Title: Fighting the White Power Movement in the Late Twentieth Century Project Description: Research and writing of a book examining American grassroots organizations that formed to challenge white nationalism in the late 1970s and 1980s
Genesee Country Museum Inc. Outright: $25,000 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Mary Challman Project Title: Redefining Rochester Project Description: Reinterpretation of the Genesee Country Village & Museum historic sites to incorporate the deeper histories of African Americans in the region
Iona University Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities] Project Director: Nadine Cosby; Derese Kassa (co-project director) Project Title: Black Humanities Initiative: Embedding the Black Experience in the Humanities Curricula Project Description: A two-year project to expand a Black studies minor into a major
Denise Lim Outright: $40,000 [Fellowships] New School Project Title: Excavating Palimpsests in Ponte City Project Description: Design and development of a digital publication on the architecture, material culture, and social history of the residential site of Ponte City in Johannesburg, South Africa, during and after apartheid
Julia Hamilton Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Project Title: Abolitionism at Home: Women, Music, and Material Culture in Britain, 1760 to 1833 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about antislavery songs owned by British women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the British abolitionist movement.
Annette Joseph-Gabriel Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] Duke University Project Title: Enslaved Childhoods: Survival and Storytelling in the Atlantic World Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on slavery and childhood in the Atlantic world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Lydia Lindsey Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] North Carolina Central University Project Title: Insurgent Intellectual: Grace P. Campbell’s Life from a Model Kindergarten Teacher to the First Black Woman Communist Project Description: Research and writing of a biography chronicling the life of Grace P. Campbell (1897–1943), the first Black female member of the Communist Party of the U.S. and the only female founder of the African Black Brotherhood—an organization said to be the precursor to Black national radical organizations in the twentieth century
Greensboro Historical Museum Outright: $25,000 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Carol Hart Project Title: Voices of a City Exhibition Inclusion Project Beyond O. Henry: Gray Johnson, McAdoo, Faulkner, & Ragsdale Project Description: Planning and implementation of an exhibition about historically significant residents from communities underrepresented in the historical narrative of Greensboro, North Carolina
Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation Outright: $19,000 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Peter Miele Project Title: Investigating the Legacy of Slavery on Gettysburg’s Seminary Ridge Project Description: An interpretive plan on the history of the African American experience at United Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg campus
Delaware County Community College Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges] Project Director: Ife Williams Project Title: Mapping Resistance of Africans and African Descendants to Colonialism and Segregation, 1945–1990 Project Description: A 15-month project to create curricular materials on resistance of Africans and African descendants to segregation and colonialism in the late twentieth century
Cliveden of the National Trust, Inc. Outright: $25,000 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Carolyn Wallace Project Title: Illuminating Hidden Lives: Bringing African American Stories to Life Project Description: Support for continued efforts to reinterpret a historic house and its relationship to the African American story in Pennsylvania and beyond
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Outright: $20,650 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Aileen Rodriguez-Jimenez Project Title: Through My Eyes Project Description: Creation of programming tied to the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society’s archive of African American history
Prairie View A & M University Outright: $150,000 [Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities] Project Director: Jeanelle Hope; Farrah Cambrice (co-project director); DeLinda Marzette (co-project director); Marco Robinson (co-project director); Elizabeth Whittington (co-project director) Project Title: Deepening African American Studies Curriculum and Faculty Development Project Description: A two-year project to develop faculty, curriculum, and other resources for a humanities-centered African American studies program
George Mason University Outright: $148,022 [Cultural and Community Resilience] Project Director: Arthur Romano Project Title: Truth-Telling About Collective Resilience with Diasporic Communities Project Description: The recovery of documentation and the organization of in-person gatherings to collect oral histories associated with the history of racial violence in Forsyth County, Georgia. The oral histories would be made available online via a portal, along with an interactive map and educational materials
Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, Inc. Outright: $24,233 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Gaila Sims Project Title: Living Legacies: African American History in the Fredericksburg Area Project Description: An exhibit on the history of African Americans in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, region
Steven Reich Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] James Madison University Project Title: Buzzards over Texas: A Story of Race, Violence, and the Search for Justice in the Jim Crow South Project Description: Writing and mapping leading to a book and companion website on the Black community of Sandy Beulah, Texas, and its response to mob violence in 1910
Christopher Bischof Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Richmond Project Title: Easy Fixes: Race, Capitalism, and Social Engineering Schemes in the British West Indies, 1823–1865 Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on post-slavery social and economic policies in the British West Indies, 1823 to 1865.
Virginia Union University Outright: $24,836 [Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations] Project Director: Mark DeYoung Project Title: The Legacy at Lombardy and Leigh Project Description: Development of an exhibition on the history of Black women’s higher education and related interpretive training for staff
Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin System, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Outright: $147,412 [Digital Humanities Advancement Grants] Project Director: Anne Bonds; Derek Handley (co-project director) Project Title: Developing a Digital Platform for the Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County Project Project Description: The development of a platform to map and visualize racial covenants in early twentieth-century Milwaukee
Diverse and Resilient, Inc. Outright: $149,969 [Cultural and Community Resilience] Project Director: Brice Smith Project Title: House of History Project: Black LGBTQ+ Survivors and Thrivers in Milwaukee Project Description: The recording of 15 new oral histories and updating of 11 existing oral histories about the Black LGBTQ+ experience in Milwaukee, including discussions of both the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics, and the development of a documentary website to present the recordings.