The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities congratulates Karen Taylor on her 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant for her project "Harlem As An Incubator." Her project will comprise a two-year series of panel discussions and lectures exploring the history of Harlem as a global hub of arts, culture, and activism for the African Diaspora. The SOF/Heyman partnered with Karen Taylor on a previous rendition of the project, When Sugar Hill Was Sweet.

The 2024 grantees also include Matthew Connelly, Professor of History, for his project, "Archives as Data II." He will use the grant to support the development of an in-person institute that provides training to archivists and historians in analyzing digitized and born-digital records using open-source tools and methods developed at Columbia University’s History Lab.

NEH is the largest federal funder of the humanities and offers 47 grant programs to support a wide breadth of projects. Browse current opportunities here: https://www.neh.gov/grants.

Statement from NEH Executive Director Stephen Kidd

“This grant release supports rich humanities research throughout the U.S. by funding the public scholars program, scholarly editions and translations, collaborative projects, digital humanities projects, and efforts to document endangered languages. In addition, this release includes the first grants in the NEH’s new Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program. NEH grants made through this release will help digitize our nation’s historic newspapers and preserve collections held by cultural heritage institutions both large and small, including a grant to the Hula Preservation Society to preserve and organize audio collections related to Hawaiian musical heritage and a grant to the Detroit Museum of Art to support a new fire suppression system. Institutes and workshops for educators will help strengthen humanities education at primary and secondary schools and higher education institutions throughout the United States. Grants for public programs will support the interpretation of historic sites, humanities discussion programs, and media projects, including a new podcast on the history of American radio and a documentary."