The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. Each year the NEH 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 3, 2008 (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: $1,800 (2 weeks), $2,400 (3 weeks), $3,000 (4 weeks), $3,600 (5 weeks), or $4,200 (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. When doing so, 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 3, 2008 (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 A seminar for school teachers enables fifteen participants to explore a topic or set of readings with a scholar having special interest and expertise in the field. The core material of the seminar need not relate directly to the school curriculum; the principal goal of the seminar is to engage teachers in the scholarly enterprise and to expand and deepen their understanding of the humanities through reading, discussion, writing, and reflection.

The Arabic Novel in Translation
July 7-August 1, 2008 (4 weeks)
Roger Allen
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Pennsylvania
36th and Spruce Sts.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Information: Trish Maloney
610/328-8355
pmalone1@swarthmore.edu
(Seminar location: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania)

Literary Pícaros and Pícaras and Their Travels in Early Modern Spain (In Spanish)
June 23-July 20, 2008 (4 weeks)
Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami, and
Adrienne L. Martín, University of California, Davis
Information: Michelle Prats
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074
305/284-5585
nehspainseminar@miami.edu
(Seminar locations in Spain: Madrid, Salamanca, Toledo, Seville)

The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan:
Place, Memory, Identity
June 23-July 25, 2008 (5 weeks)
Tom Isern, Professor of History
Minard Hall 412C
North Dakota State University
Fargo ND 58105-5075
701/799-2942
isern@plainsfolk.com
www.ndsu.edu/instruct/isern/seminar/

The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt:
The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism
June 29-August 7, 2008 (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/

Making Sense of 1989
July 20-August 1, 2008 (2 weeks)
T. Mills Kelly
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3G1
Fairfax, VA 22030
703/993-2152
tkelly7@gmu.edu
chnm.gmu.edu/1989/exhibits/seminar/

Religion in English History and Literature from
The Canterbury Tales Through Pilgrim's Progress
June 23-July 18, 2008 (4 weeks)
John N. King
Information: Erin McCarthy
Department of English
The Ohio State University
164 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
614/292-6065
mccarthy.201@osu.edu
people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/ReligioninHistoryandLiterature/

Historical Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution
in Britain
June 30-August 1, 2008 (5 weeks)
Gerard Koot
Department of History
285 Old Westport Rd.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
508/999-8305
gkoot@umassd.edu
www.umassd.edu/ir
(Seminar location: Nottingham, England)

Citizenship and Culture: French Identity in Crisis
June 29-July 25, 2008 (4 weeks)
Nancy C. Mellerski and
Michael B. Kline
Information: Nancy C. Mellerski
Department of French and Italian
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
717/245-1248
mellersk@dickinson.edu
users.dickinson.edu/~mellersk/nehfront.html

Roots: Teaching the African Dimensions of the
Early History and Cultures of the Americas
June 23-July 25, 2008 (5 weeks)
Joseph C. Miller
University of Virginia
Information: Lucy Dunderdale
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
145 Ednam Dr.
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
434/924-6395
dunderlucy@gmail.com

The Abolitionist Movement: Fighting Against Slavery
and Racial Injustice from the American Revolution
to the Civil War
July 6-August 1, 2008 (4 weeks)
Richard Newman
Department of History
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
585/475-2438
rsngsm@rit.edu
(Seminar location: Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
June 22-July 18, 2008 (4 weeks)
David Raybin, Eastern Illinois University, and
Susanna Fein, Kent State University
Information: David Raybin
English Department
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920
217/581-2428
draybin@eiu.edu
www.eiu.edu/~neh2008/
(Seminar locations: London and Canterbury, England)

Authors in the Prado: Spanish Painting and
the Literature It Inspired (In Spanish)
June 22-July 26, 2008 (5 weeks)
John R. Rosenberg
College of Humanities
4002 JFSB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801/422-2775
neh@byu.edu
neh.byu.edu
(Seminar location: Madrid, Spain)

The President and Congress: Constitutional Principles
and Practices That Have Shaped Our Understanding
of the War Powers
July 8-July 19, 2008 (2 weeks)
Michael Uhlmann
Department of Politics and Policy
Claremont Graduate University
150 E. 10th Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Information: Susannah Patton
sgpatton@verizon.net
(Seminar location: Washington, D.C.)

Poetry as a Form of Life, Life as a Form of Poetry
July 6-July 25, 2008 (3 weeks)
Helen Vendler
Harvard University
Information: William Holinger
Harvard Summer School
51 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-998-8515
William_holinger@harvard.edu
www.summer.harvard.edu/2008/programs/neh/

Petrarch and Provence: Between Seclusion and the World
June 30-July 25, 2008 (4 weeks)
Ronald Witt
History Department, Duke University
Information: Betty B. Cowan
NEH Seminar
2808 Ferrand Drive
Durham, NC 27705-0736
919/383-3276
Betty.cowan@duke.edu
www-history.aas.duke.edu/nehsummer/
(Seminar location: Avignon, France)

Institutes

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.

Mozart's Worlds
June 16-July 11, 2008 (4 weeks)
Richard P. Benedum
Information: Carolyn Ludwig
Humanities Office
University of Dayton
Dayton, OH 45469-1549
937/229-3490
carolyn.ludwig@notes.udayton.edu
www.udayton.edu/~nehinstitute2008
(Institute location: Vienna, Austria)

J.S. Bach in the Baroque and the Enlightenment
June 30-July 25, 2008 (4 weeks)
Hilde M. Binford and Paul Larson
Information: Hilde M. Binford
Department of Music
Moravian College
1200 Main Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018
610/861-1691
hbinford@moravian.edu
home.moravian.edu/public/music/bach/
(Institute locations in Germany: Eisenach, Leipzig, Potsdam)

Houses of Mortals and Gods: Latin Literature in Context
June 23-July 28, 2008 (5 weeks)
Therese Dougherty and Theresa Lamy
Department of Classical and Modern Foreign Languages
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
4701 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
410/532-5559
tdougherty@ndm.edu
(Institute locations: Baltimore and Italy)

Thomas Jefferson: Personality, Character, and Public Life
July 13-August 8, 2008 (4 weeks)
Peter Gibbon
Boston University
School of Education
2 Sherborn Street
Boston, MA 02215
617/353-4817
peterhgibbon@comcast.net www.thomasjeffersonpersonalitycharacterandpubliclife.org
(Institute locations: Boston, Massachusetts, and Charlottesville, Virginia)

Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens
July 12- August 2, 2008 (3 weeks)
Will Harris
Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier
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
(Institute location: Los Angeles, California)

Multiple Perspectives on the Holocaust
June 26-July 29, 2008 (5 weeks)
Norma J. Hervey, Department of History, and
Information: Norma J. Hervey
Luther College
700 College Drive
Decorah, IA 52101
563/387-1806
herveynj@luther.edu
history.luther.edu/institute/
(Institute locations: Prague, Berlin, Ravensbrueck, Krakow, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Washington, D.C.)

Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
in Upstate New York
July 14-August 1, 2008 (3 weeks)
Graham R. Hodges
Department of History
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
315/228-7517
315-228-7098 (fax)
ghodges@mail.colgate.edu

Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region
July 7-July 31, 2008 (4 weeks)
Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross, and
Leonard van der Kuijp, Harvard University
Information: Todd Lewis
Box 139-A 425 Smith Hall
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
508-793-3436
tlewis@holycross.edu

Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship
July 13-August 2, 2008 (3 weeks)
James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage
c/o The Churchill Centre
P. O. Box 945
Downers Grove, IL 60515-0945
888/972-1874
866/275-0477 (fax)
NEH2008@winstonchurchill.org
winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1117
(Institute locations in England: Cambridge and London)

Voices across Time:
Teaching American History through Song
July 7-August 8, 2008 (5 weeks)
Deane L. Root and Mariana E. Whitmer
Information: Mariana E. Whitmer
Center for American Music
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412/624-4100
amerimus@pitt.edu
http://www.voicesacrosstime.org

From the Yucatan to "The Halls of Montezuma"—Mesoamerican Cultures and Their Histories
July 14-August 8, 2008 (4 weeks)
Stephanie Wood and Judith Musick
Information: Stephanie Wood
WHP
1201 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1201
541/346-5771
swood@uoregon.edu
whp.uoregon.edu/MesoInstitute/

Folger Shakespeare Library:
Teaching Shakespeare 2008 Institute
July 6-August 2, 2008 (4 weeks)
Robert Young
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Information: Niki Torres
202/675-0395
educate@folger.edu