Faculty Humanities Workshops Division of Education Programs Announced: February 2007 District of Columbia Regional Tour of Teaching Shakespeare Workshops in New York City and Tulsa Folger Shakespeare Library, — Washington Contact: Michael LoMonico     Outright: $69,023 Weeklong workshops in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and New York City designed to lead sixty teachers in an examination of two plays by William Shakespeare. Florida Between Columbus and Jamestown: Spanish St. Augustine Workshop Series Florida Humanities Council, — St. Petersburg Contact: Monica Rowland     Outright: $45,568 Three one day workshops for fifty Florida K 12 teachers on historic St. Augustine and the Spanish colonial experience in America. Illinois Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the West College of DuPage, — Glen Ellyn Contact: Eva Maria Rapple     Outright: $30,000 A yearlong workshop for seven full time and seven part time humanities and fine arts faculty members to compare aesthetic concepts and beliefs in Asian and Western traditions through the study of philosophy and the fine arts. How to Teach a Poem (and Learn from One, Too) DePaul University, — Chicago Contact: Eric Selinger     Outright: $64,788 An eleven month Faculty Humanities Workshop aimed at providing twenty Chicago area middle school teachers with the knowledge and expertise to teach poetry more effectively in their classrooms. Maryland Baltimore: Portal to the American Identity Baltimore City Public School System, — Baltimore Contact: Kevin Jenkins     Outright: $74,896 A series of six full day workshops for forty elementary and secondary school history teachers on Baltimore's history from colonial times through the twentieth century. Classical Scholarship and the Age of Augustus College of Notre Dame of Maryland, — Baltimore Contact: Therese Dougherty     Outright: $29,999 A series of workshops for sixteen high school Latin teachers on the history and culture of Augustan Rome. Massachusetts Emily Dickinson: Person, Poetry, and Place Amherst College, — Amherst Contact: Cynthia Dickinson     Outright: $57,897 A Faculty Humanities Workshop series for twenty four local K-12 teachers on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. Of Migration(s) and Renaissance(s): Harlem and Chicago, 1915-1975 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, — North Adams Contact: Frances Jones Sneed     Outright: $60,000 Six one day workshops for fifteen community college faculty and secondary schoolteachers on African American cultural expression in Harlem, New York, and Chicago's South Side following the Great Migration. New Jersey American Cities and Public Spaces Community College Humanities Association, — Newark Contact: George Scheper     Outright: $75,000 A residential program at the Library of Congress for ten community college humanities faculty members for guided research and participation in lecture/discussion sessions around the topic of American cities and public spaces. New York Heartland Passage: Teaching the Erie Canal in American History City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture, — New York Contact: Marci Reaven     Outright: $71,700 A four day workshop for fifty teachers in grades 4-8 on the history of the Erie Canal from its groundbreaking in 1817 to the present day. Shakespeare Fellows' Project Theatre for a New Audience, — New York Contact: Joseph Giardina     Outright: $51,174 A two week summer workshop for twenty New York City school teachers on four of William Shakespeare's plays. Vermont The Gilded Age Through the Lens of Vermont Vermont Historical Society, — Barre Contact: Jerry Desmarais     Outright: $33,242 A workshop series for twenty middle and high school teachers on Vermont's historical, literary, and artistic legacy during the Gilded Age. Virginia The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century Northern Virginia Community College, — Annandale Contact: Charles Evans     Outright: $29,920 A series of workshops and activities for twelve faculty members to broaden their understanding of digital humanities and enhance their ability to use digitized humanities materials in the courses they teach. Wisconsin The Examined Life Integrating Philosophy into Secondary Education University of Wisconsin, — Stout, Menomonie Contact: Jerry Kapus     Outright: $    74,906 A weeklong philosophy workshop for twenty high school teachers focusing on the examined life and its value.