CHALLENGE GRANT AWARDS
Office of Challenge Grants
Announced: November 1999

ALABAMA

Montgomery
Alabama State University (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total: $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Janice R. Franklin, (334) 229-4106
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for preservation of documents, program activities including the gathering of oral histories, and faculty development workshops on the history of civil rights and African American culture.

ILLINOIS

Chicago
Columbia College Center for Black Music Research (3:1)
NEH grant: $450,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,350,000 ~ Total: $1,800,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., (312) 344-7561
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for a humanities technology specialist to expand the content of the center's website, and a library and archives cataloger to improve access to the center's library collection.

IOWA

Clear Lake
Clear Lake Public Library (3:1)
NEH grant: $375,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,125,000 ~ Total: $1,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jean M. Casey, (515) 357-6134
DESCRIPTION: Renovation and expansion of the library's 1918 Carnegie building to enable improved humanities programming.

Dubuque
Dubuque County Historical Society (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total: $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jerry A. Enzler, (319) 557-9545
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for key humanities positions and renovation of the existing Mississippi River Museum.

Dubuque
Loras College (3:1)
NEH grant: $400,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,200,000 ~ Total $1,600,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John M. Burney, (319) 588-7141
DESCRIPTION: Endowment in support of a new interdisciplinary seminar called Modes of Inquiry for all first-year students and of Interdisciplinary Humanities Study Grants for faculty groups to develop courses around major humanities themes.

MAINE

Portland
Maine Humanities Council (3:1)
NEH grant: $250,000 ~ Nonfederal: $750,000 ~ Total: $1,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Dorothy Schwartz, (207) 773-5051
DESCRIPTION: Purchase and renovation of a building to house the Maine Center for the Book and the Maine Humanities Council, and endowment for humanities programming at the Maine Center for the Book.

MARYLAND

St. Michaels
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total: $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Melissa McLoud, (410) 745-2916
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for the museum's Center for Chesapeake Studies, including humanities scholars-in-residence, humanities programs and the position of director.

MASSACHUSETTS

Sandwich
Sandwich Glass Museum (3:1)
NEH grant: $440,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,320,000 ~ Total $1,760,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Bruce A. Courson, (508) 888-0251
DESCRIPTION: Renovation to include a working glass furnace, improved exhibition space and an orientation theater, plus endowment for a humanities position.

Worcester
American Antiquarian Society (4:1)
NEH grant: $450,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,800,000 ~ Total $2,250,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nancy Burkett, (508) 363-1163
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for the acquisition of books, manuscripts, pamphlets and other items for the society's collections.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Canterbury
Canterbury Shaker Village (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Scott T. Swank, (603) 783-9511
DESCRIPTION: Construction of a visitor center, restoration of two original buildings and a historic garden, and endowment for humanities programming.

NEW JERSEY

Princeton
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robert Weisbuch, (609) 452-7007
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for a program of dissertation grants in women's studies, and for a humanities fund to support pilot programs, a humanities specialist position and conferences.

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque
University of New Mexico (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTORS: Martha Weigle, (505) 277-4405/Mari Lyn Salvador, (505) 277-4524
DESCRIPTION: Renovations, website development and an endowment for staff salaries, honoraria, fellowships and public programming in the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies.

NEW YORK

New York
American Council of Learned Societies (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John H. D'Arms, (212) 697-1505
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for fellowship stipends.

New York
Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Ehsan O. Yarshater, (212) 280-3600
DESCRIPTION: An endowment for the completion of the encyclopaedia and future projects.

NORTH CAROLINA

Charlotte
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal $1,500,000 ~ Total: $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Robert E. Cannon, (704) 336-2530
DESCRIPTION: Creation of a new humanities programming endowment.

OHIO

Columbus
Ohio State University (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Diane W. Birckbichler, (614) 292-4361
DESCRIPTION: Endowment to support scholars, a K-12 workshop and a new technologically advanced world media and cultural center.

Dayton
University of Dayton (4:1)
NEH grant: $300,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,200,000 ~ Total $1,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Paul J. Morman, (937) 229-2611
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for a fund to support faculty collaboration and integration of the humanities with professional programs in business, education, and engineering.

OREGON

Eugene
University of Oregon Museum of Art (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David A. Robertson, (541) 346-0972
DESCRIPTION: Renovation of the existing facility and construction of additional classroom space for humanities programming.

PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia
Library Company of Philadelphia (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: John C. Van Horne, (215) 546-3181
DESCRIPTION: Renovation of a townhouse for a Center for Advanced Study in Early American History and Culture; and endowment for maintenance, a curator's salary, acquisitions and fellowships.

Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Michael T. Ryan, (215) 898-7552
DESCRIPTION: Space renovations and endowment for a staff position, public programming and technology acquisitions in the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Images.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Kyle
Oglala Lakota College (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Thomas Shortbull, (605) 455-2321
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for two chairs in Lakota Studies and Lakota language.

VIRGINIA

Arlington
George Mason University (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Roy A. Rosenzweig, (703) 993-1247
DESCRIPTION: An endowment for postdoctoral, graduate and faculty fellowships and software.

Charlottesville
University of Virginia (4:1)
NEH grant: $200,000 ~ Nonfederal: $800,000 ~ Total $1,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: David M. Seaman, (804) 924-3230
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for hardware and software maintenance, project digitizing support and training of humanities graduate students in the Electronic Text Center at Alderman Library.

WASHINGTON

Seattle
Seattle Art Museum (4:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $2,000,000 ~ Total $2,500,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Jill 0. Rullkoetter, (206) 654-3144
DESCRIPTION: Endowment for humanities programs at the museum's teacher resource center, humanities scholars, education staff salaries, and new distance learning opportunities.

Seattle Seattle Public Library (3:1)
NEH grant: $500,000 ~ Nonfederal: $1,500,000 ~ Total $2,000,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Nancy L. Pearl, (206) 386-4184
DESCRIPTION: Creation of endowment to support humanities programming, humanities acquisitions and salary for a humanities staff position at the Washington Center for the Book.

WEST VIRGINIA

Charleston
West Virginia Humanities Council (3:1)
NEH grant: $150,000 ~ Nonfederal: $450,000 ~ Total $600,000
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Kenneth C. Sullivan, (304) 346-8500
DESCRIPTION: Acquisition and renovation of the historic MacFarland/Hubbard House in Charleston as a site for humanities programs.