Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development
Division of Education Programs
Announced: February 2004
California
California State University, Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach (Outright: $114,091)
Contact: Patricia Cleary, (562) 985-4419
Project: The Elizabeth Murray Project: An Educational Website for Early American History
Description: A materials development project to create an educational website exploring the life and times of Elizabeth Murray, a colonial Boston shopkeeper who was involved in trans-Atlantic commerce and the politics of the American Revolution.
Website: http://back.acs.csulb.edu:8080/emurray/
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont (Outright: $99,555)
Contact: Karen Torjesen, (909) 621-8085
Project: Comparing Religions: Theory and Practice
Description: A curriculum development project to create three core courses in the comparative study of religion.
Illinois
City Colleges of Chicago, Wilbur Wright College, Chicago (Outright: $146,448)
Contact: Bruce Gans, (773) 481-8014
Project: National Great Books Project: Humanities Education for Minority and Non-Traditional Community College Students
Description: A materials development project to provide online resources for teaching Great Books courses in the nation's community colleges.
Website: http://faculty.ccc.edu/colleges/wright/greatbooks/home.htm
Newberry Library, Chicago (Outright: $199,938)
Contact: Frank Higbie, (312) 255-3568
Project: The North American Midlands Web Site: Resources for Teaching and Learning American History in a Global Perspective
Description: A materials development project to design and initiate a digital archive and website on the history of the Great Lakes region from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (Outright: $79,622)
Contact: Drew VandeCreek, (815) 753-7179
Project: The Abraham Lincoln Curriculum Project
Description: A curriculum development project to create a website on Lincoln's life and times in antebellum Illinois for students in grades 9 through 12.
Website: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago (Outright: $199,643)
Contact: Joshua Radinsky, (312) 413-0326
Project: Bringing Historical Census Data Alive with Geographic Information Systems
Description: A materials development project to make census data available to teachers and students through online interactive data maps and to create related curriculum modules on five key topics in American history.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (Outright: $179,986, Additional Match: $10,000)
Contact: Shigeru Miyagawa, (617) 253-6346
Project: Facing "East," Facing "West": Japan, The United States and The World
Description: A materials development project to create an archive of images providing a visual record of interactions between Japan and the outside world between 1850 and 1900.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston (Outright: $118,592, Additional Match: $81,408)
Contact: Linda Rhoads, (617) 646-0519
Project: The Coming of the American Revolution (1764-1776): A Web-Based Timeline/Documentary History
Description: A materials development project to create an educational website on the coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776.
Michigan
Michigan State University, East Lansing (Outright: $199,996)
Contact: Mark Kornbluh, (517) 355-9300
Project: South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
Description: A materials development project on the history of apartheid in South Africa, including the perspective of ordinary citizens as well as prominent leaders, for use primarily in high school and middle school social studies classes.
Montana
Montana Historical Society, Helena (Outright: $197,094)
Contact: Kristin Gallas, (406) 444-4794
Project: The Big Picture: Montana in the 20th Century
Description: A materials development project to create twelve 15-minute DVDs and a companion website on 20th-century Montana history for use in middle and high school classrooms.
New Mexico
School of American Research, Santa Fe (Outright: $190,121)
Contact: James Brooks, (505) 954-7263
Project: Southwest Crossroads: Cultures and Histories of the American Southwest
Description: A materials development project to create a content-rich interactive website for students in grades 7-12 on the history and peoples of the American Southwest.
New York
Asia Society, New York (Outright: $200,000)
Contact: Marleen Kassel, (212) 327-9305
Project: Interweaving Cultures: Islam in Southeast Asia
Description: A materials development project to produce interactive online and text-based resources demonstrating the various historical manifestations of Islam in southeast Asia for teachers of history, geography, social studies, literature, and art history.
Columbia University, New York (Outright: $200,000)
Contact: Robert Carlucci, (212) 854-1938
Project: The Asian Art Digital Teaching Project
Description: A materials development project to produce a series of online modules for the study of masterworks of Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian art, using a form of presentation that harmonizes with the ways in which the originals were intended to be viewed.
CUNY Research Foundation, City College, New York (Outright: $191,044)
Contact: David Jaffee, (212) 650-7469
Project: Investigating History
Description: A materials development project to create twelve Internet-based educational modules on central topics covered in introductory United States history courses.
CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center, New York (Outright: $200,000)
Contact: Joshua Brown, (212) 817-1970
Project: Young America: Experiences of Youth in U.S. History
Description: A materials development project to create an online website with teaching resources on children and youth in seven areas of American history.
SUNY Research Foundation, Buffalo, Buffalo (Outright: $197,881)
Contact: Maureen Jameson, (716) 645-2191 x1172
Project: The LiTgloss Project: Materials Development in Multiple Languages
Description: A materials development project to enhance and promote an annotated website which would facilitate the reading of humanities texts in their original languages.
Website: http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/
North Carolina
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park
(Outright: $182,837)
Contact: Richard Schramm, (919) 549-9901
Project: Seminar Toolbox on America's Colonization and Settlement: 1585-1760
Description: A materials development project to create a web-based educational "toolbox" of texts and supporting resources on the early American colonial period, 1585-1760.
Ohio
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (Outright: $182,000, Additional Match: $7,500)
Contact: Elizabeth Riorden, (513) 556-0946
Project: Troy on the Internet
Description: materials development project to create a multimedia website on the archaeological and literary history of Troy for elementary and secondary school teachers and students.
Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (Outright: $179,091, Additional Match: $10,000)
Contact: Michele Heryford, (412) 648-7417
Project: Perspectives on Japan: Tradition and Modernity, A Resource Website for Post-Secondary Institutions
Description: A materials development project to produce web-based resources comprising thematic units for an introductory course on Japan.
Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus, University Park (Outright: $159,049)
Contact: Vickie Ziegler, (814) 863-7484
Project: Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History
Description: A materials development project to create an educational website relating medieval European agricultural history and technology to the development of early American economy, society, and institutions.
Rhode Island
Brown University, Providence (Outright: $178,000, Additional Match: $10,000)
Contact: Massimo Riva, (401) 863-3984
Project: The Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL): Networked Resources
Description: A materials development project to create an interactive website, the Virtual Humanities Lab to post and connect works by Boccaccio and Pico with other primary sources illuminating the civic and intellectual life of early modern Italy for teachers, students, and scholars.
Website: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Decameron
Texas
University of Texas, Austin, Austin (Outright: $140,000, Additional Match: $30,000)
Contact: Stephen Black, (512) 471-5998
Project: Prehistoric Texas: Online Educational Resources for Understanding Ancient Peoples and their Lifeways
Description: A materials development project to create online resources such as interactive maps and artifact galleries to explicate prehistoric cultures of each Texas region for grades K-12 in formats that would meet state standards and be publicly available on an existing website.
Website: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/
Vermont
Middlebury College, Middlebury (Outright: $100,550)
Contact: Carmen Tesser, (802) 443-5510
Project: Learning Language Through Cultural Texts: Brazilian Portuguese
Description: A materials development project to create resources for the study of Portuguese for language learners already proficient in Spanish.