HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANT AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 1999

ALASKA

University of Alaska, Anchorage (Outright: $24,944)
CONTACT: James Liszka, (907) 786-4457
PROJECT: A Series of Seminars on Ethics in the Professions
DESCRIPTION: A series of seminars for faculty members on ethical issues in areas such as public administration and engineering as a foundation for subsequently developing an ethics-across-the-curriculum program in the professions.

CALIFORNIA

California State University, Long Beach (Outright: $24,886)
CONTACT: Arnold Kaminsky, (562) 985-5279
PROJECT: Cultural Crossroads: Integrating Southeast Asia into the Middle and High School World History Curriculum
DESCRIPTION: A series of workshops and seminars for middle and high school teachers aimed at expanding the Long Beach Unified School District's world history curriculum to include the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia.

University of the Pacific, Stockton (Outright: $25,000)
CONTACT: Gregg Camfield, (209) 946-2610
PROJECT: Building a Humanities Learning Community
DESCRIPTION: A series of seminars for humanities faculty members to explore the intellectual and structural changes needed to create new curriculum and interdisciplinary courses.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Outright: $24,670)
CONTACT: Gerald Mara, (202) 687-5604
PROJECT: Faculty Seminars on Social Theory and Culture
DESCRIPTION: A series of eight workshops aimed at finding common ground and nourishing intellectual connections between humanities and social sciences faculty.

MARYLAND

Charles County Community College, Leonardtown (Outright: $23,828)
CONTACT: Wayne Karlin, (301) 475-6546
PROJECT: Teaching the Experience of the Vietnam War through the Humanities
DESCRIPTION: A program to enable high school teachers of English, history, social studies, civics, and journalism to incorporate the history, themes, and issues of the Vietnam War and its aftermath into their courses.

Montgomery College, Rockville (Outright: $25,000)
CONTACT: Dianne Ganz Scheper, (301) 251-7453
PROJECT: Creating an Honors Humanities Learning Community for Montgomery Scholars
DESCRIPTION: The implementation of a new team-taught, interdisciplinary world cultures course at the nexus of a new honors program in this community college.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Outright: $22,933)
CONTACT: Alan Rosenthal, (410) 455-2109
PROJECT: Caribbean Texts: An Exploration of Cultural History and Identity
DESCRIPTION: A study project on Caribbean literature, history, film, and culture for faculty members.

MASSACHUSETTS

Newton Public Schools, Newton (Outright: $24,105)
CONTACT: Barbara Harrison, (617) 552-7409
PROJECT: The Examined Life: Ancient Greek Studies in the Public Schools
DESCRIPTION: A program of seminars and workshops for middle and high school teachers and administrators from the Boston area aimed at exploring "what it means to be a human through the lens of Greek antiquity."

MAINE

Kennebec Valley Technical College, Fairfield (Outright: $24,640)
CONTACT: Janet Tarbuck, (207) 453-5138
PROJECT: Communities: A Study of Native American Literature and Culture
DESCRIPTION: A project on Native American literature in its historical and cultural contexts for faculty members from diverse disciplines at the college.

Unity College, Unity (Outright: $25,000)
CONTACT: James Horan, (207) 948-3131
PROJECT: Environmental Studies: An Integrative Humanities Curriculum
DESCRIPTION: A faculty study project for the design and implementation of a new core humanities program with environmental stewardship as its unifying theme.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Franklin Pierce College, Rindge (Outright: $24,500)
CONTACT: John Harris, (603) 899-4010
PROJECT: Land, History, and a Sense of Place: A Collaborative Faculty Colloquium
DESCRIPTION: A colloquium for Franklin Pierce College faculty and Keene High School teachers on place as a topic of interdisciplinary study.

NEW JERSEY

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark (Outright: $25,000)
CONTACT: Kate Burns Ottavino, (973) 596-3094
PROJECT: Humanities Interdisciplinary Historic Preservation Course for the Twelfth Grade
DESCRIPTION: The development of curricular materials for a prototype high school course in Historic Preservation.

NEW YORK

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo (Outright: $25,000)
CONTACT: William Siener, (716) 873-9644
PROJECT: Creating a Multi-Institution Consortium to Improve Humanities Education
DESCRIPTION: A faculty study of themes and issues growing out of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, in collaboration with a regional history museum, for a consortium of college humanities faculty.

Marist College, Poughkeepsie (Outright: $24,973)
CONTACT: Robyn L. Rosen, (914) 575-3000
PROJECT: Introducing Human Rights and the Humanities to First-Year College Students
DESCRIPTION: An interdisciplinary faculty study project on human rights.

New School University, New York (Outright: $23,575)
CONTACT: Caroline Payson, (212) 229-8916
PROJECT: Korean Arts History Seminars for Parsons Faculty
DESCRIPTION: A series of seminars and workshops aimed at making the Parsons School of Design a leading center for the study of Korean art and design, from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

NORTH CAROLINA

Guilford College, Greensboro (Outright: $24,625)
CONTACT: Dorothy V. Borei, (336) 316-2219
PROJECT: Historical Perspectives in the New Curriculum
DESCRIPTION: A series of workshops to prepare faculty members to teach sections of "Historical Perspectives," a new required course for first-year students.

Motheread, Inc., Raleigh (Outright: $24,986)
CONTACT: Linda Capell, (919) 781-2088
PROJECT: Abuela Faculty Enrichment Project
DESCRIPTION: A study of Latino literary traditions and history by educators associated with Motheread, Inc., in connection with the development of a humanities-based reading curriculum for dissemination to literacy educators across the nation.

NORTH DAKOTA

University of North Dakota-Lake Region, Devil's Lake (Outright: $25,000)
CONTACT: Sam Johnson, (701) 662-1600
PROJECT: Language of the Land: A Journey into Great Plains Life and Literature
DESCRIPTION: A study by middle and high school teachers and college professors, on the literature, history, and culture of the Great Plains.

OHIO

Worthington Public Schools, Worthington (Outright: $21,863)
CONTACT: Rhoda Gelles, (614) 883-3055
PROJECT: Multicultural American Narrative: A Rhetorical and Cultural Approach
DESCRIPTION: A study of multicultural American narratives for high school humanities teachers in Worthington and Columbus, Ohio.

WASHINGTON

Western Washington University, Bellingham (Outright: $24,850)
CONTACT: Raymond Wolpow, (360) 650-3337
PROJECT: Holocaust-Genocide Studies Reconsidered: Workshop for Teachers, Grades 4-12
DESCRIPTION: A study project on the Holocaust and other episodes of genocide for teachers from public and independent schools in the northwest corner of Washington state.