AAA Members Receive NEH Grant Funding

December 14, 2016

The American Anthropological Association congratulates the AAA members who today received a total of more than $150,000 in grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).  

• Project Director: Jane Goodman, Indiana University, Bloomington
  [Fellowships for University Teachers] Outright Grant: $50,400  
  Project Title: Democracy and Cultural Exchange after the Arab Spring
  
  
• Project Director: Carla Sinopoli, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  [Preservation Assistance Grants] Outright Grant: $5,997  
  Project Title: Rehousing Collections of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
  
  
• Project Director: Ayala Fader, Fordham University
  [Fellowships for University Teachers] Outright Grant: $50,400  
  Project Title: The Internet and the New York Ultra-orthodox Jewish Community
  
  
• Project Director: Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke University
  [Fellowships for University Teachers] Outright Grant: $50,400  
  Project Title: The New Financial Elite: Race, Mobility, and Ressentiment After Apartheid

Fellowships support college and university teachers and independent scholars pursuing advanced research, while Preservation Assistance Grants help institutions —particularly small and mid-sized institutions— improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections, including special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects.

Learn more about the most recent round of funding on the NEH website.