Promotion of the Humanities_Professional Development

Examples of Funded Projects

(1) Introducing James Joyce (summer seminar for school teachers); (2) Modernist Paris (summer seminar for college teachers); (3) Houses of Mortals and Gods: Latin Literature in Context (summer institute for school teachers); (4) Mayan Worlds in Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize (summer institute for college teachers); (5) Two one-week school teacher workshops to explore the story of silver mining in the West and its relationship to broader themes in American history (Landmarks of American History and Culture); (6) Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty to focus on the region surrounding Concord, Massachusetts, and its role in American utopian thought in the early nineteenth century (Landmarks of American History and Culture); (7) A year-long faculty seminar at a community college on Aristotle's works and contribution to Western thought (Faculty Humanities Workshop); (8) Two-week summer workshops for local secondary school teachers on recent scholarship and approaches to the American Civil War (Faculty Humanities Workshop).

Program Accomplishments

In fiscal year 2005, 262 applications were received and 85 awards were made.