Philosophers Win NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced $21 million in funding awarded to 248 humanities projects. Among them are ten (if I missed any, please let me know) which are directed by philosophers. Congratulations to the winners:
- Christa Acampora; Mariann Weierich (co-project director), Hunter College
$90,594 [Dialogues on the Experience of War]
Project Title: The Experience of War: Moral Transformation,Injury, and Repair
Project Description: A discussion series on war and morality, principally for veterans from Hunter College and other campuses of the CUNY system.
- Michael Blake, University of Washington
$6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Title: Justice, Migration, and Mercy
Project Description: A book-length study on the morality of migration, the rights of citizenship, and asylum law. - Jon Burmeister, Boston College
$20,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants]
Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Work and Leisure?
Project Description: The development and teaching of a new intensive six-week summer course for undergraduates on the meaning of work and leisure. - Michael Fuerstein, St. Olaf College
$19,945 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants]
Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Value in the Marketplace
Project Description: The development and teaching of a new upper-level undergraduate course to examine the marketplace critically and morally. - Jesse Kirkpatrick; Edward Barrett (co-project director), George Mason University
$81,597 [Dialogues on the Experience of War]
Project Title: Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War
Project Description: Three discussion programs on the moral, psychological, and spiritual impact of military service, to be held at three locations in the Washington, DC area. - Barry Lam, Vassar College
$6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Title: Soldier Philosophers: The Ethics of War from Soldiers who Served
Project Description: A digital one-hour audio podcast on soldier-philosophers. - Jason Leddington, Bucknell University
$6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Title: The Art of the Impossible: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Aesthetics of Magic
Project Description: A book-length philosophical analysis of the aesthetics of theatrical magic. - Matthew Meyer; Kristin Schaupp (co-project director), University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
$28,000 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants]
Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on Happiness
Project Description: The development and teaching of a new course for first- and secondyear college students on the topic of happiness. - Pablo Muchnik, Emerson College
$6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Title: Rawls and Kant on the Public Use of Reason
Project Description: A chapter of a book-length study on Kant’s notion of religion and politics. - Peter Vranas, University of Wisconsin, Madison
$6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Title: New Foundations for Imperative Logic
Project Description: A book-length study on imperative logic.
Congratulations to all the winners, and sympathy to all those who (like me) applied and were rejected.
Now that I’ve been in Europe for a few months, I have to say that it’s shocking to me how different the NEH is from similar bodies on the other side of the pond. In the Netherlands, for example, funding for a humanities project might be anywhere from €100,000 to several million. Other European countries are similar. The European Research Council makes even larger awards.
I would encourage American academics to apply for these awards, which one can often try for if one has an agreement with a host European university. I wish I’d known about this stark difference years ago.Report