DeLauro Applauds NEH Grants for Wesleyan, Yale Universities
WASHINGTON, DC--Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today released the following statement applauding two National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants for Wesleyan University and four for Yale University.
“I am delighted to extend my congratulations to Wesleyan and Yale for receiving these highly competitive grants. They are leaders in producing critical pieces of work that are central to our culture, our creativity and our collective memory as a society. Everyone in Connecticut is proud that these world class institutions call our community home.
“I was honored to host Chairman Adams in New Haven earlier this year and am grateful to the NEH for supporting research and public engagement around the humanities. I look forward to continuing to support its mission across the nation.”
The grants are as follows:
· $46,200 for Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan Associate Professor of History, and her project, French Enlightenment Philosopher and Critic Denis Diderot (1713-1784): The Art of Thinking Freely
· $50,400 for Andrew Curran, Wesleyan Professor of the Humanities, and his project, Caught on Camera: A History of Photographic Detection and Evasion
· $50,400 for Edward Ball, nonfiction writing teacher at Yale, and his project, Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman
· $100,000 for Gregory Sterling, Dean of the Yale Divinity School, and his project, On the Life of Abraham, by Philo of Alexandria: A New Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
· $250,000 for Yale’s Harry Stout and his project, Jonathan Edwards Center Online Initiative
· $290,000 for Eckart Frahm, co-organizer of Yale’s Assyriological Seminar series, and his project, Cuneiform Commentaries Project: Editing History's Earliest Hermeneutic Texts, Online and in Print
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