Nieves Awarded Second NEH Grant for Advanced Topics Institute

 

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From the NEH website:

The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce three awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program from our March 2015 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 212 grants just announced by the NEH.

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN 47907)
Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities, Theories, Methods and Practice
Project Director: Kim Gallon (Purdue University)
Project Director: Angel David Nieves (Hamilton College)
Outright: $245,299

To support: A three-week summer institute and a follow-up workshop for 20 participants to explore spatial approaches to Africana Studies. The institute would be hosted by Purdue University and the follow-up workshop would be held at Hamilton College.

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