Wayne State faculty receive a digital humanities start-up grant of $60,000

Dr. Ryzewski, Department of Anthropology and a group of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures faculty members received a digital humanities start-up grant of $60,000 for the project "Ethnic Layers of Detroit: Experiencing Place through Digital Storytelling." The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences staff involved in the project include:

• Dr. Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, Foreign Language Technology Center
• Dr. Alina Klin (Polish)
• Dr. Laura Kline (Russian)
• Dr. Julie Koehler (German)
• Dr. Felecia Lucht (German)

About the National Endowment for the Humanities

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation.