CLAS faculty receive National Endowment for the Humanities award

Drs Liette Gidlow, History, Scott Richmond, English, and a team headed by Krysta Ryzewski, Anthropology, have all been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities award.

Dr. Gidlow received a summer stipend of $6,000 for her project "Black Women's Disfranchisement and the Fight for Voting Rights, 1920-1945."

Dr. Richmond received a summer stipend of $6,000 for his project "A Theoretical and Historical Account of Media Viewership".

Dr. Ryzewski and a group of other WSU faculty members received a Digital Humanities Start-up Grant of $60,000 for the project "Ethnic Layers of Detroit: Experiencing Place through Digital Storytelling". Other faculty and staff involved in the project include:

Dr. Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, Foreign Language Technology Center

Dr. Alina Klin, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Polish)

Dr. Laura Kline, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Russian)

Dr. Julie Koehler, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (German)

Dr. Felecia Lucht, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (German)

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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. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at neh.gov.