The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced funding for 219 humanities projects nationwide. Three SAH members are among the fellowship awardees receiving a portion of more than $22.6 million as fellowship funding or project grants. Please join SAH in congratulating these members of our community:

Christina E. Crawford, Emory University, will receive $60,000 for her project on "Model Housing: Atlanta and the Foundation of American Public Housing Architecture", which aims to produce a book on the first federally funded public housing projects to be completed in the United States, a pair of racially segregated developments built in Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1930s. Crawford joined SAH in 2011, and was awarded the Robert Rettig Annual Conference Fellowship from the New England Chapter.  She is a local Co-Chair of SAH's 78th Annual Conference in Atlanta.

Ann Huppert, University of Washington, will receive $60,000 toward her research on the collaborative nature of "The Culture of Construction in Sixteenth-Century Rome." Huppert joined SAH in 1993. She received a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in 2005, and an SAH Mellon Author Award in 2014. She served as a Speaker at the 2015 Annual Conference, and a Session Chair at the 2018 & 2025 Annual Conferences, as a JSAH Book Review Editor in 2020-2023, and currently serves on the SAH Board and chairs the Board & Officer Nominating Committee.

Ginger Nolan, University of Southern California, will receive $45,000 to support research and writing for  "Black Capitalism and the City: African American Insurance and the Actuarial Imagination," leading to a book on the history of African American-owned insurance companies from 1965 to the late 1980s.  Nolan joined SAH in 2011.  She served as a Speaker at the 2015 Annual conference, and as a Session Chair at the 2018 Annual Conference.   Ginger also was the initial awardee of the Places Prize for Public History in 2022.

Commenting on the importance of these awards, National Humanities Alliance (NHA) Executive Director Stephen Kidd said:

“Grants for digital humanities projects will support the use of new technologies and digital methods in public humanities programming... [and] will strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities in higher ed through the development or enhancement of humanities programs, courses, and resources. [NHA] will continue advocating for increased federal support for future grants in 2025 and beyond.”