Two Husker teams receive humanities funding

On March 28, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced that two of the university’s digital humanities initiatives would receive more than $640,000. The organization funds projects that support vital research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. The Husker recipients are:

• Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History. Her team received $349,899 for the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project, aimed at compiling, digitizing and making accessible materials from the Genoa, Nebraska, school, one of the largest established by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to assimilate indigenous people into Euro-American culture.
• Matt Cohen, professor of English. His team received $292,627 to redesign the Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive, which spotlights the work of Chesnutt, an African American author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who is considered a pioneer in writing on themes of race and justice. The project is a partnership between Nebraska and The New School in New York City.