Category: Arts and Humanities Awards $250,000 or More

  • Jagodinsky, Katrina

    Jagodinsky, Katrina

    With a grant from the National Science Foundation, historian Katrina Jagodinsky is exploring how various marginalized groups – immigrants, women, and indigenous and enslaved people, for example – used habeas corpus, a longstanding legal principle enabling prisoners to challenge the legality of their detentions, to claim freedom and establish their rights between 1812 and 1924.…

  • Jacobs, Margaret

    Jacobs, Margaret

    With a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project, Margaret Jacobs and Christina Faw Faw Goodson are leading a multifaceted project aimed at reconnecting members of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe with their ancestral homeland in southeast Nebraska and educating Nebraskans about the area’s Indigenous history. Jacobs, Charles J. Mach Professor of History and director of the…