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