The NEHC is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Request for Proposals. These are competitive seed grants for research initiatives in the humanities that seek to capitalize on the collaborative network of the Consortium.
Building a New England Digital Humanities Consortium: A Workshop on the Potential for Shared Digital Tools and Resources
Co-Principal Investigator
Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Professor, Anthropology
University of New Hampshire
Co-Principal Investigator
Stephen Trzaskoma
Professor; Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies
University of New Hampshire
Co-Principal Investigator
R. Scott Smith
Professor; Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies
University of New Hampshire
Co-Principal Investigator
Anke Finger
Professor; German Studies, Media Studies, and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
University of Connecticut
Race and Identity Matters (RIM)
Principal Investigator
Kerill O’Neil
Julian D. Taylor Professor, Classics
Colby College
William Apess’s Eulogy on King Philip
Principal Investigator
Martin Blatt
Professor the Practice, History Department
Northeastern University
Collaborator
Lisa Brooks
Professor of English and American Studies
Amherst College
A member of the Abenaki Nation, Brooks is the author of Our Beloved Kin.
Collaborator
Colin Calloway
John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies
Dartmouth College
Collaborator
Kellie Carter Jackson
Knafel Assistant Professor of Humanities; Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Wellesley College
Collaborator
Nancy Shoemaker
Professor of History
University of Connecticut
William Apess’s Eulogy on King Philip is a public reading and panel discussion that seeks to bring together Native Americans from all over New England to critically address the history of the conversion of Native American to Christianity, King Philip’s War, and William Apess’ Eulogy on King Philip.
In spring 2020, the project will convene a public event hosted by the Massachuset Tribe at Ponkapoag. The event will be held at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge. The evening program will begin with a brief introduction by Lisa Brooks framing the central issues of the evening followed by a reading of an edited version of the Apess eulogy by Native American readers. The reading will be followed by a meal of Native American food and then a panel discussion. This program is inspired by the highly successful public readings/discussions of Frederick Douglass's The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro, which have been sponsored by MASS Humanities for the past decade.