The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government,established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,dedicated to supporting research,education,preservation,and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is housed at 400 7th St SW,Washington,D.C. From 1979 to 2014,NEH was at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue,N.W.,Washington,D.C.,in the Nancy Hanks Center at the Old Post Office.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues. It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies:the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS),as well as other federal partners and the private sector,to advance wide-ranging policy objectives in the arts and humanities. These include considerations for how the arts and humanities sectors can positively impact community well-being,economic development,public health,education,civic engagement,and climate change across the United States.
Joseph Daniel Duffey was an American academic,educator,anti-war activist and political appointee. He was the Democratic Party's candidate in the 1970 U.S. Senate election in Connecticut,losing to Republican Lowell Weicker. He later served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs;the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities;the director of the U.S. Information Agency;and the president or chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,the University of Massachusetts system and American University.
James Albert Smith Leach is an American academic and former politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (1977–2007).
John Agresto is an American author,lecturer,and university administrator.
Bruce Milan Cole was a longtime professor of art history at Indiana University,a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington,D.C.,a member of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission,and the eighth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Syracuse University Press,founded in 1943,is a university press that is part of Syracuse University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.
Pamela L. Caughie is a professor and graduate program director in the English Department at Loyola University of Chicago. She served as president of the Modernist Studies Association from 2009-2010. Caughie received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 1987. She is also a highly acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar,and in 2010 was granted a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $175,000 to continue her work on an electronic edition of Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Through Loyola University of Chicago's digital humanities center Caughie has worked on a digital archive for Lili Elbe,a well-known figure in transgender history. The website was launched in July 2019.
The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities is an honorary lecture series established in 1972 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). According to the NEH,the Lecture is "the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."
William Drea "Bro" Adams is an American educator and advocate for the humanities. He was the tenth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017. He served as the 14th President of Bucknell University from 1995 to 2000,and as the 19th President of Colby College from 2000 to 2014.
(Tseng) Hao Huang (黄俊豪) is a Hakka Chinese American concert pianist,published scholar,narrator,playwright,composer and the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College.
The Center for Public History and Digital Humanities is a digital humanities center in Cleveland,Ohio,based in the Department of History at Cleveland State University.
The Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is the executive leader of the National Endowment for the Humanities,an independent federal agency created in 1965. The Chair directs the NEH and is the sole position in the agency with the legal authority to make grants and awards. The NEH Chair is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The appointment and term of the Chair are statutorily defined in 20 U.S.C. § 956(b),and the Chair's authority is defined throughout 20 U.S.C. § 956. The National Council on the Humanities,a board of 26 private citizens who are also appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate,advises the Chair.
John Kuo Wei Tchen,also known as Jack,is a historian of Chinese American history and the Inaugural Clement A. Price Chair in Public History and Humanities at Rutgers University.
Jon Parrish Peede is an American book editor and literary review publisher,who served as the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2018 to 2021.
Phyllis Weliver is an American academic specializing in Victorian literature and music history.
Catherine Mary Conybeare is an academic and philologist and an authority on Augustine of Hippo. She is currently Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Irene Malamud is Professor of Ancient History and Islamic Studies at New Mexico State University. Malamud is known in particular for her work on classical reception in the United States.
Gene Andrew Jarrett is an American professor,literary scholar,and academic administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University.
Shelly C. Lowe is an American academic administrator serving as the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
