Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher,strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception,art,politics,religion,biology,psychology,psychoanalysis,language,nature,and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes,the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government by an act of the U.S. Congress,signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 29,1965. It is a sub-agency of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities,along with the National Endowment for the Humanities,the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities,and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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 in the Constitution Center 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 National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals,groups,or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities,broadened our citizens' engagement with the humanities,or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to important resources in the humanities."
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.
Stephen John Brademas Jr. was an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In addition to his major legislative accomplishments,including much federal legislation pertaining to schools,arts,and the humanities,he served as the 13th president of New York University from 1981 to 1992,and was a member of and subsequently the chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition he was a board member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Francis Sheldon Hackney was an American educator,historian,and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was president of Tulane University from 1975 to 1980 and president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1993.
James Albert Smith Leach was an American academic and 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.
William Reynolds Ferris Jr. is an American author and scholar and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. With Judy Peiser he co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis,Tennessee;he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi,and is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
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.
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."
Galen A. Johnson is an American philosopher who is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island and the General Secretary of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle.
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.
Carole McAlpine Watson is an American academic who served twice as acting Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities,first in 2009 and again in 2013 to 2014. Watson studied African American literature and authored Her Prologue,a scholarly bibliography of novels by African American women published between 1859 and 1965.
The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) is a formal,non-profit association of faculty members from the nation's community colleges. The organization seeks to advocate for the humanities in the nation's two year colleges;although,it does also engage in work with four-year institutions,and much of the association's work is done through grants and affiliations with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor,former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies,and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington. Choksy completed his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1985 and doctoral work at Harvard University in 1991 where he was elected a Junior Fellow (1987-1991). From there,he embarked on a career in academia,beginning as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1991-1993) and subsequently a tenure track professor at Indiana University in 1993,eventually holding appointments in a variety of different programs in that university. He has been a NEH Fellow and Member at the School of Historical Studies,Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1993-1994),a Guggenheim Fellow (1996),a Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,Palo Alto (2001-2002),and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2018-2019).
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.
Shelly C. Lowe is an American academic administrator serving as the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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