[Nick Di Taranto]

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Seminars and Institutes program offers tuition-free opportunities for  higher education faculty to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1,200-$3,300 help cover expenses for these one- to four-week programs. This Summer the NEH is proudly funding two programs that may be of interest to members in this group. Follow the links below for more information about each program.
<h3>Privilege and Prejudice: Jewish History in the American South  </h3>
For more than four decades, historians have been working diligently to shed light upon the experiences of Jews living in the American South. Yet despite concerted endeavors, the subject of southern Jewry has remained isolated from the broader field of southern history, as well as from American and Jewish histories. This institute aims to revise our understanding of the entwined histories of the American South and its Jewish inhabitants. Our inquiry shifts Jews from the margins of the story to the center, demonstrating the region’s cosmopolitan past and its relationship to both diversity and discrimination.
<h3>Religion, Secularism, and the Novel</h3>
Postsecular studies calls for richer scholarly accounts of the religious and the secular: accounts that don’t assume the decline of religion in modernity, but that identify its manifold metamorphoses under secularizing cross-pressures. Studying Robinson Crusoe, Silas Marner, Dracula, On the Road, and Marilynne Robinson’s Home alongside a range of interdisciplinary work, this seminar asks whether the novel is a secularizing genre and explores nonbinary ways of understanding secular and religious elements in these texts. This three-week seminar considers a range of new scholarship on postsecular studies and the novel and provides a stimulating environment for developing participants’` individual projects.

 

 

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