NEH awardees

Two UO faculty awarded NEH grants

Joseph Priestly time chartDaniel Rosenberg, Clark Honors College, along with project co-director Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) have been awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant of $99,985 for their project “Time Online II: The Time Charts of Joseph Priestley.” The project will involve the digital reconstruction of historical infographics, specifically the timelines originally designed by British polymath Joseph Priestley in the eighteenth century.

Japanese print of woman reading a bookMaram Epstein, East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been awarded an NEH Seminars for College Teachers grant of $139,652 for “The Early Modern Vernacular Novel in China and Japan,” a four-week seminar for 16 higher education faculty to study early modern vernacular literary works from China and Japan, in the context of the growth of global commercial markets and urbanization in these countries.