Two Case Western Reserve University faculty members were selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant Awards. In total, the NEH is awarding $37.5 million to 240 projects nationwide.
Maggie Popkin, professor of art history, received a $60,000 Public Scholars award to support her work writing I Came, I Saw, I Collected: A History of the Souvenir, to be published by Reaktion Books. The fellowship will allow Popkin to conduct research on souvenirs and their cultural meanings, from antiquity to the present.
Barbara Mann, the Stephen H. Hoffman Professor of Modern Hebrew in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, received a $175,000 Institutes for Higher Education Faculty award alongside co-project director Shani Avni of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Their project is titled “Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture.” The funding will allow for a two-week residential institute for 25 college and university faculty exploring the history of Jewish print culture in New York City and Rochester, New York.