CUNY Brooklyn scholars awarded NEH grants for preservation and research

August 27, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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FLATBUSH/MANHATTAN BEACH — THREE BROOKLYN-BASED PROJECTS, two with the City University of New York, were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grants are grouped under specific categories, including Preservation Assistance Grants and Public Scholars, which the CUNY projects won. The CUNY Research Foundation at Brooklyn College is receiving $10,000 in these categories for its Haitian Studies Institute Environmental Monitoring Project, under the direction of Marie Cerat, which involves the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment and shelving, as well as the development of an environmental monitoring program for the Haitian Studies Institute’s archives.

In the Public Scholars category, Elke Sabella and CUNY Research Foundation at Kingsborough Community College was awarded $60,000 for a book based on oral histories, titled “Children of the (White Collar) Klan: Growing up in the Southern Far Right 1950–1990,” which also delves into other Southern white supremacist groups. Michelle Frank also received $60K in the Public Scholars category for her research and upcoming book on the “Chinese Marie Curie,” the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), who was passed over for a Nobel Prize in 1957.

The Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions, from which 57 grants totaling almost $542 million were awarded to help small and mid-sized institutions, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities and special collections, including maps, recordings and other historical artifacts.

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