Grant History

WHP has attracted more than $1.6 million in grants and prizes since 2006. We are currently directing multiple research projects that will run through various terminal points, the most distant being December 2018. We have one proposal pending, submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in July 2017, seeking a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant.

  • NEH Collaborative Research — Kislak Techialoyans/Mapas Project, 2006–08
    • $100,000
  • NEH Summer Institute — Mesoamerican Cultures & their Histories, 2008
    • $178,318
  • NEH Preservation and Access —  TILE Project Subaward, 2009–11
    • $14,400
  • NEH/NSF Endangered Languages — Online Nahuatl Lexicon, 2009–12 (no-cost extension through 2013)
    • $350,000
  • East Asian Initiative — Digital Chinese Scrolls Project, 2009
    • $2,000
  • Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, NRC — Japan & Korea digital projects 2010–14
    • $30,000
  • NEH Summer Institute — Mesoamerican Cultures & their Histories, 2010
    • $185,561
  • New Media Consortium — prize for a Second Life island to host “Virtual Oaxaca”
    • $6,000
  • NEH Supplemental, Digital Dissemination and Impact, “Virtual Oaxaca,” 2010
    • $10,000
  • NEH Summer Institute — Mesoamerican Cultures & their Histories, 2011
    • $183,435
  • NEH Digital Enhancement Grant – Virtual Oaxaca Project, 2011
    • $10,000
  • CLLAS Internal Grant — for Culture, Exchange, Education, and Diversity (CEED), 2012–13
    • $3,000
  • Latin American Studies, Title VIa — for developing a Zapotec online dictionary, 2012–15
    • $7,000
  • Fulbright Specialist Grant — for developing Mesoamerican digital collections, Ethnological Museum, Berlin, 2012
    • $4,000 (in cash and in lodging and food)
  • Preventing Genocide Grant — for the Guatemalan collaborative group and its projects, including funds for symposia, law workshop, and a seminar in Antigua; 2013–2015
    • $19,000
  • NEH Summer Institute — Mesoamerican Cultures & their Histories, 2014
    •  $195,603
  • NEH Summer Institute — Mesoamerican Cultures & their Histories, 2015
    • $199,629
  • CLLAS, Internal Grant, Art and Human Rights in Latin America, 2016–2017
    • $5,002
  • NEH Reading the First Books Project, Sub-Contract consultation on the OCR of Nahuatl, 2015–2017
    • $6,000
  • Honoring  Tribal Legacies — funding from the National Park Service; WHP was involved since 2010, but only managing the funding since 2015
    • $167,362, with funding currently running through 2018

  • TOTAL     $1,676,310