NEH Grant Awarded for Hispanic Archives Project

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

The University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, a program of Arte Público Press, was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct the project titled “A Survey of Small Historical Societies, Libraries and Museums for Hispanic Materials and Their Management.”

The project will produce the first-ever guide to Hispanic archival collections in the Southwest. Nicolás Kanellos, PhD, primary investigator for the grant and director of the press, will collaborate with UH librarians Jackie Bronicki, assessment and statistics coordinator, and Lisa Cruces, Hispanic Collections archivist, in conducting and analyzing the survey that will be available for general reference on the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage/Arte Público Press website. Following the survey, strategies will be developed for preserving and making the materials in these collections accessible.

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Posted on May 2nd, 2017 by Esmeralda Fisher and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on NEH Grant Awarded for Hispanic Archives Project