National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Grants to Several Women’s Colleges

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced more than $30 million in grants to colleges, universities, nonprofit groups, and other organizations. Among the grantees are several women’s colleges.

Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, received a grant to plan a new minor in humanities and data, incorporating content from philosophy and data science.

Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania received a grant to support research and writing leading to a book on the French-language writings of North African Jewish women during the French colonial period (1830–1962).

Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, received a grant for a book project on responses to poverty across the Anglo-American world in the wake of slave emancipation.