The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.

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A major university and community event, the annual Distinguished Lecture program brings to campus a prominent humanities scholar whose work highlights the importance of humanities research.

While on campus, speakers discuss humanities trends and participate in informal sessions, allowing ASU colleagues and students to share related research interests.

"20 Generations Short" is a narrative history of economic inequality. It shows how barriers to Black income and wealth creation formed in the colonial era and transformed over 400 years as a bundle of disadvantages relative to white Americans.

This history reveals why there has been startlingly little progress in closing the racial wealth gap. Today, the typical Black American family has 1/13th the wealth of the typical white family, a half-century after the signal gains of the Civil Rights Era and 150 years after the end of slavery.

Ireland’s geographical status as an island located across physical boundaries of water from mainland Europe in addition to national boundaries has profound effects on the ways agricultural guidelines will inflect the land and its use.

The project will examine Irish agricultural practices and farming policy alongside contemporary literary texts that depict Irish farming practices. It will question the ways European Union (EU) agricultural regulations like the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) cross the borders of Irish traditions in farming.

In 1954 100,000 Russians from pious, monarchist families voluntarily repatriated to the Soviet Union. This project challenges the dominant theories in migration studies that economic betterment, the desire to live where individual freedom is protected or family reunification are the dominant motivations for migration.

This book project examines the postwar displacement of Polish Catholics and Polish Jews. It traces their journeys out of Poland through Africa, Europe and Latin America in the first 15 years after World War II. Although many Polish-Catholic and Polish-Jewish refugees ended up in the United States, their destination was often a matter of chance, family connections, economic opportunities and last-minute decisions.

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Since 2005, the Humanities Institute has served as a research accelerator, providing ASU humanities units, centers and faculty with the resources needed to become leaders in the national and international research community. HI provides these resources to over four hundred faculty, 12 centers and all humanities units on all university campuses as well as humanities faculty in other units across all ASU campuses.