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2024 Grants Awarded


2024 West Virginia Humanities Council Grant Awards

 

Cabell Marshall University Research Corporation, Amicus Curiae Lecture Series on Constitutional Democracy

 

Cabell Marshall University Research Corporation, The A. E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series, reading and discussion

 

Cabell Marshall University Research Corporation, Roosevelt Montás and the Herd Humanities, lecture

 

Cabell Alchemy Theatre Troupe, 8th Annual WV Shakespeare Festival

 

Cabell West Virginia Alliance for STEM and the Arts, Inc., Stories with STEAM: The Appalachian Circuit featuring Small Town Universe, movie screenings and discussions

 

Fayette National Coal Heritage Area Authority, Clear Fork Rail Trail Interpretive Plan

 

Greenbrier Benjamin Campbell, Irish Mountains: Isolation as a Construct of Celtic Mythology in southern West Virginia, fellowship

 

Greenbrier Greenbrier Historical Society, Logan’s Lament and Indigenous Peoples-Settler Relations in Lord Dunmore’s War, lecture

 

Greenbrier The Real WV, Death of the Family Farm? print series

 

Hampshire Capon Bridge Ruritan Club, Focus on History, Capon Bridge Founders Day Festival, history presentations

 

Hampshire Capon Bridge Ruritan Club, Focus on History, Capon Bridge Founders Day Festival, history presentations

 

Jackson City of Ravenswood, Clara Weisheit's Photography Exhibit

 

Jackson Jackson County Public Library Association, Digitizing the Past, Preserving for the Future, preservation access project

 

Jefferson Shepherd University Foundation, Shepherd University's AHWIR 2024: Poetry All Around Us: The Writing of West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman, Appalachian Heritage writer-in-residence project

 

Jefferson Harpers Ferry Park Association, Known Unknowns: Enslaved and Enslavers in Harpers Ferry, research project

 

Jefferson Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc., 2024 Humanities at the Festival, lectures and discussions

 

Jefferson Jefferson County Museum, Exhibit of Jefferson County's Early History and Light-Limiting Display

 

Jefferson Shepherd University, Shepherd University's AHWIR 2025: The Fiction and Essays of Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Appalachian Heritage writer-in-residence project

 

Jefferson Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc., Who is Chantal Buñuel? documentary film

 

Kanawha Friends of Blackwater, Early Mining Voices: The Stealey Tapes Come to Life, oral history project

 

Kanawha Betty Rivard, Coming Full Circle: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Air Pollution Control, fellowship

 

Kanawha Tamarack Foundation, Inc., 2025 Creative Writers Discussion and Presentation Series, planning project

 

Kanawha FestivALL Charleston, West Virginia, Inc., FestivALL Author's Roundtable

 

Kanawha West Virginia International Film Festival, SAGE, documentary film

 

Kanawha West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, West Virginia Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2025 Film Vignettes

 

Kanawha Ginta Palubinskas, International Security Studies Conference, travel

 

Lewis Taylor Beam, Appalachian Studies Conference, travel

 

Marion Irina Rodimtseva, A Field Guide to Interconnectedness, fellowship

 

Marion Fairmont State University, Sand and Fire: 200 Years of West Virginia Glass, exhibit

 

Mineral Nicholas Gardner, 12th North American Paleontological Convention, travel

 

Mineral Emily Zumbrun, American Library Association Annual Conference, travel

 

Mingo West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Mine Wars Book Talkback Series, readings and discussions

 

Mingo West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, A Marker of Solidarity: Building a New Display for a 1921 Red Bandana, exhibit

 

Mingo West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Mining Memories: The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum’s Ten-Year Exploration of Appalachian Struggle and Identity, documentary, journal, and digital timeline

 

Monongalia Christy Perry Tuohey, The Union Civil War Hospitals of West Virginia, 1861-1865, fellowship

 

Monongalia Sam Stack Jr., William Woodson Trent (1878-1960): Teacher, Educational Leader, and Politician, fellowship

 

Monongalia Gwen Bergner, Reviving Zora Neale Hurston's Zombie, fellowship

 

Monongalia Renee Nicholson, Healthcare Is Human: A Narrative Medicine Approach in West Virginia, fellowship

 

Monongalia Scott Davidson, Who is the Author of AI Generated Projects? Rethinking Authorship and Copyright in an AI World, fellowship

 

Monongalia West Virginia University Research Corporation, WVU Libraries’ Art in the Libraries Program Retrospective Exhibition and Panel, 2015-2024

 

Monongalia West Virginia University Research Corporation, Our Votes–Our Values, discussion and lecture series

 

Monongalia Megan Vendemia, The Commodification and Ethics of Augmented Reality (AR) Appearance Filters: A Critical Review, fellowship

 

Monongalia West Virginia University Research Corporation, Art and AI, a panel discussion at the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

 

Monongalia Rose Casey, Inheriting Racialized Dispossession: Succession Law in South African Literature, fellowship

 

Monongalia Geoff Georgi, 1st Baltic Workshop in the Philosophy of Language, travel

 

Monongalia Nina Assimakopoulos, Merrie Monarch Festival: The Perpetuation of Hula and the Hawaiian Culture, travel

 

Monongalia Community Coalition for Social Justice, West Virginians' Experiences in Civil Rights: How We Have Been Connected All Along, graphic novel reprint

 

Out of State The Outwords Archive, Making Community: West Virginia LGBTQ+ Elders Share Their Stories, oral history and video project

 

Pocahontas World Stewardship Institute DBA Christians For The Mountains, Mining the History of Larry Gibson and the West Virginia Movement to Stop Mountaintop Removal, presentation, discussion, and workshop

 

Randolph Preservation Alliance of West Virginia, Inc., The West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Project, workshop and history project

 

Randolph Augusta Heritage Center, Humanities at Augusta: Celebrating the Artists Behind American Folkways, lectures and discussions

 

Randolph Appalachian Forest Heritage Area, Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Connections to Landscape and Place in Central Appalachia, symposium

 

Upshur West Virginia Wesleyan College, Wesleyan Under Water: Remembering the Flood of 1985, oral history project and online exhibit

 

Wayne Tri-State Local Foods, Reconnecting Appalachia: Traditional Folkways, Foodways, Crafts and Practices, presentations and workshops

 

Wood Parkersburg Art Center, ArtistTrees 2024 at the Parkersburg Art Center, exhibit

 

 

To learn more about West Virginia Humanities Council grants, visit here.
 
To review the West Virginia Humanities Council's 2024 Annual Report, visit here.
 
To read about some of the Council's other activities in 2024, visit here.