MAJOR GRANTS

1. Contemporary American Theater Festival, "Humanities at the Festival," $12,453 (Jefferson)

2. Council for West Virginia Archaeology, "Project Archaeology Facilitator Training and State Handbook," $17,405 (Cabell)

3. Huntington Museum of Art, "Women in the Arts: Issues and Contributions," $20,000 (Cabell)

4. Marshall University, Multicultural Affairs, "New Passages into the Underground Railroad," $9,620 (Cabell)

5. Shepherd University Foundation, "Appalachian Heritage Literary Project 2006," $5,130 (Cabell)

6. Snowshoe Institute, "Snowshoe Institute 2005," $11,390 (Pocahontas)

7. Southern Appalachian Labor School, "Revisiting the Buffalo Creek Flood, " $15,000 (Fayette)

8. State Bar of West Virginia, "We the People Summer Institute," $3,938 (Kanawha)

9. West Virginia State University, "Updating Shakespeare: Text, Context, Stage and Film," $20,000 (Kanawha)

10. West Virginia University Research Corporation, "Industrial Images of West Virginia: A Traveling Exhibit," $20,000 (Monongalia)

11. West Virginia University at Parkersburg - Humanities Division, "Spanish Seminar Project," $2,220 (Wood)

 

MINI GRANTS

1. AIM Committee, "Hometown Mountain Heritage Festival," $225 (Fayette)

2. Allegheny Echoes, "Allegheny Echoes Workshops Master Program," $1,470 (Pocahontas)

3. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese - West Virginia Chapter, "Cantos, Cuentos Y Juegos Hispanos," $1,483 (Monongalia)

4. Augusta Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College, "Augusta's Summer Lecture Series," $1,500 (Randolph)

5. Bethany College West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association
Committee, "2005 WEVSARA Conference," $875 (Brooke)

6. Bethany College, "History and Culture of Japanese Folklore," $1,500 (Brooke)

7. Council for West Virginia Archaeology, "A Presentation and Exhibit of Photographs from the Bureau of American Ethnology's Mound Explorations in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia," $1,480 (Cabell)

8. Flannagan-Murrell House, Inc., "Festival of the Rivers," $1,500 (Summers)

9. Ivy and Stone Council for the Arts, "Ivy and Stone Literary Series," $1,269 (Nicholas)

10. Kanawha Valley Civil War Roundtable, "2005 Civil War Scholars Lecture Series," $800 (Kanawha)

11. Marshall University Honors Program, "Karen Vuranch, Oral History and Homefront," $619.10 (Cabell)

12. Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library, "Meet Harriet Beecher Stowe and Laura Ingalls Wilder," $1,500 (Berkeley)

13. Maysville Elementary School, "Maysville Elementary School," $850 (Grant)

14. Mercer County Schools, "The Write Way Home," $1,500 (Mercer)

15. Mullens Chamber of Commerce, "Virginian Railway - Coalfield Seminar at Mullens, West Virginia," $860 (Wyoming)

16. Museum in the Community, "The Bessie Smith Story - Empress of the Blues," $1,000 (Putnam)

17. Oglebay Institute, "Planning for the National Road Exhibit," $1,500 (Ohio)

18. Page-Jackson Alumni Association, Inc., "Black Education in Jefferson County," $952.20 (Jefferson)

19. Pendleton County Chamber of Commerce, "Civil War in Pendleton County, West Virginia," $1,500 (Pendleton)

20. Pendleton County Chamber of Commerce, "Seneca Rocks/Spruce Knob Brochure," $1,500 (Pendleton)

21. Roane County Schools, "Reliving West Virginian's Past," $450 (Roane)

22. Simpson Outreach, Inc., "The Bessie Smith Story 'Empress of the Blues'," $1,500 (Kanawha)

23. The Manor Retreat and Conference Center, "Worlds Apart: The Unholy War between Religion and Science," $1,000 (Kanawha)

24. The Rumseian Society, "James Rumsey Patent Display," $1,243 (Jefferson)

25. Tucker County Schools, "Making History in Tucker County: The Courage of Carrie Williams," $1,500.00 (Tucker)

26. West Virginia Institute for Spirituality, "Justice-Making in a Globalized World: Challenging and Bewildering Issues," $1,500 (Kanawha)

27. West Virginia Junior Classical League, "West Virginia Junior Classical League 2005 Convention," $1,450.00 (Ohio)

28. West Virginia Mason-Dixon Civil War Round Table, "A House Divided: The Civil War in Northwestern Virginia," $1,500 (Kanawha)

29. West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, "Music of the Coalfields," $1,500 (Kanawha)

30. West Virginia State University Capitol Center, "General Moses: Stories from the Life of Harriet Tubman," $1,014 (Kanawha)

31. Wheeling Historical Society, "Dr. and Mrs. John Cox Hupp Exhibit Monograph," $1,243 (Ohio)

32. Wheeling Jesuit University, "Constitution and Citizenship Day," $1,500 (Ohio)

 

PUBLICATION GRANTS - West Virginia author or subject

1. Penn State University Press, "Daughters of the Mountain, by Suzanne E. Tallichet," $7,500

2. University of Georgia Press, "Cherokee Art: Historical Precedents, Contemporary Forms," $14,250

3. University of Illinois Press, "Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History," $7,120

 

MEDIA GRANTS - West Virginia nonprofit production company or West Virginia subject

1. Cityfolk, "The Life and Music of Charlie Poole," $10,000

2. Marshall University Research Corporation on behalf of the University Libraries, "In Pursuit of Public Service: Ken Hechler Documentary Video," $12,500 (Cabell)

3. Mountain Made Foundation, "Back-to-the-Landers Film Project," $10,000 (Tucker)

4. Rubicon Productions, "Storer College: A Legacy of Intellectual Freedom," $20,000

5. West Virginia Public Radio, "The Black Experience Revisited," $20,000 (Kanawha)

 

FELLOWSHIPS - $2,500 Research Awards

1. Christopher Wilkinson, Morgantown - Musicology (Music History), "From the Dawn of the Swing Era to the Start of World War II: Big Band Jazz and Dance Music in Black West Virginia 1935-1942."

2. Deborah Janson, Morgantown - German Literature, " 'Die Seele als Stoerfaktor': Faustian Guilt and Romantic Predilections in Christa Wolf's Leibhaftig."

3. Denis Jorge Bernschot, Shepherdstown - Cuban Literature, "Cuban Subversive Theatre."

4. Janet Badia, Huntington - English, "Confessional Poetry and the Politics of Reception."

5. Janet Snyder, Morgantown - Art History, "Speaking with One Voice: The French Character of Norman Painting and Sculpture in Southern England during the Twelfth Century."

6. Jeannie Dalporto, Charleston - English, "Class, Gender, and the Rural Economy in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry in England."

7. Katherine B. Aaslestad, Morgantown - History, "Lessons on Allegiance: Local and National Histories in Hamburg's Schools, 1815-1933."

8. Robert McCutcheon, Elkins - English, "The Call of Vocation in Shakespeare's Middle Plays."

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