{"id":12045,"date":"2023-09-14T05:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2023-09-14T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:43:10","slug":"hollins-professor-receives-neh-summer-stipend-to-underwrite-book-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/hollins-professor-receives-neh-summer-stipend-to-underwrite-book-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollins Professor Receives NEH Summer Stipend to Underwrite Book Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ChrisFlorio.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Florio\" width=\"250\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ChrisFlorio.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ChrisFlorio-229x250.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>\n<span class=\"edgtf-dropcaps edgtf-normal\" style=\"color: #671B32\">\n\tR<\/span>uth Alden Doan Assistant Professor of History Christopher Florio has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend award of $6,000 to support his project, \u201cThe Problem of Poverty in the Anglo-American Age of Slave Emancipation, 1780-1865.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florio, a member of the Hollins faculty since 2019, is writing a book on responses to poverty across the Anglo-American world in the wake of slave emancipation. The book traces the historical relationship between slavery\u2019s abolition and the emergent forms of racialized and global inequality that began to coalesce in slavery\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients\u2019 compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the NEH announced more than $35 million in grants this spring for humanities projects throughout the country. \u201cThese 258 newly funded projects demonstrate the vitality of the humanities across our nation,\u201d said NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo). \u201cNEH is proud to support exemplary education, preservation, media, research, and infrastructure projects that expand resources for Americans, support humanities programs and opportunities for underserved students and communities, and deepen our understanding of our history, culture, and society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uth Alden Doan Assistant Professor of History Christopher Florio has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend award of $6,000 to support his project, \u201cThe Problem of Poverty in the Anglo-American Age of Slave Emancipation, 1780-1865.\u201d Florio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,130],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_loop","category-homepage-side","tag-summer-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12047,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}