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History professor lands $50,000 NEH grant

Susanah Shaw Romney, assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received a $50,400 fellowship award from the to conduct research on the Dutch empire. Romney was awarded the maximum amount under the Fellowships for University Teachers category to pursue her project titled 鈥淧ersonal Interactions and Imperial Geographies in Early Modern Dutch Colonies.鈥� In addition to Romney, the NEH awarded fellowships to 294 other projects, for a total of $21.8 million in grants. Only two projects from Arkansas received NEH funding in the category. 鈥淣EH provides support for projects across America that preserve our heritage, promote scholarly discoveries, and make the best of America鈥檚 humanities ideas available to all Americans,鈥� said NEH Chairman William D. Adams. Romney, who plans to write a book based on her research, will conduct a comparative study of the early modern Dutch empire in North and South America, southern Africa, and southeast Asia. 鈥淭his fellowship lets me do new research on people and places that I haven鈥檛 encountered before. It gives me a chance to read records about Munsee Indians in the Hudson Valley, Khoekhoe people of southern Africa, Dutch traders in Guyana, and South Asian slaves on Java,鈥� said Romney. 鈥淚鈥檒l be able to bring that new perspective to students in my classes at 糖心Vlog传媒LR and to the scholarly community through the book that I will write,鈥� she added. 听听听听听听听听听 听听听听听听听 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听聽聽聽聽 Romney鈥檚 previous book on the Dutch empire, 鈥淣ew Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America鈥� garnered several awards, including the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. For more information about recently awarded NEH grants, go to. About the National Endowment for the Humanities Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at.