Media Coverage of PEMM on Princeton Humanities Council website

African Humanities Folkloric Project Awarded Two Major NEH Grants

Wendy Laura Belcher, Professor of African literature with a joint appointment in the departments of Comparative Literature and African American Studies, has been awarded two major grants, totaling over $600,000, by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Both three-year grants will support the Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary digital humanities project (PEMM), a comprehensive resource for the miracle stories written about the Virgin Mary in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Egypt, and preserved in Gəˁəz (classical Ethiopic) between 1300 and the present.

Belcher is a 2021-2022 Old Dominion Research Professor in the Humanities Council. She will participate in the 15th Annual Humanities Colloquium, on “Humanities and Mobility,” to be held at 4:30 on September 23.

The NEH announcement included $28.4 million in grants for 239 humanities projects across the country. “The grants … demonstrate the resilience and breadth of our nation’s humanities institutions and practitioners,” said NEH’s Acting Chairman Adam Wolfson. “From education programs that will enrich teaching in college and high school classrooms to multi-institutional research initiatives, these excellent projects will advance the teaching, preservation, and understanding of history and culture.”

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