CHAMPAIGN, IL (Chambana Today) – A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign history professor was awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship.
The endowment was awarded to professor Kristin Hoganson. The NEH has awarded $22.6 million in grants for 219 humanities projects across the country with 78 fellowships. The program supports research in the humanities with recipients producing articles, books, digital materials or other scholarly resources. These fellowships are highly competitive awards granted to individual scholars who participate in projects that are highly researched.
“An NEH fellowship is a prestigious and highly competitive award that recognizes stellar scholarly contributions in the humanities. Congratulations to Professor Hoganson on receiving this fellowship. We are fortunate to have her as part of the Illinois faculty,” said Provost John Coleman.
The NEH has received an average of 1,058 fellowship applications per year and has awarded an average of 73. professor Hoganson’s project is named “Infrastructural Power: Engineering Empire in the Caribbean Area, 1898-1929.” It covers the building boom of the early 20th century and the U.S.’s involvement in Mexico to Venezuela and in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The project puts special interest in how private sector and military U.S. engineers shape the Caribbean region to advance U.S. interests.