BU Faculty Receive NEH Awards
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced $33.8 million in grants for 260 humanities projects across the country. Two BU professors received National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship awards for the 2024-2025 cycle. Congratulations to Joseph Rezek, Associate Professor of English and Director of AMNESP, and to Yuri Corrigan, Associate Professor of Russian & Comparative Literature, on their awards! Rezek received an award of $60,000 for his project The Racialization of Print, a book on the history of the transmission of racial knowledge and racial ideology through reading from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Corrigan also received an award of $60,000 for his project, Chekhov’s Ethics: From Anesthetics to Antidotes, which will explore Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s (1860–1904) ethical thought.