Editorial
A correction
By Editorial Staff
September 25, 2015
Last week’s paper incorrectly noted that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded an $800,000 grant to the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) at Hamilton, and that the endowment was among the largest humanities grants to be received by the College. The correct statement is that Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana studies and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) was awarded an NEH Office of Digital Humanities Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institutes Grant of $245,299 for “Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice.”
The Hamilton News article in which Senior Director of Media Relations Vige Barrie is mentioned is not a recent article as it was published on Sept. 23, 2010. As a result, the statement by President Joan Hinde Stewart cited in the article is relevant to a different grant received by DHi.
The grant was not from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, but from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. For this reason, please retract the statements: [1] Since 1972, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton a total of 25 grants worth a sum of $8.76 million. [2] The Foundation’s Liberal Arts College sector “helps institutions respond to the demographic, economic, technological, and competitive challenges facing higher education.” The Foundation acknowledges “the pressures associated with national concerns such as access, diversity, degree completion, cost, career paths, and productivity,” and collaborates with colleges to address these contemporary challenges by “emphasiz[ing] measures that address faculty development, curricular renewal, pedagogical innovation, and undergraduate research in the humanities.”
The award—as stated correctly in a Hamilton News article published on Aug. 31, 2015—is for a three-week long institute during the summer of 2016. The institute focuses on the relationship and intersections between Africana studies and the spatial humanities.