The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $500,000 to six humanities programs at OU, becoming the largest ever grant provided to the university through the endowment.
The grants aim to support jobs impacted by COVID-19 within the humanities sector and were funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, which was signed by President Joseph Biden in March 2021.
Kimberly Marshall, the director of the OU Arts and Humanities Forum and leader of the “New Stories of the West, for the West” grant team,...