Who is eligible?

Full-time teachers in American K-12 schools, whether public, private, or parochial, are eligible to apply to seminars and institutes. Americans teaching abroad are also eligible if a majority of the students they teach are American citizens. Librarians and school administrators may also be eligible. Applicants should consult the guidelines and application information received directly from seminar and institute directors concerning any additional eligibility requirements specific to the project.

All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute to help cover travel costs, books, and other research expenses, and living expenses, as follows: $1,800 (2 weeks), $2,400 (3 weeks), $3,000 (4 weeks), $3,600 (5 weeks), $4,200 (6 weeks).

To apply, please send or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions to the seminar and institute directors listed below. When doing so, please be sure to include your regular mailing address. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may only apply to one project. General questions may be directed to 202 606-8463 or sem-inst@neh.gov.

Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2005.

Seminars

A seminar for school teachers enables fifteen participants to explore a topic or set of readings with a scholar having special interest and expertise in the field. The core material of the seminar need not relate directly to the school curriculum; the principal goal of the seminar is to engage teachers in the scholarly enterprise and to expand and deepen their understanding of the humanities through reading, discussion, writing, and reflection.

Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps June 27-July 15, 2005 (3 weeks) James Akerman, The Newberry Library, and Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois at Chicago Information: Susan Hanf The Newberry Library 60 W. Walton St. Chicago, IL 60610 312-255-3659 hanfs@newberry.org Web Site	The Arabic Novel in Translation June 27-July 22, 2005 (4 weeks) Roger Allen 840 Williams Hall 255 S. 36th St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 215-898-6337 rallen@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Web Site
Chaucer's Canterbury Comedies June 27-August 5, 2005 (6 weeks) Peter G. Beidler Department of English Lehigh University 35 Sayre Drive Bethlehem, PA 18015 610-758-4441 inehpete@lehigh.edu Web Site (Seminar Location: Canterbury, England)	Reading Don Quixote June 27-August 5, 2005 (6 weeks) Salvador Fajardo Department of Romance Languages and Literature P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 607-777-4630 fajardo@binghamton.edu
Visions of the Dark Years: Legacies of World War II in France June 26-July 29, 2005 (5 weeks) Richard J. Golsan and Nathan Bracher Texas A&M University-College Station Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures College Station, TX 77843-4238 979-862-4442 or 979-845-2884 rjgolsan@tamu.edu Web Site (Seminar Locations: Paris and Caen, France)	Shakespeare: Enacting the Text July 4-August 6, 2005 (5 weeks) Jay Halio and Leslie Reidel Information: Wanda McCracken Department of English University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 302-831-2363 wtm@udel.edu (Seminar Locations: Delaware and Stratford-upon-Avon, England)
Emile Zola's Germinal: Esthetics and Ethics in the Novel July 11-July 22, 2005 (2 weeks) Lewis Kamm Department of Foreign Literature and Languages 285 Old Westport Rd. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-999-8336 Lkamm@umassd.edu Web Site	Citizenship and Culture: French Identity in Crisis In English and French June 27-July 29, 2005 (5 weeks) Michael B. Kline and Nancy C. Mellerski Department of French and Italian Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1549 klinem@dickinson.edu Web Site
The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and a European World Economy June 26-July 29, 2005 (5 weeks) Gerard Koot Department of History 285 Old Westport Rd. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-999-8305 gkoot@umassd.edu (Seminar Locations: London, England, and Wassenaar, the Netherlands)	W.B. Yeats and the Two Irelands July 4-July 28, 2005 (4 weeks) Edward O'Shea Department of English 207-C Swetman Hall State University of New York at Oswego Oswego, NY 13126 Information: Joan Wallace 315-312-2150 wallacej@oswego.edu Web Site (Seminar Location: Galway, Ireland)
The Canterbury Tales and Medieval Culture June 27-August 5, 2005 (6 weeks) Lee Patterson Department of English P.O. Box 208302 Yale University New Haven, CT 06520 203-432-1033 lee.patterson@yale.edu Web Site	Punishment, Politics, and Culture June 27-July 29, 2005 (5 weeks) Austin Sarat Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002 413-542-2308 klunderwood@amherst.edu Web Site
Say Something Wonderful: Teaching the Pleasures of Poetry June 27-July 29, 2005 (5 weeks) Eric Murphy Selinger Department of English DePaul University 802 West Belden Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 773-325-4475 aperson@depaul.edu	Dante's Commedia June 27-August 6, 2005 (6 weeks) William A. Stephany, University of Vermont, and Ronald Herzman, SUNY, Geneseo Information: Ronald Herzman Department of English State University of New York, Geneseo 1 College Circle Geneseo, NY 14454 585-245-5273 herzman@geneseo.edu Web Site (Seminar Location: Siena, Italy)

Institutes
An institute for school teachers, typically led by a team of core faculty and visiting scholars, is designed to present the best available scholarship on important humanities issues and works taught in the nation's schools. The 25 to 35 participating teachers compare and synthesize the various perspectives offered by the faculty, make connections between the institute content and classroom applications, and often develop improved teaching materials for their classrooms.

Contexts and Legacies of the Lewis and Clark Expedition June 26-July 22, 2005 (4 weeks) Bethany Andreasen Department of History Division of Social Science 500 University Ave. West Minot State University Minot, ND 58707 701-858-3243 lewisandclark@minotstateu.edu Web Site	Shakespeare in Ashland: Teaching From Performance June 26-July 22, 2005 (4 weeks) Alan Armstrong Center for Shakespeare Studies Southern Oregon University Ashland, OR 97520-5020 541-552-6904 armstrong@sou.edu Web Site
Mozart's Worlds June 13-July 8, 2005 (4 weeks) Richard Benedum Humanities Program 300 College Park University of Dayton Dayton, OH 45469-1549 Information: Carolyn Ludwig 937-229-3490 Carolyn.Ludwig@notes.udayton.edu Web Site (Institute Location: Vienna, Austria)	Bach Across the Centuries: an Interdisciplinary View of His Life and Works July 11-August 12, 2005 (5 weeks) Hilde Binford and Paul Larson Department of Music Moravian College 1200 Main St. Bethlehem, PA 18018 610-861-1691 hbinford@moravian.edu Web Site
Seeking the Center Place: Continuity and Change in the Pueblo World June 26-July 23, 2005 (4 weeks) M. Elaine Davis and Marjorie Connolly Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 23390 Road K Cortez, CO 81321 970-565-8975 x 143 edavis@crowcanyon.org	Catullus and Horace: Poets in a Landscape Readings in Latin July 10-July 29, 2005 (3 weeks) Therese Dougherty and Theresa Lamy Department of Classical and Modern Foreign Languages College of Notre Dame of Maryland 4701 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21210 410-532-5559 tdougherty@ndm.edu
Teaching Jazz as American Culture July 5-July 29, 2005 (4 weeks) Gerald Early The Center for the Humanities Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1071, Old McMillan Hall, Room S101 One Brookings Drive St Louis, MO 63130-4899 Information: Jian Leng 314-935-5576 cenhum@artsci.wustl.edu Web Site	Slavery and Emancipation in New England July 11-July 22, 2005 (2 weeks) Susan Hoffman Fishman, Education Consultant, and Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky Information: Susan Hoffman Fishman Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest St. Hartford, CT 06105 860-236-4734 shfishman@stowecenter.org (Institute Location: Trinity College, Hartford, CT)
The Coming of the U.S. Civil War July 6-August 3, 2005 (4 weeks) William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 145 Ednam Drive Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 434-924-3296 wwf4n@virginia.edu Web Site	George Washington and His Legacy: Myths, Symbols, and Reality June 27-July 15, 2005 (3 weeks) Peter Gibbon School of Education Boston University 2 Sherborn St. Boston, MA 02215 617-353-4817 pgibbon@bu.edu Web Site
China and the Islamic World July 18-August 12, 2005 (4 weeks) Nancy Jervis, China Institute, and Morris Rossabi, Queens College, CUNY Information: Lier Chen China Institute 125 East 65th St. New York, NY 10021-7088 212-744-8181 x 117 lchen@chinainstitute.org Web Site (Institute Location: Columbia University)	Archaeology of Jordan and Its Western Neighbors June 27-July 22, 2005 (4 weeks) Gloria London and Donald Sharpes 7701 Crest Drive NE Seattle WA 98115 206-522-6426 glondon@earthlink.net Web Site (Institute Location: Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
Archaeology of Jordan and Its Western Neighbors June 27-July 22, 2005 (4 weeks) Gloria London and Donald Sharpes 7701 Crest Drive NE Seattle WA 98115 206-522-6426 glondon@earthlink.net Web Site (Institute Location: Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)	American Literature and American Pluralism: Works of African American, Asian American, and Native American Authors June 27-July 29, 2005 (5 weeks) John Purdy, William Lyne, and Ning Yu Department of English Western Washington University 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225-9055 360-650-7340 neh@wwu.edu