[INDOLOGY] Trump government cancelling NEH grants

[Lubin, Tim]

Colleagues of mine at WLU were part of a $350,000 multi-year data visualization project on Florence (still on the NEH site!<https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-awards-grant-florence-project>) based at U.Chicago that has also been cancelled.  So has a grant to one of our recent graduates.  It appears that all NEH grantees received the same letter simultaneously.  All funding has been withdrawn, indiscriminately, arbitrarily.
So long as Trump is in office, no one can count on any government funding for any work in the humanities, or perhaps any academic work at all.  He and his collaborators will destroy the entire university system, if he is allowed to do so.  So far opposition has not been effective.
Best wishes in bad times,
Tim

Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, and Adjunct Professor of Law
Head of the Law, Justice, and Society Program
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Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450
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From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
Reply-To: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
To: INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Trump government cancelling NEH grants

Two days ago, one of our colleagues, Elaine Fisher, who is an assistant prof. at Stanford, received the following letter, which I reproduce with Elaine's permission.  This is a very serious matter, a naked government attack on university research and the intellectual life of the United States.
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Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
University of Alberta

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the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
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