An organization addressing this situation is the National Humanities Alliance.  Elaine told me about it.  I don't know anything about it, personally, but maybe it can function as a focus of resistance to the government cuts.

I wish my US friends and colleagues courage and strength in the coming months and years.

Best,

Dominik

--

Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History

University of Alberta

"The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, 

the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge 

through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities and service."

-- Collective Agreement 3.01

On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 at 19:25, Lubin, Tim <lubint@wlu.edu> wrote:

Colleagues of mine at WLU were part of a $350,000 multi-year data visualization project on Florence (still on the NEH site!) 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  All funding has been withdrawn, indiscriminately, arbitrarily.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
204 Tucker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450

https://timothylubin.net/
http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin 
https://ssrn.com/author=930949
https://dharma.hypotheses.org/people/lubin-timothy

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Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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.

 

--

Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History

University of Alberta

 

"The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, 

the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge 

through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities and service."

-- Collective Agreement 3.01

 

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