Penn Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Grant Frame, an associate professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations, a two-year $250,000 grant for his Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project (RINAP). As director and editor-in-chief, Frame leads a research team that is editing and translating all of the known royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Kings, including Sargon II and Sennacherib, who are mentioned in biblical and classical sources, in print volumes, and online, in a fully searchable and indexed format. The award brings to nearly $950,000 the total NEH grants Frame has received for the RINAP Project since 2008.
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German Catriona MacLeod and Benjamin Franklin Scholars Integrated Studies Program teaching fellow Michelle Pinto each received NEH summer stipends of $6,000.
