Grants awarded

You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.

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University of California Los Angeles

Grant recipient

Sinai Library Digitization Project

To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests

$2,014,000

2022

3 years

To establish the Medieval and European Faculty Support Fund

To establish a fund for the History Department for the salaries of new faculty hires to three established endowed chairs - the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German HIstory, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval HIstory.

$5,000,000

2019

5 years

Digitization of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in Saint Catherine Monastery, Sinai

To digitize and publish online the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

$980,051

2018

3 years

To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History, and endowment for the History Department.

To support graduate students, to bring distinguished visiting scholars to UCLA to give lectures and teach courses, to underwrite conferences and workshops, and for other purposes that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the vitality of the field of medieval history at UCLA.

$1,000,000

2018

1 year

The Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History

To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History

$5,000,000

2014

1 year

Sinai Palimpsest Project open access online publication

To provide open access online publication of multispectral images produced by the Sinai Palimpsest Project, which documents the manuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai

$200,000

2014

2 years

Advancing open access

To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

$100,000

2014

1 year

Endowment to Department of History

To establish the Endowed History Department Chair and History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.

$10,000,000

2012

5 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$100,000

2011

2 years

International Digital Ephemera Project

To digitize, preserve and provide free online access to endangered modern printed and digital ephemera.

$3,414,109

2011

7 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$400,000

2011

3 years

International Institute and Department of History

$75,000

2009

5 years

UCLA Library digitization

To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA's library and make them available for free online; to digitize ephemera through the open-access Collecting Los Angeles project.

$5,000,000

2009

5 years

Centre for Primary Research

To increase access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

$500,000

2008

5 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$500,000

2007

5 years

Endowment to Department of History

To establish: the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History; the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund; and, the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the Cllege of Letters and Science.

$5,000,000

2005

5 years