Cornell University Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

Almost a half-million dollars in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been awarded to Cornell University to help fund educational resources that enhance teaching and learning in the humanities.

$350,000 will be used for a project called BERT for Humanists. The project is the development of case studies about, and professional development workshops on, the use of BERT, which is bidirectional encoder representations from transformers, for humanities scholars and students interested in large-scale text analysis.

Another $60,000 will be used on research and writing leading to a book on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, a former British governor, and the origins of the modern state in India and Britain.