SC&I Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and of History David Greenberg has been awarded a The Public Scholars program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The grant will support Greenberg as he completes his forthcoming book, “John Lewis: A Life in Politics,” a biography of the late John Lewis (1940-2020), a civil rights activist and U.S. Congressman.

The Public Scholars program, according to the NEH, “offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public.” 

The NEH has awarded Public Scholars grants for the past seven years. While the NEH receives 267 Public Scholars applications annually, it only awards an average of 25 Public Scholars grants per year.

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. The NEH is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States.

Greenberg is a historian of American political and cultural history. He is the author of "Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency" (2016); "Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image" (2003); and "Calvin Coolidge" (2006). He is a frequent commentator in the national news media on contemporary politics and public affairs.

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