Two HFA Faculty Receive Fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities Traci Parker and Melissa Mueller each receive $60,000 for projects exploring Black love, marriage, and family and the work of ancient Greek poet Sappho January 4, 2021 Traci Parker AMHERST, Mass.—The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $32.8 million in grants to support 213 humanities projects in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Two UMass Amherst faculty members, Melissa Mueller and Traci Parker, are among the new cohort of NEH fellowship recipients. They each were awarded $60,000 to work on projects in their fields. According to NEH Chairman Jon Parrish Peede, “These new NEH grants will foster intellectual inquiry, promote broad engagement with history, literature, and other humanities fields, and expand access to cultural collections and resources for all Americans.”