Grants

Current Support

Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI). “Beyond Translation: Opening up the Human Record” is supported by a 2025 Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award. Led by Gregory Crane at Tufts University and developed in collaboration with David Smith and his research team at Northeastern University and other collaborators, the project explores how generative AI can help readers move beyond translation to engage directly with texts in unfamiliar languages. https://sites.tufts.edu/havibeyond/

National Endowment for the Humanities — PW-290565-23. “Perseus on the Web: Preparing for the Next Thirty Years” is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities through its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program. The project is developing the next generation of the Perseus Digital Library and its infrastructure for providing open access to Greek, Latin, and other historical-language resources.

National Endowment for the Humanities — RQ-306857-26. “Aristotle’s Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin: Towards a Variorum Edition” is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities through its Scholarly Editions and Translations program. The project is creating a new born-digital edition of Aristotle’s Poetics that brings together the Greek textual tradition with its Arabic and Latin transmission. https://sites.tufts.edu/nehpoetics

Additional and Historical Support

The Perseus Project has received support from the Alpheios Project, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, private donors, and Tufts University.

Earlier funders and partners include the Annenberg/CPB Project, Apple Computer, the Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment, the Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (U.S. Department of Education), the Getty Grant Program, the Modern Language Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Packard Humanities Institute, Xerox Corporation, Boston University, and Harvard University.

We are grateful to all of these organizations, institutions, collaborators, and individual donors. Their support has allowed Perseus to evolve from an experimental multimedia collection into an open, multilingual digital research environment serving students, teachers, scholars, and readers around the world.