2025 NEH LANDMARKS INSTITUTE
AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE WORKSHOP FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops give K-12 educators an opportunity to enrich and revitalize their teaching through the place-based study of humanities topics that bear upon K-12 education.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
IN OUR OWN VOICES: ASIAN AMERICANS, NATIVE HAWAIIANS, AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
SESSION 1: JULY 7 - JULY 12, 2025 (Monday, 8AM - Saturday, noon)
SESSION 2: JULY 21 - 26, 2025 (Monday, 8AM - Saturday, noon)
APPLICATIONS OPEN: 12/13/2024
ALL APPLICATIONS ARE DUE: MARCH 5, 2025 (11:59 PM PACIFIC TIME!)
APPLICANTS NOTIFIED OF SELECTION: APRIL 2, 2025
ACCEPTED APPLICANTS MUST CONFIRM ACCEPTANCE BY: APRIL 16, 2025
In-person at the Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, Washington
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans played, and continue to play, significant roles in the transformation of regions, cities, and communities. These immigrants, refugees, and Americans are greatly ignored in the discourse on which people helped build America; whether the railroads, mining, salmon or other fisheries, aquaculture, aviation, civil rights, and social change.
The Wing Luke Museum’s week-long institutes are structured around the themes of Immigration and Exclusion (mid-1880s-1924), Struggles and Contributions of Laborers (1870-1940s), and Representation and Memorialization (1898-present). We will focus on the hidden histories of the earliest Asian Pacific American pioneers, from the Native Hawaiians who navigated the Pacific Coast and worked for the Hudson Bay Trading Company in the early 1800s through the Chinese, South Asians, Filipino, Korean, and Japanese immigrant laborers who were integral to the pre-World War II development of this region and beyond, while bridging connections and relevancy to contemporary themes.
The workshop will offer experiences rooted in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, field trips to regional sites of historic and cultural significance, and presentations from national faculty.
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture will give K-12 educators an opportunity to enrich and revitalize their teaching through the study of humanities topics that bear upon K-12 education. Landmarks programs are designed for a national audience of full or part-time K-12 educators who teach in public, charter, independent, and religiously affiliated schools, or as home-schooling educators. Museum educators and other K-12 school system personnel—such as but not limited to, administrators, substitute teachers, and curriculum supervisors—are also eligible to participate.
Participants will receive a certificate upon completion of the program, but programs are not intended to duplicate graduate-level courses.
In Our Own Voices: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific Northwest has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
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HOUSING
We have booked a number of rooms and bunks at the American Hotel/Hostel for these dates:
Sunday, July 6th through Saturday, July 12th, 2025
Sunday, July 20 through Saturday, July 26, 2025
This Hotel/hostel is three walkable blocks away from the Wing Luke Museum on S. King St. Access to the lobby of the Hotel/hostel is on the second floor of this historic building which is accessible by stairs and a handicapped lift. Access from the second-floor lobby to the rest of the building is accessible via an elevator or stairs.
Rates for rooms and by bunk vary. Final costs depend on the number of people in the room and your room type. The costs will range from $41 to $165 per night per person plus 10.25% sales and hotel tax. A very select number of rooms have their own private bathroom and all other rooms have access to a shareable and lockable bathroom down the hall. All rooms can have single or double occupancy. Some rooms can house 3 or 4 people with 1 or 2 occupants sleeping on the top bunks.
Room registration for this Hotel/hostel option is arranged directly by the staff of the Wing Luke Museum (Vivian). To register for our room block, you MUST contact Museum staff and NOT the American Hotel/Hostel.
We will have a sign-up process after you have been confirmed for the workshop. This sign-up process will allow you to choose your 1st and 2nd room options for the hostel.
The cost for your weekly stay at the American Hotel/hostel will be deducted from your honorarium stipend from the NEH and the WLM. The balance of the cost of your stay will be issued to you via a check at the end of the workshop week. A Program Agreement will be signed acknowledging the cost of your stay, etc. before the workshop starts.
To view photos of the room and a list of accommodations:
https://www.americanhotelseattle.com/
The Museum has also secured a discount at the following hotels:
CitizenM Hotel - Pioneer Square
15% off using our discount code. Good only on the current rate when registering. We can provide you with the code when you request it after you receive your workshop confirmation and housing emails. This property does not offer parking.
Rates vary ~ $275-325 per night for single occupancy.
This hotel is directly across from the Waterfront Ferry Terminal which we will be using on Friday (only) during our workshop week. It is about a 16-minute walk to/from or a 5-minute drive.
https://www.citizenm.com/hotels/united-states/seattle/seattle-pioneer-square-hotel
Other discounts are pending at local Seattle area hotels.
OTHER LODGING OPTIONS
Summer lodging in Seattle can be quite expensive. We highly recommend looking into housing alternatives: bed and breakfast lodges, Air B&B, etc.
https://www.lodginginseattle.com/
These alternatives do have different (and sometimes lower taxable fees than the regular hotels.
If you are accepted into this program and would like to be paired with other interested parties to share rooms or a vacation stay with, please contact teacherworkshops@wingluke.org
STIPEND
$1300
Stipend and Conditions for Completion:
Participants are offered a stipend for participation and completion of the Landmarks Workshop. The stipend is intended to help cover basic academic expenses.
Project applicants who accept an offer to participate are expected to remain during the entire period of the institute and to participate in its work on a full-time basis. If a participant is obliged through special circumstances to either arrive after the beginning of the program or depart before the end of the program, it shall be the recipient institution's responsibility to see that only a pro-rata share of the stipend is received or that the appropriate pro rata share of the stipend is returned if the participant has already received the full stipend.
Please Note: Stipends are taxable.
MEALS
All participants will be responsible for their own meals and snacks except for lunches on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (which will be all day field trip days). There are numerous restaurants within walking distance of the Museum with a variety of cuisines and price points.
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8:00AM Check-In, Raffle, and Morning Thinking Routines
9:00PM Curriculum Resources session
10:15AM Field Trip-Leave for ferry dock
12:15PM Lunch on Bainbridge Island
1:30PM Panel with Felix, Lilly and Clarence at the Filipino Community Hall
3:00PM Leave for Bainbridge Island Japanese Exclusion Memorial
4:00PM Leave for ferry back to Seattle
OR, participants can stay on Bainbridge Island and take the ferry back to Seattle on their own
5:45PM Arrive back in Seattle
PRINCIPLES OF CIVILITY FOR NEH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
NEH Seminars, Institutes, and Landmarks programs are intended to extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics, texts, and issues; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; and foster a community of inquiry that provides models of excellence in scholarship and teaching.
NEH expects that project directors will take responsibility for encouraging an ethos of openness and respect, upholding the basic norms of civil discourse.
Seminar, Institute, and Landmarks presentations and discussions should be:
Firmly grounded in rigorous scholarship and thoughtful analysis
Conducted without partisan advocacy
Respectful of divergent views
Free of ad hominem commentary
Devoid of ethnic, religious, gender, disability, or racial bias.
APPLICATION PROCESS
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS WAS 3/5 MIDNIGHT
APPLICATIONS OPEN: 12/13/2024
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 3/5/2025
APPLICANTS NOTIFIED OF SELECTION: 4/2/2025
ACCEPTED APPLICANTS MUST CONFIRM ACCEPTANCE BY: 4/16/2025
A selection committee, comprised of the project directors and one or more colleagues, will evaluate all complete applications to select a group and to identify alternates.
SELECTION CRITERIA
At least three spaces per week (up to six spaces total for a program) must be reserved for teachers who are new to the profession (five years or less of teaching experience).
Primary consideration is given to those who have not previously attended an NEH Landmarks program.
Applicants will be selected based on the following factors as evidenced through their resumes and essays:
Effectiveness and commitment as a teacher/educator;
Earliest experiences with Asian American and Pacific Islander topics of study;
Intellectual interests as they relate to the topic of the Landmarks program;
Personal experience and/or exposure to the themes in this Landmarks program;
Perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to this program;
Evidence that participation will have a long-term impact on the applicant’s teaching.
Please limit your essay to 1200 words.
ELIGIBILITY
In any given year, an individual may apply to a maximum of two Seminars, Institutes, or Landmarks, but may attend only one.
Participants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. U.S. citizens teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions are also eligible to participate. Foreign nationals teaching abroad are not eligible to participate.
Individuals may not apply to participate in a Landmarks workshop whose director is a family member, who is affiliated with the same institution, who has served as an instructor or academic advisor to the applicant, or who has led a previous NEH-funded Institute or Landmarks program attended by the applicant.
Participants may not be delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (e.g. taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees). Individuals may not apply to participate in a Landmarks workshop if they have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency. The OMB Guidelines to Agencies on Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) contained in 2 CFR Parts 180 and 3369 apply to this award. The recipient must comply and must require sub-recipients to comply, with Subpart C of these regulations.
APPLICATION
Resume (1-2 pages)
Essay
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
NEH does not condone or tolerate discrimination or harassment based on age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), genetic information, national origin, race, or religion. Nor does NEH condone or tolerate retaliation against those who initiate discrimination complaints (either formally or informally), serve as witnesses, or otherwise participate in the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) process, or oppose discrimination or harassment. For further information, write to the Equal Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024. TDD: 202-606-8282 (this is a special telephone device for the Deaf).
FURTHER RESOURSES
Applicant and Participant FAQs
QUESTIONS?
Contact teacherworkshops@wingluke.org for additional information
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
For over 50 years, Wing Luke Museum has been and continues to be a leader in community-based cultural, historical, and contemporary art museums.
Our mission is to “connect everyone to the dynamic history, cultures, and art of Asian Pacific Americans through vivid storytelling and inspiring experiences, to advance racial and social equity.” Through our scholarship, historic interpretation, collections, storytelling, collaborations, and dynamic work of partnering with schools and districts to enhance social studies, history, and ELA programs—Wing Luke Museum seeks to tell a wider story of our region and nation.
PROGRAM TEAM, FACULTY, & COMMUNITY LEADERS
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Dr. Dorothy Fujita-Rony
SCHOLAR
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Dr. Moon-Ho Jung
SCHOLAR
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Bettie Luke
COMMUNITY LEADER
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Ken Mochizuki
AUTHOR/ COMMUNITY HISTORIAN
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Dr. Jasmit Singh
COMMUNITY LEADER
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Dr. Julie Kang
RESOURCE TEACHER
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Dr. Amy Bhatt
SCHOLAR
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Cindy Domingo
AUTHOR / COMMUNITY HISTORIAN
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Lilly Kodama
COMMUNITY SPEAKER
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Felix Narte
COMMUNITY SPEAKER
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Clarence Moriwaki
COMMUNITY SPEAKER
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Dr. Madeline Hsu
SCHOLAR
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Aleta Ang
Partnership Specialist
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National
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Renate Beyer
Assistant Forest Archaeologist
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest