The Making and Knowing Project is a largely self-funded initiative that relies on major federal grants, internal Columbia University awards, faculty research funds, institutional collaborators, and grants and gifts from foundations and private donors.
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The Making and Knowing Project gratefully acknowledges the support of:
Getty Foundation,”Experiential Seminar on the Material Complex of Copper in Central Europe and Beyond,” 2026–29
Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society to Pamela Smith, which is the Society’s most prestigious award and honors a lifetime of scholarly achievement. Awarded in August 2025.
Research Prize by the Herzog August Library to Pamela Smith (inaugural recipient) for researchers in the field of cultural history. Awarded in June 2024.
Digital Innovation Award by the Renaissance Society of America for excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. Awarded to the Project in February 2022.
Eugene S. Ferguson Prize by the Society for the History of Technology for outstanding and original reference work that supports future scholarship in the history of technology. Awarded to the Project in October 2019.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant #RQ-249842-16, “Craft Techniques and Knowledge Systems in a 16th-Century Artist’s Manuscript: An Open-Access Critical Edition and Translation,” 2016-19
National Science Foundation, Grant #1734596, “The Role of Craft Skill in Scientific Practice,” 2017–20
National Science Foundation, Grant #1430843, “The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Experimentation,” 2014–17
National Science Foundation, Conference Grant #1656227, “Workshop: Translation and Encoding for the Making and Knowing Project,” 2017–18
Luce Foundation, Higher Education Grant, 2017–20
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Making and Knowing Project Postdoctoral Scholars, 2014–17
Gerda Henkel Foundation, AZ 40/F/16: Making and Knowing Project Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 2017–18
The Maurice I. Parisier Foundation
The Florence Gould Foundation
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Conference Grant, “Environment, Craft, Language, Culture, and Knowledge in the Americas,” 2025
Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, Faculty Grant, “Environment, Craft, Language, Culture, and Knowledge in the Americas,” 2025
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University, Joint Project Grant, “Environment, Craft, Language, Culture, and Knowledge Across the Americas,” 2025
Data Science Institute and Columbia Entrepreneurship, Columbia University, Collaboratory Fellows Fund, “Transforming Texts: Computational Approaches to Text Analysis and Visualization,” 2017–20
Data Science Institute and Columbia Entrepreneurship, Columbia University, Collaboratory Fellows Fund, “What is a Book for the 21st Century?,” 2016–18
Office of the Provost, Columbia University, Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery Grant, “What is a Book in the 21st Century? Working with Historical Texts in a Digital Environment,” 2016–17
Howard and Natalie Shawn