but they represent only the tip of the iceberg of neh' iceberg. many more moore hasn't been touched in some way by the humanities council by neh supported libraries and exams are the work of neh funded scholars which included 18 pulitzer prizewinners and 20 bancroft prizewinners. by zimon arsonist is used for educators and by the courses these educators offered in the wake of their neh experience and there is also our web site excitement which offers humanities resources to primary and secondary schoolteachers around the country and more than 3 million visitors every year. public engagement really matters. it's very important to us the cultural capital matters in other ways. to that i want to mention briefly, the cultural economy is hugely important to the economic health of thousands of communities around the country. i came from one recently waterville main and matters more as the economy shifts from being a manufacturing economy to one based on financial services health care retail human services education and support. more important still our

>> i have been pushing hard for neh funding for years and years. i have been successful each year i have worked on it the funding has gone down. they got to the point where some of my colleagues said why don't you go work on some science funding for a couple of years so we can catch up. i think it is very important. now, exactly what i advocate for , i think it is going to be less important than i think calling attention to the fact the humanities and the arts are very, very important. istanbul oriented age, which is understandable in a recession even though the economy has bounced back, the economy is not totally about that. it is important we don't lose track of these disciplines. i think it is important and i hope to be able to work with and learn from the other leaders of the cultural institutions in washington who know many many times more than i know about the washington scene and what flies, and what works. but i think the bully pulpit, if you will, the platform of the secretary should the used to point out the broad needs of the country in

>> well, i've been pushing very hard as you were alluding to for neh funding for years and years and years. but i been successful, teacher -- each year i've worked on this the funding has gone down a look at each new. they got to the point where some of my always said once you work on some sites funny for a couple of years. [laughter] so we can catch up. i think it's very, very important. exactly what i advocate for i think is going to be less important than i think calling attention to the fact that the humanities and the arts as well are very, very, very important. and again, in a stem oriented - age which is very understandable in a recession, even though some parts of the economy has bounced back a lot which all know the economy is not totally bounced back. i think it's very important we don't lose track of these disciplines. so yes, i think it's important and i hope to be able to work with and learn from the other leaders of the cultural institutions in washington who know many, many times more than i know about the washington scene and about what flies and what works. but i thi

guggenheim memorial fellowship for a study in research to the rockefeller foundation as well as the nehe has directed four disciplinary neh summer seminars focusing on the women question for college teacher, she has organized a cluster of original historical text and translation and codirected one, another seminar on motherhood and the nation state at stanford in 2002. she is a widely published author, and scholarly reviews in many languages. many of you, i'm sure, no doubt have read her foundational article defining feminism and comparative historical analysis that came out in 1988. her latest monograph was -- well latest until the one she just finished was a european feminism 1700 to 1950 a political history which came up with stanford in 2000. and has just been translated in french, as well. in addition to that work and many other articles and collected volumes she publiced an edited volume globalizing feminism 1789 to 1945 which i highly recommend to anybody in this field. she lives in stanford and there she just completed a book on the women question debate in france. you have a ti