COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AWARDS
Division of Collaborative Research
Announced: April 2001
American History
The Samuel Gompers PapersUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Peter Albert, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the papers of
Samuel Gompers.
On the web at http://www.inform.umd.edu/Hist/Gompers/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000
over a period of two years.
The Papers of George Washington
University of Virginia, Charlottesville Philander Chase, Project Director
To support scholarly work on the multi-volume edition
of the papers of George Washington.
On the web at http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/ Outright Funds and Offer
of Matching Funds of $450,000 over a period of three years.
The Papers of Nathanael Greene
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence
Dennis M. Conrad, Project Director,
To support scholarly work leading to publication of the last two volumes
of the 13-volume edition of the papers of Revolutionary War general Nathanael
Greene.
On the web at http://mep.cla.sc.edu/ng/ng-table.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $120,000 over a period of
two years.
Translation and Editing of New Netherland Archives
New York State Library, Albany
Charles T. Gehring, Project Director
To support the translation and annotation of documents produced by or
bearing on the colonial governments of New Netherland and New York during
the period 1654-1680.
On the web at http://www.nnp.org/index.shtml
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of
three years.
The Papers of John Marshall
Omohundro Institute, Williamsburg,VA
Charles F. Hobson, Project Director
On the web at http://www.wm.edu/JMP/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $140,000 over a period of two years.
The U.S. Civil War in the Eyes of German Immigrants
Texas A&M, College Station
Walter D. Kamphoefner, Project Director
To support the translation and annotation of an anthology of German-American
Civil War letters from Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $48,845 over a period of
18 months.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Princeton University, NJ
Barbara Oberg, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the papers of
Thomas Jefferson.
On the web at http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $400,000 over a period of
three years.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie S. Rowland, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of a documentary history of the
transition from slavery to freedom in the American South, 1861-1867.
On the web at
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $170,000 over a period of
two years.
The Papers of James Madison
University of Virginia,Charlottesville
John C.A. Stagg, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the papers of
James Madison.
On the web at http://www.virginia.edu/pjm/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of
two years.
Archaeological Studies
One Valley, Many Histories: San Pedro Ethnohistory
Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson,AZ
T.J. Ferguson, Project Director
To support a study of the history of Native American occupation of the
San Pedro Valley (in present day southeastern Arizona) using archaeological
and historical data and oral tradition.
On the web at http://www.cdarc.org/cdarc/research/san_pedro.htm
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $120,000 over a period of
two years.
Study of the Mediterranean-Red Sea-Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity:
Excavations at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt
University of Delaware, Newark
Steven E. Sidebotham, Project Director
To support three seasons of continued archaeological investigations in
and around the 3rd-century BC to 6th- century AD
Red Sea port of Berenike, Egypt.
On the web at http://www.archbase.com/berenike/english1.html
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
Music & Arts
Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Giuseppe Verdi
University of Chicago, IL
Philip Gossett, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of a critical edition of the works
of Giuseppe Verdi.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $103,500 over a period of
two years.
Tapping the Margins: Women, Gender, and Performance in the History
of Tap Dancing
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Ann M. Kilkelly, Project Director
To support the preparation of a book analyzing the history of American
tap dancing and women’s place in it. The book will explore the interactions
of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality in the developement of
jazz dancing.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $130,000 over a period of
two years.
Philosophy, Religion, and Science
The John Dewey Correspondence
Southern Illinois University,Carbondale
Larry A. Hickman, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an electronic edition of the
correspondence of John Dewey.
On the web at http://www.siu.edu/~deweyctr/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of
two years.
Critical Edition of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Indiana University, Indianapolis
Nathan Houser, Project Director
To support publication of two volumes and editorial organization and
transcription of three additional volumes of the writings of the American
philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).
On the web at http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/web/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $125,000 over a period of
two years.
Petra Papyrus Scrolls 3
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ludwig Koenen, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition and translation of
a sixth-century archive of carbonized papyrus rolls excavated at Petra,
Jordan.
On the web at http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $130,000 over a period of
two years.
The Correspondence of William James
American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY
John J. McDermott, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the correspondence
of William James.
On the web at http://www.acls.org/pro-jame.htm
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $225,000 over a period of
three years.
Surgically Shaping Children
The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY
Erik F. Parens, Project Director
To support a study of the humanistic values at stake for parents, children,
and medical professionals in decisions related to cosmetic and "corrective"
surgical interventions in children.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of
two years.
Frege’s Lectures on Logic, 1911-1914
University of California, Riverside
Erich H. Reck, Project Director
To support an English translation of Gottlob Frege’s lectures on
logic based on notes taken by Rudolf Carnap.
Outright Funds of $44,764 over a period of one year.
The Beauvoir Series
Southern Illinois University,Edwardsville
Margaret A. Simons, Project Director
To support a six-volume English translation, with scholarly introductions
and annotations, of all available texts of Simone de Beauvoir.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
University of Notre Dame, IN
Eugene C. Ulrich and James VanderKam, Project Directors
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the Dead Sea
Scrolls.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of
two years.
The First English Edition of Leibniz’s Protogaea
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge,
MA
Andre Wakefield, Project Director
To produce the first English translation of Gottfried Leibniz’s
Protogaea.
Outright Funds of $109,937 over a period of two years.
Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project
Stanford University , CA
Rega Wood, Project Director
To support the transcription and preparation of a critical edition of
the Latin texts of two of the 13th-century philosophical works
of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, author of the earliest surviving commentaries
on Aristotle’s natural philosophy.
On the web at http://www.yale.edu/divinity/rufus/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $110,000 over a period of
two years.
�Literature
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
University of Maryland, College Park
Neil R. Fraistat and Donald Reiman, Project Directors
To support the continuing preparation of a new critical edition of the
complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
On the web at http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/CPPBS.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of
three years.
The Mark Twain Project
University of California, Berkeley
Robert H. Hirst, Project Director
To support the preparation of an electronic edition of Mark Twain’s
correspondence.
On the web at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/MTP/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $235,000 over a period of
two years.
Sociology
Marx’s Late Writings on Non-Western and Pre-Capitalist Societies
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Kevin Anderson, Project Director
To support the preparation of an annotated translation of Karl Marx’s
notebooks on non-Western and pre-capitalist societies.
Outright Funds of $190,000 over a period of three years.
World History
Choosing a Color for the Cosmic Race: African Americans and National
Identities in Central America
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,MA
Lowell Gudmundson, Project Director
To support the research for a book, database, and website that would
reassess the historical presence and contributions of peoples of African
descent in Central America during the past two centuries.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $115,000 over a period of
two years.
Women’s Voices from West Africa
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Thomas A. Hale, Project Director
To support the collection and analysis of praise songs, epics, and other
poetic forms sung by women in the West African Sahel and Savanna regions
to gain a better understanding of how this verbal tradition enables women
to contribute to public and private discourse in West African society.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of
three years.
Stalin, Truman, and Japan’s Surrender: The Soviet Factor in
the Ending of the Pacific War
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Project Director
To support a study of the role played by the Soviets in shaping events
that led to the end of the war in the Pacific.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of one year.
Translation of Mao Zedong’s Writings
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Roderick L. MacFarquhar, Project Director
To support the completion of a translation of the extant speeches and
writings of Mao Zedong for the pre-1949 period, before the foundation
of the People’s Republic of China.
Outright Funds of $88,117 over a period of one year.
The Majimaji Rebellion: New Perspectives and New Directions
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Jamie Monson, Project Director
To support field research and a conference leading to a history of the
Majimaji Rebellion (1905-1907) in Tanzania.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of one year.
Supplying the Eternal City: The Study and Publication of Five Centuries
of Pottery from Ancient Rome
State University of New York,Buffalo
J. Theodore Pena, Project Director
To support the preparation of a study of Roman-period pottery recovered
in excavations in the center of Rome.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism
University of Chicago, IL
Sheldon L. Pollock, Project Director
To support the collection and analysis of a body of Sanskrit texts leading
to a website with relevant data and to a book on the structure and social
context of the rich period of Sanskrit knowledge from 1550 to 1750.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
The Nazi Culture Sourcebook
Anson Rabinbach, Project Director
To complete work on a collection of documents from the Nazi era.
Outright Funds of $105,000 over a period of one year.
A Commentary and On-Line Database of the Maya Madrid Codex
Gabrielle Vail, Project Director
To support the preparation of a database of information on the iconography,
glyphic texts, and calendrical structure of the Madrid Codex, a screenfold
manuscript dating to the late Postclassic period (c. AD 1200-1521) of
Maya culture.
Outright Funds of $90,000 over a period of 18 months.