COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS
Division of Collaborative Research
Announced: April 2000

American History

Annotated Edition of the Payne-Butrick MSS on the Cherokee

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
William L. Anderson, Project Director, and Anne F. Rogers, co-director, with research associate Jane L. Brown, consultant Laura Pinnix, and one graduate assistant

The preparation of an edition of six annotated volumes of the Payne-Butrick manuscripts on the Cherokee Indians.

Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of John Jay: An Image Database

Columbia University, New York, NY
Jean W. Ashton, Project Director, with a team of eight archivists, librarians and historians, one project editor and two assistants

The preparation of an electronic edition of the papers of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. On the web at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rave/guides/Jay,J/

Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted

American University, Washington, DC
Charles E. Beveridge, Project Director, co-editor Carolyn Hoffman, and research associate Tina Hummel

The continuing preparation of a selected edition of the writings and architectural plans of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

Manumission in the Atlantic World, An International Conference

College of Charleston, SC
Rosemary A. Brana-Shute, Project Director, co-director Randy Sparks, education coordinator S. Max Edelson, and seventy-two participants

A conference to examine the circumstances of manumission, or the granting of freedom by an owner to a specific slave within the institution of slavery, in the countries of the Atlantic world.

Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of sixteen months.

Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800

East Stroudsburg University, PA
Theodore Crackel, Project Director and Editor, with co-editors Elaine Everly and Howard Wehmann

Restoration of the War Department Records (1784-1800), which were destroyed by fire.

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

The Eisenhower Papers Project

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Louis P. Galambos, Project Director, with editors Robin Coblentz, Jill Friedman, Elizabeth Hughes, Janet Seraphine, and Daun vąn Ee

Completion of a print edition of documentary materials relating to the life and career of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $230,000 over a period of eighteen months.

Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ann D. Gordon, Project Director, with co-editors Allison Sneider, Ann Pfau, and Kimberly Banks

The continuing preparation of a selected edition of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. On the web at http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of twenty-four months.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Kaminski, Project Director, co-editor Gaspare Saladino, associate editors Richard Leffler, Charles Schoenleber

The continuing preparation of a documentary history of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and adoption of the Bill of Rights. On the web at http://www,adh.sc.edu/rc/rc-table.html

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of two years.

The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger

New York University, NY
Esther Katz, Project Director, and Carl Prince, co-director, with Peter Engleman, Cathy Hajo, and Stacy Sewell

Continuing work on a proposed four-volume print edition of materials selected from the microfilm archive of the papers of Margaret Sanger. On the web at http://mep.cla.sc.edu/Sanger/SangBase.HTM

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Transcription and Archival Project

University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Benjamin C. Ray, Project Director, and co-director Bernard Rosenthal, with editors Risto Hiltunen, Merja Kytö, Matti Rissanen, and Richard Trask, and a technology staff of five

The preparation of a transcription and archival project on the Salem Witchcraft Papers. On the web at http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

Archaeological Studies

Excavation of a Fifth-Century B.C.E. Shipwreck

Texas A&M University, College Station
George F. Bass, Project Director, and assistant director Deborah Carlson, with a team of five archaeologists, a physicist, a photographer, a historian, an international coordinator, and thirty-two students and volunteers

The excavation of a fifth-century B.C.E. shipwreck off the coast of Turkey near Tektaş Burnu. On the web at http://www.diveturkey.com/inaturkey/projects.htm

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $75,000 over a period of one year.

Theban Desert Road Survey

Yale University, New Haven, CT
John C. Darnell, Project Director, and Deborah Darnell, co-director, with a team that includes an epigraphic artist, a botanist, a bioanthropologist, an archaeologist, a conservator, a photographer, a draftsman, a zooarchaeologist, and two student assistants

Three years of survey, artifact collection, and rock art recording in the desert between Thebes and the Kharga Oasis undertaken to address questions concerning exchange relations in ancient Egypt, focusing primarily on routes connecting with the area around Thebes.

Outright and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.

Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project

University of Cincinnati, OH
Jack L. Davis, Project Director, with co-directors Muzafer Korkuti, Lorenc Bejko, Michael Galaty, Skënder Muçaj, Sharon Stocker, and a team that includes archaeologists, paleobotanists, a ceramic specialist, photographers, lithic specialists, an illustrator, and a computer manager

Archaeological fieldwork and subsequent data analysis to be conducted by an international team of scholars at the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia, in central Albania. On the web at http://river.blg.uc.edu/mrap/MRAP_en.html/

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The Chickasaws: Economics, Politics, and Social Organization in the Early Eighteenth Century

University of Mississippi, University, MS
Jay K. Johnson, Project Director, and co-director John O’Hear, with Robbie Ethridge, Keith Jacobi, Elizabeth Ryba, and Susan Scott

The analysis of material excavated from Chickasaw sites during the 1930s to document changes in the nature of external and internal relationships during the early contact period.

Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of eighteen months.

The Topography and Structures of Early Northern Mesopotamian Cities

University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia
Richard L. Zettler, Project Director, assistant director Michael Danti, and a team of four archaeologists, an archaeobotanist, and nine student assistants

Excavation and remote sensing during two field seasons at Tell es-Sweyhat, a late third-millennium site on the upper Euphrates in northern Syria that promises to reveal much about the rise of urbanism.

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $110,000 over a period of two years.

Music & Arts

Central European Avant-Garde Documents

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Timothy Benson, Project Director, and project editor Garrett White, with one curatorial associate, five working committee members, five translators, and one research associate

The translation of a collection of primary texts, including manifestoes, letters, reviews, essays, and other materials, written by artists and intellectuals of the Central European avant-garde (1910-1930).

Outright Funds of $75,000 over a period of two years.

Verdi Congress 2001: Verdi in Retrospect and Today

New York University
Martin Chusid, Project Director, and twenty-two speakers and participants

An international conference that will assess the reception and influence of the music of Giuseppe Verdi, on the centenary of the composer’s death.

Outright Funds of $39,719 over a period of one year.

The Music of Veljo Tormis

Mimi S. Daitz, Project Director, and translator Ritva Poom
New York, NY

A translation from Estonian into English of materials to be included in a book about the life and music of the twentieth-century composer Veljo Tormis.

Outright Funds of $16,600 over a period of six months.

"Imitation of Life" Conference: Race, Gender and Censorship in the Entertainment Industry

Princeton University, NJ
Nell I. Painter, Project Director, with Brooke Kroeger, Noliwe Rooks, Bill Gaskins, Jean Washingon, Hattie Black, two student assistants, and fifteen participants

A conference that will explore issues of racial identity, gender, and censorship in the entertainment industry, centered on writer Fannie Hurst’s popular novel, Imitation of Life (1932), and the film versions of 1934 and 1959.

Outright Funds of $40,000 over a period of eight months.

Computer-Based Study of Arthurian Romance

University of Pittsburgh, PA
M. Alison Stones, Project Director, co-director Kenneth Sochats, with three consultants and three research assistants

A study of three early-fourteenth-century illustrated texts of the Lancelot-Graal romance, to be prepared by an international team of Old French literature scholars, art historians, and information science specialists. The project will make available on computer, CD, and in print, pages of illuminated manuscripts, together with description, analysis, and commentary.

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kushan World, A Symposium

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Doris M. Srinivasan, Project Director, co-directors Frances Connelly and Maude Wahlman, project coordinator Heidi Gambill, one curatorial consultant, one curatorial intern, one administrative assistant, and twenty-three participants

A symposium that will explore the formative stage of Hindu and Buddhist art as it developed in South and Central Asia from the second-century B.C. to approximately 100 A.D. On the web at http://www.nelson-atkins.org/symposium.html

Matching Funds of $49,648 over a period of eight months.

Philosophy, Religion, and Science

Ancient Mesopotamian Medical Therapies

University of Illinois at Chicago
Burton R. Andersen, Project Director, and collaborators Jo Ann Scurlock, Djaja Soejarto, Richard Beal

The preparation of a three-volume collation and translation of texts dealing with medical therapies, which are found in ancient (2100-300 B.C.E.) Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets.

Outright Funds of $189,000 over a period of three years.

The John Dewey Correspondence

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Larry A. Hickman, Project Director, with editors Barbara Levine, Diane Meierkort, Anne Sharpe, and Harriet Simon

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.

Paul Bernays and the Philosophy of Mathematics

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Wilfried Sieg, Project Director, with co-editors Steven Awodey and Dirk Schlimm, and translators William Ewald, Paolo Mancosu, Charles Parsons, Erich Reck, William Tait, and Richard Zach

The preparation of a translation of the philosophical papers of Paul Bernays, a major contributor to resolving the logical and foundational questions of twentieth-century mathematics.

Outright Funds of $47,000 over a period of two years.

A Critical Edition of Henry of Ghent’s Summa, Articles 1-5

University of North Carolina, Ashville
Gordon A. Wilson, Project Director, with five national and twelve international editors

The preparation of a critical edition of the Latin text of articles 1-5 of the Summa, written by the thirteenth-century philosopher Henry of Ghent.

Outright Funds of $72,000 over a period of twenty-seven months.

Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project

Stanford University, CA
Rega Wood, Project Director and Editor, with co-editors Neil Lewis and R. James Long

The transcription and preparation of a critical edition of the Latin text of two of the thirteenth-century philosophical works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, which are 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 $170,000 over a period of two years.

Literature

Records of Early English Drama: Editorial Support

University of Puget Sound, WA
Peter H. Greenfield, Project Director, with co-editors Barbara Palmer, Alan Nelson, and Robert Tittler

The continuing preparation of a multi-volume edition of the Records of Early English Drama. On the web at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.

CD-ROM of Oral Literature: Southern African Praise Poetry

Ohio State University, Columbus
Francis A. Irele, Project Director, with Daniel Avorgbedor, Diane Dagefoerde, Jabulani Mhaphala, Lupenga Mphande, and C.F. Swanepoel

The research for a CD-ROM on southern African oral literature, specifically on the praise poetry performed in the Nguni and Sotho-Tswana languages.

Outright Funds of $50,000 over a period of two years.

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Hoyt N. Duggan, Project Director, with collaborating editors Robert Adams, Charlotte Brewer, M. Gail Duggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Míceál Vaughn, and Joseph Wittig

The preparation of an electronic archive of the complete textual tradition of all the manuscripts and early printed versions of Piers Plowman. On the web at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/piers/report94.html

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.

The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

University of Iowa, Iowa City
Ed Folsom, Project Director, with Kenneth Price and John Unsworth

A comprehensive online hypertext archive of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. On the web at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/

Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

The Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

Florida State University, Tallahassee
Joseph R. McElrath, Project Director, with editors Jesse Crisler and Robert Leitz

An annotated edition of 200-300 letters of Charles W. Chesnutt written in the period from 1906 through early 1932.

Outright Funds of $33,000 over a period of eighteen months.

The Correspondence of Charles Chauncey Emerson, Edward Bliss Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Emerson

University of South Carolina, Columbia
Joel Myerson, Project Director, co-editor Ronald Bosco, and consultant David Chesnutt

An electronic edition of the fully annotated texts of 1,253 letters written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his brothers.

Outright Funds of $61,000 over a period of two years.

The Carlyle Letters Project

Duke University, Durham, NC
David R. Sorenson, Project Director, with editors David Southern, Paul Mangiafico, K.J. Fielding, Ian Campbell, Aileen Christianson, and Sheila McIntosh

The publication of three additional print volumes and preparation of a digital version of the entire Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Carlyle letters to be presented on the World Wide Web.

Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.

World History

A Political and Social History of the Cultural Revolution inTibet (1966-1976)

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Melvyn Goldstein, Project Director, with Ben Jiao and Tenzin Lhundrup

A political and social history of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in Tibet.

Outright Funds of $170,000 over a period of three years.

Aztec Codex Aubin Translation Project

University of Oklahoma, Norman
Ross Hassig, Project Director, with co-director J. Richard Andrews

The preparation of a critical edition and English translation of the Codex Aubin, a Nahuatl pictorial and textual history of the Aztecs from 1168 through 1608--a time span including years before and after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as well as the conquest itself.

Outright funds of $50,000 over a period of one year.

Translation and Annotation of the Chronicle of Susenyos, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1607-1632

Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
Haile M. Larebo, Project Director, with Donald Crummey and Merid Wolde-Aregay

A translation and annotation of the Chronicle of Susenyos, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1607-1632. The Chronicle provides political, social, and cultural information on Ethiopia at an important period in its history.

Outright Funds of $85,000 over a period of fourteen months.

Suffering and the Prophetic Past and Future in Cambodian Religion and Society: A Study of the Buddh Damnāy

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Judy Ledgerwood, Project Director, with Anne Hansen and two research assistants

The collection, translation, and analysis of a nineteenth-century Cambodian Buddhist prophetic text, the Buddh Damnāy, with a view to understanding how Cambodians use the text to help explain their suffering during the last thirty years and to placing the text within a larger Buddhist literary context.

Outright Funds of $110,000 over a period of two years.

Vols. 2, 4, 5A-5B, & 9A-9B of the Cambridge History of China

Princeton University, NJ
Willard J. Peterson, Project Director, general editor Denis Twitchett, project manager Ralph Meyer, and a team of over sixty contributors.

The research, writing, and editing of volumes 2, 4, 5A-5B, and 9A-9B, covering the history of China from the Han through the Sui, Tang, and Sung dynasties (third through thirteenth-centuries A.D.) and the Ch’ing dynasty (1644 to 1800), of the Cambridge History of China. The Sui and Tang dynasties are commonly known as China’s Golden Age; the Sung period nurtured some of the greatest of China’s poets and philosophers.

Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.