SCHOLARLY EDITIONS
AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: May 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Stanford
University, Stanford, CA
Clayborne Carson, Project Director and senior
editor; with managing editor Susan Carson; associate editor Tenisha
Armstrong; assistant editor Susan Englander; research assistants Brandon
Hunter and Madolyn Orr; and a 19-member advisory board of scholars,
documentary editors, and King associates
Publication of volumes VI and VII and work on volumes VIII and IX.
On the web at hhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/
Outright
Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $250,000 over a period of three
years.
Critical Edition of the Works of
Shenoute
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Andrew Todd
Crislip, Project Director and editor; editor-in-chief Stephen Emmel,
Egyptologist and Coptic Studies specialist Heike Behlmer; Coptic
manuscript specialist Anne Boud’hors; Eastern Mediterranean and Egyptian
monasticism expert David Brakke; Coptic manuscript specialist Jean-Louis
Fort; Coptic Studies specialists Bentley Layton, Tito Orlandi, Zlato
Pleše, and Frederik Wisse; Coptic and Arabic papyrology expert Tonio
Sebastian Richter; and philologist and papyrologist Sofia Torallas Tovar
A critical edition and translation of the Works of Shenoute.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
The Piers Plowman Electronic
Archive
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Hoyt N.
Duggan, Project Director and editor; with editors Robert Adams, John A.
Burrow, Michael A. Calabrese, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna, Eugene Lyman,
Stephen Shepherd, Thorlac Turville-Petre, Míceál Vaughan, and Joseph S.
Wittig; editor and computer consultant Daniel Pitti; research associate
and adjunct editor Patricia Bart; research associate Marilyn Gail Duggan;
adjunct editors Karen T. Bjelland, Charlotte Brewer, Bryan Davis, Carl
Grindley, Carter Hailey, Judith Jefferson, Ruth Kennedy, Jennifer Miller,
Samuel Overstreet, Katherine Heinrichs Rehyansky, D. Vance Smith,
Toshiyuki Takamiya, and Lawrence Warner; a ten-member advisory board; and
two graduate assistants
Completion of the B critical text of Piers Plowman with textual annotation and completion of documentary editions of the A and C manuscripts accompanied by color facsimiles of the originals.
On the web at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seenet/piers/
Outright
funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.
Writing of Robert Frost; The Collected Letters
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA
Robert Faggen,
Project Director and editor, with co-editors Mark Richardson and Donald
Richardson, and a six-member advisory board.
An edition of the collected letters of Robert Frost.
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Papers of Andrew Jackson
University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
Daniel Feller, Project Director and editor; with
assistant editors Laura-Eve Moss, Thomas M. Coens, and Edward Speer;
graduate student assistant Vicki Rozema; and an 8- member advisory board
To complete volumes 7 and 8, the first two volumes of presidential papers, and work on volume 9.
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
Records of Early English Drama
University of
Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Peter H. Greenfield, Project Director and
editor, with a 6-member editorial and office staff, a 10-member executive
board, 10 senior advisers, and 36 volume editors
Preparation for publication of county records of early English drama, including the two-volume merged Cheshire and updated Chester collection, the Ecclesiastical London collection, and the London: Inns of Court collection.
On the web at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/index.cfm
Outright
funds and offer of matching funds of $150,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Prose Letters of John Donne
North
Carolina State University, Raleigh
M. Thomas Hester, Project Director
and editor, with co-editors Ernest W. Sullivan II and Dennis Flynn
An edition of the Prose Letters of John Donne.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.
The Mark Twain Project
University of
California, Berkeley
Robert H. Hirst, Project Director and editor; with
co-editors Victor Fischer, Michael Frank, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor
Smith; administrative assistant and proofreader Neda Salem; XML encoders
and editors Sharon Goetz and Benjamin Griffin; a ten-member editorial
advisory board; three student interns; and undergraduate assistants
Completion of an electronic online edition of Mark Twain's Letters and editorial work and XML encoding of Twain's autobiographical writings.
On the web at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/
Outright
Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $600,000 over a period of two years.
St. George Tucker Law Papers
Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
VA
Charles F. Hobson, Project Director and editor, with managing editor
Joan S. Lovelace
Work on a two-volume edition of the law reports and papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), an influential figure in American law.
Outright Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.
Writing in the Wake of Exploration: Documents from the
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Expedition to the Pantanal,
1540-1555
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Catherine
J. Julien, Project Director and editor; with co-editor Pablo
Pastrana-Pérez; consultants historian Kenneth Mills, literary scholar
Margarita Zamora, and philologist/linguist Jerry Craddock; and a graduate
student project assistant
Preparation of an edition of the documents, Commentaries, and Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's exploration of the Paraguay River
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
The Ælfric of Eynsham Project
Individual
Applicant, La Mirada, CA
Aaron J. Kleist, Project Director and editor;
with program coordinator Dorothy Carr Porter; Old English Specialists
Stephen Harris, Michael Fox, Robert Upchurch, and Aidan Conti; Old English
and IT specialist Rachel Anderson; digital imaging specialist Gene
Berryhill; consultants Kevin Kiernan, Paul Szarmach, Jonathan Wilcox, and
Stuart Lee; and two graduate research assistants from the Department of
English at the University of Kentucky
Publication in print and electronic form of selected Anglo-Saxon homilies by Ælfric of Eynsham.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of three years.
Papers of Gouverneur Morris: Diaries Project
New-York Historical Society, New York City
Melanie
Randolph Miller, Project Director; with Charlotte Garofalo, local liaison;
the library and curatorial staff of the Society; a board of editors
consisting of Martha J. King, Wendy E. Perry, Kenneth Bowling, Dorothy
Twohig, Richard Brookhiser, and William Howard Adams; and one editor and
one assistant typist/proofreader
Work to prepare two volumes of the diary of Gouverneur Morris
Outright Funds of $200,000 over a period of three years.
John Duns Scotus: Critical Edition of the Reportatio
Parisiensis examinata I-A, d. 25-35
Catholic University of
America, Washington, DC
Timothy B. Noone, Project Director and general
editor; with associate researchers Oleg Bychkov, Kent Emory, Romuald
Green, and Andrew Traver; and computer consultant Terrence A. Dobbelsteyn
Preparation of a critical edition of Duns Scotus's Reportatio Parisiensis examinata I-A, distinctions 25-35.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of two years.
Middle English Texts Series
Rochester
University, New York
Russell A. Peck, Project Director and general
editor; with managing editor Patricia Hollahan; associate editor Alan
Lupack; assistant editor Michael Livingston; and advisory board members
Rita Copeland, Thomas G. Hahn, Lisa Kiser, R.A. Shoaf, and Bonnie Wheeler
Preparation of multiple volumes of a series of editions of important Middle English texts.
On the web at hhttp://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm
Outright
Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of two years.
Women of the Founding Era
University of
Virginia, Charlottesville
Holly Shulman, Project Director and
editor-in-chief; with programmer Scott Gillespie; text editors Wilma
Bradbeer and Ann Goedde; an editorial/research assistant; two graduate
students; and support and collaboration from The Adams Family Papers, The
Papers of George Washington, and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Completion of the Dolley Madison Digital Edition and launch of The Women of the Founding Era, extending documentary editions of the Founding Fathers to the women of the era in an electronic format.
Information on the Dolley Madison Digital Edition is on the web at http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8100/dmde/default.xqy
Outright
Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of three
years.
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh
Carlyle
Duke University, Durham, NC
David R. Sorensen,
Project Director and editor; with editors Ian Campbell, Aileen
Christianson, and Sheila McIntosh; print edition editor and e-edition
coordinating editor Brent E. Kinser; managing editor David Southern; and
associate editor Elizabeth Sutherland
Publication of volumes 34-36 of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $175,000 over a period of three years.
Jonathan Edwards Center and Online Archive at Yale
University
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Harry S. Stout,
Project Director and general editor; with executive editor Kenneth P.
Minkema; editors Ava Chamberlain, George S. Claghorn, Kyle P. Farley,
David D. Hall, Nathan O. Hatch, Wilson H. Kimnach, M.X. Lesser, Sang Hyun
Lee, Mason I. Lowance, Amy Plantinga Pauw, Norman Pettit, Thomas A.
Schafer, John E. Smith, Stephen J. Stein, Douglas A. Sweeney, Peter J.
Thuesen, Mark Valeri, David Watters, and John F. Wilson; student editorial
assistants and transcribers John Anderson, C.J. Dickson, Sarah Hammond,
and Nathan Hedman; clerical support staff Cynthia Erickson; and a
six-member advisory board
Production of a comprehensive online digital archive of the writings of Jonathan Edwards.
On the web at http://edwards.yale.edu/
Offer of
Matching Funds of $141,869 over a period of two years.
A Digital Edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College MS
25
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Paul E.
Szarmach and Thomas N. Hall, Project Co-Directors, with research
associates Dorothy Carr Porter and Rebecca Rushforth, and consultants
Kevin Kiernan and Bernard Muir
An electronic edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 25, an eleventh century collection of Latin sermons which were frequently translated into Old English.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of two years.
Adams Papers Documentary Editing
Project
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
C.
James Taylor, Project Director and editor in chief; with editor Gregg L.
Lint; associate editor Margaret A. Hogan; assistant editors Mary T.
Claffey, Jessie M. Rodrique, and Hobson Woodward; a twelve-member
administrative committee; and a seven-member editorial advisory committee
Preparation and publication of volumes 8 and 9 of the Family Correspondence and the start of work on volume 10.
On the web at http://www.masshist.org/adams/
Outright
Funds and offer of matching funds of $600,000 over a period of three
years.
A Critical Edition of the James Madison Carpenter
Collection
American Folklore Society, Columbus, OH
Robert
Y. Walser, Project Director; with chief editor Julia C. Bishop; assistant
editor Ian Russell, grant administrator Timothy Lloyd; an editorial team
of David Atkinson, Elaine Bradtke, Edward Cass, and Thomas McKean;
folklife specialists Michael Taft and Jennifer Cutting; processing
archivist Marcia Segal; digital conversion specialists Paul Frauenfelter
and John Barton; and advisor Michael Heaney
The second phase of a critical edition of the James Madison Carpenter Collection, including transcription of folkloric items and work on the textual apparatus, notes, and headnotes for volumes 2-5 and 8-10.
On the web at http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/
Outright
Funds of $150,000 over a period of three years.
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
University of
California, Santa Barbara
Elizabeth H. Witherell, Project Director and
editor-in-chief; with associate textual editor Lihong Xie; editorial
assistant Dianne Piper-Rybak; consultant Mary Shelden; a five-member
executive committee; volume editors Robert Hudspeth, Joseph J.
Moldenhauer, Wesley T. Mott, Nancy Craig Simmons, Ron Thomas, and Laura
Dassow Walls; and two editorial assistants
Publication of Henry David Thoreau's Excursions, Journals, and Correspondence.
On the web at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/thoreau/index.html
Outright
Funds and offer of matching funds of $260,000 over a period of three
years.
Critical Edition of George Santayana's The Life of
Reason and Three Philosophical Poets
Indiana
University, Indianapolis
Marianne S. Wokeck, Project Director and
editor, with assistant project director and associate editor Kristine W.
Frost, second associate editor Martin Coleman, assistant editor Johanna
Resler, assistant textual editor David Spiech, founding and consulting
editor Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., consulting textual editor Jonathan Eller,
consulting editor Paul Nagy, advisor Robert Sturgis, a sixteen member
advisory board, and one graduate assistant
Preparation for publication of George Santayana's The Life of Reason and Three Philosophical Poets.
http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Outright
Funds and offer of matching funds of $210,000 over a period of three
years.