COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AWARDS
American History
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 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.
Columbia University, New York, NY 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.
American University, Washington, DC 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.
College of Charleston, SC 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.
East Stroudsburg University, PA 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.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 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.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 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.
University of Wisconsin, Madison 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.
New York University, NY 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.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville 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
Texas A&M University, College Station 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.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 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.
University of Cincinnati, OH 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.
University of Mississippi, University, MS 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.
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia 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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA 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.
New York University 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.
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Poom 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.
Princeton University, NJ 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.
University of Pittsburgh, PA 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.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 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 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.
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 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.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 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.
University of North Carolina, Ashville 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.
Stanford University, CA 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 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.
Ohio State University, Columbus 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.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville 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.
University of Iowa, Iowa City 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.
Florida State University, Tallahassee 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.
University of South Carolina, Columbia 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.
Duke University, Durham, NC 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 A political and social history of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in Tibet. Outright Funds of $170,000 over a period of three years.
University of Oklahoma, Norman 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.
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA 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.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 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.
Princeton University, NJ 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. |