COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: April 2002
American History
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
American University, Washington, DC
Charles E. Beveridge, Project Director
To support the production of three volumes of the edited writings and
architectural plans of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $120,000 over a period of
two years.
The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Charlene N. Bickford, Project Director
To support work on the last five volumes of a documentary history of
the First Federal Congress.
On the web at http://mep.cla.sc.edu/fc/fc-table.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $130,000 over a period of
20 months.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Allida Black, Project Director
To support the first volume of an edition of the papers of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $105,000 over a period of
three years.
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ellen R. Cohn, Project Director
To support work on three volumes of an edition of the papers of Benjamin
Franklin.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $300,000 over a period of
three years.
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
East Stroudsburg University, PA
Theodore J. Crackel, Project Director
To support the completion of an electronic edition of War Department
Records (1784-1800).
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $130,000 over a period of
two years.
Papers of Jefferson Davis
William Marsh Rice University, TX
Lynda L. Crist, Project Director
To support work on three volumes of an edition of the papers of Jefferson
Davis.
On the web at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjdavis/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $95,000 over a period of
three years.
Correspondence of James K. Polk
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Wayne Cutler, Project Director
To support work on the last four volumes of an edition of the correspondence
of James K. Polk.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $95,000 over a period of
two years.
Black Antislavery Writings, 1760-1829
University of Detroit Mercy, MI
Roy F. Finkenbine, Project Director
To support the preparation of an electronic and letterpress edition of
black antislavery writings from 1760-1829.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $165,000 over a period of
three years.
The History Cooperative Online Scholarship Project
Organization of American Historians, Bloomington, IN
Lee W. Formwalt, Project Director
To support the preparation and dissemination of three scholarly articles
that would serve as prototypes for analysis of historical evidence using
advanced electronic technology.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $70,000 over a period of
one year.
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Ann D. Gordon, Project Director
To support work on two volumes of a selective six-volume 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 $155,000 over a period of
two years.
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
John P. Kaminski, Project Director
To support work on three New York volumes of a documentary history of
the ratification of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
On the web at http://adh.sc.edu/rc/rc-table.html
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $301,000 over a period of
three years.
Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
New York University, NY
Esther Katz, Project Director
To support work on three volumes of a four-volume print edition of materials
selected from the microfilm archive of the papers of Margaret Sanger.
On the web at http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $185,000 over a period of
two years.
Emma Goldman: The American Years
University of California, Berkeley
Leon F. Litwack, Project Director
To support work on the last two volumes of a four-volume edition of Emma
Goldman's papers.
On the web at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of
one year.
Race and Slavery Petitions
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Loren Schweninger, Project Director
To support work on an edition of petitions to 15 southern state legislatures
and county courts concerning race, slavery, and free blacks from the time
of the American Revolution to the Civil War.
On the web at http://history.uncg.edu/slaverypetitions
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $180,000 over a period of
three years.
The Material World of Tidewater, the Lowcountry, and the Caribbean
College of Charleston, SC
David S. Shields, Project Director
To support an interdisciplinary conference examining the material culture
of the Chesapeake basin, the coastal plain of the Carolinas and Georgia,
and the Caribbean to explore the idea of regional identity.
Outright Funds of $24,000 over a period of 16 months.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant Association, Carbondale, IL
John Y. Simon, Project Director
To support work on the four remaining volumes of an edition of the papers
of Ulysses S. Grant.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of
three years.
The Harriet Jacobs Papers
Pace University, New York, NY
Jean F. Yellin, Project Director
To support work on an edition of the papers of Harriet Jacobs, 19th-century
American slave, author, abolitionist, and reform activist.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $95,000 over a period of
two years.
Archaeological Studies
Azoria Project: Excavation of an Early Iron Age-Archaic Town in Eastern
Crete, Greece
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Donald C. Haggis, Project Director
To support research on the development of a nascent Cretan polis and
of cultural exchange in the Greek Aegean during the Early Iron Age (ca.
1200-600 B.C.).
On the web at http://www.azoria.org
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $160,000 over a period of
three years.
A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, MD
Julia A. King, Project Director
To support a comparative analysis of English, Indian, and African material
culture recovered from 18 Chesapeake Bay sites--mainly towns and tobacco
plantations--occupied between 1620 and 1750.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of two years.
An Excavation in the Theater of Pompey, Rome
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
James E. Packer, Project Director
To support excavation and analysis of a portion of the Theater of Pompey
(1st century B.C.), Rome's prototypical theater.
On the web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/papers/beacham/
Offer of Matching Funds of $25,000 over a period of one year.
The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): An Exploration
of the "Middle Ground"
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Bradley J. Parker, Project Director
To support archaeological research at the Mesopotamian Iron Age (ca.
1000-600 B.C.) site of Kenan Tepe, in southeastern Turkey.
On the web at http://hum.utah.edu/history/utarp/
Outright Funds of $60,000 over a period of three years.
Inka, Spanish, and Indigenous Silver Production in Porco, Bolivia
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins
Mary Van Buren, Project Director
To support a multidisciplinary study of metallurgical techniques and
economic aspects of both Inka and Spanish silver production in Porco (present-day
Bolivia).
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $90,000 over a period of
16 months.
Music, Film, & Arts
Music in Gotham: The New York Scene, 1863-1875
City University of New York, New York
Adrienne F. Block, Project Director
To support a two-volume study of musical life in New York City from 1863
to 1875, including a comprehensive database of musical events and source
materials as well as interpretive genre-based essays.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $130,000 over a period of
three years.
Music of the United States of America (MUSA): A National Series of
Scholarly Editions
American Musicological Society, Philadelphia, PA
Richard Crawford, Project Director
To support seven volumes of a scholarly edition of American music from
the early years of the republic to the present.
On the web at http://www.umich.edu/~musausa/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $120,000 over a period of
three years.
Vecellio's Degli Habiti antichi et moderni (Venice, 1590/98)
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Ann Rosalind Jones, Project Director
To support a translation and CD-ROM publication of Cesare Vecellio's
degli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Costumes,
Ancient and Modern, of Various Regions of the World), a 16th-century text
on costumes and dress in Europe, Turkey, China, India and Africa.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $95,000 over a period of
16 months.
The Cinema of Edgar G. Ulmer
Robert Polito, Project Director
To support a symposium on the independent filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972),
one of the premier stylists and innovators of 20th-century cinema in America.
Outright Funds of $25,000 over a period of one year.
Philosophy, Religion, and Science
Instructions for Body and Soul: Pastoral Care in 18th-century Bethlehem,
PA
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Katherine M. Faull, Project Director
To support the preparation of an edition and translation of the "Instructions
to Choir Helpers," late-18th-century German documents of Pennsylvania's
Moravian Church.
Outright Funds of $55,000 over a period of 14 months.
Alfred the Great's Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy
University of KY, Lexington
Kevin Kiernan, Project Director
To support preparation of an electronic edition of Alfred the Great's
Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of
three years.
Steinschneider's Hebrew Translations
Charles H. Manekin, Project Director
To support the translation, revision, and supplement to Moritz Steinschneider's
Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als
Dometscher (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as
Interpreters), a 19th-century bibliographic study of medieval Jewish literature.
Outright Funds of $65,000 over a period of three years.
John Duns Scotus: Critical Edition of the Reportatio Parisiensis examinata
1-A
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Timothy B. Noone, Project Director
To support work on the first volume of a critical edition of Duns Scotus's
Reportatio Parisiensis examinata, I-A, distinctions 1-21.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $160,000 over a period of
two years.
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY
Duncan M. Porter, Project Director
To support work on two volumes of an edition of the correspondence of
Charles Darwin.
On the web at http://www.acls.org/pro-dar.htm
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $230,000 over a period of
three years.
The Letters of George Santayana and The Life of Reason
Indiana University, Bloomington
Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr, Project Director
To support work on two volumes of letters and on the Life of Reason,
volumes of the works of George Santayana.
On the web at http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $80,000 over a period of
two years.
Early Buddhist Manuscripts
University of Washington, Seattle
Richard Salomon, Project Director
To support the transcription, translation, and analysis of a group of
first- through seventh-century A.D. Buddhist manuscripts that promise
to provide new information on the formation of the Buddhist canon and
the spread of Buddhism from India into Central Asia and China.
On the web at http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $160,000 over a period of
three years.
The Place of Religion in the American Metropolis
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Wilbur Zelinsky, Project Director
To support the creation of a data set on the approximately 4,700 houses
of worship in the greater Chicago area (Cook County, Illinois), and the
writing of a booklength monograph summarizing and interpreting the data.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of 30 months.
Literature
Judeo-Spanish Traditional Ballads
University of California, Davis
Samuel G. Armistead, Project Director
To support the preparation of an edition of Judeo-Spanish traditional
ballads.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $100,000 over a period of
two years.
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Hoyt N. Duggan, Project Director
To support the preparation of an electronic archive of the complete textual
tradition of all the manuscripts and early printed versions of the medieval
English poem, Piers Plowman.
On the web at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seenet/piers/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $135,000 over a period of
two years.
The Uncensored Version of Pushkin's Boris Godunov
Texas A&M University, College Station
Chester S. L. Dunning, Project Director
To support transcription and translation of the uncensored version of
Pushkin's Boris Godunov.
Outright Funds of $35,000 over a period of one year.
Translation of a 13th-Century Sinhalese Grammar, the Sidat Sangara (Compilation
of Principles)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
James W. Gair, Project Director
To support the translation and annotation of a medieval Sinhalese grammar,
Sidat Sangara, or Compilation of Principles, composed in the 13th century
in present-day Sri Lanka.
Outright Funds of $40,000 over a period of 15 months.
Records of Early English Drama
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Peter H. Greenfield, Project Director
To support continuing work on 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 $120,000 over a period of
two years.
Middle English Texts
University of Rochester, NY
Russell A. Peck, Project Director
To support the preparation of multiple volumes of a series of editions
of important Middle English texts.
On the web at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $200,000 over a period of
three years.
A Tradition Discovered: Women Writers in Italy, France, and Germany, 1400-1750
Albert Rabil, Jr., Project Director
To support the translation of 14 volumes in the series "The Other
Voice in Early Modern Europe."
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of one year.
New Letters of Theodore Dreiser
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Thomas P. Riggio, Project Director
To support work on a two-volume edition of new letters of Theodore Dreiser.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $85,000 over a period of
two years.
John Donne's Satyres, Verse Letters, and Songs and Sonnets
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Gary A. Stringer, Project Director
To support a critical edition of John Donne's Satyres, Verse Letters,
and Songs and Sonnets.
On the web at http://donnevariorum.libarts.usm.edu
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $140,000 over a period of
three years.
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Elizabeth H. Witherell, Project Director
To support work on an edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
On the web at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/thoreau/
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $180,000 over a period of
three years.
World History
Voices of Ju/'hoan Women and Men: Texts from an Endangered Language
Megan Biesele, Project Director
To support the collection, transcription, and translation of texts in
African click languages spoken by the hunter-gatherer San peoples in contemporary
Namibia and Botswana.
Outright Funds of $60,000 over a period of two years.
The Genesis of Russian History Writing
University of California, Los Angeles
Gail Lenhoff, Project Director
To support preparation of an edition and source study of the Book
of Degrees of the Royal Genealogy.
Outright Funds of $80,000 over a period of three years.
Stalinism in the Soviet Countryside, 1927-39
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Roberta T. Manning, Project Director
To support the preparation of documents on the Stalin terror.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $145,000 over a period of
three years.
Translation of Fadi Bayhaqi's 11th-Century Persian History (Tarikh-I
Mas'udi)
Columbia University, New York, NY
Ehsan Yarshater, Project Director
To support the translation and annotation of an 11th-century Persian
chronicle, an important source for the history of what is now Eastern
Iran, Afghanistan, and modern Pakistan.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $55,000 over a period of
three years.