SCHOLARLY EDITIONS AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: May 2004
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall
George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, KY
Larry I. Bland, Project Director and editor, with associate editor Sharon Ritenour, editorial assistant Joellen K. Bland, librarian-archivist Joanne Hartog, and a 4-member advisory committee
Preparation of volume six of a selective seven-volume edition of the papers of George Catlett Marshall, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the U.S. Marshall Plan.
http://adh.sc.edu/gm/gm-table.html
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $160,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Papers of George Washington
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Philander Chase, Project Director and editor-in-chief, with senior associate editor Frank Grizzard, associate editors Edward Lengel and Beverly Runge, assistant editors David Hoth, Christine Patrick, and John Pinheiro, research assistants James Guba, Jennifer Stertzer, Elizabeth Smith, Beverly Kirsch, Dan Smith, and Mark Leibert, proofreader Pamela Grizzard, and graduate student assistants
Preparation of 12 volumes of the multi-volume letterpress edition of the Papers of George Washington: volumes 15-20 of the Revolutionary War series, volumes 13-16 of the Presidential series, and volumes 1-2 of the Financial Papers series.
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $450,000 over a period of three years.
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Hoyt N. Duggan, Project Director, with editors Robert Adams, John A. Burrow, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna, Eugene Lyman, Daniel Pitti, Stephen Shepherd, Thorlac Turville-Petre, and Joseph S. Wittig, associate editors Patricia Bart and M. Gail Duggan, adjunct editors Karen T. Bjelland, Charlotte Brewer, Michael A. Calabrese, John Ivor Carlson, Bryan Davis, Carl Grindley, Carter Hailey, Judith Jefferson, Ruth Kennedy, Jennifer Miller, Samuel Overstreet, Katherine Heinrichs Rehyansky, D. Vance Smith, Toshiyuki Takamiya, Míceál Vaughan, and Lawrence Warner, and systems analyst Thornton Staples
Preparation of a critical text of Piers Plowman, a fourteenth-century poem.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/piers/archive.goals.html
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 an associate editor and an assistant editor, and a 14-member advisory board
Completion of volume 7 and initial work on volume 8 of a 17-volume selective edition of the papers of Andrew Jackson.
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of 2 years.
Monuments of Partimenti
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Robert O. Gjerdingen, Project Director, with consultants Jesse Rosenberg, Giorgio Sanguinetti, and Rosa Cafiero, and three graduate student assistants
Preparation for electronic publication on the world wide web of both the scores and musical sound files of three volumes of partimenti, or instructional basses, written by the Neapolitan maestro Durante, the Greco brothers, and Staneslao Mattei of Bologna.
http://geocities.com/figured_bass
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ann D. Gordon, Project Director and editor, with Krystal Frazier, Emily Westkaemper, and Judith Waterman
Completion of volume 5 of a selective six-volume print edition of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $150,000 over a period of 2 years.
Critical Edition of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi
University of Chicago, IL
Philip Gossett, Project Director and general editor, with managing editor Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell, volume editors Ilaria Narici, Douglas Ipson, and Jürgen Selk, and an 8-member advisory board
Preparation of five volumes of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ciao/index.html#verdimenu
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $100,986 over a period of two 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
Publication of county records of early English drama, including the two-volume Wales collection and the two-volume merged Cheshire and updated Chester collection.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $125,000 over a period of 2 years.
John Dewey Correspondence
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Larry A. Hickman, Project Director and general editor, with textual editors Harriet Furst Simon, Michael McNally, Barbara Levine, and Paula J. A. McNally, office staff members Sandra Jacobs and Jean Ohms, and a 5-member advisory board
Preparation of supplemental volumes to the Correspondence and Collected Works of John Dewey.
http://www.siu.edu/~deweyctr/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $150,000 over a period of 18 months.
The Charles Carroll of Carrollton Family Papers
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Ronald Hoffman, Project Director and editor-in-chief, with editors Sally D. Mason and Mary C. Jeske, associate editor Samuel Brainerd, and assistant editor Donna Shear
Preparation of the final three volumes of a six-volume edition of the papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of Maryland’s largest landowners, and a statesman, orator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $125,000 over a period of two years.
The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger
New York University, New York
Esther Katz, Project Director and editor, and Peter J. Wosh, co-director, with assistant director and associate editor Cathy Moran Hajo, associate editor Peter C. Engelman, a staff of student assistants, a project administrator, and a 12-member advisory board
Completion of volume 2 and continued work on volumes 3 and 4 of a four-volume print edition of materials selected from the microfilm archive of the papers of Margaret Sanger.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $150,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Brownings' Correspondence
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Waco, TX
Philip Kelley, Project Director and general editor, with associate editor Scott Lewis, and assistant editor Edward Hagan
Preparation of annotations for 445 letters comprising volumes 15-18 of The Brownings' Correspondence covering the years 1848-1852 and published by Wedgestone Press.
Outright funds of $180,000 over a period of 3 years.
A Critical Edition of the James Madison Carpenter Collection
American Folklore Society, Columbus, OH
Timothy C. Lloyd, Project Director, with chief editor Julia C. Bishop, assistant editor Ian Russell, editorial team members David Atkinson, Elaine Bradtke, Edward Cass, Thomas McKean, and Robert Young Walser, participants Michael Taft, Jennifer Cutting, Marcia Segal, John Barton, Myron Briggs, Michael Heaney, and Tim Padfield
Preparation of transcribed text and music plus accompanying critical apparatus for a ten-volume print edition of the James Madison Carpenter Collection of folk music and drama.
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
John Duns Scotus: Critical Edition of the Reportatio Parisiensis examinata 1-A, d. 16-30
Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Timothy B. Noone, Project Director and general editor, with associate researchers Kent Emery, Romuald Green, Roberto Plevano, and Andrew Traver, consulting editor Joachim-Roland Söder, and computer consultant Terrence A. Dobbelsteyn
Preparation of a critical edition of Duns Scotus's Reportatio Parisiensis examinata I-A, distinctions 16-30; John Duns Scotus was an influential philosopher-theologian of the High Middle Ages.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $125,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Princeton University, NJ
Barbara Bowen Oberg, Project Director and general editor, with senior associate editors James P. McClure and Elaine W. Pascu, associate editor Martha J. King, research associate John E. Little, editorial assistant Linda Monaco, foreign language consultants Robert W. Hartle, Carol Rigolot, and Francois P. Rigolot, and an assistant editor, a transcriber, and a computer consultant
Preparation of volumes 32-35 of the multi-volume edition of the Thomas Jefferson Papers.
http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $400,000 over a period of 3 years.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Cultural Text
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Stephen F. Railton, Project Director, with computer scientist Worthy Martin, graduate student research assistants, and institutional staff support
Research and digitization of materials related to the publication and cultural reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/
Outright funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
A Critical Edition of an Early African-American Musical
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar, Avondale Estates, GA
Rosalyn P. Schenbeck, Project Director, with theater historian David Thompson, dance historian Constance Valis Hill, a consultant to assist in reconstructing orchestrations, a consultant to transcribe recorded music, and a 3-member advisory board
Preparation of a critical edition of the complete musical score, script, instrumental and vocal performance parts, and description of dances of an influential 1921 African-American Broadway musical production.
Outright funds of $80,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Illinois Historic Preservation Society, Springfield, IL
Daniel W. Stowell, Project Director and editor, with assistant director and editor John A. Lupton, assistant editors Susan Krause, Stacy Pratt McDermott, Christopher A. Schnell, Dennis E. Suttles, and one more assistant editor, research associate Kelley Boston, secretary Carmen Morgan, one graduate assistant, and a 5-member advisory board
Early stages of preparation for an electronic edition of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln.
http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $170,000 over a period of 3 years.
Edition of Santayana's The Life of Reason and Three Philosophical Poets
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Marianne S. Wokeck, Project Director and editor, with assistant director and associate editor Kristine W. Frost, associate editor Martin Coleman, assistant editor Johana Resler, a support staff of one research associate and one graduate student, consulting textual editor William G. Holzberger, consulting editors Paul Nagy and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., and a 6-member advisory board
Preparation for publication of the five books that make up George Santayana's Life of Reason the one-book volume of literary criticism, Three Philosophical Poets.
http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds of $150,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Mémoires of Dumont de Montigny: Empire and Misadventure in Colonial Louisiana, 1715-1747
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Carla Zecher, Project Director and editor, with co-editors Shannon Lee Dawdy and Gordon Sayre, proofreader Ellen McClure, map consultant Robert Karrow, Jr., and program assistant Elizabeth Darocha
Preparation of a scholarly edition of the 1747 manuscript of Jean François Benjamin Dumont de Montigny's narrative of colonial Québec and Louisiana.
Outright funds of $100,000 over a period of 2 years.