Category: Arts and Humanities Awards $250,000 or More
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Thomas, William
With a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, historians William Thomas, Katrina Jagodinsky and Jeannette Eileen Jones, working with scholars from the College of Law, are launching a teaching, research and collaboration hub that will position Nebraska as a national leader in education and scholarship focused on the relationship between U.S. law…
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Jacobs, Margaret
A grant from the National Park Service is enabling the Center for Great Plains Studies to expand its Black Homesteaders in the Great Plains project, which created the first database of all identified Black homesteaders in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. With a new iteration of funding, the team is…
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Price, Kenneth
Kenneth Price, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, leads efforts to edit and make freely available key late-life writings of Walt Whitman, including “November Boughs,” a collection of poems and essays; “Good-Bye My Fancy!”, a poem reflecting on aging and death; and their associated manuscripts. Price’s team is making these works and other manuscripts available…
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Dawes, Kwame
Under the leadership of Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Fund is using a nearly $350,000 grant from the Poetry Foundation to study poetry book distribution in Africa. The project team’s goal is to better understand the complexities of poetry and poetry publishing on the African continent. The researchers are examining bookseller networks, international trade,…
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Wisnicki, Adrian
Adrian Wisnicki, professor of English, is advancing work on the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education, or COVE, project, an open access platform that serves as a low-cost, scholar-led alternative to commercial publishing platforms. The platform, which includes texts from the Renaissance until the early 20th century, allows educators to create customized anthologies of materials for…
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Jewell, Andrew
Andrew Jewell, professor of University Libraries and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, is leading the creation of a digital library of American novelist Willa Cather’s literary manuscripts. The library will include high-resolution images of each document, extensive metadata about each item and expert-authored analyses of the manuscripts. These resources will…
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Dawes, Kwame
Kwame Dawes, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, and Lorna Dawes, associate professor of University Libraries, are leading an international team in expanding the African Poetry Digital Portal. This online tool documents the work of African poets and provides digital access to related creative and intellectual artifacts, materials…
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Cohen, Matt
With a nearly $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Matt Cohen, professor of English, and Kenneth Price, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, are rebuilding the Walt Whitman Archive website, implementing a modern framework and repackaging site content for easier reuse. The long-term goal is to enhance the archive’s accessibility and sustainability…
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Jacobs, Margaret
With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Jacobs and Elizabeth Lorang, dean of University Libraries, are compiling, digitizing and making accessible records and other materials from the Genoa Indian Industrial School in Nebraska, one of more than 150 boarding schools designed to assimilate Indigenous American people into Euro-American culture near the end of…
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Weakly, Laura
Laura Weakly, metadata encoding specialist with University Libraries, is guiding the university’s long-term commitment to lead the United States Newspaper Program and the National Digital Newspaper Program for the state of Nebraska. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the university’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities will select, digitize and send…