Jacobs, Margaret<\/h3>
Center for Great Plains Studies<\/p><\/header>
Coming Home: Re-Indigenizing Southeast Nebraska<\/p>
$1,580,000<\/span>Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<\/span>11\/01\/2023 - 10\/31\/2026<\/span><\/p> <\/p>\n With a grant from the Mellon Foundation\u2019s Monuments Project, Margaret Jacobs and Christina Faw Faw Goodson are leading a multifaceted project aimed at reconnecting members of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe with their ancestral homeland in southeast Nebraska and educating Nebraskans about the area\u2019s Indigenous history. Jacobs, Charles J. Mach Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, and Goodson, an Otoe-Missouria educator, historian and cultural linguist, are connecting people around the area\u2019s shared history, with plans to create land-based commemorations, build relationships, facilitate reconciliation and document the process to share with other communities. The $1.58 million Mellon grant is the largest arts and humanities research grant in the university\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/article> History\/Center for Digital Research in the Humanities<\/p><\/header> Petitioning For Freedom: Habeas Corpus & Liberty in the American West<\/p> $529,410<\/span>NSF<\/span>06\/01\/2020 - 08\/31\/2025<\/span><\/p> <\/p>\n With a grant from the National Science Foundation, historian Katrina Jagodinsky is exploring how various marginalized groups \u2013 immigrants, women, and indigenous and enslaved people, for example \u2013 used habeas corpus, a longstanding legal principle enabling prisoners to challenge the legality of their detentions, to claim freedom and establish their rights between 1812 and 1924. In collaboration with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Jagodinsky, the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History, is developing a first-of-its-kind digital database archiving roughly 6,000 previously unpublished habeas petitions, which will be searchable by demographic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/article> Center for Digital Research in the Humanities<\/p><\/header> A Digital Library of Willa Cather's Literary Manuscripts<\/p> $304,207<\/span>NEH<\/span>02\/01\/2023 - 10\/31\/2027<\/span><\/p> <\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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 advance scholarship on Cather because her literary manuscripts currently are distributed across a range of repositories and are largely ignored by scholars and students of Cather\u2019s writing. The digital library will integrate with the thousands of items that constitute the university\u2019s Willa Cather Archive. The project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>Jagodinsky, Katrina<\/h3>
Jewell, Andy<\/h3>