Three Nebraska faculty receive humanities funding

On Aug. 8, three university faculty were announced as recipients of nearly $700,000 in combined funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The organization funds projects that support vital research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. The Husker recipients are:

• Andrew Jewell, professor of digital projects and editor of the Willa Cather Archive. He received a second round of funding for The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, a project aimed at publishing annotated versions of the renowned author’s letters online as part of the Willa Cather Archive in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
• Jeannette Eileen Jones, associate professor of history and ethnic studies. Her project unites scholars from four universities to explore little-known patterns of American movement across Africa during the Gilded Age in the late 19th century and the Progressive Era, which ran up to Prohibition in the 1920s.
• Katherine Walter, co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and professor and chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections for University Libraries. She will advance the work of the Nebraska Digital Newspaper project, an effort by NEH and the Library of Congress to digitize historically significant newspapers from each state.