Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

CDRH Faculty Fellow Andrew Jewell and Edward Whitley of Lehigh University, a participant in the 2006 Nebraska Digital Workshop, have received a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for their new project "The Crowded Page," a tool that will allow for discovery of interconnections among people and works in discrete arts communities. Jewell and Whitley initiated their collaboration at the Nebraska Digital Workshop in 2006.

Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced Tuesday that Mark Awakuni-Swetland and Kenneth Price have received significant funding to support their work. Awakuni-Swetland, assistant professor of anthropology and ethnic studies, has received a $348,800 National Endowment for the Humanities grant through a joint NEH-National Science Foundation-Smithsonian Institution "Documenting Endangered Languages" initiative. He is collaborating with the CDRH and Catherine Rudin, linguistics professor at Wayne State College, on this project. Price, Hillegass Chair of 19th Century American Literature and co-director of the CDRH, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which will support his development of a comprehensive archive of Walt Whitman's writings about the Civil War. The funds will enable Price to complete the project by 2011, in time for the sesquicentennial of the outbreak of the war.