University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68588-0007)
Adrian Wisnicki (Project Director: December 2012 to May 2017)
Megan Ward (Co Project Director: December 2012 to May 2017)
RQ-50707-14
Scholarly Editions and Translations
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$158,605 (approved)
$158,605 (awarded)
Grant period:
12/1/2013 – 12/31/2016
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Explorer David Livingstone's 1870 Field Diary and Select 1871 Letters: A Multispectral Critical Edition
Preparation for publication of on online critical edition of the 1870 Field Diary and select letters of David Livingstone (1813 - 73), the Scottish writer, abolitionist, missionary and explorer of Africa. (24 months)
We are applying for an NEH Scholarly Translations and Editions Grant in order to develop an online critical edition of the 1870 Field Diary and select 1871 letters of Dr. David Livingstone (1813-73), the Scottish writer, abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa. This publication will conclude the already successful work of the peer-reviewed, NEH-funded Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (2010-Present). Our new critical edition will feature a comprehensive scholarly apparatus that includes annotated transcriptions of Livingstone's 1870 diary and 1871 letters, a range of critical essays, and processed spectral images that clarify Livingstone's manuscripts and shed light on the history of their production and preservation. A user-friendly interface will allow scholars and the general public to study all our critical materials, while additional integration of new data into our existing archive will enable our work to be both interoperable and sustainable in the long term.
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Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA 30303-2538)
FA-57271-13
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$33,600 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2013 – 12/31/2013
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Jack Benny and Radio Comedy in American Culture, 1932-1955
Comedian Jack Benny mattered enormously to 20th-century American culture--he taught us how to live in the endlessly compromised world of consumer culture. Jack Benny’s character (the ultimate Fall Guy; the vain, cheap Everyman; your family’s hapless Uncle) suffered all the indignities of the powerless patriarch in modern society--fractious workplace family, battles with obnoxious sales clerks, guff from his servant, and withering disrespect from his boss/sponsor, all women in general, and the leaders of Hollywood society. From the hard times of the Depression, through the pinched war years, to 1950s’ prosperity, Benny’s schemes to avoid spending money collapsed like his dignity, week after week, as his inflated ego was punctured by fate, abetted by his unruly staff. Benny could only dissolve into raging tantrums and injured sighs. Thirty million Americans laughed at him, and with him, each week for more than three decades as he sardonically skewered American cultural foibles.
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68588-0007)
Adrian Wisnicki (Project Director: July 2012 to December 2017)
PW-51436-13
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$275,000 (approved)
$275,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2013 – 8/31/2017
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The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP)
The digitization and transcription of 3,500 manuscript pages written by David Livingstone, pertaining to his exploration of Africa, for inclusion in the Livingstone Online Web site, along with the development of tools and services to enhance use by scholars and educators.
The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP) will support updating, integrating, and providing access to Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/) and its digital image and transcription collections in order to secure the site's long-term sustainability as a unified, open-access resource for scholars and the general public. . Our site -- a well established, transatlantic, digital archive initiative -- seeks to provide worldwide access to the writings of Dr. David Livingstone (1813-73), the Scottish abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa.
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Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274-4182)
Adrian Wisnicki (Project Director: October 2009 to February 2012)
HD-51042-10
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Digital Humanities
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[White paper][Grant products][Media coverage]
Totals:
$50,000 (approved)
$50,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2010 – 10/31/2011
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THE NYANGWE DIARY OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE: RESTORING THE TEXT
Creation of a digital image archive and online scholarly edition of David Livingtone's Nyangwe field diary (1871) by adapting imaging technology originally pioneered with medieval parchment palimpsests.
This project will build on imaging technology pioneered with medieval parchment palimpsests to create a digital image archive and online scholarly edition of the Nyangwe field diary (1871) of the celebrated Victorian explorer David Livingstone. Although in a fragile, nearly illegible state, the paper diary is of immense historical value because it details the circumstances leading up to Livingstone's famous meeting with Henry Stanley in November 1871, and because it records Livingstone's response to a massacre of the local African population by Arab slave traders' an event that would become a rallying point for late-Victorian abolitionists. Our project will seek to develop technology for the preservation of the diary and recovery of its faded text, and create a model for scholar-scientist collaboration. Our work will make Livingstone's diary accessible to scholars and non-specialists worldwide and produce a template for the display of similar records of Victorian travel and exploration.
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