Grants and Service

Grants

PI, "FRAME Phase 2," a further two-year grant to pilot a national infrastructure for sharing educational materials made accessible for those with print disabilities, in partnership with seven other universities, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, ACE, and Bookshare. $1.175M requested from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2021.
PI, "Federated Repositories of Accessible Materials for Education." A two-year grant to pilot a national infrastructure for sharing educational materials made accessible for those with print disabilities, in partnership with six other universities, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, and Bookshare. Funded at $1M by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2019
PI, "The HistoryMakers in Higher Education" A two-year grant funded at $1M by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2018.
PI, "The HistoryMakers: The Next Generation." A two-year grant to modernize The HistoryMakers infrastructure and connect it to research and teaching in higher education. Funded at $725,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2016.
Co-PI, with Laura Wood (Tufts University). "The Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (East): A Large-Scale Shared Print Collection Serving Northeastern Academic Libraries." Proposed on behalf of the Boston Library Consortium to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding of $994,771, March 30, 2015.
Co-PI, with Laura Wood (Tufts University). "Repository Services for Accessible Course Content." Funded at $49,870 by the Institute for Museum and Library Studies. 2015.
PI. "The HistoryMakers and the Higher Education Market." A planning grant to help a Brandeis alumna's non-profit oral history project become part of the collections of college and university libraries. Funded at $51,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2015.
Co-PI, with Michael Keller (University Librarian at Stanford), on a two-year project called "SEASR Services," submitted through Stanford University and involving participants at the University of Maryland (Tanya Clement), Stanford (Franco Moretti, Matt Jockers), George Mason University (Dan Cohen), and the University of Illinois (Ted Underwood, NCSA's Automated Learning Group). Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in September 2010 at $761,000.
Project Lead for Scholarly Services on the Bamboo Platform, as part of the University of Illinois' contribution to the Bamboo Project. Illinois was funded in September 2010 for about $93,000, as a subaward on a two-year proposal submitted by Berkeley and the University of Chicago to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Co-PI, with Carole Palmer (PI: Allen Renear), "Extending Data Curation to the Humanities: Curriculum Development and Recruiting." IMLS/LB, 2008-2011. $892,028.
"Enhancing Knowledge Discovery for Humanities through the Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR)," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $1,125,000 (2007-2009). PI, Michael Welge (NCSA); Co-PIs Loretta Auvil (NCSA) and John Unsworth. Approved.
"Integrating MONK with InCommon, providing access to CIC researchers," funded by the CIC Library Directors, $15,000 (2009). PI. Approved.
Participant, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Digitization Vendor Program Development, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $35,800 (2008-2009). PI Daniel O'Donnell, Chair, TEI Consortium Board. Approved.
"MONK: Metadata Offer New Knowledge," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $1,000,000 (2007-2009). PI with multiple partners at other universities in the US and Canada. Approved.
ECHODep: a partnership in the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, funded by the Library of Congress. $2,600,000 (2004-2007). Co-PI with Beth Sandore. Approved. $500,000 extension (2007-2009) approved March 2007.
NORA: Web-based text-mining and visualization for humanities digital libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $600,000 (2004-2006). PI with multiple partners at other universities in the US and Canada. Approved.
Planning grant for Analytical Tools in Humanities Digital Libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $50,000 (2003). PI. Approved.
Planning grant for Virtual Collections in American Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $46,829 (2002). PI. Approved.
Program Officer's grant in support of Electronic Textual Editing (a volume co-sponsored by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium), submitted through the Modern Language Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $40,250 (2002). PI. Approved.
"An Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia," a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of publishing originally digital scholarship, in partnership with the University of Virginia Press. $640,000 (2001-2003). Co-PI with the director of the Press. Approved.
"The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive," an April 2000 Collaborative Research Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Project Director: Ed Folsom). $150,000 (2000-2001). Co-PI. Approved.
"The William Blake Archive," an April 2000 Preservation and Access Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Project Directors: Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, Joe Viscomi). $233,824 (2000-2001). Co-PI. Approved.
Supporting Digital Scholarship, a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of IATH research and digital library integration, in partnership with the University of Virginia Library. $1,000,000 (2000-2002). Co-PI with Thornton Staples. Approved.
Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, "Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?" ($15K). PI. Approved.
Teaching + Technology Initiative. Proposal in support of ENTC 312 (20th-Century American Bestsellers) ($15K). PI. Approved.
Delmas Foundation. Support for the 1999 ACH/ALLC Conference ($5K). Approved.
Trust for Mutual Understanding, Travel Subvention for Eastern and Central European Scholars to Attend the 1999 ACH/ALLC Conference ($25K). Approved.
National Science Foundation, Education, Outreach, and Training Participant in PACI and NPACI Supercomputing Programs ($150K). Approved.
Academic Enhancement Program Grant, on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities ($175K). Approved.
AT&T Foundation Grant proposal, on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities ($35K). Approved.
Getty Fund: Three-year support for the production of an electronic Blake archive at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. February 1994 ($250,000). Approved
Sprint-Centel: Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, April 1994 ($12,000). Approved.
Provost's Teaching Initiative, North Carolina State University: Development Grant for the NCSU Virtual Campus, Spring 1993. ($10,000). Approved.
Research Office, North Carolina State Univeristy: Development Grants for Postmodern Culture, 1990-1992 ($11,000). Approved.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University: Organized Research Grants for Postmodern Culture, 1990-1992 ($6,800). Approved.

Service:

Editing:

Member, Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2006-2022
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan Press.
Co-founder and Editor Emeritus, Member, Editorial Board, Postmodern Culture: an electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism (published by Johns Hopkins University Press): issue editor for issues 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3.
Member, Blake Archive Advisory Board, 1998-present
Member, Dickinson Editorial Collective Advisory Board, 1998-present
Member, Romantic Circles Advisory Board, 1997-present
Member, Editorial Committee, Literary and Linguistic Computing (now Digital Scholarship in the Humanities), 2004-2014
Member, Editorial Board, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, 2001-present
Co-editor (with Boyd Rawyard), Library Trends, 2006-2009.
Member, Editorial Board, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, 2001-2011
Commissioning Editor, Computers and the Humanities, 1997-2004
Co-Curator (with Lynda Clendenning), "Rave Reviews: Bestselling Fiction in America," an exhibition in Special Collections at the University of Virginia, February 22nd to June 10, 2002.
Co-editor, Research Reports of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Member, Electronic Melville Committee, Melville Society, 1998-present
Member, Multimedia Dante Project Advisory Board, Princeton University, 1998-2003

Other:

Member, Search Committee, junior faculty position in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.
Board Member, The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, 2021-
Chair of the Steering Committee for the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), 2019-2021.
Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Human Resources, Brandeis University, 2015
Member, Search Committee, Vice Provost for Research, Brandeis University, 2015
Invited participant, "Envisioning Our Information Future and How to Educate For It." A Planning Forum funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Held at Simmons College School of Library and Information Science, Boston MA, January 14-16, 2015.
Member, external review committee on library and IT, American University of Cairo, Egypt, January 2015.
Member, Library Steering Committee, Knowledge Unlatched 2014-2016.
Member, Executive Management Committee, HathiTrust Research Center, 2011-present
Member, TAPAS Project Advisory Board, 2015-present
President, Boston Library Consortium, 2014-2015
Member, National Council on the Humanities, 2013-2016
Member, Search Committee for the Senior Vice President for Communications at Brandeis University, 2015
Member, external library review committee, Lafayette College, October, 2014.
Member, external review committee, Bates College Library, Lewiston, ME, September 2014.
Member, external review committee, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland at College Park, June 2014.
Co-Chair, Online Learning Advisory Committee, Brandeis University, 2013-
Invited visitor, University Press of New England, Board of Governors, 2013-
Member, Steering Committee, Coalition for Networked Information, 2013-
Treasurer, Text Encoding Initaitive Consortium, 2013-
Member, Council on Library and Information Resources, CIOs group, 2012-present
Staff, Committee on Library and IT, Brandeis University Board of Trustees, 2014-present.
Member, Search Committee for the Senior Vice President of the Rabb School at Brandeis University, 2014
Consultant, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, meeting on revising governance, London, February 20-21, 2014.
Incoming President, Boston Library Consortium, 2013-2014
Organizer, Workshop on Digital Humanities for Boston-area faculty, August 19-20, 2013, MIT.
Member, Boston Library Consortium, 2012-2013
Participant, Scholarly Communications Institute, for meetings of the leadership of Centernet (a network of digital humanities centers) and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2011-2013
Chair, IT Governance Committee for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Appointed by the Interim Provost, November 2011.
Chair, Committee to Re-design IT Governance for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Appointed by the interim Provost, June 2011.
Chair, NCSA Director Evaluation Committee. Appointed by the Vice-Chancellor for Research, October, 2010.
Member, Council of Deans Ad Hoc Committee on "Academic Structures that Facilitate Innovation.", University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Fall, 2010.
Chair, Stewarding Excellence Extension Review Committee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Spring, 2010

Local organizer, iConference 2010, Champaign, IL, February, 2010
Participant, NSF Workshop on the responsible conduct of research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October 23, 2009.
Unit leader for GSLIS, Campus Charitable Fund Drive, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2009.
Panelist, NEH/NSF/JISC "Digging Into Data" grant competition. London, England, September, 2009.
Member, Planning Committee, HathiTrust Research Center, 2009-2011.

Chair, International Scientific Committee, Synergies: Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructure, 2008-present.
Chair, campus-wide E-Learning Committee, UIUC. 2007-present.
Coordinator, iSchools Caucus, 2008-2010
Chair, Conference Coordinating Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2008-present.
Member, Centernet Steering Committee, 2007-present.
Member and budget officer, University of Illinois three-campus collaboration with The HistoryMakers, 2007-present.
Chair, search committee for Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, UIUC. 2007.
Member, CIO's Information Technology Advisory Council, UIUC. 2007.
Chair, Provost's ad hoc review committee reporting on Campus Information Technologies and Educations Services (CITES), UIUC. 2005.
Chair, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004-2005.
Chair, Steering Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2004-2007.
Member, Board of Directors, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2004-2005.
Chair, Provost's five-year review committee reporting on the University Librarian, UIUC. 2004.
Member, external board, Text Analysis Portal for Research. 2003-present.
External evaluator, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Search Engine project, 2003-2006.
Member, advisory board, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University. 2003-2005
President, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2002-2004
Co-chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2001-2003
Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 1996-2004
Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia. 2002-2004.
Member, 2004 Busa Award Selection Committee, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
Chair of the Board, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2001-2003.
Chair, TEI Council, 2002-2003.
Organizer and Acting Director, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities 2000-2001.
Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1999-2002
Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Art of the Book Center, 2001-2003.
Member, University Libraries Committee, University of Virginia, 2000-2002
Member, University of Virginia Research Computing Task Force (Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Business and Law sub-group), 2000-2001.
Member, Executive Board, University of Virginia Center for Digital Initiatives, 2001.
Chair, Transition Group, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 1999-2000
Member, Council on Library and Information Resources international task force to consider the role of the artifact in library collections, 1999-2000
Member, Board of Directors, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 1999-2000
Member, Computer Science & Humanities Steering Committee, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 2001
Chair, World-Wide Web Editorial Committee, Dept. of English, Univeristy of Virginia, 1997-2000
Chair, Technologies Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1997-2000
Member, Publishing and Communications Advisory Board, Division of Continuing Education, University of Virginia, 1996-2003.
Member, Network-Based Information Services Committee, University of Virginia, 1995-2001.
Local Organizer and Co-Host, 1999 joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Member, Search Committee for Director of Media Studies, University of Virginia, 1998-99
Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1998
Member, Subcommittee on Electronic Publication, Committee on the New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, 1997
Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1996-1997
Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1996
Member, Planning Committee, 1996 Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group for Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery.
Supervised and participated in the first major overhaul of the University of Virginia's World-Wide Web Home Page.
Member, Graduate Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia
Member, Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Founder, IATH-MOO: A Virtual Conference Site
Founder, PMC-MOO: A Postmodern Community
Founder, NCSU Virtual Campus
Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Working Group on Technical Requirements, National Initiative for the Humanities and Arts Computing, Coalition for Networked Information/Getty Art History Information Program, co-sponsors
Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Task Force, Advertising on the internet
Chair, Computer Affairs Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU
Computing Coordinator, Dept. of English, NCSU
Member, CHASS Computing Committee, subcommittee on multi-media, NCSU
Member, University Library Committee, subcommittee on scholarly communication, NCSU
Member, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU (revised the major)
Organizer, Conference on the applications of the Standard Generalized Markup Language in publishing electronic journals, NCSU

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