Grant Writing

Mission:   The mission of the Grant Writing Committee is twofold: to provide experience in locating, writing, submitting, and administering grants for funded research and pedagogical activities and to bring resources into the Writing and Communication Program for projects that would not otherwise be done.

Our preliminary project is “Mapping Lost Spaces & Found Places, ”  a project that fosters interdisciplinary discourse concerning leading-edge practices in mapping methodologies in the humanities and initiates the process of developing an innovative, user-friendly, and adaptable tool for geospatial mapping. Due to reliance on geo-referenced satellite imagery, current geographical information systems (GIS) platforms impose methodological limitations upon scholars seeking to reconstruct historical and imaginary spaces for use in research and in the classroom. Our goal is to enable humanities scholars and students to map sites that no longer exist (historical), that currently exist, and that have never existed (fictive). We will create an open-source, flexible, and extensible mapping platform for research and pedagogical use. This project fills the need for a broadly applicable, user-friendly tool suitable for mapping the wide spectrum of humanities data.

Membership The chair of the committee is invited by the Director in consultation with the Assistant Director of Writing and Communication. Members on the Grant Writing Committee are invited by the chair of the committee, in consultation with the Director and Assistant Director of Writing and Communication.

2011-2012 Committee
Co-Chairs Diane Jakacki and Tom Lolis

Committee Members Brandy Blake, Doris Bremm, Katy Crowther, Amanda Madden, Kellie Meyer, Sarah Schiff, Robin Wharton .

Goals :        (1) Apply for NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant (completed) for mapping project. (2) Research and identify a broad range of federal, regional, professional , and private grant opportunities (ongoing). (3) Apply for appropriate grants . (4) Collaborate on mapping projects and approaches in the classroom  (5) Establish a Fellowship-wide solicitation of projects to be supported by the committee, Rebecca Burnett, and Writing and Communication program staff.

Space and Place in the Humanities:

Teaching with Maps and Mapping Technologies  

Application for NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, Level I

Abstract  
Synthesizing leading-edge mapping methodologies in the humanities, this project fosters interdisciplinary discourse concerning leading-edge practices in the field and initiates the process of developing an innovative, user-friendly, and adaptable tool for geospatial mapping. Such an approach enables humanities scholars and students to map sites that no longer exist (historical), that currently exist, and that have never existed (fictive). “Mapping Lost Spaces & Found Places” will create an open-source, flexible, and extensible mapping platform for research and pedagogical use. Due to reliance on geo-referenced satellite imagery, current geographical information systems (GIS) platforms impose methodological limitations upon scholars seeking to reconstruct historical and imaginary spaces for use in research and in the classroom. This project fills the need for a broadly applicable, user-friendly tool suitable for mapping the wide spectrum of humanities data.

This is the abstract for the grant just submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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