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About What We Do Mission Sponsors Projects All Projects Community Projects News Current News Archive People Staff Fellows HiDH Fellowships Guidelines Application Resident Fellows Visiting Fellows Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection Heitman, Carrie C. - Associate Professor Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Reed, Paul F. - Archaeology Southwest Externally funded project SPARC is a collaboration dedicated to the preservation and online publication of legacy cultural heritage data from the Salmon Pueblo excavations repository. Salmon was a the site of a large pueblo and cultural center built around 1090 CE, the first major colony established by the Chacoan people. It was occupied until about 1280 CE, after which fires destroyed much of the site. Extensive excavations between 1970-1980 produced more than 1.5 million artifacts, specimens, and samples, which are held at the Salmon Ruins Museum in Bloomington, NM and are inventoried and made internet-accessible by SPARC. Mapping Poetic Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922 Clowes, Edith W. - Brown-Forman Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Fellow: 2019-2021 "Mapping Poetic Geographies of Revolutionary Russia" investigates the connection between identity and place in literature written during World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The goal of this project is to build an interactive database of over 500 period literary works by 70 Russian authors, as well as provide a series of maps by year, showing the breadth of writing and publishing activity across Russia. The website, available in English and Russian, will allow readers to enter writers' worlds of emotional engagement with the idea of homeland in a turbulent time when the tsarist Russian state was crumbling and a new order was not yet invented. The Independent Works of William Tyndale Felch, Susan - Professor of English Rankin, Mark - Associate Professor of English Externally funded project Best known as the translator of the first New Testament to be printed in English, William Tyndale played a formative role in shaping the English language, bending it toward a rigorous and colloquial style that survives to the present time. Scholars are hampered by a lack of ready access to his books, and these badly needed critical editions will provide scholars with the tools to reassess Tyndale's importance, and to read him within the context of late medieval ecclesiastical and civic reforms, Augustinian vernacular preaching, Lutheran theology, Henrician politics, Erasmian humanism, sixteenth-century pedagogy, and more. Life of the Buddha Quintman, Andrew - Associate Professor Schaeffer, Kurtis - Frances Myers Ball Professor Project Director The Life of the Buddha project is the first full-scale study of murals at the Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Jonang and an extended narrative of the Buddha's life story, Sun of Faith (Dad pa'i nyin bye). The murals date from the first decades of the 17th century and are among only a handful of fully preserved narrative paintings in Central Tibet. The project is the largest study to date on visual and textual Buddha narratives in Tibet, and the first complete visual documentation of these murals. Experiencing Embodied Cultural Practices through Motion Capture and Immersive Media: A Hybrid Research/Practice Collaboration Across Disciplines Dahl, Luke - Associate Professor of Music Kasra, Mona - Assistant Professor of Drama Fellow: 2018-2020 This project explores how new recording technologies such as immersive video, spatial audio, and motion capture can be used to document, preserve, and transmit embodied cultural practices of aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory regions of Australia. Working closely with the community, Kasra and Dahl are capturing communities’ ceremonial dances and music to help archive and preserve their cultural heritage. By recording multi-modal data, producing educational material, and creating interactive immersive experiences, this work will also lead to the development of new frameworks for new media art practices and humanities scholarship. Cities Without Work: The Long Road from Boom to Bust Moomaw, Suzanne - Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Fellow: 2017-2019 Cities Without Work: The Long Road from Boom to Bust is the collective narrative of the seventeen American cities with the highest rates of unemployment in 1960. The shared narrative of the study reflects the confluence of forces--technology, social, environmental, political--that precipitated the decline of labor-intensive sectors and bolstered or thwarted revitalization efforts in these cities. Inhabiting Byzantine Athens Kondyli, Foteini - Assistant Professor, Byzantine Art & Archaeology Fellow: 2016-2018 Inhabiting Byzantine Athens is an archaeological project that seeks to reconstruct the topography and spatial layout of Byzantine and Frankish Athens (4th-15th c AD), by identifying and tracing architectural and functional changes in the city over a period of several centuries. It also seeks to better understand contemporary living conditions, daily experiences, and socio-economic activities in the city through the study of archaeological remains and artifacts. Digital Sepoltuario: The Tombs of Renaissance Florence Leader, Anne - Visiting Scholar Externally Funded Project A reconstruction of the mosaic of tomb markers that once covered the floors, walls, and yards of Renaissance Florentine cityscape and surrounded its citizens with ubiquitous reminders of the city’s past, present, and future. By correlating large numbers of memorials, rather than focusing on a single institution or type of monument, this project will create a topography of tombs that brings us closer to how Renaissance Florentines experienced death and commemoration. Archaeology of Legal Definitions of Speech Petersen, Jennifer - Associate Professor Fellow: 2015-2017 The Archaeology of Legal Definitions of Speech uses natural language processing to chart changes in the legal definition of speech and to place this language in its cultural and technological contexts. Drawing on a large corpus of Supreme Court decisions dealing with the First Amendment, the Archaeology identifies the terminology associated with speech in different historical periods, highlighting discontinuities in the way the law defines and delimits speech and drawing attention to the specific meanings of the concept in the past. Voting Viva Voce: Unlocking the Social Logic of Past Politics DeBats, Donald A. - Professor of American Studies Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Rainville, Lynn - Digital Humanist, Historian, & Anthropologist Project Director The mid-19th century is often viewed as the high point of American political engagement. Yet our understanding of that period has been incomplete, and conventional scholarship has been unable to fully interpret the influences operating or citizen participation in politics because the firm evidentiary base of individual-level political information was missing. 'Unlocking the Social Logic of Past Politics' is the first-ever study of cities using this data, by studying two intriguingly different nineteenth century American cities -Alexandria, Virginia and Newport, Kentucky- where all votes it all elections were cast by voice (viva voce). Poll books provide an official written record of the spoken declaration of every voter. Using those poll books along with censuses and other individual information (tax records, city directories, religious and organizational memberships) the project will reveal the networks and neighborhoods that under-pinned residents social and political lives. Jefferson's University - Early Life Project, 1819-1870 McInnis, Maurie - Professor of Art History Von Daacke, Kirt - Associate Professor of History Collaborative IATH Project JUEL is a study of what life was like in the first 50 years of the University of Virginia...