Projects
The HDW supports these projects in collaboration with other campus departments.
Various
From time to time, the HDW collaborates with other departments on projects in the humanities.
Hugh Macdonald, Washington University in St. Louis
A project to create a thematic catalog covering the works of Georges Bizet.
Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis
Exploring the functional realities of governance during the early American republic by tracking appointments to civil federal positions from the Washington to the Quincy Adams administrations.
Roshan Abraham, Washington University in St. Louis et al.
The project aims to implement a on-line critical commentary on the Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus.
D.B. Dowd, Washington University in St. Louis; Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis; Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska
Race and Children's Literature of the Gilded Age is a newly established digital edition that will include scans and transcriptions of illustrated children's literature published in the U.S. between 1865 and 1913.
Matt Erlin, Washington University in St. Louis
This project employs the techniques of probabilistic topic modeling to test a set of longstanding assumptions about the periodization of German literary history.
American Culture Studies
A web-accessible collection of records from early 19th century lawsuits, with special focus on cases where African-Americans sued for their freedom.
Various
The HDW organizes a summer workshop, which employs between twelve and sixteen graduate and undergraduate students.
Lynne Tatlock, Washington University in St. Louis
A collection of data about the publication history of 19th century German novels in America.
Joseph Loewenstein, Washington University in St. Louis; Patrick Cheney, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia; David Lee Miller, University of South Carolina; Andrew Zurcher, Queens' College, Cambridge
A multi-institutional undertaking, the Spenser Archive provides scanned images of original editions, edited texts with in-depth markup, editorial commentary, text and scans of variants, with a flexible display of Edmund Spenser's works.
Jami Ake
An accessible, searchable tool designed for researchers, practitioners, and the general public interested in the multidisciplinary field of violence against women.
Giore Etzion
A project to build a language learning tool for smart phones and tablets.
Jessica DeSpain, Southern Illinois University--Edwardsville
The HDW joins SIU-E as a subcontractor on an NEH grant proposal to develop an Image Comparison Tool.