Professor Alison Booth receives major NEH grant

April 10, 2015

Alison Booth has received a highly competitive Level-II Startup Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, to support a project entitled Cohorts of Women in Biographical Collections (CWBC). Beginning in 2015, CWBC builds upon the common ground of Booth’s ongoing experiments on biographical narratives and networks documented in 1200 biographical collections published since 1830, in the Collective Biographies of Women bibliography and database (CBW), and Daniel Pitti’s Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), which mines 2.6 million archival descriptions in 3,000 repositories (and growing). CWBC sustains Booth’s collaboration with Worthy Martin, Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and Project Manager Rennie Mapp, Lecturer in English, with a distinguished international advisory board. The project will improve the biographical records of women in many contexts, model biographical-archival data exchange, and create Cohort Analysis Prototype (CAP), a tool widely useful for sharing and maintaining unique biographical records and visualizing textual, archival, and social cohorts and networks.

Read more about the NEH grants at their website here.