Kwame Dawes, professor of English, received a Ford Foundation grant of $150,000 for the development of an online resource that will feature African poetry. The project will digitize and provide access to manuscripts and other artifacts related to African poetry from antiquity to the modern era. It will also support the creation of an index of contemporary African poets and offer access to other resources — newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, audio, video, websites and images — related to African poetry. Lorna Dawes, assistant professor in the University Libraries, is co-recipient.
Margaret Jacobs, professor of history and director of women and gender studies, received a $290,123 “Digitizing Hidden Collections” grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The award will digitize and make accessible materials from the Genoa Indian Industrial School, one of the largest American Indian boarding schools, which operated from 1884 to 1934. The records will be made available to families of individuals who attended the school, researchers who study the boarding schools, and the general public. Liz Lorang, associate professor of University Libraries, is co-recipient.
