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Center Publishes Lyman Award Lectures on Digital Humanities
News Release Date: July 18, 2008
Research Triangle Park, N.C. This week, the National Humanities Center has published a collection of lectures by recipients of the Richard W. Lyman Award. With a foreword by James O'Donnell, Provost at Georgetown University and Chairman of the Lyman Selection Committee, the lectures in this volume include edited versions of presentations made by award recipients on a variety of topics related to the emerging importance and issues surrounding the use of digital technology in humanistic research, teaching, and public dissemination.
Created to recognize the contributions of scholars who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology, the Lyman Award was presented each year from 2002-06. The efforts of these scholars included significant projects advancing the use of digital technology across a variety of domains in the humanities with broad application in scholarship and teaching.
Lyman Award Recipients
2002
Jerome McGann
John Stewart Bryan University Professor
Editor, The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
a Hypermedia Research Archive
University of Virginia
2003
Roy Rosenzweig
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
of History and Cultural Studies
Director, Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
2004
Robert K. Englund
Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
University of California at Los Angeles
Principal investigator, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
2005
John M. Unsworth
Dean, Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,
University of Virginia (1993–2003)
2006
Willard McCarty
Reader in Humanities Computing, Centre for
Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London
Founding Editor, "Humanist" online seminar
Named for Richard W. Lyman, president of Stanford University from 1970-80 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980-88, the Lyman Award was made possible through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. Each recipient received a prize of $25,000 and was invited to present a talk to Fellows of the Center and the public on matters pertaining to their work, their vision for the future of the digital humanities as a field, and the challenges and opportunities confronting humanists operating in a digital world.
The lectures collected in this volume are also available here in a printable, downloadable format.
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