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projects and grants

PROJECTS

Manifold Scholarship. 2015-present. Collaborators: Doug Armato, Susan Doerr, Terence Smyre, Daniel Ochsner (University of Minnesota Press); Zach Davis (Cast Iron Coding); Robin Miller, Wendy Barrales, Jojo Karlin, Krystyna Michael (CUNY Graduate Center).

Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2013-present. Collaborators: Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press; Cast Iron Coding.

Commons In A Box, 2011-present. Collaborators: Boone Gorges, Charlie Edwards, CUNY Academic Commons Team, City Tech OpenLab team.

The CUNY Academic Commons, 2008-present. Collaborators: CUNY Academic Commons Team.

CUNY Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, 2011-present. Collaborators: Lisa Rhody, GCDI staff and digital fellows.

GC Digital Fellows Program, 2012-present.

GC Digital Scholarship Lab, 2012-present.

The Social Paper, 2014-2018. Collaborators: Erin Glass, Jennifer Stoops.

DH Box, 2014-2019. Collaborators: Stephen Zweibel, Patrick Smyth.

CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, 2010-present.

Looking for Whitman, 2008-2011.

GRANTS

Project Director, with Krystyna Michael. “Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice.” $250,000. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2024-2025.

Project Director. “Debates in the Digital Humanities Series.” PSC-CUNY Research Grant. $3,500. 2023-2024.

Project Director. “CUNY Undergraduate Workforce Development in Data Analysis and Visualization.” $75,000. The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation. 2022-2023.

Project Director. “Thinking Through the Digital Humanities.” PSC-CUNY Research Grant. $6,000. 2022-2023.

Project Director, with Lisa Rhody Co-PD. “CUNY Humanities Recovery Initiative: Strengthening Public University Communities Through Digital Research and Publication.” $499,998. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2021-2022.

Project Director. “The Carnegie Educational Technology Fellowship Program: Helping Faculty Transition to Online Course.” $300,000. Carnegie Corporation. 2020-2021.

Project Director. “Manifold in the Classroom: Digital Publishing for Open Pedagogy.” $375,000. NEH Office of Digital Humanities. 2020-2024.

Co-Principal Investigator, with Doug Armato. “Manifold Scholarship Phase 3: Sustainability, Partnerships, and Community Development.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $750,000. 2020-2022.

Co-Principal Investigator, with Doug Armato. “Manifold Scholarship Phase 2: Expansion and Installation.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $789,000. 2018-2020.

Project Director,  “Learning in the Public Square: An Open Platform for Humanities Education.” $324,502. NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant. 2016-2018.

Co-Principal Investigator, with Doug Armato. “Manifold Scholarship.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $732,000. 2015-2018.

Project Director, “DH Box.” $59,752, NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. NEH Office of Digital Humanities, 2015-2016.

Project Lead, Graduate Center, CUNY “The CUNY Big Data Consortium: Business, Governance, Scientific and Cultural Analytics in the Age of Massive Visualized Datasets.” $15,000,000. CUNY 2020 Grant Competition, New York State, 2014-2016.

Project Director, “The Social Paper.” $29,965, NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. NEH Office of Digital Humanities, 2014-2015.

Subgrantee, “Bamboo DiRT Wiki Tool Repository,” from the University of California, Berkeley. $41,626. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2013-2014.

Co-Principal Investigator, with Provost Chase Robinson and Professor Jessie Daniels, “JustPublics@365: Reimagining Scholarly Communication for the Public Good.” $550,000, Ford Foundation, 2013-2014. http://justpublics365.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

Principal Investigator, “The Commons In A Box.” $107,500, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2011-2012. http://commonsinabox.org.

Principal Investigator, “A Living Laboratory: Redesigning General Education for a 21st-Century College of Technology.” $3,100,000, U.S. Department of Education, 2010-2011. http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/aboutus/newsevents/2010fa/living_lab/index.shtml.

Principal Investigator, “Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman.” Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Level 2, Office of the Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, $33,235, 2009-2012. http://lookingforwhitman.org.

Co-Principal Investigator, “Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH).” PI: Raffael Guidone. National Science Foundation, $160,000, 2009-2011.

Principal Investigator, “Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman.” Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Level 1, Office of the Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, $24,912, 2008-2009. http://lookingforwhitman.org.

Research Grant, PSC-CUNY, Summer 2008.

Faculty Fellow, “Water and Work: The History and Ecology of the Brooklyn Waterfront,” New York City College of Technology. National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007-2008.