Civil War Washington: Project Participants

Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation is an interdisciplinary project that benefits from strong support from the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Those people who have made significant contributions to the project are listed below.

Kenneth M. Price photo Kenneth M. Price, project co-director (2006--), is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the co-editor of books on James Weldon Johnson, George Santayana, and nineteenth-century periodical literature. He is also the co-editor of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman (Kent State UP, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1996); and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale UP, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (U of North Carolina P, 2004). He recently co-authored with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005).
Kenneth J. Winkle photo Kenneth J. Winkle, project co-director (2006--), is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published three prize-winning books in the fields of 19th century U.S. political, social, cultural, and military history--The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio (Cambridge University Press, 1989), The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Taylor Publishers/ Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), and with Steven E. Woodworth The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Susan C. Lawrence photo Susan C. Lawrence, project associate director (2007--), is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She specializes in the history of medicine, and has recently completed a three-article series on the history of medicine in Iowa from 1850 to 1950, published in the Annals of Iowa. She also works on the intersections of history and research ethics, most recently with her article "Access Anxiety: HIPAA and Historical Research," in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Her long-term research project focuses on the history of human dissection in Anglo-American medical education from the 18th century to the present.
Brett Barney photo Brett Barney, research associate (2006--), is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Senior Associate Editor at the Walt Whitman Archive. His has a Ph.D. in American Literature (2003) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Katherine Walter photo Katherine Walter, senior consultant (2006--), is the Chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries, and co-directs the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL with Kenneth M. Price. She has served as co-principal investigator for two IMLS-funded projects, "Integrated Guide to Whitman's Dispersed Manuscripts" and "Interoperability of Metadata for Thematic Research Collections: A Model based on the Walt Whitman Archive." The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities has sponsored many projects relating to 19th Century Americana. Two that Walter has directed are The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online and the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, both funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Wesley Raabe photo Wesley Raabe, project manager (2006--2008), is the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information Resource at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. He is the editor of Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: an Electronic Edition of the NATIONAL ERA Version. His current project, "Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Digital Critical Edition," will provide authoritative transcriptions, archival image facsimiles, and a textual apparatus for the surviving manuscript pages and for selected American publication forms of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel. He has served as the technical editor for the William Blake Archive and contributed to Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture and the Whitman Archive. In Fall 2008 he joins the English Department at Kent State University as an Assistant Professor of Textual Editing and American Literature.
Stacey Berry photo Stacey Berry, research associate (2007-2008) and project manager (2008--), is a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature and first-year composition. She works as an assistant editor for the Whitman Archive encoding texts and writing and editing item descriptions in Encoded Archival Description records. She has a been a member of the Civil War Washington project staff since Spring 2008.
C. J. Warwas photoC. J. Warwas, GIS Specialist (2008--), is a graduating senior who will be completing degree programs in Geography and Environmental Studies with an emphasis in Geographic Information Systems and cartography in summmer 2008. His work on the project includes spatial reference and analysis of data, map design, data acquisition, quality control of previously referenced data, and display design for online data. He plans to pursue a career in government or private geospatial industry and to continue work on an MS in Geographic Information Systems.
portraitAlyssa Olson, undergraduate research assistant: 2007--
portraitMolly Cannon, graduate research assistant and consultant, GIS specialist: 2007--
Zach Bajaber photo Zach Bajaber, web design consultation and programmer (CDRH): 2006--
Stacy Rickel photo Stacy Rickel, database designer and programmer at the Library and CDRH (2006--), has been a Programmer/Analyst at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries since 2004. During that time she has worked on a variety of web applications and digital projects, including Architecture in the Humanities, an inter-disciplinary site providing relationships between architecture and a variety of other works; and An Architectural Tour of Historic UNL, a website devoted to the first 100 years of building and campus growth at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Karin Dalziel photo Karin Dalziel, library assistant (CDRH): Fall 2006--

Past Staff Members

Advisers and Consultants