Collaborative Research
Collaborative Research grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff or resources beyond the individual’s salary. That research may include field work; library, archival or computer-based investigations; and scholarly conferences. Grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years.
Guidelines URL:
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html

RZ-50420, Sweet Briar College:
Investigating Historic African-American Mortuary Traditions in Central Virginia.
Sweet Briar College received a 2005 Collaborative Research award in support of Lynn Rainville’s project. The project combined archaeological fieldwork and archival research to study African-American gravestones, cemetery landscapes, and mourning practices from the 1770s to the 1950s. The project sheds light on African Americans’ economic status as well as their religious beliefs. Not only has Rainville posted the scholarly results of her project on the project Web site; she has also created a second Web site that enables families to trace their ancestry by examining forgotten African-American burial sites.
Project URLs: www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/cem/ and
www.locohistory.org/Albemarle/

RZ-50941, University of Texas, Austin:
The Oplontis Project Excavation, Study, and Publication of Villa A at Torre Annunziata, Italy, 50 BCE-CE 79.
In 2008 the University of Texas, Austin, received a Collaborative Research award for a project headed by art historian John Clarke. Along with a team of American and European scholars, Clarke is developing “The Oplontis Project” to study and produce publications about the largest and best-preserved villa excavated in the area buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Project URL: www.oplontisproject.org/