Research Grants Awarded in 2005
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP001 |
| Title of project: | Faces and Places in Iran. Iranian photography at the turn of the 19th century |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Alexandru Balesescu |
| Host institution: | Royal University for Women, Kingdom of Bahrain |
| Location of archival material: | Iran |
| Award: | £7,800 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP005 |
| Title of project: | Tuvalu National Archives preservation pilot project |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Richard Overy |
| Host institution: | Australian National University |
| Archival partner: | Tuvalu National Library and Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Tuvalu |
| Award: | £5,150 |
| Duration: | 1 month |
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| Project Ref: | EAP023 |
| Title of project: | Preserving Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Anne Feldhaus |
| Host institution: | Arizona State University |
| Archival partner: | Marathi Manuscript Centre, Pune |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £11,935 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP026 |
| Title of project: | Rescuing Liberian history: a pilot study to preserve and enable access to Liberia's Presidential and National Archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Verlon Stone |
| Host institution: | Indiana University |
| Archival partner: | The Center for National Documents and Records/National Archives, Liberia |
| Location of archival material: | Liberia |
| Award: | £19,446 |
| Duration: | 8 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP030 |
| Title of project: | Identification of the potential corpus for a Mapuche special historical collection |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Rolf Foerster |
| Host institution: | University of Chile |
| Location of archival material: | Chile |
| Award: | £9,621 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP046 |
| Title of project: | Pilot project to seek, identify, contact, and report on collections of the endangered archives of the states of Maranhão and Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Carlos Liberato de Sousa |
| Host institution: | York University, Canada |
| Location of archival material: | Brazil |
| Award: | £12,991 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP050 |
| Title of project: | Making Professor Ade Obayemi's life work available to the world |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Patrick Darling |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £1,830 |
| Duration: | 1 month |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP006 |
| Title of project: | First Yap State Constitutional Convention audio tapes conversion project |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Cheryl Ann Stanborough |
| Host institution: | Yap State Archives |
| Archival partner: | Yap State Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Federated States of Micronesia |
| Award: | £20,511 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP008 |
| Title of project: | Folk Theatre Tales: Preserving images, sounds and voices of rural Tuscany |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Pietro Clemente |
| Host institution: | University of Florence |
| Archival partner: | The National State Archive of Florence |
| Location of archival material: | Italy |
| Award: | £40,000 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP010 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of rare periodical publications in Mongolia |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Ontsor Bayarmaa |
| Host institution: | Press Institute of Mongolia |
| Archival partner: | Press Institute of Mongolia |
| Location of archival material: | Mongolia |
| Award: | £42,148 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP012 |
| Title of project: | Salvage and preservation of dongjing archives in Yunnan, China: transcript, score, ritual and performance |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jian Xu |
| Host institution: | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Archival partner: | University Library, Sun Yat-sen University |
| Location of archival material: | China |
| Award: | £46,530 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP016 |
| Title of project: | Digitising the photographic archive of southern Siberian indigenous peoples |
| Principal investigator: | Dr David Anderson |
| Host institution: | University of Aberdeen |
| Archival partner: | Krasnoiarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore |
| Location of archival material: | Russian Federation |
| Award: | £42,075 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP022 |
| Title of project: | Locating audiovisual ethnographic collections of expressive Andean culture in Peru |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Raul Romero |
| Host institution: | Catholic University of Peru |
| Archival partner: | Audiovisual Archives of the Centre for Andean Ethnomusicology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £41,829 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP025 |
| Title of project: | Transfer of Mosseri Genizah Archive from Paris to Cambridge University Library and its digitisation (with metadata), storage and accessibility:Stage 1 |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Stefan Reif |
| Host institution: | Cambridge University Library |
| Archival partner: | Mosseri Genizah Archive |
| Location of archival material: | Egypt |
| Award: | £62,275 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP027 |
| Title of project: | Rescuing Liberian history: preserving the personal papers of William V. S. Tubman, Liberia's longest serving President |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Verlon Stone |
| Host institution: | Indiana University |
| Archival partner: | The Center for National Documents and Records/National Archives, Liberia |
| Location of archival material: | Liberia |
| Award: | £48,810 |
| Duration: | 16 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP031 |
| Title of project: | The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Caroline Humphrey |
| Host institution: | University of Cambridge |
| Archival partner: | Noyon Hutuktu Danzan Ravjaa Museuem |
| Location of archival material: | Mongolia |
| Award: | £38,880 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP032 |
| Title of project: | Preserving East Timor's endangered archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Geoffrey Robinson |
| Host institution: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Archival partner: | Post-CAVR Technical Secretariat, East Timor |
| Location of archival material: | East Timor |
| Award: | £45,505 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP038 |
| Title of project: | Survey, conservation and archiving of pre-1947 Telugu printed materials and paintings in India |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Murali Atlury |
| Host institution: | Sundarayya Vigna Kendram, India |
| Archival partner: | Sundarayya Vignana Kendram Library, Hyderabad |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £34,468 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP039 |
| Title of project: | Digital documentation of manuscript collection in Gangtey |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Karma Phuntsho |
| Host institution: | Aris Trust Centre, University of Oxford |
| Archival partner: | National Library & Archive of Bhutan |
| Location of archival material: | Bhutan |
| Award: | £48,000 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP040 |
| Title of project: | Securing of the medieval and early modern archival material (14th to 17th c.) of Brasov/Kronstadt and the Burzenland region (central Romania) |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Thomas Sindilariu |
| Host institution: | University of Heidelburg |
| Archival partner: | Archive and library of the Honterus parish CA in Brasov |
| Location of archival material: | Romania |
| Award: | £29,921 |
| Duration: | 13 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP051 |
| Title of project: | Bamum script and archives project: saving Africa's written heritage |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Konrad Tuchscherer |
| Host institution: | St John's University, New York |
| Archival partner: | Archives du Palais des Rois Bamoun |
| Location of archival material: | Cameroon |
| Award: | £54,800 |
| Duration: | 15 months |