Research Grants Awarded in 2006
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP052 |
| Title of project: | Rescuing Eastern Nigerian history: preserving the holdings of Enugu and Calabar regional archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Chima Korieh |
| Host institution: | Rowan University |
| Archival partner: | National Archives of Nigeria Enugu, National Archives of Nigeria Calabar |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £16,012 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP056 |
| Title of project: | Locating, listing and protecting the archives of Independent (or African Instituted) Churches in Zimbabwe |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Samuel Njovana |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Zimbabwe |
| Award: | £10,660 |
| Duration: | 4 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP057 |
| Title of project: | Digitising the photo documents of Georgia's central state audio-visual archive |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Rezo Khutsishvili |
| Host institution: | Department of State Archives and Records Management of Georgia |
| Archival partner: | Audio-Visual Central State Archive of Georgia |
| Location of archival material: | Georgia |
| Award: | £1,640 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP060 |
| Title of project: | Diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Oscar Grandio Moraguez |
| Host institution: | York University, Canada |
| Archival partner: | Archivo Histórico Provincial de Matanzas, Archivos Parroquiales de Matanzas, Archivo Histórico Municipal de Cárdenas |
| Location of archival material: | Cuba |
| Award: | £10,953 |
| Duration: | 11 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP071 |
| Title of project: | Archiving texts in the Sylhet Nagri script |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Anuradha Chanda |
| Host institution: | Jadavpur University |
| Archival partner: | School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £10,000 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP086 |
| Title of project: | Archive of Buddhist photographs in Luang Prabang, Laos |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Hans Berger |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Archival partner: | National Library of Laos |
| Location of archival material: | Laos |
| Award: | £13,475 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP087 |
| Title of project: | Northern Nigeria: precolonial documents preservation scheme |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Mohammed Salau |
| Host institution: | York University, Canada |
| Archival partner: | Arewa House Kaduna |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £10,191 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP093 |
| Title of project: | A survey of the endangered court records of Nevis, West Indies |
| Principal investigator: | Mr David Small |
| Host institution: | University of Bristol |
| Location of archival material: | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Award: | £5,446 |
| Duration: | 1 month |
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| Project Ref: | EAP095 |
| Title of project: | Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue pilot project of native peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Irina Podgorny |
| Host institution: | Museum of La Plata |
| Archival partner: | Centro de Estudios Históricos e Información Parque de España (CEHIPE) |
| Location of archival material: | Argentina |
| Award: | £9,700 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP104 |
| Title of project: | A pilot project aimed at the preservation of Pa'O religious and literary manuscripts |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Christopher Miller |
| Host institution: | Arizona State University Libraries |
| Archival partner: | The Pa'O Literary and Cultural Council Committee Library |
| Location of archival material: | Myanmar |
| Award: | £9,683 |
| Duration: | 2 months |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP054 |
| Title of project: | Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio |
| Principal investigator: | Dr David Zeitlyn |
| Host institution: | University of Kent |
| Archival partner: | Cameroon National Archives, University of Dschang, University of Yaoundé |
| Location of archival material: | Cameroon |
| Award: | £36,838 |
| Duration: | 15 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP061 |
| Title of project: | The MIPES Indonesia: digitising Islamic manuscript of Indonesian Pondok Pesantren |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Amiq Ahyad |
| Host institution: | LPAM, Indonesia |
| Archival partner: | Lembaga Pengkajian Agama dan Masyarakat |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £41,373 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP066 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of historic and rare Nepali monographs and periodicals |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Kanak Mani Dixit |
| Host institution: | Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya |
| Archival partner: | Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya |
| Location of archival material: | Nepal |
| Award: | £49,832 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP078 |
| Title of project: | Ritual narratives of Bagr Secret Society |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Alexis Tengan |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Archival partner: | Foundation for Rural Education Empowerment and Development in Ghana |
| Location of archival material: | Ghana |
| Award: | £2,950 |
| Duration: | 2 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP080 |
| Title of project: | Voiceless choirs. Serbian musical collections from Zemun in 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Ivana Perkovic Radak |
| Host institution: | University of Arts, Belgrade |
| Archival partner: | Historical Archive of Belgrade |
| Location of archival material: | Serbia and Montenegro |
| Award: | £10,810 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP081 |
| Title of project: | Preservation and digitisation of Yi archives in public and private collections in Yunnan, China |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jian Xu |
| Host institution: | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Archival partner: | University Library of Sun Yat-sen University |
| Location of archival material: | China |
| Award: | £41,100 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP088 |
| Title of project: | The Golha radio programmes (Flowers of Persian Song and Poetry) |
| Principal investigator: | Mrs Jane Lewisohn |
| Host institution: | SOAS, University of London |
| Location of archival material: | Iran |
| Award: | £59,913 |
| Duration: | 14 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP089 |
| Title of project: | Reconstruction of sound materials of endangered languages in the Russian Federation for sound archives in Saint Petersburg |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Tjeerd de Graaf |
| Host institution: | Isaac Massa Foundation |
| Archival partner: | Institute for Linguistic Studies/Pushkinsky Dom, Russian Academy of Sciences St Petersburg |
| Location of archival material: | Russian Federation |
| Award: | £50,119 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP099 |
| Title of project: | Collecting and preserving the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania in Moshi, Tanzania |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Adam Jones |
| Host institution: | Leipzig University |
| Archival partner: | Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania Northern Diocese, National Archives Dar es Salaam |
| Location of archival material: | Tanzania |
| Award: | £27,500 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP103 |
| Title of project: | Endangered ethnographic archive, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Rachko Popov |
| Host institution: | Ethnographic Institute & Museum |
| Archival partner: | Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| Location of archival material: | Bulgaria |
| Award: | £15,086 |
| Duration: | 5 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP105 |
| Title of project: | The digital documentation of manuscripts at Drametse and Ogyen Choling |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Karma Phuntsho |
| Host institution: | Aris Trust Centre, Oxford University |
| Archival partner: | The National Library and Archives of Bhutan |
| Location of archival material: | Bhutan |
| Award: | £45,930 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP110 |
| Title of project: | Tuvalu National Archives major project |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Richard Overy |
| Host institution: | Australian National University |
| Archival partner: | Tuvalu National Library and Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Tuvalu |
| Award: | £29,130 |
| Duration: | 21 months |