Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 429.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:42:49 +0000
From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell)
Subject: new award announcement (fwd)
From jod Mon Dec 31 20:29:47 2001
To: humanist@lists.princeton.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:29:47 -0500 (EST)
Lyman Award Created
The Rockefeller Foundation has made a $500,000 grant to the National
Humanities Center to create a prize in honor of Richard W. Lyman. In each
of the next five years, the award will recognize an individual who has
used information technology to break new ground in the humanities.
Lyman is President Emeritus of Stanford University, where he served as
Provost from 1968-1970 and President from 1970-1980. Before becoming
Provost, he was Professor of History at Stanford. After retiring from
Stanford, he served as President of the Rockefeller Foundation from
1980-1988. He is the author of The First Labour Government, and editor,
with Lewis W. Spitz, of Major Crises in Western Civilization. He
coauthored, with Virginia A. Hodgkinson, The Future of the Nonprofit
Sector.
"As university president and as the head of the Rockefeller Foundation,
Richard Lyman has demonstrated a deep concern for the humanities and a
conviction that the liberal arts-and the nonprofit sector more
generally-must adapt to and evolve with the world in which they live,"
said Alice Stone Ilchman, recently retired chairman of the Rockefeller
Foundation's Board of Trustees. "By focusing on projects that combine
scholarly significance with technological innovation, the award will honor
Richard Lyman by bringing attention to humanists who have most
successfully brought together the best of the scholarly tradition with the
technological changes that are more than ever making scholarship and
teaching a universal, democratic endeavor."
The Center will present the award for the first time in April 2002. An
advisory board will be formed composed of leaders from the academy and the
information technology industry, and a selection committee of humanistic
scholars who have used information technology to make major advances in
scholarship and teaching will meet at the Center this winter to review
nominations and make the inaugural award. James J. O'Donnell, a Trustee of
the Center, Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for
Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania, will
chair the selection committee. O'Donnell is the author of Avatars of the
Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, which compares today's information
technology explosion with earlier revolutionary periods in communications,
such as the switch from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll
to the codex, and from copied manuscript to print. "The goal of the
award," O'Donnell said, "is not to recognize dazzling technology or to
crow about how even humanists can be technological. Rather it is to
recognize outstanding scholarly or critical achievement that happens to
have been facilitated by creative use of technology. In another age,
Erasmus made his way as a scholar in large measure because he mastered and
exploited the new technology of print as few others had the imagination to
do. That's the kind of creativity that the selection committee will be
looking for."
Nominations for the award may be sent to lyman-award@listserv.nhc.rtp.nc.us
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