DAACS Receives NEH-JISC Digital Collaboration Grant for Research on Nevis and St. Kitts
| June 4, 2008 The Monticello-based Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery has been awarded a $132,832 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of a project it is conducting on Nevis and St. Kitts in collaboration with two institutions in England.
DAACS was awarded one of five Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants by NEH’s newly established Office of Digital Humanities in conjunction with the United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee.
DAACS staff members will work with colleagues from England’s Southampton University and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool to develop and make available on the Internet an integrated digital archive of archaeological and historical data from 18th-century sugar plantations on the eastern Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis.more
