Civil War Washington

Kenneth M. Price, project co-director (2006–), is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American Literature at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the co-editor of books on James Weldon Johnson, George Santayana, and nineteenth-century periodical literature. He is also the co-editor of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman (Kent State University Press, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 1996); and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale University Press, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). He recently co-authored with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005).

Kenneth J. Winkle, project co-director (2006–), is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has published three prize-winning books in the fields of nineteenth-century U.S. political, social, cultural, and military history–The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio (Cambridge University Press, 1989), The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Taylor Publishers/Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), and, with Steven E. Woodworth, The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Susan C. Lawrence, project associate director (2007–), is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She specializes in the history of medicine and has recently completed a three-article series on the history of medicine in Iowa from 1850 to 1950, published in the Annals of Iowa. She also works on the intersections of history and research ethics, most recently with her article "Access Anxiety: HIPAA and Historical Research," in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Her long-term research project focuses on the history of human dissection in Anglo-American medical education from the 18th century to the present.

Katherine Walter, senior consultant (2006–), is the Chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries and co-directs the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL with Kenneth M. Price. She has served as co-principal investigator for two IMLS-funded projects, "Integrated Guide to Whitman's Dispersed Manuscripts" and "Interoperability of Metadata for Thematic Research Collections: A Model based on the Walt Whitman Archive." The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities has sponsored many projects relating to nineteenth-century America. Two that Walter has directed are The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online and the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project, both funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Brett Barney, research associate (2006–), is a Research Associate Professor in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive. He has a Ph.D. in American Literature (2003) from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Matt Bosley, undergraduate research associate (2011–), is in his final year of study for a second undergraduate degree in human nutrition. He has worked in the medical field in the past and has a keen interest in the history of medicine, particularly in the United States and in Canada.

Janel Cayer, research assistant (2011–), is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she is also an assistant editor for the Walt Whitman Archive. She studies nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with a focus on women authors.

Karin Dalziel, Digital Resources Designer (2008–), is staff member at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. She has several years of experience with design, web standards, and encoding systems, and works with team members to create attractive, accessible, and usable websites.

AJ Howell, undergraduate research assistant (2011–), is a junior at UNL, where he studies history and works on Civil War Washington through the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) Program.

Brittany Jones, undergraduate research assistant (2010–), is a junior at UNL where she is pursuing majors in History and Psychology and a minor in English. She works on Civil War Washington through the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) Program.

Elizabeth Lorang, project manager and research associate (2010–), is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English. She is also the project manager and a senior assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Documentary Editing, the Mickle Street Review, Victorian Periodicals Review, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. She is currently at work on a book project, "The Art of Daily Life: Newspaper Poems in American Culture," and an accompanying digital project.

Adam Minakowski, research assistant (2010–), is a graduate student in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where he is pursuing an MLS degree with a concentration in archives, records, and information management. He holds a master's degree in magazine, newspaper, and online journalism from Syracuse University and bachelor's degrees in history, English, and philosophy from the University of Scranton.

Keith Nickum, Programmer/Analyst II (CDRH) (2009–)

Rob Shepard, research assistant (2011–)