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 UP, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1996); and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale UP, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (U of North Carolina P, 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 and Chair of the History Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published three prize-winning books in the fields of 19th 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.

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

Katherine Walter, senior consultant (2006–), is the Chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) 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 19th Century Americana. 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.

Stacey Berry, research associate (2007-2008) and project manager (2008–), is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she currently works as the project manager for Civil War Washington at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. After five years working on the Whitman Archive, she continues to serve as an assistant editor. Berry received her PhD in English from UNL in August 2007. Her dissertation, The War Zone, examines the relationships between violence, space, and oppression in post-1945 American fiction.

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

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