Syriaca.org is pleased to announce a new grant of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will enable Texas A&M University, Vanderbilt University, and Marquette University to partner to continue preserving the history of Syriac culture in the Middle East. “Linking Texts and Data from the Medieval…
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Schwartz of Texas A&M University has received a grant from SECU, the academic initiative of the Southeastern Conference. The SEC Faculty Travel Grant Program is intended to enhance collaboration that stimulates scholarly initiatives between SEC universities. Funding from the SEC was used…
read moreSyriaca.org is excited to be one of the projects featured as a sample project at http://xqueryinstitute.org/. Senior programmer Winona Salesky and general editor David Michelson are both serving as institute faculty. Syriaca.org is built using the XQuery functional language and eXist-db native XML database.
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Carlson, postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University and co-editor of the Syriac Gazetteer, has been awarded Second Prize in the Global Digital Humanities Essay competition sponsored by the University of Lethbridge, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, and the journal Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. An…
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