Acknowledgements
¶Supporters
The Map of Early Modern London has been supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Standard Research Grant (2003–2008), two SSHRC Insight Grants (2012-2016 and 2018-2023),
and by two SSHRC UVic General Research Grants
(2010-2011 and 2011–2012). MoEML is one of several case studies in the Endings Project, funded by a SSHRC grant from 2015-2020; Endings funds were used to help build the
new static version of MoEML (v.6.3) released in March 2018. SSHRC has also provided
scholarships for TEI and database
training at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Technical assistance in 2005-2006 was funded
by a Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant to the Text Analysis
Portal for Research (TAPoR).
UVic offices that have shared expertise and/or contributed in-kind or cash support
for MoEML include:
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University Systems who manage our web servers and who helped in the testing and deployment of v.6
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the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC)
Our other partners include Early Theatre and the London Metropolitan Archives, London. We are also grateful to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO–TCP)
for providing transcriptions of Stow’s 1598 and 1633 editions of Survey of London.
Former Research Assistant, Michael Stevens, has kindly
granted us permission to use the photographs he took of the MoEML team.
Ongoing Support
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2006–present. Permission to use the Agas map provided by the London Metropolitan Archives.
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2005–present. In-kind technical support and advice from the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria. Many thanks to Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes (Lead Programmer), Greg Newton, and Pat Szpak at HCMC, who share their formidable expertise in encoding, programming, database architecture, and interface design, and also provide training for our research assistants.
In-Kind Support
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2017-2018. Three Graduate Research Assistants (Joseph Takeda, Chase Templet, and Brooke Isherwood) hired by Associate University Librarian Lisa Goddard to work on MoEML’s historical gazetteer for ingestion into a triple store.
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2008–2009. Graduate Research Assistant (Camille van der Marel) provided by the Department of English, University of Victoria.
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2006. Development work supported by the Office of Research Services (VP Research) at the University of Victoria.
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2006. Development work supported by the Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria.
¶Funding
Support for Research
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2018-2023. SSHRC Insight Grant. PI: Janelle Jenstad. Co-applicants: Martin Holmes and Mark Kaethler. Collaborators: Alexandra Gillespie, Andrew Griffin, Tracey Hill, and Kim McLean-Fiander. [See selections from our SSHRC Insight Grant application and planning documents.]
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2012–2016. SSHRC Insight Grant. PI: Janelle Jenstad. Co-applicants: Martin Holmes and Stewart Arneil. [See our SSHRC Insight Grant 2012-2016 application.]
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2011. SSHRC General Research Grant (Internal Research Grant, University of Victoria).
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2010. SSHRC General Research Grant (Internal Research Grant, University of Victoria).
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2008. Humanities Grant Initiative Fund, administered by the Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria.
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2004–2005. Internal Research Grant Top-up Award, University of Victoria.
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2003–2008. SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
Support for Training
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2012. SSHRC Scholarship to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria),
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2010. SSHRC Scholarship to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria),
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2006. SSHRC Scholarship to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria),
Contexts, Pragmatics, and Theory of E-Books
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2006. SSHRC Scholarship awarded to Research Assistant (Melanie Chernyk) to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria),
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2005. SSHRC Scholarship to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute,
Fundamentals of Encoding
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2005. SSHRC Scholarship awarded to Research Assistant (Melanie Chernyk) to attend Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria),
Fundamentals of Encoding
course.
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Joey Takeda
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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Chase Templet
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Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.Roles played in the project
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Research Assistant, 2012-2013. Michael Stevens began his MA at Trinity College Dublin and then transferred to the University of Victoria, where he completed it in early 2013. His research focused on transnational modernism and geospatial considerations of literature. He prepared a digital map of James Joyce’s Ulysses for his MA project. Michael was a talented photographer and was responsible for taking most of the MoEML team photographs appearing on this site.Roles played in the project
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Research Assistant, 2012–2013. Cameron Butt completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.Roles played in the project
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Melanie Chernyk
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Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.Roles played in the project
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Camille van der Marel
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Research Assistant, 2008-2009. Though not an early modernist by training, Camille van der Marel’s research engaged extensively with theories of mapping and the relationship between place and space in representations of the metropole and the periphery, especially in postcolonial and transnational literatures. She is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta.Camille van der Marel is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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Kim McLean-Fiander
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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.Roles played in the project
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Mark Kaethler
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Mark Kaethler received his PhD from the University of Guelph and completed his MA and HBA at Lakehead University. He teaches early English literature at Medicine Hat College and serves as the Assistant Project Director of Mayoral Shows for the Map of Early Modern London at the University of Victoria as well as the President of the Medicine Hat College Faculty Association. He is a co-applicant with project lead Janelle Jenstad, fellow co-applicant Martin Holmes, and various collaborators on a SSHRC Insight Grant and a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. He is a co-editor with Janelle Jenstad and Jennifer Roberts-Smith of Shakespeare’s Digital Language: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018) and the author of the forthcoming monograph Thomas Middleton’s Plural Politics and Jacobean Drama (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021). He has sole or co-authored articles forthcoming or published in Early Theatre, Literature Compass, The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Digital Studies, Ludica, This Rough Magic, and Upstart, as well as chapters in several edited collections. His research interests include early modern politics, London, and theatre; textual editing; digital humanities; and game studies.Roles played in the project
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Janelle Jenstad
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).Roles played in the project
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Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.
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Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
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The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print. -
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Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print. -
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Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
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Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print. -
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
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Lisa Goddard
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Lisa Goddard is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship and Strategy at University of Victoria Libraries.Lisa Goddard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Alexandra Gillespie
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Tracey Hill
Dr. Tracey Hill is a Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. Her specialism is in the literature and history of early modern London. She is the author of two books: Anthony Munday and Civic Culture (Manchester UP, 2004), and Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern lord mayor’s Shows, 1585–1639 (Manchester UP, 2010). She has also published a number of articles on Munday’s prose works, on The Booke of Sir Thomas More, and on late Elizabethan history plays.Roles played in the project
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Hill, Tracey. Anthony Munday and Civic Culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London, 1580–1633. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004. Print.
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Hill, Tracey. Pageantry and Power: A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor’s Show 1585–1639. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013. Print.
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Hill, Tracy.
Owners and Collectors of the Printed Books of the Early Modern Lord Mayors’ Shows.
Library and Information History 30.3 (2013): 151–171. doi:10.1179/1758348914Z.00000000061
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Andrew Griffin
Andrew Griffin is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he does research concerning early modern drama, early modern historiography, and the history of editing.Andrew Griffin is mentioned in the following documents:
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Stewart Arneil
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.Roles played in the project
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Mike Elkink
Mike is a graduate of the University of Victoria in anthropology and computer science. During his contract with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) in the mid-2000s, he co-developed the TEI encoding guidelines for The Map of Early Modern London with Eric Haswell, redesigned the look of the site. and created the application framework and the database interface using PHP, interfaced with an early version of the eXist XML database. Since working on MoEML, he has contributed to various encoding projects for the Humanities Computing and Media Centre as well as for the electronic textual cultures lab at the University of Victoria. He has continued his career in information technology and is currently the technology administrator for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.Mike Elkink is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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Eric Haswell
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Martin D. Holmes
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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Greg Newton
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Newton, Greg, dev. Vertexer: Mercator Vertex Generator. U of Victoria. https://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/vertexer/. [This tool was developed by Greg Newton, programmer, Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the U of Victoria in 2014, and rewritten in 2021. For instructions on how to use this tool, see MoEML’s documentation for encoding GIS coordinates of locations.]
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Pat Szpak
Map of Early Modern London web designer and world traveller, Patrick has worked on and off on web design for over ten years. He loves clean design and big font sizes. Patrick has an MA in history from the University of Victoria and has lived in Africa, Europe, and the South Pacific working as a volunteer or just trying to survive.Pat Szpak is mentioned in the following documents: