Baylor History Faculty Receives Gale and ASECS Award Fellowships to Support Emerging Research of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Daniel J. Watkins, Assistant Professor of History and Undergraduate Program Director, is one of five scholars to receive the Gale and ASECS Award Fellowship. The fellows’ unique projects will utilize Gale's eighteenth-century collections online and digital scholar lab to further scholarly research of the period.
Dr. Daniel J. Watkins, Assistant Professor of History and Undergraduate Program Director, was awarded the 2022 Gale and ASECS Non-Residential Fellowship which will be used to enhance his research project with online and digital resources provided by Gale and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASES).
As a fellow Dr. Watkins will receive funding and access to Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and the Gale Digital Scholar Lab (The Lab). These programs will allow Dr. Watkins and other selected scholars to use text and data mining tools to further enhance their research projects.
Dr. Watkins' project includes tracking the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses in Eighteenth-Century Britain to trace the transmission of a particularly influential set of published missionary letters. The project will provide a better understanding of how missionary accounts influenced European descriptions of societies and cultures in Africa, Asia, the Americas and beyond.
Dr. Benita Blessing, Ph.D of ASECS notes “The Gale-ASECS fellowships offer an innovative program of support for scholars committed to broadening and deepening the role of digital humanities scholarship in the long eighteenth-century." She also notes, "access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab will allow these fellows the opportunity to explore the use of digital humanities methodologies in new ways both in their research and their classrooms. We are excited to see the research outcomes and pedagogical applications that emerge from these projects that will influence and inspire not only the field of eighteenth-century studies, but scholars who engage with digital humanities projects more broadly.”
Dr. Watkins is one of five selected scholars who will be supported this academic year by Gale and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. To explore the full press release and the complete list of scholars, visit Cengage Group. Also, for more information on Gale-ASECS Non-Residential Fellowships, visit its webpage.
Source: Cengage Group. (2022 September 14). Gale and ASECS Award Fellowships to Five Scholars to Support Emerging Research of Eighteenth-Century Studies [Press release]. https://www.cengagegroup.com/news/press-releases/2022/gale-and-asecs-award-fellowships-to-five-scholars-to-support-emerging-research-of-eighteenth-century-studies/
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About Cengage Group and Gale
Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 65 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.gale.com.
About American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Our members are literary scholars and writers, historians, theorists of gender, race, sexuality, disability, nation and empire; philosophers and political theorists; art historians and artists; musicologists and musicians; theater historians and practitioners; biographers and bibliographers; and specialists in other humanistic, artistic, and social scientific fields with a range of broad and more particular interests. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment in which all members participate fully in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. For more information please visit: https://www.asecs.org/.