Ute Lotz-Heumann, Mary Feeney, Heather Froehlich awarded Accelerate for Success grant
Ute Lotz-Heumann, Director, Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, Professor, and Heiko A. Oberman Chair in Late Medieval and Reformation History; Mary Feeney, Librarian for History; and Heather Froehlich, Digital Scholarship Specialist, have been awarded an Accelerate for Success (AfS) grant from the University of Arizona Office for Research, Innovation and Impact for “Samuel Pepys’s Social Network in 17th-century London” (pictured, left to right).
The project is part of the development of a larger Digital Humanities project, “Samuel Pepys’s Worlds.” Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was a British naval administrator who lived in London and kept a detailed journal of his daily life between 1660 and 1669.
Among other events, Pepys lived through the Great Plague in 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Funding from the AfS grant will enable the creation of social network graphs for two sample years of the diary, 1660 and 1665, and will serve as proof of concept for a future extramural grant application.