Center-Sited Projects

The Obermann Center assists scholars who wish to expand their scholarship. The Center can help identify research collaborators or consortial partners, advise on and coordinate efforts to obtain internal and external funding, and help prepare proposals. For funded projects, the Center can provide appointments and offices for project directors and for their research assistants.

Current Obermann Center Projects

• The Walt Whitman Project • Ed Folsom, Carver Professor of English - developed with the Virginia Institute for the Advancement of technology in the Humanities.
• The Cook Country Target Abuser Call • Carolyn Copps Hartley, Associate Professor of Social Work - Studies the effect of three different prosecution responses to woman battering.
• The Center for Media Studies and Political Culture • Bruce E. Gronbeck, A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address, Communication Studies.

Past Obermann Center Projects

• The Art and Life in Africa Project • Christopher D. Roy, Art and Art History and Associate dean of International Programs - A multimedia research project that recontextualizes African art in the cycle of life.
• The Women's Civic History Project • Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History - Studies women and international law.
• The Opera in Context Project • Roberta M. Marvin, Associate Professor of Music - Studies the works of Giuseppe Verdi and, with Downing Thomas, Professor of French and Italian, is developing a volume of essays tentatively titled Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in Musical Drama, which resulted from their 2001 Obermann Summer Research Seminar.