Main Sections

Objectives

Definitions of Collaborative Researach

Background of and Trends in Collaborative Research

Benefits of Research Collaboration

Challenges to Collaboration

Implementation Requirements

Steps Toward Collaborative Research

Conflict of Interest


University-Industry Collaborations

University-Schools Partnerships

University-Community-Based Collaborations

University-Humanities Research

End Notes and Completion Items


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Examples of NEH-Funded Projects
  • The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 The George Washington University, Washington, DC
    Charlene N. Bickford, Project Director
    To support work on the last five volumes of a documentary history of the First Federal Congress.

  • The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
    Allida Black, Project Director
    To support the first volume of an edition of the papers of Eleanor
    Roosevelt.

  • The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
    Yale University, New Haven, CT
    Ellen R. Cohn, Project Director
    To support work on three volumes of an edition of the papers of Benjamin Franklin.

  • Azoria Project: Excavation of an Early Iron Age-Archaic Town in Eastern Crete, Greece
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Donald C. Haggis, Project Director
    To support research on the development of a nascent Cretan polis and on cultural exchange in the Greek Aegean during the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BC).

  • A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture
    Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, MD
    Julia A. King, Project Director
    To support a comparative analysis of English, Native American Indian, and African material culture recovered from 18 Chesapeake Bay sites-mainly towns and tobacco plantations-occupied between 1620 and 1750.

  • An Excavation in the Theater of Pompey, Rome
    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
    James E. Packer, Project Director
    To support excavation and analysis of a portion of the theater.

  • Music in Gotham: The New York Scene, 1863-1875
    City University of New York, NY
    Adrienne F. Block, Project Director
    To support a two-volume study of musical life in New York City from 1863 to 1875, including a comprehensive database of musical events and source materials as well as interpretive genre-based essays.