This project has received generous funding from an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, offered through the NEH Office of Digital Humanities in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. We are grateful to the NEH and to the Office of Digital Humanities for their support, and we hope that this project can serve as an example for others interested in multi-campus educational projects.

We are also grateful to the colleges represented in this project for the generous support and encouragement that they have given to the participants. In particular, we would like to thank the following people for their support of this project:

Dr. Bonne August, Provost and Vice President, New York City College of
Technology, CUNY

Barbara Burke, Patty Barba, Eleanor Bergonzo, Yasemin Jones from the Grants Office of the New York City College of Technology, CUNY.

Dr. Teresa A. Kennedy, Professor and Chair, Department of English,
Linguistics, and Communication, University of Mary Washington

Dr. Nina Mikhalevsky, Acting Provost and Vice President for Strategy and
Policy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Mary Washington

Dr. Michael A. Palis, Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate
School, Rutgers University-Camden

“Looking for Whitman” has been designated a “We the People” project by the National Endowment for the Humanities.