Principal investigator: Dr Alexandru Balesescu.
Host institution: Royal University for Women, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Title of project: Faces and places in Iran. Iranian photography at the turn of the 19th century.
Location of archival material: Iran.
Award: £7,800.
Duration: 3 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Patrick Darling.
Host institution: Independent researcher.
Title of project: Making Professor Ade Obayemi’s life work available to the world.
Location of archival material: Nigeria.
Award: £1,830.
Duration: 1 month.
Principal investigator: Professor Anne Feldhaus.
Host institution: Arizona State University.
Title of project: Preserving Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible.
Location of archival material: Maharashtra State, India.
Award: £11,935.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Rolf Foerster.
Host institution: University of Chile.
Title of project: Identification of the potential corpus for a Mapuche special historical collection.
Location of archival material: Chile.
Award: £9,621.
Duration: 9 months.
Principal investigator: Mr Carlos Liberato de Sousa.
Host institution: York University, Canada.
Title of project: Pilot project to seek, identify, contact and report on collections of the endangered archives of the states of Maranhão and Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil.
Location of archival material: Brazil.
Award: £12,991.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Mr Richard Overy.
Host institution: Australian National University.
Title of project: Tuvalu National Archives preservation pilot project.
Location of archival material: Pacific Islands of Tuvalu.
Award: £5,150.
Duration: 1 month.
Principal investigator: Dr Verlon Stone.
Host institution: Indiana University.
Title of project: Rescuing Liberian history: a pilot study to preserve and enable access to Liberia's Presidential and National Archives.
Location of archival material: Liberia.
Award: £19,446.
Duration: 8 months.
Major research projects
Principal investigator: Dr David Anderson.
Host institution: University of Aberdeen.
Title of project: Digitising the photographic archive of Southern Siberian indigenous peoples.
Location of archival material: Southern Siberia, Russia.
Award: £42,075.
Duration: 18 months.
Principal investigator: Professor Murali Atlury.
Host institution: Sundarayya Vigna Kendram, India.
Title of project: Survey, conservation and archiving of pre-1947 Telugu printed materials and paintings in India.
Location of archival material: Andhra Pradesh, India.
Award: £34,468.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Ms Ontsor Bayarmaa.
Host institution: Press Institute of Mongolia.
Title of project: Preservation of rare periodical publications in Mongolia.
Location of archival material: Mongolia.
Award: £42,148.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Professor Pietro Clemente.
Host institution: University of Florence.
Title of project: Folk theatre tales: preserving images, sounds and voices of rural Tuscany.
Location of archival material: Tuscany, Italy.
Award: £40,000.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Professor Caroline Humphrey.
Host institution: University of Cambridge.
Title of project: The treasures of Danzan Ravjaa.
Location of archival material: Mongolia.
Award: £38,880.
Duration: 24 months.
Principal investigator: Mr James Nye
Host institution: Center for South Asian Libraries.
Title of project: Endangered Urdu periodicals: preservation and access for vulnerable scholarly resources.
Location of archival material: India.
Award: £54,305
Duration: 24 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Karma Phuntsho.
Host institution: Aris Trust Centre, University of Oxford.
Title of project: Digital documentation of manuscript collection in Gangtey.
Location of archival material: Bhutan.
Award: £48,000.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Professor Stefan Reif.
Host institution: Cambridge University Library.
Title of project: Transfer of Mosseri Genizah Archive from Paris to Cambridge University Library and its digitisation (with metadata), storage and accessibility: stage 1.
Origin of archival material: Egypt.
Award: £62,275.
Duration: 18 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Geoffrey Robinson.
Host institution: University of California, Los Angeles.
Title of project: Preserving East Timor’s endangered archives.
Location of archival material: East Timor.
Award: £45,505.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Raul Romero.
Host institution: Catholic University of Peru.
Title of project: Locating audiovisual ethnographic collections of expressive Andean culture in Peru.
Location of archival material: Peru.
Award: £41,829.
Duration: 12 months.
Principal investigator: Mr Thomas Sindilariu.
Host institution: University of Heidelberg.
Title of project: Securing of the medieval and early modern archival material (14th to 17th c.) of Brasov/Kronstadt and the Burzenland region (central Romania).
Location of archival material: Romania.
Award: £29,921.
Duration: 13 months.
Principal investigator: Ms Cheryl Stanborough.
Host institution: Yap State Archives.
Title of project: First Yap State Constitutional Convention audio tapes conversion project.
Location of archival material: Yap State, Micronesia.
Award: £20,511.
Duration: 24 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Verlon Stone.
Host institution: Indiana University.
Title of project: Rescuing Liberian history: preserving the personal papers of William V S Tubman, Liberia's longest serving President.
Location of archival material: Liberia.
Award: £48,811.
Duration: 16 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Konrad Tuchscherer.
Host institution: St John’s University, New York.
Title of project: Bamum script and archives project: saving Africa’s written heritage.
Location of archival material: Cameroon.
Award: £54,800.
Duration: 15 months.
Principal investigator: Dr Jian Xu.
Host institution: Sun Yat-sen University.
Title of project: Salvage and preservation of dongjing archives in Yunnan, China: transcript, score, ritual and performance.
Location of archival material: Yunnan, China.
Award: £46,530.
Duration: 18 months.
