The English Broadside Ballad Archive is the most ambitious project to date of UCSB’s English Department’s Early Modern Center.

Funding

Conceived in May of 2003, the archive was initially funded by UCSB Instructional Improvement Grants, 2003-2006, as well as by individual faculty research monies.

Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2003-2004
Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2004-2005
Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB, 2005-2006

The EMC successfully won funding from the University of California Humanities Research Institute to launch a 2-day conference on February 24-25, 2006, titled “Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800,” which built upon the work of the Ballad Archive.

UCHRI Grant Proposal, 2005-2006

Most recently the EMC was awarded significant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, toward completion of the Pepys Ballad Archive over the next two years, 2006-2008.

NEH Reference Materials Grant Proposal, 2005 (funded for 2006-2008)

The NEH grant has been generously co-supported by UCSB's Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science (David Marshall), Executive Vice-Chancellor (Gene Lucas), Vice Chancellor for Research (Michael Witherell), the Graduate Division, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the English Department.

In addition, EBBA participates in and has received important funding from the Making Publics Project centered at McGill University, in Montreal, via UCSB co-collaborators in the Making Publics project, Richard Helgerson and Patricia Fumerton.

Ballad Team

The archive would not be possible without the hard work of the following people:

Director: Patricia Fumerton

Project Manager: Kris McAbee
                                 Tassie Gniady (2003-2007)

Research Scientist : Carl Stahmer

Music Specialist: Katherine Meizel
                               Revell Carr (2005-2007)

Technical Assistants: Jessica C. Murphy (2005-current)
                                       Kris McAbee (2005-2007)

Technical Consultant: Tassie Gniady

TEI Specialist: Gerald Egan (2003-2006)

Imprint Specialists: Giles Bergel, Eric Nebeker

Cataloguing: Pav Aulakh, Gordon Batchelor, Simone Chess, Bill Gahan, Sören Hammerschmidt, Gene Hart, Patrick Ludolph, Rachel Mann, Laura Medrano, Laura Miller, Kris McAbee, Jessica C. Murphy, Maggie Sloan, Liberty Stanavage, Summer Star, Katherine Trumbull, Cat Zusky

Photo Manipulation: Tassie Gniady, Megan Palmer, Mac Test

Singers: Revell Carr, Colin Connors, Sarah Day, Amorette Getty, Judith Hicks, Peter Hernandez, David Hoffman, Temmo Korisheli, Samantha Levinson, Apri Medina, Katherine Meizel, Talya Meyers, Tony Minaskanians, Jeff Moorse, Rebecca Mounts, Kate Musselman, Colleen Russell, Devyn Searles, Gibb Schreffler

Instrumentalists: Temmo Korisheli on mandolin, Hillary Schoap on violin, and Jason Yoshida on baroque guitar, lute, and theorbo

Ballad Transcriptions: Megan Arch, Pav Aulakh, Simone Chess, Kathryn Dolan, Stefanie Durich, Gery Egan, Bill Gahan, Tassie Gniady, Paxton Hehmeyer, Kris McAbee, Talya Meyers, Apri Medina, Laura Miller, Jeff Moorse, Jessica C. Murphy, Eric Nebeker, Maggie Sloan, Dolly Smith, Liberty Stanavage, Summer Star, Cat Zusky

Facsimile Transcriptions: Ana Alvarado, Gordon Batchelor, Charlotte Becker, Krystle Chappell, Eleanor Dickson, Carina Evans, Meghan Fadel, Sören Hammerschmidt, Gene Hart, Patrick Ludolph, Rachel Mann, Kris McAbee, Geoff McNeil, Valerie McNutt, Laura Medrano, Laura Miller, Jessica C. Murphy, Eric Nebeker, Nadia Prupis, Kellie Ragusano, Erin Reagan, Rachel Turner, Summer Star, Mac Test, Erin Wratschko

Background Essays: Gery Egan, Bill Gahan, Tassie Gniady, Pax Hehmeyer, Kris McAbee, Laura Miller, Jessica C. Murphy, Eric Nebeker