The Freedman Fellows Program is strong evidence of the commitment of both the College of Arts and Sciences and the Library to revolutionizing research and scholarship at Case Western Reserve University. This year, the Freedman Fellows Program will distribute five (5) $3,000 awards to fulltime faculty applicants whose project proposals demonstrate methods by which scholarly endeavors can be undertaken using emerging digital tools and processes such as the use of data-mining, text-analytic techniques, geospatial information systems, and data visualization. These projects will serve as model forms of scholarship that encourage the use of new technologies in research, design, dissemination and publication, and which transform how knowledge can be created and how newly identified connections can be explored.

The following is a list of the 2011 Freedman Fellows Program Award recipients:

• Stephen Hefling, Professor, Department of Music;
• William Deal, Professor, Department of Religion;
• Georgia Cowart, Professor, Department of Music;
• Robert Brown, Professor, Department of Physics;
• Daniel Goldmark, Associate Professor, Department of Music

It is with great pleasure that the Freedman Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Kelvin Smith Library welcome the award recipients to this program’s class of 2011.

For more information on this program, as well as a listing of past recipients and their projects, please see the Freedman Fellows website.