Project development sponsors
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Division
College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California
Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California
Center for Transformative Scholarship, University of Southern California
Bryn Mawr College
Cambridge University Press
Federated Archive Partners
A number of internationally recognized research institutions are working on a collaborative plan that should be finalized by May 2011
Theater Edition Partners
The American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA.
Advisory Forum, USC January 2010
A. R. Braunmuller, University of California Los Angeles, Associate General Editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Michael Chaplin, Electronic Publishing Development Manager, Cambridge University Press
Beatrice Rehl, Editorial Director for Academic and Professional Publishing Division, Cambridge University Press, Americas Branch, New York
Sarah Stanton, Publishing Director for Humanities, Cambridge University Press, UK
Zoe Borofsky, Center for Digital Humanities, University of California Los Angeles, Development Coordinator for the electronic Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Philip Ethington, University of Southern California, co-director of USC Center for Transformative Scholarship, North American Editor and Multimedia Editor of the journal Urban History, co-recipient of MacArthur/HASTAC Digital Media and Learning Competition
Andreas Kratky, University of Southern California, Visiting Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Division, USC School for Cinematic Arts
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California, co-director of USC Center for Transformative Scholarship, editor of two anthologies on new technologies (one for MacArthur Digital Media and Learning)
Jan Reiff, University of California Los Angeles, co-editor of the online Encyclopedia of Chicago
Willeke Wendrich, University of California Los Angeles, editor in chief of the online Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Sophie Lesinska, Director of Public Services, USC Libraries
Laurie Fisher, PhD candidate in English, University of Southern California, with interests in production history
Niels Herold, Associate Professor of English, Oakland University, Michigan, assistant editor of New Variorum Coriolanus, author of articles on historicism, pedagogy, and Shakespeare performances in prisons
Sean Roberts, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Southern California, specialist in the reception of artistic and negotiation of artistic technologies between early modern Christian and Islamic societies
Matthew J. Smith, PhD candidate in English, University of Southern California, with interests in the history of religion and the history of science
Editorial board of The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia
Bruce R. Smith, USC, USA, General Editor
Katherine Rowe, Bryn Mawr, USA, Editor for the online resource
Ton Hoenselaars, Utrecht Univ., Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki, Tokyo Woman’s Christian Univ., Japan
Andrew Murphy, St. Andrews Univ., UK
Aimara Resende, Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil