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Vanderbilt University Special Collections copy signed by editors and contributors on half title page.

The first draft of Paul Dokecki's chapter, which would later appear in the published version of Academics in Action! : A Model for Community-Engaged Research Teaching and Service. Dokecki was approached by J.R. “Bob” Newbrough to contribute a chapter…

The American Council of Learned Societies (an organization promoting research in the humanities) issued a report in 2006 on the pressing issues confronting the study of the humanities in the age of the internet: “As more personal, social, and…

The value of using digital tools to preserve endangered cultural heritage can perhaps be best seen in the work of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) to prepare digital images of Syriac manuscripts threatened by war in Iraq and Syria. HMML…

Syriaca.org is a research collaborative that brings together students and faculty to preserve and document the history of Syriac. Over 50 student researchers have worked on the project including 20 Vanderbilt University students. The Vanderbilt…

Syriaca.org's research has been supported by the Dean’s Fellowship program of the Jean & Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University. In the Spring of 2016, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Department of Religion was the lead researcher on a…

A Guide to Syriac Authors is a scholarly manual with entries on nearly 1,000 authors who wrote in Syriac or otherwise had an influence on Syriac literature. Today more than 20,000 manuscripts preserve texts in Syriac pertaining to theology,…

The Syriac Gazetteer is a geographical reference work for places relevant to Syriac studies. This includes places named in Syriac texts, places of interest to those who work on Syriac texts, and places where scholarship on Syriac is being produced.…