The National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $138,256.00 Project Grant to George Mason University for the "Connecting Threads: Digitally Connecting Collections, Expanding Public Engagement" digital humanities initiative. The project aims to increase access to and engagement with global fashion histories by digitally connecting relevant collections from small museums and archives with larger collections through a queryable database. Key activities include processing collected data, building digital infrastructure including a front-end platform, and developing interactive visualizations that combine primary sources with research generated using the database. The expected outputs are a PostgreSQL database built on a custom API web crawler and with manual data entry options, a public-facing multi-institutional catalog, and interactive visualizations. This project will help reorient the history of global fashion towards stories that connect makers and consumers of color, specifically South Indian cotton textile weavers and Black and Brown consumers in the Caribbean and Southeastern US. The award period is from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025.
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