Funding

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

In December 2004, EBBA successfully won funding from the University of California Humanities Research Institute for a two-day conference, which built upon the work of EBBA, and which was held on February 24-25, 2006, titled “Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800.”

UCHRI Grant Proposal (for Ballads/Broadsides Conference, Feb. 24-25, 2006)

Following fast upon the success of the ballad conference, EBBA was honored to receive a large grant of $325,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities toward completion of the Pepys Ballad Archive over the next two years, 2006-2008.

NEH1: Reference Materials Grant Proposal (for 2006-2008)

The NEH followed this first grant to EBBA with a second award of $350,000 to begin digitizing and archiving the Roxburghe Ballad Archive over the two year period of 2008-2010.

NEH2: Collections and Resources Grant Proposal (for 2008-2010)

The NEH grants have 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.

The second phase of EBBA, for which NEH 2 was funded, has received additional internal support from yet another UCSB Instructional Improvement Grant as well as a Faculty Senate Research grant for EBBA’s Director, Patricia Fumerton.

Instructional Improvement Proposal, UCSB (for 2008-2009)

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, the late Richard Helgerson and Patricia Fumerton.