The Montpelier Foundation
Is a cultural heritage institution in Orange, Virginia. It was the home of James Madison, the father of the US Constitution and the 4th President of the United States, and Dolley Madison, the 1st First Lady. It was also home to over 300 enslaved African Americans. Montpelier seeks to connect the past to the present through Madison’s primary idea, the importance of constitutional, representative democracy. The home and grounds of Montpelier serve as the laboratory for this investigation, using rigorous scholarship to understand the lives of all the people who lived and worked on the property.
Michigan State University MATRIX
MATRIX, the Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University, is an international leader in digital humanities that advances critical understanding and open access to knowledge through application of humanities technologies for teaching, research, and outreach. Humanities technology unites the humanists quest for deeper understanding of humanity with the tools and methods of computer science, engineering, and information and library sciences. Matrix researchers work at these intersections to advance a wide variety of interdisciplinary projects.
People
The Montpelier Foundation
Elizabeth Chew, Vice President for Museum Programs
Mary Furlong Minkoff, Curator of Archaeological Collections, Montpelier Digital Collections Project Project Director
Matthew B. Reeves, Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration
Terry P. Brock, Assistant Director of Archaeology
Benjamin Kirby, Assistant Curator of Archaeological Collections, Montpelier Digital Collections Project Manager
Jennifer Glass, Director of Architecture and Historic Preservation
Hilarie Hicks, Senior Research Historian
Jenniffer Powers, Collections Manager
Leanna Schafer, Curatorial and Collections Assistant
Christian Cotz, Director of Education and Visitor Experience
Kyle Stetz, Manager of Student and Family Programs
Emily Voss, Education Director, Center for the Constitution
Anna Roberts, Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer
MATRIX
Ethan Watrall, Associate Director, MATRIX; Associate Professor, Anthropology; Adjunct Curator, MSU Museum; Director, Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative
National Endowment for the Humanities
Sheila Brennan, Senior Program Officer, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
