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Original Project Team

Principal Investigator and Director – Beth Rapp Young, UCF

Lead Editor – Jack Lynch, Rutgers University

Co-Principal Investigator – Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Regina

Co-Principal Investigator – Amy Larner Giroux

Senior XML Analyst – William Dorner

Programmer / Database Analyst – Connie Harper

XML Editor/Social Media Manager – Abigail Moreshead

Advisory Board

Robert DeMaria, Jr., Vassar

Mark Kamrath, University of Central Florida

Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College, Oxford

Allen Reddick, University of Zurich

Neil Weijer, University of Florida

Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto

Project Consultants

Marc Alexander, University of Glasgow

David-Antoine Williams, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo

Jorge Fonseca Cacho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Rebecca Shapiro, New York City College of Technology

Student Researchers and Volunteers

Victoria Abuschinow

Giselle Alcazar

Marley Amarant

Kayla Aranda

Ashley Artigas

Ryan Asmussen

Michele Austin

Emily Aycrigg

Ebony Beckford

Joshua Benedict

Charlotte Bergholz

Ethan Berry

Hailey Birdsong

Symone Blount

Alfredo Blume

Christopher Bode

Vincent Boyce

Brianna Bradley

Teresa Breyer

Shannon Bristol

Tia Butterfield

Paolo Caballero

Courtney Campbell

Jacqueline Cano Diaz

Vincent Cardaman

Margie Castillo

Margarida Castro

Farrah Cato

Evelin Cecilia

Nada Chehab

Isabella Ciraco

Robert Clark

Logan Clarke

Allison Clement

Shantelle Clement

Kelsea Coe

Berenice Cornejo

Michelana Cox

Sean Datta

Julia Valadares de Sousa

Jace DeAngelo

Abbygail Dees

Sebastian Delgado

Julie Diaz

Ryan Dodich

Lauryn Dryden

Sarai Duque

Zayne Dyal

Hannah Eiserman

Steven Eley

Jada Ellison

Lucas Fairbairn

Desiree Flores

Christopher Font

Hayden Freedline

Jared Freedline

Kaley Frye

Shannon Ganeshram

Anthony Garcia

Amelia Garey

Andrew Giles

Adrianna Gonzalez

Nolan Grad

Jalen Grant

Jesse Gringold

Emily Gruber

Janelle Guichard

Laura Hard Åf Segerstad

Elora Haynes

Kianna Hernandez Solano

Justine Higgins

Drew Hiltbrand

Jacob Hofstein

Emily Holliman

Julia Horensten

Dong Huynh

Lindzey Jacoby

Janet Jaimes

Emma James

Kathleen Johnson

Raquel Kadin

Henry Keating

Joshua Keller

Tiffanie Kelley

Kathleen Kilcommons

Kenneth Kimberly

Bernard King

Christopher King

Amina Kotenko

Josie Kraher

Matthew Lane

Maria Leon

Shelby Lomen

Polina Lopez

Sarah Lugo

Oliver Lyon

Eduarda Santos Maciel

Taylor Richards

Glenn Ritchey

Emily McCaleb

Caroline McGregor

Mckhyla Meas

Luci Meier

Christopher Melton

Anna Monaco

Jamie Montgomery

Ileia Mooney

Geralyn Moore

Clara Parente Moraes

Mickayla Morgan

Wesley Morrison

Maria Muratti

Joseph Murphy

Mary Norton

Marisa Norzagaray

Dajana Nunez

Luiz Filipe Oliveira

Gustavo Padron

Brent Pappas

Laura Parces

Matthew Pena

Amanda Cavalcante Pereira

Makiye Phillips

Danielle Porres

Isaiah Portillo

Sarah Pruitt

Ivan Ramirez Sanchez

Sher Respess

Bri Rodriguez

Jacob Rodriguez

John Rose

Maya Saez

Andrew Sands

Gabrielle Santiago

Jack Scheidhauer

Drew Schilling

Julianna Schook

Torie Schranz

Eli Shroeder

Sheina Senat

Miguel Severino

Tiffany Sidders

Paul Small

Brian Smith

Brooke Smith

Justin Smith

Lillian Snyder

Danae Stafford

Hailey Stearman

Mia Stephens

Mirek Stolee

Roman Syed

Rachel Tevis

Hailey Tielves

Siara Tirado

Joseph Tolle

Kristal Torres

Annabella Tubbs

Maxx Tyre

Kyle Ulloa

Ana Valdes

Courtney Verna-Brown

Alreica Vernal

Diana Vizcarrando

Thomas Warder

Rebecca Watters

Katherine Weiss

Victoria Weiss

Natalie Wells

Allison Whittington

Steven Williams

Haley Woods

Margaret Wynn

Ryu Yamamoto

Beth Young

Caroline Young

Lindsey Zakula

Jordan Zeigler

Quotations Software:

Sean Datta

Jacob Hofstein

Christopher Melton

Brent Pappas

Drew Schilling

Images Software:

Vincent Cardaman

Jacob Rodriguez

Miguel Severino

Brian Smith

Site Founder

Brandi Besalke

Organizations

This project was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A transcribed, XML-encoded text of Samuel Johnson’s 1755 folio edition of A Dictionary of the English Language has been licensed to our project under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) by Ian Lancashire, editor, Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME), the University of Toronto. We wish to thank our colleagues in Canada for their generous help. LEME anticipates release of its 1755 Johnson encoded transcription sometime in 2021.

Facsimile images were provided with support from the Digital Support Services Team at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries..

Additional facsimile images were provided by the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries at Indiana State University.

Author “bio-tweets” (brief descriptions of many cited authors) were written by Brian Grimes of sjdictionarysources.org and are used with permission.

The portrait of Samuel Johnson that appears on the project homepage is known as “Blinking Sam”; painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1755, the portrait is used courtesy of the Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, California.

The mezzotint portrait “Samuel Johnson” that appears in the top page banner, created by William Doughty in 1779 after Joshua Reynolds, is available from NGA Images, the National Gallery of Art website for digital images of works of art in the public domain.