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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
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
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Jesse Gringold
Emily Gruber
Janelle Guichard
Laura Hard Åf Segerstad
Elora Haynes
Kianna Hernandez Solano
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Drew Hiltbrand
Jacob Hofstein
Emily Holliman
Julia Horensten
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Lindzey Jacoby
Janet Jaimes
Emma James
Kathleen Johnson
Raquel Kadin
Henry Keating
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Tiffanie Kelley
Kathleen Kilcommons
Kenneth Kimberly
Bernard King
Christopher King
Amina Kotenko
Josie Kraher
Matthew Lane
Maria Leon
Shelby Lomen
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Sarah Lugo
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Eduarda Santos Maciel
Taylor Richards
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Emily McCaleb
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Christopher Melton
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Maria Muratti
Joseph Murphy
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Gustavo Padron
Brent Pappas
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Matthew Pena
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Ivan Ramirez Sanchez
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Jacob Rodriguez
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Jack Scheidhauer
Drew Schilling
Julianna Schook
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Eli Shroeder
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Miguel Severino
Tiffany Sidders
Paul Small
Brian Smith
Brooke Smith
Justin Smith
Lillian Snyder
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Caroline Young
Lindsey Zakula
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Jacob Hofstein
Christopher Melton
Brent Pappas
Drew Schilling
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Vincent Cardaman
Jacob Rodriguez
Miguel Severino
Brian Smith
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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.