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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ.Adam Shear won a Renaissance Society of America Digital Innovation Award
, associate professor in 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, worked on a project that won a Digital Innovation Award from the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).
, a database that tracks the circulation of early modern Hebrew and Jewish books, was recognized for its excellence in supporting the study of the Renaissance. The open-source and open-access tool follows texts from their origins in the printing house to the present-day.
Shear, who is chair of the Department of Religious Studies, co-directed the project with peers from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the second 51¾«Æ·ÊÓƵ faculty affiliated with the to win an RSA prize in as many years — Associate Professor Christopher Nygren earned the 2022 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance studies.