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College Professors Selected for NEH Institute
For immediate release:
June 6, 2006

Contact:
 Dean Browell ,  (540) 365-4301, dbrowell@ferrum.edu

    The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers will be held on the Ferrum College campus June 5th – 30th, 2006. The following faculty from around the country have arrived and begun the month-long institute entitled: “Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: An Appalachian Exemplar.”

  Joyce Barry from Clinton, NY
Deborah Blackwell from Laredo, TX
Lee Ann Brown from New York, NY
Roberta Campbell from Covington, KY
Bob Douglas from St. Peter, MN
Thomas Douglass from East Carolina University
Warren Doyle, Jr. from Elk Park, NC
Rebecca Hartman from La Grande, OR
Patricia Hunt from Staunton, VA
Steven Johnson from Broadway, VA
Tara Kishbaugh from Eastern Mennonite University
Lisa Knauer from Brooklyn, NY
Kenneth Koons from Steeles Tavern, VA
Barbara Ladner from Huntington, WV
Laurie Lindberg from Lexington, KY
M. Wilbrod Madzura from Burnsville, MN
Daniel Margolies from Norfolk, VA
Mickey Pellillo from Bluefield, VA
Ruth Ellen Porter from Vidalia, GA
Gloria Raheja from the University of Minnesota
Anita Rose from Spartanburg, SC
Walter Shroyer from Bluefield, VA
Rebecca Wall from Winston-Salem, NC


    From a range of disciplines and at both campus and community locations, the Institute will examine Appalachian issues that link regional study to the liberal arts. Leaders expect to choose participants from many regions of the country, not just Appalachia. The twenty-five teachers selected for the NEH Summer Institute will receive stipends of $3,000 each.

    Principal institute faculty are Dwight Billings, Cece Conway, Richard Couto, Denise Giardina, Patricia Johnson, Frank Kilgore, George Loveland, Susan Mead, Roddy Moore, Vaughan Webb, David Whisnant, and Daniel Woods. The director is Peter Crow.

    For more information contact Sandy Doss: cdoss@ferrum.edu or (540) 365-4321. The website for the institute is located at this address: http://www.ferrum.edu/neh/.

      Ferrum College is a four-year, private, co-educational, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Ferrum offers a choice of nationally recognized bachelor’s degree programs at a cost well below the national average for private colleges. For more information on Ferrum, visit www.ferrum.edu.

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Click to read about Filmmaker Cece Conway's presentation on Rufus Kasey, a black banjo player from the Peaks of Otter as a part of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers held at 7pm, June 9th.


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