Faculty Humanities Workshops
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2004
California
University of California, Davis, Davis (Outright: $74,545)
Contact: Robert Blake, (530) 752-2719
Project: Spanish Literature for Spanish Speakers
Description: A workshop for California high school teachers to prepare for a new Advanced Placement course extending the curriculum over four years for heritage Spanish language speakers.
Chicago Metro History Education Center, Chicago (Outright: $30,000)
Contact: Lisa Oppenheim, (312) 255-3652
Project: Immigration Explorations
Description: A professional development workshop for sixteen elementary and secondary school teachers on immigrant and ethnic history in Chicago.
University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc, Lawrence (Outright: $75,000)
Contact: Maryemma Graham, (785) 864-2557
Project: Language Matters II: Reading and Teaching Toni Morrison, The Cardozo Project Model
Description: In-service workshops followed by a summer seminar for teachers in Kansas, Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky to encourage intensive study of Toni Morrison's novels.
Montgomery College, Rockville (Outright: $29,265)
Contact: Tara Tetrault, (301) 279-5246
Project: Integrating Archaeology into American History and Culture Studies
Description: Two seven-day workshops for forty K-12 teachers on archaeological methods and theory.
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
(Outright: $57,750)
Contact: Gregory Staley, (301) 405-2016
Project: Novus Ordo Seclorum: America's Classical Traditions
Description: A series of seven workshops for fifteen middle and high school Latin teachers from the Washington, DC, area on the impact of the classical tradition in the United States.
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield (Outright: $75,000)
Contact: Barbara Mathews, (413) 774-7476
Project: American Promises: The Founding Documents and Their Legacy
Description: A series of teacher workshops focused on the notion of American freedom as seen through a study of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Era.
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth (Outright: $63,834)
Contact: Karen O'Connor, (508) 678-9411
Project: Visions of Slavery and Freedom
Description: A faculty humanities workshop for twenty-five teachers on visions of slavery and freedom in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Lydia Maria Child, and Harriet Jacobs.
Wayne State University, Detroit (Outright: $30,000)
Contact: Kenneth Brostrom, (313) 577-6238
Project: Central European Studies: Disciplinary Perspectives and Program Design
Description: An interdisciplinary study on the reconfiguration and evolution of Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain.
Community College Humanities Association, Newark (Outright: $75,000)
Contact: George Scheper, (410) 780-6539
Project: American Cities and Public Spaces
Description: A study program at the Library of Congress for twelve community college faculty to study the development of American cities and the American urban experience.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (Outright: $30,000)
Contact: Silke von der Emde, (845) 437-5618
Project: History, Memory, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
Description: A series of faculty workshops dealing with comparative analyses of the memory and legacy of the Holocaust.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (Outright: $74,756)
Contact: Hilda Smith, (513) 556-2173
Project: Nation, Family and State: Women's Political Writings
Description: A seminar for twelve faculty members from the University of Cincinnati, Purdue University, and Xavier University to study women's political writing from 1400 to 1950.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City (Outright: $29,316)
Contact: Jerry Vannatta, (405) 271-8001
Project: The Human Side of Medicine
Description: A faculty humanities workshop project exploring texts pertinent to areas of narrative medicine, medical ethics, professionalism, and the patient's story, to design a curriculum in the University of Oklahoma's medical education programs.
Lewis and Clark College, Portland (Outright: $68,123)
Contact: Clay Jenkinson, (503) 768-7207
Project: Lewis and Clark and The Rivers of the West: An Institute for Northwest Teachers
Description: A one-week professional development workshop for thirty-five secondary school teachers exploring the theme of "rivers" in relationship to the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Pennsylvania State University, Capitol Campus, Middletown (Outright: $69,800)
Contact: George Boudreau, (717) 948-6204
Project: Benjamin Franklin and the American People
Description: A two-week summer workshop for twenty-five K-12 teachers on the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin, an iconic American figure, in anticipation of the tercentennial of his birth.
Spaulding High School, Barre (Outright: $24,645)
Contact: Jerry Desmarais, (802) 476-4811 x188
Project: Living the Revolution: The Early American Republic
Description: A weeklong summer faculty workshop for twenty high school teachers on the early American republic.
Bellevue Community College, Bellevue (Outright: $29,527)
Contact: Diane Douglas, (425) 564-2550
Project: Faculty Seminar- Japanese American Internment and Incarceration during WWII
Description: A faculty seminar for fifteen faculty members on the historical and social context of the Japanese American internment during World War II.