Faculty Humanities Workshops
Division of Education Programs
Announced: July 2005
Alabama
George C. Wallace State Community College, Dothan (Outright: $29,811)
Contact: Linda York, (334) 556-2446
Project: Alabama Storytellers and Myths: A Legacy of Lore
Description: A series of interdisciplinary faculty workshops on the "mythology" of the South and the role of Alabama writers in contributing to such a mythology.
California
University of Redlands, Redlands (Outright: $69,507)
Contact: Sawa Kurotani, (909) 793-2121 x4287
Project: Learning and Teaching Asian Culture through Theater: Interdisciplinary Humanities Workshop Series on Asian Theater
Description: Two three-day workshops for twenty-five undergraduate faculty in Asian theater, focusing on Japanese, Indonesian, and Indian dramatic traditions.
Florida
Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg (Outright: $30,000)
Contact: Ann Schoenacher, (727) 553-3807
Project: The Circle of We: The Expanding Definition of American Citizenship
Description: Five workshops for Miami-Dade County teachers examining the ways that American citizenship has been defined and expanded in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
University of South Florida, Tampa (Outright: $74,032)
Contact: Barbara Cruz, (813) 974-2817
Project: The Humanities in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Description: A twelve-session workshop for social studies and foreign language teachers that would examine the history, literature, and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth (Outright: $54,371)
Contact: Ann Lopes, (508) 990-1094
Project: Visions of Slavery and Freedom in the Writings of Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville and Harriet Jacobs
Description: A faculty humanities workshop for twenty-five school teachers on visions of slavery and freedom in the writings of Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs.
Michigan
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant (Outright: $56,667)
Contact: Shane Cavanaugh, (989) 774-6393
Project: Winning the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States
Description: A five-day workshop for Michigan social studies teachers that would examine the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
Montana
Montana State University, Billings, Billings (Outright: $74,941)
Contact: Jeffrey Sanders, (406) 657-1674
Project: Battling for Survival: American Indians in Montana
Description: Two five-day workshops for forty Montana K-12 teachers on Northern Cheyenne history and contemporary Cheyenne Indian culture.
New Jersey
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona (Outright: $55,000)
Contact: Fred Mench, (609) 652-4495
Project: The Examined Life: Hellenic Studies in the Schools
Description: A series of workshop for twenty New Jersey teachers and administrators to explore the meaning of the human experience through reading and discussion of ancient Greek literature and history.
Witherspoon Institute, Princeton (Outright: $48,093)
Contact: Bradford Wilson, (609) 258-6333
Project: Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the American Constitution
Description: A series of workshops for faculty and visiting fellows at Seton Hall University, Villanova University, and Princeton University on the natural law foundations of the American constitution.
New York
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (Outright: $58,736)
Contact: Teresa Vilardi, (845) 758-7432
Project: Reading Narratives in Four Religious Traditions
Description: A yearlong, six-seminar workshop for eighteen school teachers in the mid-Hudson region of New York on father/son narratives in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Center for Education Studies, New York (Outright: $73,680)
Contact: Gilbert Sewall, (212) 870-2760
Project: Neoclassicism in Europe and North America, 1750-1825
Description: A two-week summer workshop for sixteen Southern California high school teachers on European and North American neoclassicism in the period 1750 to 1825, to be held at the Huntington Library.
Theatre for a New Audience, New York (Outright: $46,030)
Contact: Joseph Giardina, (212) 229-2819 x18
Project: Shakespeare Teachers' Workshop
Description: An intensive two-week summer program followed by weekend workshops in fall and spring on The Winter's Tale, Othello, and Much Ado About Nothing for sixteen New York City public and private school teachers in grades 5-12.
Westchester Community College, Valhalla (Outright: $66,098)
Contact: Scott Zaluda, (914) 606-6909
Project: Africa and the Americas
Description: A series of workshops for faculty at four colleges to study the relationships between the literatures of post-colonial Africa and the African Diasporas of the Caribbean and the United States.
North Carolina
Gaston College, Dallas (Outright: $28,948)
Contact: Alicia McCullough, (704) 922-6459
Project: African Americans and the Mills and Mill Villages of Gaston County
Description: A series of workshops for fifteen college and school teachers on the African American experience in the textile mills of rural North Carolina.
Pennsylvania
Villanova University, Villanova (Outright: $28,761)
Contact: Peter Busch, (610) 519-6965
Project: Socratic Questions
Description: A series of faculty development workshops that place Socratic questions and methods into dialogue with core texts in the two-semester course sequence on western civilization required of all first-year students.
Virginia
George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $68,129)
Contact: Joel Foreman, (703) 993-1163
Project: Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: Teaching World Literature in General Education English Courses
Description: A yearlong project to enable sixteen faculty members at eight geographically-dispersed institutions to study with leading scholars to improve the teaching of world literature texts.
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Eau Claire (Outright: $65,359)
Contact: Katherine Lang, (715) 836-4765
Project: Teaching World History: Comparisons and Connections
Description: A workshop in world history for twenty K-12 teachers in northwest Wisconsin, to be held on six weekends and one week in the summer during 2005-2006.