The Joyce and ElizabethHall Center for the Humanities
Fall 1998 Communiqué
Reading Group and Seminar Schedules
You may have noticed that you received a plethora of fliers from the Hall Center last spring. We are trying to democratize some of our procedures and to find ways of soliciting input from as wide a cross section of faculty as possible. For the first time, we ran a competition for the Hall Center Fall Faculty Seminar. We received some excellent proposals and selected the one submitted by David Katzman and Cheryl Lester on Migration, which will be offered in the fall of 1999. Soon the competition for the fall 2000 seminar will be announced; we do hope that you will consider applying.
In addition, the Hall Center Executive Committee reviewed the New Initiatives efforts that involve visiting interdisciplinary scholars and decided to call for proposals from the faculty at large for allocating those monies. We are looking for proposals for seminars or other fora in which visiting scholars can work with faculty whose research interests are compatible. The first competition has been announced, and we hope to have a healthy set of applications by September 15. Projects should have a wide appeal across disciplines and the potential to draw fairly large numbers of faculty engaged in humanistic research.
The third competition (announced for the first time in this Communiqué) is for a new award funded by the Office for Research and Public Service. Vice Chancellor Robert Barnhill and Associate Vice Chancellor James Roberts have created the Vice Chancellor's Subvention Award for the best manuscript in humanistic research accepted by a refereed press. We are very grateful to the Office of Research for this recognition that many meritorious book publications in the Humanities require subventions.
I very much look forward to seeing you at Hall Center events during the coming year and to hearing from you personally about how we can best serve you. The Hall Center's mission is to assist faculty in their research and intellectual development, but we can only fulfill our mission if you let us.
Roberta Johnson, Director
Zimdars-Swartz has just returned from a sabbatical leave during which she worked on two books: Pain Envisioned: Christian Stories of Physical Pain, a study of Western Christian understandings of human pain, and Suffering the Passion of Christ, a history of female stigmatics in Western Europe. An innovative thinker and speaker on women and religion, Zimdars-Swartz is a respected scholar on the Virgin Mary. Her book, Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje (1992), won the highly competitive biennial Byron Caldwell Smith Award in 1993 for the best book written by a Kansas author.
The remainder of this year's Humanities Lecture Series is comprised of three provocative and diverse visiting speakers. Joanne Akalaitis, independent theatre director and co-director of the Directing Program at the Julliard School, will lecture at 8:00 pm on October 21, 1998 at the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium. Described as one of the "best and brightest of prominent American theatre directors" and winner of numerous awards, including five Obies, Akalaitis has helped change the face and focus of American theatre. In the world of drama, she has done it all: act, direct, design, write, and teach. She also co-founded Mabou Mines, the internationally recognized experimental theatre troupe begun in 1970.
Akalaitis works with startling visual effects and often uses contrasting styles; her work has been labeled by critics as everything from "abstract surreality" to "hyperrealistic" to "serenely formal stage pictures." Akalaitis, however, claims that her productions all begin with her own visions: "When I listen to music or read a play, I see images--that's always the foundation." Though she has reinterpreted the plays of authors such as Jean Genet, Tennessee Williams, and August Strindberg with a clear and bold vision, Akalaitis has never been one to shun controversy, as reactions to her interpretations of Beckett'sEndgame(1985) and Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1989) confirm. However, Akalaitis has more often been recognized for her own playwriting in works such asDressed Like an Egg,Dead End Kids,Green Card, and The Voyage of the Beagle.
On February 11, 1999, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology John Michael Vlach will discuss his work on plantation architecture. His lecture is entitled "The Strength of these Arms: Endurance, Creativity, and authority in the Plantation Landscape."A renowned scholar and teacher at George Washington University in Washington, DC, Vlach is arguably the person most responsible for defining scholarship on African Americans and material culture. A creative and productive scholar, Vlach is also the director of the Folklife Program at GWU. Described by students as a "generous teacher," Vlach is also well known as a provocative and personable speaker. The hundreds of invited lectures he has given indicate that he is an attractive lecturer with broad appeal.
The final speaker in this year's HLS series is law professor, writer, and social critic Patricia Williams of the Columbia School of Law, who will deliver her lecture, "Toward a Theory of Grace," on March 15. Williams's groundbreaking first collection of essays, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor (1991), has been influential with leading scholars, critics, and civil rights advocates, such as Dr. Henry Louis Gates. As a populist academic writer and a lawyer, Williams's interdisciplinary, daring, and highly accessible work has had wide and far-reaching importance both in academic circles and in the country at large. Williams has been named the Horowitz lecturer for 1999.
New and returning junior faculty will be welcomed at the Hall Center's annual get-acquainted reception on Friday, August 21 at 4:00 pm in the Hall Center conference room. The reception will provide an opportunity for new faculty to meet and informally converse with other members of the university community whose work is centered in the humanities.
As a follow-up to the reception, two luncheons will be held in September for the purpose of acquainting new faculty members with the programs of the Hall Center. On Tuesday, September 8, presentations on NEH Summer Stipends and grant assistance will be featured; on Wednesday, September 23, the topics will be mentoring and Hall Center Competitions. Both luncheons will be held from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in the Hall Center conference room.
Faculty in the humanities who are in their first three years at KU should have received invitations to these events. If you know of someone who is part of this group but has not yet received an invitation and would like more information, please call the Hall Center at 864-4798.
period July 1, 1998İto December 31, 1998. Receiving awards were: Ernst Dick (GermanicİLanguagesİand Literatures), for travel to Greifswald, Germany and
to Duke University in conjunction with his project, "RITTERİLö WHARDUS--
The Rediscovered Folk Book of Siegfried's Son: Edition, Commentary, and
Literary Analysis"; Jonathan Earle (History), who will visit state archives
and libraries in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan to complete
archival research for his project, "The Undaunted Democracy: Jacksonian
Antislavery and Free Soil, 1828-1854"; Elaine Gerbert (East Asian Languages and Cultures), whose project, "The Transformation of Vision in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature," required travel to Kyoto, Tokyo, and Nagoya, Japan; Angel Kwolek-Folland (History), to do research at the Henry Ford Museum and Library in Dearborn, Michigan on nineteenth-century domestic technologies used by women for her project, "Neighborhood Business: Gender & Economic Exchange in the Urban West 1870-1885"; Fred Rush (Philosophy), for travel to Mainz, Germany to do research at the Kant-Archiv there for his project, "Kant's Conception of Dialectic"; Bradley Schaffner (Watson Library-Slavic Librarian), to visit the Library of Congress in Washington, DC to work onİa comprehensive bibliography of bilingual Russian-English, English-Russian, andİRussian-Russian language dictionaries published since 1990; and Marjorie Swann (English), for travel to the Public Record Office in London, England where she will gather information for her book project,İ"PieceİbyİPiece:İThe Collection as Cultural Motif in Early Modern England," which analyzes early modern English collections and collectors.
Faculty travel grant competitions are held twice each year--in the fall for awards covering a six month travel period beginning Januaryİ1, and in the spring for awards covering a six-month travel period beginning Julyİ1. The upcoming application deadline for travel January 1 through June 30, 1999 is October 15, 1998.
Public Service Vice Chancellor and CRINC President Robert Barnhill have
made a commitment to stimulate interdisciplinary research at the
University of Kansas. In honor of this commitment, beginning this fall,
Chancellor Hemenway has authorized bi-monthly flights on the University
airplane to Washington, DC, creating special opportunities for KU faculty and
others pursuing research projects. The purpose of these one-day trips is to allow
faculty and other researchers to meet with federal funding agencies to discuss
potential sponsored project funding for their research. Senior researchers are encouraged to engage in the mentoring process by taking along a junior researcher.The flights depart from the Lawrence airport at 7:00 am and arrive at Washington National Airport between 10:00 and 10:30 am (EST). The return flights leave the same day from Washington National at 6:00 pm and arrive back in Lawrence at approximately 7:30 pm (CST). If you are interested, please contact Pam Burkhead (pburkhead@ukans.edu) to be placed on an e-mail list for notification of upcoming trips. Space is limited, so notify Pam as soon as possible if you are interested in a particular trip. You are responsible for making arrangements with the agency or agencies for your visit, as well as for your transportation to and from Washington National Airport.
In addition to this research opportunity, the Center for Research Inc. (CRINC) has initiated a program to pay a $750.00 maximum amount for one trip a year per researcher to enable researchers to visit a sponsor. Further information on this program is available from Barbara Armbrister, Director of Corporate Operations (barmbrister@ukans.edu).
The HRC's mission is to provide grant development assistance to KU faculty and graduate students engaged in Humanities-based research.
"We are very lucky to have hired Kathy after a nation-wide search," said Pete Casagrande, Associate Dean for the Humanities. "We considered many candidates, but none with her combination of experience, energy, and grant-writing expertise."
"The appointment of Kathy Porsch, a full-time and first-rate grantsperson, to head the Humanities Resource Center recognizes the significance of research in the Humanities to the University's research mission," stated Roberta Johnson, Hall Center Director.
The establishment of the HRC at the Hall Center for the Humanities on Aug. 1, 1994, represented a joint effort by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Office of Research and Public Service and the Hall Center. The HRC initially provided assistance with database and on-line searches for funding sources and proposal reviews through the services of a half-time grant resources coordinator and a group of volunteer faculty reviewers.
The staff now consists of Porsch, who has extensive proposal development experience, as well as a background in English, journalism and public relations; and the grant resources coordinator, Bill Moseley. A graduate student in American Studies, Moseley is experienced in on-line, as well as CD-ROM and traditional paper resource searches.
The HRC is taking a proactive role in approaching KU faculty members to inform them of funding opportunities and offer the center's services.
"I've encountered general enthusiasm about the possible availability of funding for the Humanities" said Porsch. "There is money out there for Humanities research. We just have to find the sources and develop competitive proposals. We're here to provide that extra boost."
The HRC has distributed fliers announcing its expanded services along with a faculty data sheet form requesting information on research interests and funding needs from each faculty member.
"The completed data sheets will allow us to inform individual faculty members when funding opportunities arise in their research interest areas," Porsch said.
With the start of the fall semester, Porsch plans to address the faculty through their departmental meetings to describe the HRC's services and urge them to take advantage of this resource. The HRC is also organizing a grant development seminar directed specifically to Humanities faculty, which is tentatively scheduled for November.
Services the HRC provides include:
Search Assistance:
Proposal Assistance:
If you give us three weeks before the deadline, we can:
If you give us two weeks before the deadline, we can:
If you give us only one week before the deadline, we can still:
From the Library . . .
Library Consortia: Something Old, Something New
In recent years, academic libraries have faced massive budget crises as prices and the volume of published research materials have increased beyond the rate of increase in library budgets. Consequently, sharing resources among institutions is becoming an increasingly important element in providing scholars and students with access to research materials.
Two research library consortia that play a vital role in making these shared resources available to users at the University of Kansas are the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and the Big Twelve Plus Libraries Consortium. CRL, of which KU is a charter member, has been in existence for nearly fifty years, whereas the Big 12 Plus is just establishing its niche. CRL's holdings comprise one of the most extensive research collections to be found anywhere in the world. Its collection of documents published by the various states of the U.S., for example, consists of over a million items, and its holdings of foreign doctoral dissertations includes over 750,000 titles. More specific information on these collection components and on CRL's collecting policies may be found at its website at http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/.
The Big 12 Plus is a consortium of eighteen research libraries located in the greater Midwest and the Rocky Mountain region. In addition to all Big 12 institutions, members also include the Linda Hall Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Colorado State University, and the Universities of Arkansas, New Mexico, and Utah. The mission of the Big 12 Plus is to improve the quality and quantity of library services and resources available to researchers at each member institution through joint action and collaboration. It pursues the common interest of member institutions in programs related to information access, document delivery, distance learning, new information technologies, and cooperative collection development. The consortium provides an Interlibrary Loan cooperative agreement which includes 48-hour (or less) delivery for most items borrowed from another consortial member. There are currently some information providers that provide access to electronic journals only through membership agreements with consortia such as the Big 12 Plus.
The Big 12 Plus also serves as an advocate for member libraries and for scholars at member institutions in the broader consideration of issues pertaining to information access and scholarly communication. Information on the consortium itself, may be found on the Web at http://www.library.okstate.edu/bigl2/press.htm.
--Ken Lohrentz, CRL Access Coordinator, University Libraries
Fall 1998 Faculty Seminar: "Performances:
Cultural, Theatrical, Historical"
The Fall 1998 faculty seminar, "Performances: Cultural, Theatrical, Historical," will meet on Thursdays from 3:00-5:00 pm in the Hall Center conference room beginning August 27. Co-directed by Iris Smith, English, and Vicky Unruh, Spanish & Portuguese, the seminar is designed to explore how various disciplines use performance or performativity as analytical tools to address issues of cultural (including artistic) and social change. The first two sessions (August 27 and September 3) will be dedicated to the discussion of group readings related to the seminar topic.
The eight faculty members who will present papers were selected in a faculty-wide competition last spring. They are (in alphabetical order): Omofolabo Ajayi, Women's Studies/Theatre & Film, "Performing Identities: Negotiating Gender and Culture in African Theatre"; Maureen (Mo) Godman, English, "Secret Places of the Mind: Concealment and Self-Performance"; Caroline Jewers, French, "Angels in America: Perestroika ... and Pageant-wagons in Tony Kushner's Mystery Cycle"; M.J. McLendon, English, "Who Are We Now? Dissociation, Narrative Voice, and the Performance of (Multiple) Personalities"; Joane Nagel, Sociology, "Provocative Performances: Crossing Ethnosexual Frontiers"; Judith Richards, Spanish & Portuguese, "Latina (W)rites: Invoking the Storied Self"; Ann Schofield, American Studies/Women'sİStudies, "Performing Grief: The Changing Respectability of Mourning Clothing"; and Barry Shank, American Studies, "Iterating the Collective Subject."
Also included in the schedule for the seminar are three visitors. Marty Pottenger, performance artist and tradeswoman activist, will be hosted by the Department of Theatre & Film in early September. Pottenger's art draws on twenty years of work as a carpenter and contractor to explore the relationship between labor and performance. Her visit will include a performance, and the seminar group will have the opportunity to participate in related discussions. On October 22, the seminar session will incorporate a colloquium with Humanities Lecture Series speaker Joanne Akalaitis, one of the most innovative American theatre directors. On November 12, Joseph Roach, Professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University, will meet with the seminar. Professor Roach's books include Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1996) and Critical Theory and Performance (1992), co-edited with Janelle Reinelt. His visit to KU is co-sponsored by the Hall Center and the Department of Theatre and Film.
Any KU faculty member may attend the seminar on a regular or occasional basis, and may obtain copies of the seminar papers from the Hall Center.
Fall 1999 Faculty Seminar Preview
In fall 1999, David M. Katzman (American Studies) and Cheryl Lester (American Studies/English) will offer, a Hall Center Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Migration and Displacement. The seminar is intended to bring together KU scholars working on various aspects of migration and displacement from representations of migration experiences (in narratives of all kinds including autobiographies and novels, in art, music, and folklore) or from theoretical directions (for instance, diasporic, colonial, and postcolonial theories) to the impact of migration on individuals, societies, and cultures. The seminar welcomes applications from scholars of any discipline whose research intersects with the topic of migration in any time period or any geographical area. It will provide a time and place for scholars to cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries by sharing common interests and research, reframing the questions they ask, and broadening the scope of the issues they address. Katzman and Lester focus on migration and displacement in their own scholarship and teaching; in 1996 they co-directed an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "African American Migration and American Culture." A call for applications will be sent to all faculty in spring 1999.
The Hall Fund for the Improvement of Teaching is an annual competition established to support projects that promise a broad and/or sustained impact on teaching and student learning in the humanities at the University of Kansas. Three projects funded for the academic year 1998-99 are currently underway.
"Technology and the Teaching of Reading and Writing," a project led by Amy Devitt (English) and sponsored by the Freshman-Sophomore English Program, provided for an intensive two-day workshop that introduced teachers of reading and writing--including selected GTAs, lecturers, and faculty representing the Department of English and other language departments--to discipline-specific pedagogical uses of computer technology. The workshop took place prior to the beginning of the Fall 1998 semester. Workshop participants who were selected were instructed by an expert in numerous ways of using already existing technology to teach reading and writing in various university venues such as a computer lab, a "media-enhanced" classroom, and a classroom with a LCD unit or a projector. They also explored potential uses of technology to which access is not yet available, preparing the way for the future. The participants will report what they have learned to their "home" departments and to other faculty in a series of workshops to be held throughout the 1998-99 academic year, further extending the benefits of the initial workshop.
Fred Rodriguez, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and Carl Strikwerda, Chair of European Studies, will coordinate a four-phase program, "Interdisciplinary Teaching: Creating and Maintaining a Dialogue Among the Disciplines." The program's intent is to encourage interested faculty to begin the process of learning, sharing, and demonstrating interdisciplinary teaching.
The first three phases are funded via the Hall Teaching Fund Award, and will take place in October 1998. Phase One will provide a four-hour hands-on workshop on interdisciplinary teaching facilitated by an expert with a national reputation on the topic, as well as two KU faculty facilitators who represent area study programs. In Phase Two, a Brown Bag Seminar will feature an outside speaker and will provide interested faculty and staff members unable to attend the four-hour workshop an opportunity to involve themselves with the topic. Phase Three will be a half-day round-table focus group discussion, which will include representatives from the interested disciplines and/or area studies programs at KU. The intent of this discussion is to outline specific strategies and to plan and create a timetable for coordinating professional development opportunities in the future.
The fourth phase will be funded from other sources. During this phase, the "teaching core," composed of individuals involved in the Phase Three focus group, will design, coordinate, and deliver an outreach conference/symposium on interdisciplinary teaching in higher education. The target audience for this outreach activity will be community colleges, public and private four-year institutions, and the Regent's institutions.
"Creating a Model for Urban Studies" is the goal of a project to be co-led by History professors Valerie Mendoza and Tony Rosenthal. Mendoza and Rosenthal will team-teach a course called "Biography of a City: Los Angeles" in Spring 1999; it is their hope that through the use of visiting scholars, local experts, additional library resources, multi-media presentations, and a web site, the course can be developed into a regular forum for the practice of interdisciplinary team teaching at KU. With the resources provided by their Hall Teaching Fund award, it will be possible for them to extend invitations to scholars and/or artists from Southern California, to acquire new books, videos, periodicals, and microfilm for the library relating to the history and culture of Los Angeles, and to create an Internet web page for the course. The Los Angeles case will be made a model course to attract the interest of KU's sociologists, art historians, area studies specialists, architects, and literary scholars who will create cross-disciplinary teaching alliances and explore a wide array of cities around the world.
The Hall Center solicits applications for the Hall Fund for the Improvement of Teaching Awards yearly. Application forms and guidelines for grants under this program for the academic year 1999-2000 are available from the Hall Center and are due at the Center by November 1, 1998. The funds for this year's awards total approximately $11,000. Awards will be announced in December to facilitate careful advance planning of the projects to be supported.
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers American Women as Writers: Wharton and Cather
In July, fifteen high school educators participated in a 1998 NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers hosted by the Hall Center. Directed by KU English professor Janet Sharistanian, the course "American Women as Writers: Wharton and Cather" focused on four major texts by these two landmark, Pulitzer-prize winning authors of the early twentieth century: Wharton's House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, and Cather's novels The Song of the Lark and The Professor's House. After an opening night supper at the director's home, as well as tours of Lawrence and KU, the participants settled in at Watkins Home for four weeks of afternoon study and discussion, with mornings free for research at the Watson and Spencer Libraries or their own individual explorations.
The participants, selected from a highly qualified pool of applicants, hailed from twelve states from as close to home as Lawrence and as far away as Hawaii. From the first of their weeks together, group members discussed their cultural and educational differences, especially in light of incorporating a multicultural selection of writers into their course curricula. Participant Elizabeth French Truesdell described the challenges she encountered upon moving to Hawaii from her native Washington: "Initially, I was like a loaf of Wonder bread in the 9-grain section. My pre-Hawai'i life was not very ethnically diverse, so the 50th state has provided a host of new experiences." For Anthony Millspaugh, a "born and bred Chicagoan" who continues to teach in his home city, incorporating diversity into his American literature courses has posed a different challenge: "Teaching in all male, predominantly minority schools, I have been quite sensitive to diversity in the curriculum I have offered to my charges. I have regularly included the works of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather to my students."
One participant experienced an exciting personal discovery just prior to the seminar. Mary Ann Seiler of New Rochelle, New York, a lifelong fan of Wharton's novels of east coast glamour and high society, found she had an actual connection in her family tree to the writer. When Seiler's cousin recently moved to Newport, Rhode Island, just one block north of where Wharton lived for many years, Seiler learned that her cousin's grandfather "was a gardener for Pencraig Cottage--Wharton's home after her marriage. Therefore," Seiler said, "my study of Wharton this summer has been heightened by my recent discovery."
The seminar was also enhanced by a field trip to Red Cloud, Nebraska, Willa Cather's childhood home (though not her birthplace). Red Cloud, possibly the most written-about small town in American literature, is the setting for six of her novels and many short stories, and is located six miles north of the Kansas border. In Red Cloud, the seminar participants had the opportunity to visit many sites that have been restored and preserved by the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial that are now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Willa Cather Thematic District now has more than 190 included sites, making it possibly the largest historic district dedicated to an author in the United States.
Some participants, like Mary Legato Brownell of St. Paul, Minnesota, have vowed to take what they have learned and translate it into innovative course offerings for their students. Brownell's "school dream" is "to sponsor two day-long reading symposiums in conjunction with the science department. One of the symposiums involves reading Willa Cather and simultaneously studying the prairie country of the mid-United States." But the spirit of teaching and learning that is represented by the NEH Summer Seminars for School Teachers was perhaps expressed best by Karen Erdman, who teaches in South Minneapolis: "I try to help students find their own voice and their own power. I adore my students with an irrational passion and admire their energy, honesty and courage. I learn something from them every single day. That is why I teach."
Hall Center Deadlines:
The Fall 1998 Communiqué Calendar will serve as a reminder of the events you may wish to attend. For further information about specific events, please call the Hall Center at (785) 864-4798 or by e-mail at hallcntr@ukans.edu.
Kansas authors who have written an outstanding book published during the calendar years 1997 or 1998 are eligible for nomination for the 1999 Byron Caldwell Smith Award. Works of scholarship or creative literature meeting the criteria of "originality and superiority in conception and execution, and of taste, proportion and outstanding scholarship" will be considered. The author must have been a Kansas resident or employed in Kansas at the time of the book's publication.
The $2,000 biennial award was established by a bequest from Kate Stephens, a former KU student and the University's first woman professor. As an undergraduate at KU, Stephens learned to love the study of Greek language and literature from Professor Byron Caldwell Smith (who at the age of 24 was the youngest member of the faculty in 1872). Stephens received her Master of Arts degree at KU and led the early struggle for women's rights and suffrage in this area. Professor Stephens taught Greek language and literature at KU from 1878 to 1885.
To nominate an author, submit a letter of nomination along with three non-returnable copies of the book and a statement declaring the nominee's eligibility to the Hall Center, Attention Byron Caldwell Smith Award, The University of Kansas, 211 Watkins Home, Lawrence, KS 66045-2967. Self-nominations are accepted. Detailed nomination guidelines may be found on the Hall Center Byron Caldwell Smith Award page or requested from the Center. Deadline for nominations is March 1, 1999.
Bob Barnhill, President of CRINC, and Vice Chancellor for Research and Public Service and Associate Vice Chancellor James Roberts, have created the Vice Chancellor's Subvention Award, which provides a subvention for a book of humanistic research accepted by a refereed press. The first competition deadline for the $1500 award will be March 1, 1999. Authors should submit a copy of the accepted manuscript and all correspondence with the press, including reader's report.
The Hall Center invites proposals for projects that include bringing eminent scholars whose work is of an interdisciplinary nature to campus for short periods of time. The project should encompass the scholars' visit within a colloquium or other forum on a topic of broad interest to faculty across humanistic disciplinary lines. Projects that focus on visiting speakers for one department are not appropriate.
Some models include:
Executive Committee: Chair-Allan Hanson, Anthropology; Marie Aquilino, Art History; Jack Bricke, Philosophy; John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Theatre & Film; Elizabeth Kuznesof, Latin American Studies; Cheryl Lester, English; Lee Mann, Design; Allan Pasco, French & Italian; Joey Sprague, Sociology. Ex-officio: Robert Zerwekh, Assoc, Vice Chancellor-RPS; Peter Casagrande, Assoc. Dean-Liberal Arts; Phil Hofstra, Art & Design.
Advisory Board: Charles Battey--Chairman, KN Energy, Inc.; Robert Creighton--Brown, Creighton & Peckham; Jill Docking--Vice President-Investments, A.G. Edwards; Michael Fields--William T. Kemper Foundation; John Laney--The Hall Family Foundations; Connie Menninger--Kansas State Historical Society; Robert Mueller--retired, Arthur Young & Company; Tom Murray--Barber, Emerson, Springer, Zinn & Murray; Lynwood Smith--retired, Mayo Clinic; Estelle Sosland--A Civic Volunteer; John H. Stauffer--Stauffer Communications, Inc.; Deanell Reece Tacha--Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Vice Chancellor's Subvention Award
Visiting Interdisicplinary Scholars
These are models only, and other kinds of fora for visiting scholars are welcome. Team proposals would, for obvious reasons, be appropriate.
Applications should include:
Please forward application materials to Roberta Johnson, Director, Hall Center for the Humanities, by September 15, 1998 for projects to be carried out after January 1, 1999 in Spring 1999. Applicants are encouraged to consult with the Director about their projects before submitting a proposal.
The Joyce & Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities