Hall Center Communiqué THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FALL 1999

From the Director...

The Humanities are typically underrepresented when a university's research accomplishments are publicized, even though humanists in most research universities are very active scholars who publish widely and are well known in their fields. The National Science Foundation, for example, excludes the humanities when compiling statistics to determine the relative rankings of research universities. These rankings are based on the numbers of federal grant dollars awarded to the university in a particular year. The practice continues despite the fact that humanists regularly receive research grants from the federal government, sometimes even from the National Science Foundation itself.

Part of the mission of the Hall Center for the Humanities is to raise the profile of humanistic research at the University of Kansas. With this goal in mind, we have entered into a partnership with the College Office to collect and disseminate information about the research efforts of humanists at KU. The chairs of Humanities departments and programs have been very helpful in providing information about numbers of humanities publications and awards. When all the statistics for calendar year 1998 were complied last summer, the results were indeed impressive. 15 departments and programs reported 27 authored books published, 14 edited books, 159 refereed articles, 63 invited articles, 7 translations, 216 presentations at conferences and 106 invited lectures. A number of humanities faculty also received research grants, prizes, and awards.

These data have been forwarded to the Office for Research and Public Service and will also be used in applications for institutional grants that will further enhance research capabilities in the humanities. I want to take this opportunity to invite faculty and administrators to share with us any ideas they have on how we can further publicize the extraordinarily strong humanities research output at the University of Kansas.

Roberta Johnson, Director

Growth: A Millennial Celebration and Dialogue

During this 1999-2000 millennial year, the Hall Center invites you to join in a university-wide dialogue on issues that concern us all. The Humanities Lecture Series Committee has organized a program that crosses boundaries of all kinds and will, it hopes, tempt us away from our ruts and routines to talk to one another about the past, the present, and the future. The theme of the millennial series is "Growth" in all its dimensions, but especially highlighted are the growth of ideas, personal growth, our growth as a nation, and global growth.

October 6, Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould launches the series with a lecture at the Lied Center titled "Questioning the Millennium: Why We Cannot Predict the Future." On the morning of October 7, Gould and a panel of faculty members will discuss Gould's most recent work on evolution. Some of Gould's best-known books are The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, The Panda's Thumb, The Mismeasure of Man, The Flamingo's Smile, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, and Dinosaur in a Haystack.

November 13, Jonathan Kozol, who has devoted three decades to issues of education and social justice in America, will speak at the Lied Center on "Love Against Fear: The Ethics and Compassion of Young Children Under Siege." Kozol's books include Death at an Early Age, Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, Savage Inequalities, and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Consequences of a Nation.

HRC Shares Strategies of Grant-Winning Faculty

Humanities faculty won at least 19 grants and fellowships in the fiscal year that ended June 30. They submitted at least 139 proposals through the Humanities Resource Center. In this first year as grant development officer for the humanities, I've observed that the humanists who were most successful in grant development followed similar winning patterns. I'm going to share with you three of their strategies:

Number 1, and absolutely key to success: START EARLY. It simply takes time to write a winning fellowship or grant proposal. Those who were successful this year began at least three months in advance on fellowships and six months to a year in advance on institutional grants. This allowed them to give full attention to the agency's instructions and criteria; carefully craft the narrative; have it reviewed by colleagues, an HRC Review Bureau member, and/or a program officer at those agencies which offer such services; consider reviewer's comments; revise the text for substance, language, style, and form; and let it sit a few days, then give it a final thorough read to ensure they'd presented exactly what they intended as effectively as possible.

Starting early also allows time to meet unexpected challenges; for example, the narrative may take longer to write than anticipated, or key references/reviewers may be unavailable. Many granting agencies require applicants to request letters of reference or reviews which must be sent directly to the agency. It is simple courtesy and will engender good will to ask these individuals for reviews well in advance and provide the final draft proposal and review forms with clear instructions at least one month in advance of the deadline. Asking for references or reviews early-on is especially critical for proposals due in the summer months, since many scholars are out of their offices then.

Institutional proposals, such as an NEH Public Programs grant, can be quite complex. In addition to extensively detailed budget forms and project description requirements, most request extra documentation and support materials, e.g., speciallyformatted résumés from each collaborator, examples of previous work, and documentation of institutional support. It just takes time to gather such materials and organize them into an attractive package that will enhance the narrative portion of the proposal.

Number 2: READ AND USE THE GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA. Although some foundations offer very little guidance, all will at least state areas of interest. Federal agencies such as the National Endowment for the Humanities provide clear guidelineseven suggesting a project description outlineand state evaluation criteria to be used by reviewers. The Department of Education provides a scorecard for Title VI proposals, with point designations by section, to measure how effectively a proposal satisfies the evaluation criteria.

One successful KU grantsperson first makes a copy of the instruction packet then, preserving the original, she sits down with the copy, a cup of coffee, a pad of post-it notes, a red pen and several shades of highlighters to focus her full attention on the instructions and criteria. As she reads, she highlights criteria, instructions, and other important information; flags the pages; and writes notes in the margins about how her project relates. This allows her to easily flip back to important sections or pages as she develops her proposal. She keeps the guidelines before her as she writes to ensure that she follows them to the letter, then checks again when reading her final draft to guarantee that she has fully addressed the criteria and presented her information in the expected, or required, format.

Number 3: USE A JOURNALISTIC WRITING STYLE. Most of the humanities faculty with whom I've worked this year write beautifully. Clarity, however, not beautiful language is the key to winning most fellowships and grants.

Those faculty who were able to turn their usual writing style upside-down and use the inverted pyramid style of writing that journalists use had better success. The opening paragraph is the first opportunity to capture the reviewer's attention. Following paragraphs must keep their attention and persuade them that the project stands above the other proposals they've reviewed. Use the "W" words of journalism: Who, what, when, where, why, how. Use bullets, lists, outlines, diagrams, tables, pictures, or other graphics to illustrate. Keep the spotlight on ideas and make it interesting; leave the reviewers with something to remember, a message that will remain after reading many other proposals. Successful proposals have clear and concise project descriptions in which every sentence does a job.

One KU fellowship winner tries to picture himself as a reviewer when reading his final draft and says this helps him to distance himself from the narrative and look at it critically. Remembering that the reviewer may not be an expert in or even familiar with his area of study helps him to avoid jargon that may be more confusing than enlightening. Working through a tall stack of proposals on a volunteer basis, a reviewer has no time to search through each for hidden answers. This fellowship winner believes one secret to his success is that he is careful to match headings in his proposal to headings in the guidelines so reviewers won't have to hunt for information. Subheads are a good idea, too. Make it obvious that your proposal meets and exceeds the criteria. Answering the questions implied by the criteria in the order in which they are asked and following the suggested narrative outline can help reviewers determine the value of your project.

Finally, remember that the HRC exists to assist faculty engaged in humanistic research to identify and apply for external funding to support their work. Give us a call at 4-7834, send an e-mail to <kporsch@ukans.edu> or <hrc@ukans.edu>, or stop by Watkins Home, rooms 3 or 7a at the Hall Center to visit with us about what WE can do for YOU. -Kathy Porsch

1999 Fall Faculty Seminar: Migration and Displacement

David M. Katzman (American Studies) and Cheryl Lester (American Studies and English) will offer the Hall Center Fall Faculty Seminar on Migration and Displacement. The Seminar will bring together KU scholars Liza Gisell Anatol (English), Lorraine Marie Bayard de Volo (Political Science and Women's Studies), Bezaleel Solomon Benjamin (Architectural Engineering and Architecture), Kathryn Anne Conrad (English), Shantanu DuttaAhmed (American Studies), Patricia Johnson (Foreign Service and Anthropology), Pok Chi Lau (Design), and Valerie M. Mendoza (History). The seminar will begin by looking at approaches to and case studies in Angelika Bammer, ed., Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question (1994) and continue with papers presented by participants. On September 9, the seminar will meet with Professor Anita Gonzalez (Connecticut College) to discuss the treatment of immigrants, migrants, and sojourners in her folkloric performance work Migrant ImagiNations.

Scheduled presentations and discussions are listed on page 10 and 11 in the Hall Center Calendar.

2000 Fall Faculty Preview

Omofolabo Ajayi, Women's Studies and Theatre and Film, and Joane Nagel, Sociology, will co-direct the 2000 Fall Faculty Seminar on Gender and Nationalism. The seminar will explore nationalism as a gendered phenomenon in which women and men occupy very different, but changing places in the nationwhere masculinism dominates the culture and institutions of modern states (the military, foreign policy, and the apparatus of government) and where women work to expand their power and authority from the private to the public, from symbolic vessels of the nation to active architects of politics and society. The seminar hopes to address such questions as: Through what historical and contemporary process have the complexities that form nationalism become separated into gendered spheres? How and when did gendered nationalist discourses emerge, evolve in content and complexity, and become imbedded in the history and mythology of a "people?" How do nationalist ideologies, movements, and conflicts depend on and perpetuate a particular gendered, sexualized vision of the nation? These questions are particularly relevant in the contemporary era of globalization where diversity and multiculturalism challenge notions of a unified "nation" with a single coherent history and shared set of interests. Nagel and Ajayi hope the seminar will attract scholars from many disciplines, such as Literature, Political Science, the Fine Arts, Art History, Women's Studies, American Studies, Interdisciplinary and Area Studies, History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

Summer 1999 Travel Funds

Hall Center Travel Grants provide KU faculty members with the opportunity to conduct research and scholarly consultation that cannot be accomplished in any other way than by traveling to the appropriate locations where materials and collaborators reside. The selection committee is pleased to announce the 1999 recipients of the Hall Center Spring Travel Grants.

Lorraine Marie Bayard de Volo, Political Science, received funding for her project "Feminist Identity Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Era," for which she will travel throughout Nicaragua, exploring changes in Nicaraguan feminist discourse, theory, strategy and identity in the Post-Sandinista / Violeta era.

Sharon Feldman of the Spanish and Portuguese Department will travel to Barcelona, Spain this summer for her project "In the Eye of the Storm: Spain's Theatrical Avant-guard at the End of the Twentieth Century." Feldman's project will focus on the aesthetic and political shifts in Spanish theater over the three decades since the end of Francoist oppression.

Joe Harrington, English, will travel to Seattle, Washington, for his project "Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern US Politics." He will visit the University of Washington Archives Division to research the papers of Anna Louise Strong who wrote daily poems for the nation's first labor daily, the Seattle Union Record.

David N. Smith of the Sociology Department has received funding for an archival research project at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. He will edit Karl Marx's voluminous notes from the final years of his life, many of which remain in handwritten form, awaiting transcription. Smith will be working in collaboration with the North American group of the Marx-Engels Gestamtausgabe (MEGA), the definitive critical edition of the collected works of Marx and Engels.

Delbert Unruh, Theatre, has received funding to travel to the Czech Republic. He will continue his research into Czech Action Design theory and aesthetics and how Action Design has been affected by "Velvet Revolution" following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholars

The Hall Center's Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholars (VIS) program awards funding to proposals that invite eminent scholars whose work is of an interdisciplinary nature to campus for brief periods of time. These projects integrate the scholars' visits with a colloquium or other forum on a topic of broad interest to faculty across humanistic disciplinary lines. The VIS program has awarded funding to three projects for the 1999-2000 school year.

The Africana Faculty Seminar, organized by the African Studies Resource Center of the University of Kansas, will convene throughout the fall semester in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union. The series will bring two outstanding scholars to campus. Acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright and literary critic, Ngugi wa Thiong'o will conduct a session titled "Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Discussion with Ngugi wa Thiong'o on His Work" at 7:00 p.m. on September 23, 1999. On Friday, October 8, Babacar Kante, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Sénégal, will discuss "Democratic Transitions and Constitutionalism in Africa," at 3:30 p.m. Aside from the two visiting scholars, the series will also include presentations from two KU faculty members. Byron Caminero-Santangelo, English, will give a lecture titled "Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Ngugi's Latest on Performance, Language, and Orality" at 3:30 p.m. on August 25. Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Women's Studies / Theatre and Film, will lead the final seminar, "Women, Democracy, and the Military," on November 17 at 3:30 p.m.

George Woodyard, Spanish and Portuguese, received funding for his proposal to invite three major figures in Latin American theater to the KU campus. Eduardo Rovner of Argentina has won Argentine national prizes for playwriting, best play and best production in recent years. He is currently director of the Fundación Somigliana, an organization that promotes theater in Argentina. Marco Antonio de la Parra, Chile's leading contemporary playwright, will also visit the university this Spring. Lastly, Gerald Thomas of Brazil has spent much of his artistic career in London and New York, where he directed Beckett's plays at La Mama. These three visiting scholars will participate in a symposium on Latin American theater, appealing to a variety of disciplines such as Theatre and Film and various language and literature departments. The symposium will include public lectures and presentations as well as workshops on theater history, direction and creative writing.

Marsha Weidner, Art History, has proposed a project titled "A Symposium on New Directions in the Study of the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644." This program will offer four sessions, each with a presentation by a KU professor. It encompasses a wide range of topics relating to the last Chinese imperial dynasty such as history, religion, literature, and visual arts. Visiting scholars include Katherine N. Carlitz, University of Pittsburgh specialist in Ming literature; Kenneth Hammond, Ming historian from New Mexico State; Beata Grant, scholar of literature and religion at Washington University in St. Louis; and Louise Yuhas, Occidental College expert on Ming painting. KU Ming specialists who will take part in the symposium are John Dardess, History; Keith McMahon, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Daniel Stevenson, Religious Studies and Weidner. The program will be held in conjunction with an exhibition of Ming-dynasty paintings scheduled to open early in the spring semester of 2000 at the Spencer Museum of Art.

The proposal team of last semester's successful Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholars series, "The Century's End: Classics of Modernism Revisited," will continue its examination of classic modernist works, witnessing how they have been challenged, superseded, or reconfirmed as we reach the end of the twentieth century. This year, "The Century's End" will examine Sigmund Freud's, Civilization and Its Discontents and Alfred North Whitehead's, Science and the Modern World.

Hall Center Deadlines:

NEH Summer Stipends	September 15
Faculty Travel Grants	October 15
Hall Teaching Fund Awards	November 1
Hall Center Research Fellowships	November 1
Hall Creative Fellowship	November 1
Visiting Interdiciplinary Scholars	November 15

JazzTrain

JazzTrain, a program that will run throughout the academic year, features three generations of jazz legends ... and a whole lot more. As co-commissioners of JazzTrain, the University of Kansas Lied Center along with the State Ballet of Missouri and the Gem Theater will collaborate on the presentation of the JazzTrain project, a three-week residency that will use the themes of jazz and dance to generate interest and participation among adult audiences in the greater Kansas City Metropolitan area. As part of the Millennium Celebration, the Hall Center is pleased to be a co-sponsor.

JazzTrain, choreographed by Donald Byrd and performed by Donald Byrd / The Group, is a unique dance theatre piece employing newly commissioned scores by notable jazz musicians Max Roach, Vernon Reid, and Geri Allen. It seeks to embody an art form that is, as Byrd puts it, "uniquely, undeniably Americana blend of European with African-American traditions. It's a reflection of who we arethe diversity of our own culture and our uncanny ability to assimilate and transform all kinds of sources into making something new .... I want the audience to think about what is an Americanwho they are, what they see."

The JazzTrain project will begin in early November with Community Story Circles. Donald Byrd, noted jazz historian Dick Wright, a member of the department of African-American Studies at the

University of Kansas and a videographer will travel to a variety of sites including community organizations, living communities and churches to conduct a series of dialogues with participants previously unfamiliar with such an artistic atmosphere, determining who these audiences are as well as their own values and needs. Wright has decades of experience in the Kansas City jazz community and has facilitated similar oral histories related to jazz on countless occasions.

On Tuesday, November 2, 1999 at the Gem Theater, Donald Byrd and Bill Whitener will hold a Story Circle Town Meeting, a public version of the Story Circle designed to allow greater participation and accessibility for people interested in the process who did not participate in one of the smaller Story Circle sessions.

In late March of 2000, Donald Byrd's dancers and various local artists will conduct a series of Community Story Circle Artist Workshops. The workshops will offer participants a variety of activities including movement for healing, choreographing for jazz, movement for musicians, jazz and tap dancing, dancing for fitness, dance drawing studio for visual artists, yoga, improvisation, and percussion and dance. The broad range of activities will further demonstrate the dynamic nature of the arts environment.

In addition to the Story Circles, the JazzTrain project will include a Footnotes Lecture Series that will involve topics ranging from the developmental history of JazzTrain to explications of the jazz styles used in the piece. Max Roach and Geri Allen have committed to participating in the story circles and lectures as well as several jam sessions. Also, Dick Wright will offer a non-credit evening class on Jazz every Thursday from September 16 to October 14, 1999. The first session, titled "What is Jazz?," will attempt to define and discuss what was happening musically around the turn of century when, supposedly, jazz had its beginnings. On September 23, the class will explore "Major Periods in Jazz." Session three, "Outstanding Jazz Innovators" will focus on the

great jazz artists throughout the years jazz has existed. The fourth session, "Grab Bag," will present a potpourri of information for the jazz aficionado as well as those just learning about the music, including jazz terminology, jazz bibliography and jazz discography. The last session on October 14, presented by Professor Chuck Berg of Theatre and Film, will be a "Jazz and Film" class exploring jazz music in films from the late '20s to contemporary film.

The project will culminate in two live performances of the critically acclaimed JazzTrain on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. at the Lied Center.

JazzTrain http://www.ukans-edu/~lied/jazztrain/

September 16, 1999
What is Jazz?

September 23, 1999
Major Periods in Jazz

September 30, 1999
Outstanding Jazz Innovators

October 7, 1999
Grab Bag

October 14, 1999
Jazz and Film

Enrollment for this series must be through Continuing Education.
Contact Penny Hodge at 864-4790
$20 registration fee

Spencer Museum of Art

The University in the Art Museum
October 16, 1999

The fall 1999 session of The University in the Art Museum will be October 16. The daylong session will acquaint faculty with the art museum and its collections and help them integrate this content into established curricula. Faculty from all disciplines are welcome to attend. For further information or to register, contact Pat Villeneuve, Curator of Education, Spencer Museum of Art, 864-0138 or by e-mail: patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu

Humanities Faculty Win Funding

Congratulations to the 12 KU Humanities faculty members who have reported their successful fellowship and grant applications to the Hall Center during the past academic year. They include:

Marie Aquilino, Art History: American Association of University Women Fellowship.

Victor Bailey, History: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend; American Philosophical Society Travel Grant; National Science Foundation Summer Stipend and Travel Grant; and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Frank Baron/Max Kade Center: Siemens Transportation Systems, Inc., visiting professorship grant; and Max Kade Foundation Grant to support the Goethe In Exile (1933-1945) symposium to be held at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies at KU Oct. 8-10, 1999.

Jonathan Earle, History: Huntington Fellowship; and American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Patrick Frank, History of Art: American Philosophical Society Fellowship.

Joseph Harrington, English: short-term Huntington Fellowship.

Eric Love, History: Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Beverly Mack, African & African American Studies: U.S. Department of Education

Valerie Mendoza, History: The Ford Foundation pre-proposal, asked to submit full proposal

Anna Neill, English: Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies.

Edward Small, Theatre and Film: American Philosophical Society Fellowship.

Mark Reaney, Theatre & Film: Leverhulme Fellowship.

John T. Teramoto, Art History: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

Juan Velasco, American Studies: UCLA Institute of American Cultures, Chicano Studies Research Center Fellowship.

Hall Teaching Fund

The Hall Fund for the Improvement of Teaching supports scholarly projects that promise a broad and / or sustained impact on teaching and student learning in the humanities at the University of Kansas. The Hall Center has awarded three projects funding for the 1999-2000 academic year.

"Teaching in Large Classes: Re-Assessing Our Theories and Practice," a project spearheaded by Richard Eversole, English, who will work in conjunction with the Freshman-Sophomore English Program. In response to the changing needs of economic and demographic pressures on the University, the English department will begin to accommodate the growing need for larger, lecture-based classes within the Freshman-Sophomore English curriculum by implementing a discussion and lecture section model that will not diminish instruction in the skills of reading and writing. Toward this end, the Hall Center will fund a workshop for full-time faculty and part-time staff in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Barbara Walvoord, Director of the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Notre Dame, will present a faculty workshop entitled, "Using Writing and Discussion in Large Classes (Without Perishing Under the Paper Load)." The workshop will be on Friday, September 17, 1999, from 2 to 5 p.m. in 110 Budig Hall. A reception for Dr. Walvoord will follow the workshop at the Malott Room in the KU Union, 5 to 7:30 p.m. The workshop and reception are free and open to all faculty and staff. To register for the workshop and to RSVP for the reception, contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at 4-4199 or CTE@ukans.edu.

This Spring, the Hall Center will welcome Maria de la Luz Hurtado, the leading theater critic in Santiago de Chile, who will offer a short course in Chilean theater with special reference to comparisons and differences with other countries in Latin America. Hurtado will give a series of presentations on theater directing and styles of acting, scenography, lighting and make-up within the theater program of the Universidad Católica. George Woodyard, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Editor of Latin American Theatre Review, proposed the visit.

The proposal of Mary Karen Dahl, Theatre and Film, was also awarded funding by the Hall Center. Dahl and the Department of Theatre and Film have invited scholar / performer Anita Gonzalez to participate in their Second Annual Labor Day Celebration called "The Art of Work / The Work of Art." Professor Gonzalez's work in theater and dance coupled with her scholarship on Latino/a, African, Native American, and Spanish aspects of performance will interest KU scholars from several disciplines, including Latin American Studies, Indigenous Nations Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies and History, as well as Dance, Music, and Theatre and Film. Her week-long visit will culminate in two public performances of her work Migrant ImagiNations.

"Screening the Millennium" with Kevin Brownlow

During the week of September 21-28, 1999, noted film historian Kevin Brownlow will visit the University of Kansas for a program titled "Screening the Millennium." The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Student Union Activities, the Department of Theatre and Film, and the Hall Center will sponsor the program.

Brownlow has waged virtually a one-man mission to revive the cinema past, an effort that led to his magnificent restoration of Abel Gance's silent film Napoleon (1927). As the world's leading authority on silent film he has written several books, including The Parade's Gone By (1968), The War, the West and the Wilderness (1979), and Behind the Mask of Innocence (1992). In addition to his work as a film preservationist, Brownlow has released two films, It Happened Here (1964) and Winstanley (1978), with co-director Andrew Mollo. He has also produced several Emmy and Peabody-Award winning television series and documentaries with the late David Gill, including Hollywood: The Pioneers, Buster Keaton; A Hard Act to Follow, The Unknown Chaplin, and Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood.

Activities planned for "Screening the Millennium" include a presentation given by Brownlow in Professor John Tibbetts's TH&F 381 "History of the Silent Film"/TH&F 881 "Development of Silent Film" class on Tuesday, September 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Budig Hall (all are welcome to attend). The screening of his film It Happened Here will be played, Wednesday, September 22 at Liberty Hall. Filmed as a series of fictional newsreels, the film examines what would have happened if Hitler had, in fact, occupied England.

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The Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities

Roberta Johnson, Director

Janet S. Crow, Executive Director

Jack Bricke, Chair, Executive Committee

Phyllis Säler, Secretary

Dara Raney, Secretary

Executive Committee: Chair­Jack Bricke, Philosophy; Gail Bossenga, History; Walter Clark, Music and Dance; Pam Gordon, Classics; Tom Heilke, Political Science; Allan Pasco, French & Italian; Iris Smith, English. Ex-officio: Peter Casagrande, Assoc. Dean­Liberal Arts; Phil Hofstra, School of Fine Arts; Jim Roberts, Research and Public Service.

Advisory Board: Chair­Chuck Battey­KN Energy, Inc.; Ross Beach, Kansas Natural Gas and Douglas County Bank; Robert Creighton­Brown, Creighton & Peckham; Jill Docking, A.G. Edwards; Michael Fields, William T. Kemper Foundation; John Laney, The Hall Family Foundation; Connie Menninger, Kansas State Historical Society; Robert S. Mueller, Ernst & Young (retired); Tom Murray, Barber, Emerson, Springer, Zinn & Murray; Pam Simons, Lawrence, KS; Lynwood Smith, Mayo Clinic (retired); Estelle Sosland, Kansas City, MO; John H. Stauffer, Stauffer Communications, Inc. (retired); Deanell Reece Tacha, U.S. Court of Appeals; and Barbara Wunsch, Kansas Humanities Council.