Two instructors at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jefferson Davis Campus have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to a participate in workshops this summer.
Dr. Patricia West, speech instructor, will attend a workshop at Northeastern University in Boston May 24-30. The topic for the workshop is “The American Lyceum and Public Culture: The Oratory of Idealism, Opportunity and Abolition in the 19th Century.” During this workshop, participants will visit Lyceum sites around Massachusetts, hear some of the great orations presented at them, and discuss the way in which key issues of the day were addressed at Lyceum programs, especially “Idealism” and “Abolition.” The workshop will feature prominent historians and rhetoricians.
LeeAnn Gunn-Rasmussen, social studies instructor, will attend the NEH Landmarks Workshop “From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike.” The one-week workshop, co-sponsored by NEH and the Hamer Institute at Jackson State University, will be held July 6-11 at the JSU campus in Jackson. The workshop will feature extensive readings on the Southern civil rights movement in the 1960s. Guest speakers, Hamer Institute faculty and oral history panelists will guide participants in exploring the people, places and events that helped bring about civil rights reform. The workshop will also include field trips to landmarks in Mississippi and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. For more information about NEH, visit www.neh.gov.
