CSEGA NEWSLETTER Summer 2000
-Donations By Marilou Awiakta and Susan and Geoff Eacker
-Linda Spatig Named As Acting Co-director
-Book News *New! Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia Book Series
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Donations by Marilou Awiakta
and Susan and Geoff Eacker
HUNTINGTON, WV--Dr. Lynda Ann Ewen and Dr. Shirley Lumpkin presented donations to Marshall University and CSEGA on behalf of Marilou Awiakta and Dr. Susan and Mr. Geoff Eacker, Thursday, April 27, at 2 p.m. in the atrium of the Marshall University John Deaver Drinko Library.
Marilou Awiakta, a Cherokee-Appalachian writer donated two autographed books in remembrance of her October 1998 CSEGA and Drinko Academy sponsored visit to MU. "Rising Fawn and The Fire Mystery: A Story of Heritage, Family, and Courage, 1833" is a narrative, while "Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet" is a collection of poetry. Ms. Awiakta fuses four strands of her Appalachian heritage (Cherokee, Scotch-Irish-Celtic, atomic science, and "womanspirit") into her writings.
Dr. Susan Eacker and Mr. Geoff Eacker, CSEGA's fall 1997 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence donated a multimedia exhibit titled Banjo Women in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. This collection of photographs, text, and recorded banjo music was a culmination of their work at the center. The exhibit has been displayed at museums and bluegrass festivals in several states, as well as at the Huntington Museum of Art.
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Dr. Spatig Named As Acting Co-Director for Fall 2000
HUNTINGTON, WV--Dr. Shirley Lumpkin will be on sabbatical this fall. Dr. Linda Spatig, Professor, Educational Leadership, will act as temporary co-director. Dr. Lumpkin will be back as co-director in spring 2001.
Dr. Spatig is also a scholar affiliate with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.
Book News
New
Book Series Launched by Ohio University Press
The Ethnicity and Gender in
Appalachia Series
ATHENS, OHIO--Ohio University Press is launching a new series of books that will challenge the caricature of Appalachians as dumb, backward and violence-prone hillbillies.
The Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia Series will explore many dimensions of Appalachian reality by giving greater voice to those who have been ignored or caricatured. Appalachians who are not of Celtic origin have been dismissed as not being "real" Appalachians. Likewise, studies of the region have often stressed the contributions of men without exploring the full dimensions of gender. By focusing on the internal diversity of the region, this series will address such issues as inequality and racism, poverty and political corruption in the context of ethnicity and gender issues.
The general editor of the series is Lynda Ann Ewen, Professor of Sociology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Ewen is the director of the Oral History of Appalachia Program and co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.
Ewen will be assisted by a distinguished advisory board. The members of the board are: Ancella Bickley, West Virginia State College (retired); Barbara Howe, West Virginia University; Linda Tate, Shepherd College; Marie Tedesco, East Tennessee State University; William Turner, community scholar; and Rita Wicks-Nelson, West Virginia University Institute of Technology (retired). (Ancella Bickley, Linda Tate, and Rita Wicks-Nelson are past fellows of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.)
This series will consider for publication book-length manuscripts that examine gender and ethnicity issues in Appalachia. Social scientists, other scholars and "practitioners"--teachers, probation officers, social workers, journalists, counselors, and politicians with special knowledge of regional issues--are invited to submit manuscripts to the general editor.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Lynda Ann Ewen, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755, (304) 696-2797, ewen@marshall.edu; or Gillian Berchowitz, Senior Editor, Ohio University Press, Scott Quadrangle, Athens, Ohio 45701, (704) 593-1159, berchowi@ohio.edu.
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