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The John Deaver Drinko Distinguished Fellows Program

Faculty from various Marshall University academic departments are appointed on a rotating basis as Drinko Academy Fellows. These Fellows receive reduced teaching loads for two years and a substantial stipend and other financial support.

The Drinko Professors and Fellows undertake innovative curricular reforms of two sorts. First, they will seek to develop new general education courses for all students that address American political institutions and civic culture from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. Secondly, they will explore ways to develop a new undergraduate major and to enhance existing disciplinary majors relevant to politics and the civic culture.

A Tribute To Our Drinko Fellows

Drinko Fellows		Year
	Dr. Robin O'Keefe Biological Sciences Sea Monster Had a Bun in the Oven	2012/13
	Professor Burnis R. Morris School of Journalism and Mass Communications Carter G. Woodson and the 45-Year Public Education Campaign to Correct and Sell History through the African American Press	2011/12
	Dr. Dan Evans Biological Sciences Ethnobotany of Indigenous People in the Upper Amazon Basin and High Andes of Ecuador	2010/11
	Dr. Eldon Larsen Information Technology and Engineering Practical Project Management: Principles and Fundamentals	2009/10
	Dr. Maria Carmen-Riddel Modern Language Cuban-American Literature after Exile: Dreaming in Spanish / Writing in English	2008/09
	Dr. Wendell Dobbs Music of Revolution and Destiny Professor of Flute and Founder of the John Marshall Fife and Drum Corps.	2007-08
	Dr. Linda Spatig Education Like a Mountain: Youth Development in Rural America Student Scholar:	2006-07
	Dr. Charles C. Somerville Integrated Sciences Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in the Ohio River Basin: Why Look for Small Things in Big Rivers? Student Scholar: Gene Chou	2005-06
	Dr. Mary E. Reynolds Communications Disorders Language Differences vs. Language Impairment: Role of Working Memory in Diagnosis and Outcome Student Scholars: Mary-Michael Lewis, Melinda Daniel	2004-05
	Dr. W. Edwin Bingham Music Reflections from the Bridge: Observations of the Creative Process Student Scholar: Emily Wilkins	2003-04
	Dr. Michael L. Little Ethnobotany of Indigenous People in the Upper Amazon Basin and High Andes of Ecuador Biological Sciences Student Scholar: Sarah Inman	2002-03
	Dr. Edwina D. Pendarvis Education What Went Right? Educating Gifted Children in Appalachia Student Scholar: Lesley Clifford	2001-02
	Dr. Beverly Twitchell-Marchant Art Pictures Tie Memory to the Truth: Some 1890's Lokota Drawings Student Scholar: Aaron Nelson	2000-01
	Dr. Robert P. Alexander Management/Marketing Timber: The Times and the Life at Cass, WV Student Scholar: Robert Russell	1999-00
	Dr. Kenneth P. Ambrose Sociology/Anthropology Health Care Challenges in Rural America Student Scholar: Dr. Paul W. Ambrose	1998-99
	Dr. Shirley A. Lumpkin Re-membering, Re-weaving, Re-visioning 'Other' Ways: Contemporary Women Writing in Appalachia English Student Scholars: Laura Tussey, Jane Adkins-Bills	1997-98
	Dr. Montserrat M. Miller History Bicentennial Celebration of the appointment of John Marshall as Chief Justice	1996-99
	Dr. William N. Denman Communication Studies Rhetoric, the ‘Citizen-Orator’ and the Re-Vitalization of Civic Discourse in American Life Student Scholar: Nina Persi	1996-97
	Dr. Mack H. Gillenwater Geography Geographic Perspectives of the Underground Railroad in the Mid-Ohio Valley Student Scholars: Kimberly Hatcher, Eric Spears	1995-96
	Dr. Simon D. Perry Political Science Self-Interest and the Cities: Views on Civic Culture Student Scholar: R. Scott Walker	1994-95

More about the Drinko Fellows

In addition, Drinko Student Scholars receive support to facilitate specific projects tying their major fields of academic interest to the issue of American political institutions and civic culture and voluntary public service.

Drinko Academy = Marshall University
211 Old Main = One John Marshall Drive= Huntington, WV 25755-2014
Email: drinko@marshall.edu