{"id":28177,"date":"2025-05-13T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28177"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:44:05","slug":"drinko-academy-names-dr-chris-white-30th-distinguished-drinko-fellow-at-marshall-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/drinko-academy-names-dr-chris-white-30th-distinguished-drinko-fellow-at-marshall-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinko Academy names Dr. Chris White 30th Distinguished Drinko Fellow at Marshall University"},"content":{"rendered":"
At the 2025 Drinko Symposium Saturday, May 2, Marshall University\u2019s John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture announced that History Professor Dr. Christopher M. White is the 30th Distinguished Drinko Fellow, which is the highest faculty honor bestowed by the university.<\/p>\n

Drinko Fellows receive a stipend and financial and clerical support from the Drinko Academy for two years. During those two years, Drinko Fellows conduct research, engage in creative production or work on special projects.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Drinko Symposium was attended by more than 170 faculty, staff, administrators and community members who gathered in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center for a formal dinner, a poster exhibit and a multimedia presentation by 28th Drinko Fellow Dr. Luke Eric Lassiter about his two-year project on \u201cNew Generation Change Agents in Appalachia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The symposium concluded with Drinko Academy Executive Director Dr. Montserrat Miller\u2019s announcement that White is the 30th Drinko Fellow.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Chris White is a consummate scholar,\u201d said Miller. \u201cHe has a long and impressive record of community outreach and engagement, working over the course of more than two decades to bridge ideological, religious and other social and cultural divides.\u201d<\/p>\n

White teaches Latin American history, U.S. history, world history and courses on the war on drugs and the global south. He is originally from California but has called Huntington home since joining the Marshall University faculty in 2006. White earned his Ph.D. in history in 2005 and his M.A. in Latin American studies in 2002, both from the University of Kansas, and he earned a B.A. in Spanish education from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, in 2001.<\/p>\n

From 1994 to 1998, White served in the United States Marine Corps.<\/p>\n

White has received the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism\u2019s Outstanding Community Contributor Award, the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award and a Marshall International Innovation Grant.<\/p>\n

He served as director of the Latin American studies minor at Marshall University from 2006 to 2011 and has led the History Department\u2019s \u201cFood Past\/Food Present\u201d series since its inception in 2019. White has authored four books, including \u201cCreating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era,\u201d \u201cThe History of El Salvador,\u201d \u201cA Global History of the Developing World,\u201d and \u201cThe War on Drugs in the Americas.\u201d He is co-editor, with Kevin Barksdale, of \u201cAppalachian Epidemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

White will present the results of his fellowship work at the university\u2019s 2027 Drinko Symposium.<\/p>\n

Next year\u2019s symposium will feature the work of 29th Drinko Fellow Dr. Vicki Stroeher, a professor of music history and associate dean of the College of Arts and Media at Marshall University.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the 2025 Drinko Symposium Saturday, May 2, Marshall University\u2019s John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture announced that History Professor Dr. Christopher M. White is the 30th Distinguished Drinko Fellow, which is the highest faculty honor bestowed by the university. Drinko Fellows receive a stipend and financial and clerical support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28181,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28177\/revisions\/28181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}