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| MHC is a private nonprofit corporation funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal arts disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi.
MHC sponsors, supports, and conducts a wide range of programs designed to promote understanding of our cultural heritage, interpret our own experience, foster critical thinking, encourage reasonable public discourse, strengthen our sense of community, and thus empower Mississippi's people with a vision for the future. |
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The Alabama Humanities Foundation is funding the Southern Literary Trail, a historic linking of Southern communities, towns, and landmarks, for a month-long festival honoring some of the South’s greatest authors. Commemorating 20th-century Southern writers and playwrights, Alabama will join Georgia and Mississippi in the first tri-state trail of its kind.
With stops along eighteen Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi towns between Natchez and Savannah, events will take place at various libraries, museums, and courthouses during the entire month of March 2009. Trail towns will present tours, plays, films, readings and discussion panels celebrating Southern literature and its hometown authors, with special emphasis on the settings that influenced their works.
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| (JACKSON, MS) - Rod Risley, chair of the Mississippi Humanities Council, welcomes six new members: |
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Luther Brown, Cleveland, is founding director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University. Born in Illinois, Brown was educated in Illinois and Ohio, earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Zoology. In addition to directing the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, he also teaches biology and physical science courses at Delta State. Brown has worked with the Mississippi Humanities Council on numerous projects, including a 2007 summer teachers institute exploring Mississippi’s musical heritage and programs related to recent traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibits, New Harmonies: Celebrating American
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| Roots Music and Between Fences. He also serves as a popular member of the Mississippi Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and is a past recipient of the Council’s Humanities Educator of the Year award. |
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Jeannie Gillespie, Hattiesburg, is associate dean for academics and assessment at the University of Southern Mississippi. Before advancing to her current position, she taught Spanish and Portuguese and several Hispanic culture courses including Mexican drama and Latin American poetry. She also serves as director of women’s studies at USM. Gillespie received degrees from Purdue University and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Spanish from Arizona State University. She has authored numerous publications examining women’s issues, Spanish literature and Latin
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Vicksburg photographer Melody Golding holds one of four Council positions appointed by the Governor. Golding was born in Tennessee and attended the University of Mississippi, Mississippi College and Mississippi State University. She is a nationally recognized photographer whose most recent collection, Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember, is touring Mississippi and Louisiana after opening with critical acclaim at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Golding is currently partnering with the Mississippi Humanities Council to offer her exhibit at no cost to Mississippi sites.
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Preston Hughes, Kosciusko, served 27 years in the United States Army before retiring in the rank of colonel in 1992. He served two tours in Vietnam and was a trained specialist on Turkey, serving 13 years in various assignments in Turkey. After retiring, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science from the University of Mississippi and currently serves as an adjunct professor at Holmes Community College teaching American government. He is co-founder of The Club, a biracial men’s civic club in Kosciusko. He also co-founded The LEAP Center, an after school tutorial program, and he serves as chairman of the Defense and Security Affairs Committee of the American-Turkish Council.
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Candice Love Jackson, Jackson, holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from the University of North Carolina. She is chair of the English Department at Tougaloo College where she directs the Honors Program, teaches English and literature courses and conducts research in African American literature and Southern literature. Jackson has authored numerous research publications and is a frequent presenter at educational conferences. She is a 2006 recipient of a Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Teacher Award.
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Hilliard Lackey, Jackson, is assistant professor of history and assistant to the executive vice president for external affairs at Jackson State University. Born in Marks, MS, he received degrees in history and political science and education administration from Jackson State, as well as an M.A. in historical geography from the University of Arkansas and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in higher education administration from the University of Mississippi. He is a columnist for the Mississippi Link, St. Louis American, Clarksdale Press Register and The Scoop. He is also a television program host for Scope and news director of WMPR radio. He is a writer and in 1998 published a history of the mule train
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Two Council members were elected to second terms, Dr. David Beckley, president of Rust College in Holly Springs, and Rod Risley, executive director of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. |
Council officers include Risley, chair; Dr. Charles Sallis, Jackson, vice chair; Pamela Pridgen, Hattiesburg, secretary; and Dr. Harold Fisher, Jackson, treasurer. |
The Mississippi Humanities Council is funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal arts disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi. |
Twenty-two Mississippians serve four-year terms on the Council as volunteers. Five Council members are appointed by the governor and the others elected by the Council. Half of the members are public and half academic, and every effort is made to maintain balance by race, gender and geographic distribution to assure representation for all Mississippians. |
Any Mississippi resident may nominate persons to serve on the Council. Calls for nominations are regularly announced in the Council’s publications and at Council-supported events. |
The Mississippi Humanities Council does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age. |
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| Between May of 2009 and March of 2010, the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit: Journey Stories, stories of immigration, migration, and transportation in America, will be displayed at six locations across Mississippi. Host sites include Clinton (A.E. Wood Memorial Library and Clinton Visitor Center, sponsors), Southaven (M.R. Davis Library, sponsor), Natchez (Institute for Southern Jewish Life and Historic Natchez Foundation, sponsors), McComb (McComb City Railroad Depot Museum, sponsor), Hazelhurst (Hazelhurst Depot Museum and Copiah Co. Office of Cultural Affairs, sponsors), Long Beach (University of Southern Mississippi, sponsor). Congratulations to all of these sites which were selected based on strength of community support and plans for complimenting local exhibits and programming. |
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– The Mississippi Humanities Council has revised its deadlines for grant
applications exceeding $2,000. Applications for Regular Grants will now be
accepted September 15 and April 15 annually. Decisions will be announced
November 15 and June 15.
The Mississippi Humanities Council mission
is to promote understanding of our cultural heritage, interpret our own experience,
foster critical thinking, encourage reasonable public discourse, strengthen our
sense of community, and thus empower us with a vision for the future. A
principal means of achieving this goal is awarding grants to nonprofit
organizations which plan and sponsor humanities activities for the benefit of
citizens throughout the state. |
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MHC awards grants to nonprofit organizations to sponsor projects and public programs which use the knowledge and insights of one or more areas of the humanities to increase understanding of any aspect of human experience.
Mini Grants up to $2,000 are awarded six times per year. Regular Grants over $2,000 are awarded twice per year. |
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| The Mississippi Oral History Project is a joint venture by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and MHC to document and preserve the history and culture of our state. |
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