2008 Chair’s Award for Special
Achievements in the Humanities
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The Chair's Award goes to an individual or organization that has made special contributions to the public humanities. MHC made two awards this year, the first to Ms. Melody Golding, a nationally acclaimed Vicksburg photographer who traveled with the American Red Cross to the Mississippi Gulf Coast for weeks following Hurricane Katrina, interviewing and photographing both victims and volunteers. Her work eventually became a traveling exhibit that opened first at the National Women's Museum in Washington, D.C., and has since traveled throughout Louisiana and Mississippi.
The second Chair's Award went to Dr. Dennis Mitchell of Mississippi State University for his years of support for the humanities in Mississippi, first as assistant director of the Council and later as a project director, consultant, evaluator and scholar for Council-funded programming.
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