The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the recipients of the Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series Grants for 2006-2007. The fund, as in past years, provides up to $500 to supplement departmental or college funds in support of selected events and visits. The purpose of the program is to increase the diversity of perspectives and creative expression available on campus and to increase the number of women and minority role models for our students. The following are the applicants, speakers, and topics for 2006-2007:

 

Susan Asselin, Professor, Teaching and Learning

Jonathan Mooney, Author, Speaker

Cognitive Diversity: Empowerment, Success and Revolution

 

Joan Hirt, Associate Professor, ELPS

Terrell Strayhorn, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Tennessee

Factors that Influence Minority Graduate Student Success and Succeeding in a Faculty Career as a Person of Color

 

Caroyln Copenheaver, Assistant Professor, Forestry

Amy Hessl, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

Spatial and Temporal Models of Wildfire

 

Jean Elliott, Manager, Communications, and Edd Sewell, Associate Professor, Communications

Carrie Kline, Owner/Researcher, Talking Across the Lines, LLC

Revelations (theatrical presentation about Appalachian resiliency in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people)

 

Kathryn Graham, Assistant Director, Literature, Language and Culture, English

Cheryl Wall, Professor, Rutgers University

Women of the Harlem Renaissance

 

Katrina Powell, Associate Professor, English

Sandra Harding, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Ethics and Research Methodology

 

Brian Katen, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture

Saundra Murray Nettles, Professor and Interim Dean, Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies, Georgia Southern University

An Environmental Autobiography: 6 Learning Landscapes in Atlanta’s Washington Park Neighborhood

 

Ann-Marie Knoblauch, Associate Professor, Art and Art History

Denise McCoskey, Associate Professor of Classics, Miami University of Ohio

Gender, Empire & the City in Propertius

 

Heike Mayer, Assistant Professor, Alexandria Campus – Urban Affairs & Planning

Daphne Spain, James M. Page Professor and Chair, University of Virginia

Retirement Communities and Their Implications for Planning

 

Victoria Mouras, Instructor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Sybil E. Hatch, Author and Engineer, American Society of Civil Engineers

Changing Our World – Telling the Story of Women Engineers

 

Barbara Ellen Smith, Director, Women’s Studies

Psyche Williams-Forson, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland – College Park

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

 

Gresilda Tilley-Lubbs, Assistant Professor, Teaching & Learning

Jorge Mejia Montoya, Professor, Universidad de las Americas – Cholula, Puebla, Mexico

Examining the Socio Economic Impact and Implications of Mexican Immigration

 

Janell Watson, Associate Professor, Foreign Language & Literature

French and Francophone Film Festival featuring women and ethnic/cultural minority filmmakers

 

Robert Stephens, Assistant Professor, History

Victor Silverman, Associate Professor, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria

 

Michelle James-Deramo, Director, Service-Learning Center

Alice Lovelace, Poet and Community Organizer

The Community Calls Forth the University