Release date: April 21, 2003

Contact: Frances Weyand, Director of Media Relations, 770-423-6203 or fweyand@kennesaw.edu

Kennesaw State University professors receive national recognition

Kennesaw State University Associate Professor of History Dr. Gerrit Voogt and Professor of English Dr. Barbara Stevenson were selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 29 summer-study programs supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Voogt and Stevenson will participate in a program at Oxford University, "Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval Christendom."

The five-week institute will be held at Oxford University's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England. The teachers selected to participate in the various study programs each receive a stipend from NEH to help defray travel, study and living expenses. NEH support of seminars and institutes at a variety of colleges and universities allows teachers to collaborate and study with experts in the humanities.

Topics offered for college and university teachers this summer include the civil rights movement, British romantic fiction, the English Reformation and important figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. The approximately 500 teachers who participate in these programs will teach more than 30,000 American students the following year.

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