NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors

The Huntington Library, in conjunction with ICW, is hosting a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Instructors in July and August of 2005.  This five-week residential Institute explores American history through an examination of the ways in which a nation and a people wounded by the traumas of the Civil War sought healing and redemption in the American West.  The Institute is especially designed for professors of American history, American studies, and American literature, including instructors in related fields such as art history, the history of photography, and others.

The Institute is being co-directed by Professor Bill Deverell of USC and Dr. Robert C. Ritchie of the Huntington Library.  Guest instructors include Professors Richard White, Elliott West, Douglas Flamming, Greg Hise, and Judith Jackson Fossett.  Our aim is to gather together a diverse group of twenty-five participants eager to examine the Institute's themes from multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives.  

NEH Participants

Patrick Albano, Assistant Professor
Fairmont State University, West Virginia
Dept. of History/U.S. History and Military History

Thomas G. Andrews, Assistant Professor
Cal State Northridge, California
Dept. of History/History of the American West

Nancy Bercaw, Assistant Professor
University of Mississippi, Mississippi
Dept. of History/U.S. History and Southern Studies

Kelly C. Walter Camey, Assistant Professor
Vanguard University, California
Dept. of English/Native American History

Matthew R. Davis, Assistant Professor
University of Puget Sound, Washington
Dept. of English/African-American Literature

Cathryn Halverson, Associate Professor
Kobe City University, Japan
Dept. of English and American Studies/American Literature

Kevin Hearle PhD., Independent Scholar
American Literature

Daniel Herman, Assistant Professor
Central Washington University, Washington
Dept. of History/U.S. History

Paivi Hoikkala, Lecturer
Cal State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dept. of History/American Indians

William Huntzicker, Assistant Professor
St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
Dept. of Mass Communications/History of the American West

Andrew Isenberg, Associate Professor
Temple University, Pennsylvania
Dept. of History/History of the 19th Century American West

Bruce Kahler, Professor
Bethany College, Kansas
Dept. of History and Political Science/American History

Ari Kelman, Associate Professor
University of California at Davis, California
Dept. of History/American Indians and American West

James Kessenides, Assistant Professor
University of South Florida at St. Petersburg, Florida
College of Arts and Sciences/The American West

Valinda Littlefield, Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Dept. of History/African-American History

Bonney MacDonald, Associate Professor
Union College Schenectady, New York
Dept. of English/Western American Literature

Kenneth Marcus, Associate Professor
University of La Verne, California
Dept. of History and Political Science/California and American History

John E. Miller PhD., Independent Scholar
American History

David Organ, Assistant Professor
Clark Atlanta University, Georgia
Dept. of History/African-American Historical Geography

Kathryn Reisdorfer, Professor
Yavapai College, Arizona
Women’s History

Anita Specht, Assistant Professor
Kansas Wesleyan University, Kansas
Dept. of History/U.S. History

Eileen Wallis, Assistant Professor
Cal State University Fresno, California
Dept. of History/U.S. West, Women’s and Ethnic History

Glenn Willumson, Associate Professor
University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida
School of Art and Art History/Art History

Nicolas S. Witschi, Assistant Professor
Western Michigan University, Michigan
Dept. of English/Western American Literature

Kristi Woods, Associate Professor
Riverside Community College, California
Dept. of History/African-American History