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Instructors
SAMA Exhibit Design Workshop
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Matrix
Instructors
Dean
Rehberger
E-mail: rehberger@mail.matrix.msu.edu
Dean Rehberger is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University,
and the Associate Director of Matrix. Dean has been teaching online
courses for several years and has run several faculty technology
workshops for both MSU faculty members and African scholars. He
has developed educational software for writing courses and online
educational sites and resources. His primary areas of research are
the impact of the Internet on culture and the uses of Internet technologies
in the classroom. He is project manager for the National Gallery
of the Spoken Word (ngsw.org). His most recent publication is “Living
Texts” in Weaving the Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to
New Information Technologies (NCTE, Fall 1999) and he is completing
a book entitled, Virtual Words: Composition, Computers, and Cultural
Studies. Dean is also working on several Matrix projects (http://matrix.msu.edu).
Scott
Pennington
E-mail: pennin33@msu.edu
Scott Pennington is a web and educational specialist at MATRIX.
He has taught Internet design and research at Michigan State University
and has designed sites for MSU faculty and departments, several
state organizations and numerous commercial sites. He specializes
in faculty training, instructional technologies and online educational
resources. He is currently working on the National Gallery of the
Spoken Word and is project leader for Africa Online, a resource
of primary documents, course materials, and educational development
tools for K-12 educators (Civics, Social Studies, and History).
Michael
Fegan
Michael Fegan is a web and educational specialist at MATRIX. He
has taught internet design and research at Michigan State University
and has designed sites for the Michigan State University Art Department,
American Studies Department, Writing Center, and numerous commercial
sites. He specializes in faculty training, instructional technologies
and online educational resources. He is currently project leader
for Civics Online – an online resource of primary documents
and educational development tools for K-12 educators (Civics, Social
Studies, and History). He has recently published with Gretchen Barbatsis
and Kenneth Hansen, “The Performance of Cyberspace,”
in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Joy
Palmer
E-mail: palmerjo@msu.edu
Joy Palmer is a Ph. D candidate in the Department of English at
MSU. Her dissertation analyzes the current popular fascination with
forensic science in the U.S., considering how these technologies
affect cultural representations of gender and the anatomical body.
Joy has taught English and Film Studies for a number of years, and
this is her first year as an instructor with Matrix.
Amy
Couture
E-mail: couturea@msu.edu
Amy is a PhD candidate in American Studies, emphasizing gender studies
in U.S. history. She is currently working on a dissertation involving
early twentieth-century redefinitions of domesticity and gender
in silent film fan magazines. This is her third year as a Humanities
Technology Specialist at Matrix, and she has also helped organize
the Africa Internet Connectivity Projects the last two years.
Bartek
Plichta
E-mail: plichtab@msu.edu
Bartek Plichta is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at MSU. He has
taught and done research in sociolinguistics, syntax, and applied
phonetics. His current areas of interest include morphosyntactic
and phonological variation in African American English and American
Polish. He has designed a web site for the USIS Civic Education
Project, "Civitas: Internet Civic Education for Poland."
Heritage
Unit Partner Organization Instructors/Michigan State University
Museum
Marsha MacDowell
E-mail: macdowel@pilot.msu.edu
Phone: 517-355-6511 FAX: 517-432-2846
Dr. Marsha MacDowell is Professor, Department of Art and Curator
of Folk Arts, Michigan State University Museum. In that capacity
she also serves as the Coordinator for the Michigan Traditional
Arts Program, a statewide program, in partnership with Michigan
Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs,"to advance cross-cultural
understanding in a diverse society through the identification, documentation,
preservation, and presentation of the traditional arts and cultural
heritage of the state of Michigan." She has had over twenty-five
years experience in developing and implementing research, documentation,
publication, exhibition, festivals, curriculum development, arts
policy, and educational programs related to community-based traditional
arts. Her research interests are primarily in Great Lakes regional
traditions, Native American material culture, quilts, and, most
recently, South African traditional visual arts. MacDowell has been
one of the key founding members of the South African National Cultural
Heritage Project and served as co-developer of the July 2000 institute.
C.
Kurt Dewhurst
E-mail: dewhurs1@pilot.msu.edu
Phone: 517-355-2370
FAX: 517-432-2846
Dr. C. Kurt Dewhurst is Professor, Department of English and Director,
Michigan State University Museum and Director, Center for Great
Lakes Culture. He has over twenty-five years of experience in research,
documentation, and presentation of traditional arts and has served
in leadership capacities in a variety of cultural organizations,
including the Michigan Museums Association, the Michigan Humanities
Council, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
His research interest is in regional material culture with a focus
on those associated with the environment, Native American material
culture, regional cultural traditions, and, most recently, South
African traditional arts.
Lynne
Swanson
Phone: 517-355-3304
FAX: 517-432-2846
E-mail: swansonl@pilot.msu.edu
Lynne Swanson is Collections Manager for Cultural Collections and
Assistant Curator of Folk Arts at Michigan State University Museum.
She obtained her MA in American Studies from Michigan State University
in 1988 and received further training in collections management
at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies. Her job
responsibilities include oversight of collections care and management
practices for the MSU Museum's cultural history collections, which
number over 200,000 objects. She has extensive experience in planning
and implementing a variety of major collection-based projects, including
moving and rehousing, computerization, preparation for long-term
and traveling exhibits, and successfully seeking funding from private
and public agencies.
Yvonne
R. Lockwood
Phone: 517-353-9678
FAX: 517-432-2846
E-mail: lockwoo2@pilot.msu.edu
Dr. Yvonne R. Lockwood is Curator of Folklife at the Michigan State
University Museum and Extension Specialist with the Michigan State
University Extension. In that capacity she serves as associate coordinator
of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program, which is dedicated to
the advancement of cultural understanding through the identification,
documentation, preservation, and presentation of traditional arts
and cultural heritage. Her formal training is in history, folklore,
and Slavic languages and literatures. She has thirty-five years
of experience in oral history methods and traditional cultural research
in Europe and the United States, resulting in publications, exhibitions,
festivals, and public policy development.
Deborah
Smith Pollard
University of Michigan Dearborn 4901 Evergreen Detroit, MI 48128
313-593-5132 or 5433
E-mail: debpoll@umich.edu
Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard teaches courses in African-American literature
and cultural studies at University of Michigan-Dearbon and is an
adjunct researcher at Michigan State University Museum. Also a well-known
radio gospel announcer in Detroit, Pollard specializes in research
on African-American gospel music but also has done research on a
variety of other aspects of Michigan’s traditional culture.
In addition to her research and teaching activities she has years
of experience in public programming and is currently investigating
the development of a museum devoted to gospel music.
Heritage
Program Assistants/MSU Museum
Julie Hartley
Special Projects Coordinator
hartle17@pilot.msu.edu
Sarah
Stollak
Assistant Special Projects Coordinator
stollaks@msu.edu
Noemi
Creagan
Michigan Traditional Arts Program Intern
creaganf@pilot.msu.edu
Heritage
Unit Partner Organization Instructor/African Studies Center, MSU
David Wiley
African Studies Center and Department of Sociology Michigan State
University 100 International Center East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1035
USA
Fax: (517) 432-1209 (517) 353-1700 (Office)
wiley@msu.edu
Dr. David Wiley, (Princeton University and Seminary, Ph.D. in Sociology
and Sociology of Religion) is Director, African Studies Center at
Michigan State University. In that capacity, he coordinates the
largest Africanist faculty (125) in North America, many of whom
work in South Africa. He has conducted research on race and religious
movements in Zimbabwe, housing and social stratification in Zambia,
socio-economics of fishing peoples in Kenya, and spent a Fulbright
year at University of Durban-Westville working on environmental
issues addressed by communities, government, and corporations in
Inanda, Isipingo, Merebank, Wentworth, and Bluff in Durban. Currently,
he is past president of the African Studies Association in the United
States.
Heritage
Unit Program Guest Instructors/Michigan
Jeanne Drewes
Michigan State University Library W108A Library (517) 432-7486
drewes@msu.edu
Laurie
Booth
Phone: 614-873-4880
E-mail: MWestCons@aol.com
Laurie Booth is an Objects Conservator in private practice near
Columbus, Ohio. Her business, Midwest Conservation Services, Inc.
was established in 1990. Laurie has over 15 years experience as
an objects conservator. She holds a MS in Art Conservation from
the Winterthur/University of Delaware Art Conservation Program.
Laurie has worked for many museums and institutions, including the
Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, the Corning
Museum of Glass, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources,
and the Ohio Historical Society. Laurie is a Professional Associate
of the American Institute for Conservation.
Gloria
Coles
Director Flint Public Library 1026 E. Kearsley St. Flint, Michigan
48502
Voice mail: 810-232-7111(X)2040 Fax: 810-249-2633
E-mail: gcoles@flint.lib.mi.us
Bonnie
Ekdahl
Executive Director Ziibiwing Cultural Society The Saginaw Chippewa
Indian Tribe 2145 S. Summerton Rd. Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Phone: 517-775-4750
E-mail: bekdahl@sagchip.org
Charmaine
Benz
Special Projects Ziibiwing Cultural Society The Saginaw Chippewa
Indian Tribe 2145 S. Summerton Rd. Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858
Phone: 517-775-4750
E-mail: cbenz@sagchip.org
Betty
Boone
Executive Director, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs
G. Mennen Williams Building, 3rd floor 525 West Ottawa P.O. Box
30705 Lansing, MI 48909
517-241-4011 517-241-3979 FAX
E-mail: Betty.Boone@CIS.state.mi.us
Al
Ward Family Independent Agency/Dexter-Elmhurst Project
Dexter Elmhurst Community Center 11825 Dexter Avenue Detroit, Michigan
48206 313-834-4560
E-mail: warda2@state.mi.us
Christy
Matthews
Director, Museum of African American History 315 E. Warren Detroit,
Michigan 48201-1443 313-494-5800
Bamidele
Demerson
Director of Exhibitions and Research Museum of African American
History 315 E. Warren Detroit, Michigan 48201-1443 313-494-5800
Patrina
Chatman
Registrar Museum of African American History 315 E. Warren Detroit,
Michigan 48201-1443 313-494-5800
Rozenia
Johnson
Asst. Curator Museum of African American History 315 E. Warren Detroit,
Michigan 48201-1443 313-494-5800
Marcel
Riddick
Director of Education & Public Programming Museum of African
American History 315 E. Warren Detroit, Michigan 48201-1443 313-494-5800
Dorita
Smith
School Outreach Coordinator Museum of African American History 315
E. Warren Detroit, Michigan 48201-1443 313-494-5800
Sally
McClintock
Director LATTICE 6336 Skyline Drive East Lansing, Michigan 48823
Sallyma@home.com
Special
Guests
Wendy M. Duff
Wendy M. Duff obtained her Ph.D. form the University of Pittsburgh
and joined the Faculty of the University of Toronto in 1997. Prior
to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked for 11 years in libraries
and archives in Nova Scotia Community college and Dalhousie University.
Her primary research interests are archival description and electronic
records, including the authentication, reliability of and description
of corporate records and recordkeeping systems. she was project
manager for the University of Pittsburgh's Electronic Records Project,
a project which identified a set of Functional Requirements for
Electronic Evidence. She presently serves as chair of the Canadian
committee on Archival Description, and is author of numerous publications,
including "Metadata & ISO 9000 Compliance" (Information
Management Journal, Jan 2000) and "Transforming the Crazy Quilt:
Archival Displays From a Users' Point of View" (Archivaria,
Spring 1998)
The
Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Diana
Baird N'Diaye
Cultural Specialist, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
ndiaye@folklife.si.edu
750 9th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20560
(202)287-3284 ( until November, 2000)
Amy
Horowitz
Director, Jesusalem Project, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Fellow,
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies University of Pennsylvania
amyhz@sas.upenn.edu
420 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19106 work
tel: (215) 238-1290 ext 502 fax: (215) 238-1540
Richard
Kennedy
Deputy Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
rkennedy@folklife.si.edu
750 9th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 275-1137
Richard
Kurin
Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
kurin@folklife.si.edu
750 9th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 275-1138
Diana
Parker
Director, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Center for Folklife and
Cultural Heritage
cfpcs.diana@ic.si.edu
750 9th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 275-1147
National
Museum of African Art
David Binkley Chief
Curator, National Museum of African Art
Binkley@nmafa.si.edu
950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-4600
Veronika
Jenke,
Assistant Curator of Education, Youth & School Programs, National
Museum of African Art
Jenkev@nmafa.si.edu
950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-4600
Christine
Mullen Kreamer,
Curator, National Museum of African Art
Kreamerc@nmafa.si.edu
950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-4600
Jeff
Smith
Registrar/ Computer Specialist, National Museum of African Art Jeff@nmafa.si.edu
950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-4600
Janet
Stanley
Chief Librarian, National Museum of African Art
Jstanley@nmafa@si.edu
950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-4600
Paul
Wood
Archivist, National Museum of African Art
Paulw@nmafa.si.edu
950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20560
(202) 357-4600
National
Museum of Natural History/ African Voices
Mary
Jo Arnoldi
Curator, African Voices Exhibition, National Museum of Natural History
arnoldi.mary@nmnh.si.edu
Natural History Building, Suite 320 MRC 112 Washington, D.C. 20560
Michael
Atwood Mason
Content Specialist, African Voices, National Museum of Natural History
Natural History Building, Suite 320 MRC 112 Washington, D.C. 20560
National
Museum of Natural History/ Baileys Elementary School
Peg
Koetch
Museums
in Progress and National Museum of Natural History
Carol
Franz
Principal, Bailey's Elementary School
mrabinovitz@fc.fcps.k12.va.us
6111 Knollwood Drive Falls Church, VA 22041
Office
of International Relations
Francine
Berkowitz
Director, Office of International Relations
fcb@ic.si.edu
Office of International Relations S. Dillon Ripley Center Suite
3123 Washington, D.C. 20560 ·
Vera
Hyatt
Project Director, African/Caribbean Programs
vhh@ic.si.edu
Office of International Relations S. Dillon Ripley Center Suite
3123 Washington, D.C. 20560
Anacostia
Museum, Center for African American History & Culture
Steven C. Newsome
Director, Anacostia Museum, Center for African American History
& Culture
Anacostia Museum Building MRC 520 Washington, D.C. 20560
American
Folklife Center, The Library of Congress
Peter T. Bartis
American Memories Project Folklife Specialist, American Folklife
Center,
The Library of Congress Room LJ G-49, Thomas Jefferson Building
101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4610 ·
Peggy
A. Bulger
Director, American Folklife Center,
The Library of Congress Room LJ G-49, Thomas Jefferson Building
101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4610 ·
Katherine
Hiebert Kerst
Archivist, American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress Room
LJ G-49, Thomas Jefferson Building 101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540-4610
Alexandria-Black
History Resource Center
Louis Hicks
Executive Director Office of Historic Alexandria-Black History Resource
Center 638 N. Alfred Street Alexandria, VA 22314
black.history@ci.alexandria.va.us
The
Urban Institute
Maria-Rosario Jackson
Principal Investigator, The Urban Institute
mjackson@ui.urgan.org
2100 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20037
United
States Holocaust Museum
Aaron T. Kornblum
Reference Archivist, United States Holocaust Museum
Akornblum@ushmm.org.
(202) 488-6113 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
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