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Dr. Ronald J. Weber, Program Director |
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Dr. Weber teaches courses on the history of the Ancient Middle East, Greece and Rome. The gem of his courses is the yearly two-week trip to Rome and Central Italy visiting the monuments and museums of Italy and experiencing the artifacts of the ancient world first hand. He has researched and published on the great Italian families of late antiquity. Currently, as Director of the Western Cultural Heritage Program and the Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Dr. Weber has been active in interdisciplinary curriculum development and teacher development. His seminar on teaching and learning history is part of the History PhD. Program. Dr. Weber has written about how to improve the training of college teachers in history and is active in the development of improved teacher training for public school social studies teachers.
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Dr. Shelly Armitage |
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| Dr. Armitage received her PhD University of New Mexico in American Studies in 1983, her MA in American Literature, and her BA in English with a double major in Journalism, both from Texas Tech University. Areas of concentration include Area and Cultural Studies (African-, Native-American, Gender Studies), American literature, regional, folk, and popular culture, with emphasis on contemporary literature and literature, arts, and environment. |
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| Courses taught by include American literature surveys; contemporary literature; special topics including African-American Women Writers, Gender and Genre, postmodernism, arts and environment; and various interdisciplinary courses; Women's and Gender studies, and Honors classes. |
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| Faculty Positions include Full Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (American Studies), University of Memphis; Associate Professor West Texas State University, and Tarrant County Junior College. Dr. Armitage has been a visiting professor at Skidmore College, University of Asmara, Asmara Ethiopia, and held the Roderick Professorship in English at UTEP. She has been senior Fulbright scholar at Universidad de Nova in Lisbon Portugal and held the Distinguished Chair in American Literature at University of Warsaw in Warsaw Poland in spring 2000. She remains an adjunct faculty for the PhD program in American Studies at University of Hawai'i at Manoa and is an affiliate faculty for the PhD in History at UTEP. |
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Armitage is the author of seven scholarly books: Women's Work: Essays in Cultural Studies, Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rosie O'Neill, This Dancing Ground of Sky: The Collected Poetry of Peggy Pond Church, Peggy Pond Church, Winds Trail the Early Life of Mary Austin, John Held, Jr.: Illustrator of the Jazz Age, and Reading into Photography: Essays on Photographic Criticism. Her genres include critical biography, cultural history, literary and arts criticism, creative nonfiction, with focus on developing interdisciplinary and cross-cultural criticism. |
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| She has published over forty scholarly, refereed articles in books and journals and is a regular manuscript reader for university presses as well as scholarly reviewer for journals in history, literature, culture, and gender studies. |
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| Armitage has delivered over 43 papers in seven countries other than the US. She has been awarded nineteen grants, teaching awards at every institution, three National Endowment for the Humanities grants, one NEA, two Rockfellers, and four Fulbrights. She is currently one of 25 scholars on the Speakers Bureau for the Texas Committee for the Humanities. Listed in Who's Who and Contemporary Authors; she won the Emily Toth award for the outstanding feminist study for Kewpies and Beyond in 1995 and was runner-up for the Eudora Welty award for the same publication in 1994. John Held, Jr. was a New York Times Notable Book. She won the DeGoyler award for the best article in American Studies, has been awarded numerous cash prizes for her writing, including the Outstanding Graduate Student Award at UNM in 1982. She is a distinguished alumnus of Texas Tech University and Phi Beta Kappa. |
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Armitage is currently Director of Women's Studies at UTEP and editorial member of several publishing boards. Her national memberships include Modern Language Association, American Literature Association, American Studies Association, National Women's Studies Association, and Society for Photographic Education.
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