Mrs. Dafeamekpor in NEH Seminar
Denise Dafeamekpor, a Western English teacher, has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 21 study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines.
Mrs. Dafeamekpor will participate in a seminar entitled "Writing Africa: Comparative African and Western 'Palavers' and Perspectives." The three-week program will be held at Central Michigan, Mt. Pleasant and directed by Dr. Maureen N. Eke, Professor of English.
The fifteen teachers selected to participate in the program each receive a stipend of $2400.00 to cover their travel, study, and living expenses. Topics for the 21 seminars and institutes offered for teachers include the works of Achebe, Conrad, Kingsolver, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Soyinka, Chaucer, and Dante; the archaeology of the Mississippi River valley, the geography and culture of the American South, slavery in New England, cartography, poetry, jazz, World War II in France, ethnic diversity in China, and teaching Italian through Italian art. The approximately 440 teachers who participate in these studies will teach over fifty thousand American students the following year.