| Three Berea College faculty members have received Appalachian
College Association (ACA) Faculty-Student Research grants totaling
$63,700 for summer research.
Dr. Stephanie Browner, assistant professor of English and
Theatre, received a grant for $14,300 to develop a comprehensive,
scholarly, digital archive for author Charles Chesnutt into
an integrated, freely accessible Internet site.
Dr. Gordon McKinney, director of the Appalachian Center, Goode
Professor of Appalachian Studies and professor of history,
was awarded $30,000 to transcribe and analyze the contents
of all of the applications for Amnesty from persons in western
North Carolina following the Civil War.
Dr. Robert Suder, professor of religion, will receive $18,700
to develop a bibliography, concordance, philological analysis
and additions to the Northwest Semitic Inscriptions Database.
The ACA is a consortium of 33 private colleges in Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The
ACA provides faculty at member colleges with access to a wide
range of grant-related assistance such as travel grants, fellowships
for pre- or post-graduate study and research, funds for infusing
technology into teaching, and special projects. Major funding
for the grants comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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