A
campus reception for Berea professors Dr. Gordon McKinney and Dr. Stephanie
Browner, celebrating the publication of their new books, is scheduled
for Monday, Dec. 6 from 4- 5:30 p.m. in the Woods-Penniman Building Commons.
McKinney, director of Berea’s Appalachian Center and Goode Professor
of Appalachian Studies, is the author of “Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s
Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader,” published
this fall by the University of North Carolina Press. The biography places
Vance “in the context of historians’ rapidly changing perceptions
of the American South.”
McKinney is an historian who taught for more than a decade at Western
Carolina University in North Carolina. A specialist in 19th Century
Appalachian History, Dr. McKinney is the author of a number of studies
of regional political and social history. His numerous books and articles
on central and southern Appalachia include the Guide to the Zebulon
Baird Vance Papers, co-written with Dr. Richard McMurry, and Southern
Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community.
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the
Civil War, co-authored with John C. Inscoe of the University of Georgia.,
was published in 2000.
Before becoming the director of Berea's Appalachian Center, Dr. McKinney
was an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Maryland,
where he was the Executive Director of National History Day, a history
competition for middle and high school students. The New Hampshire
native received his bachelor’s degree from Bates College in Maine,
and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University.
Browner is associate professor of English and Dean of the Faculty at
Berea. Her book “Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining
Doctors in Nineteenth Century America” examines how fiction represented
medicine and the doctor as medicine professionalized and became the
most esteemed and highly-paid profession in the nation. The book was
just published this month by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Browning’s first book, “Literature and the Internet: A
Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars” (with Stephen Pulsford
and Richard Sears) was published in 2000.
Browner has been a member of Berea’s English faculty since 1994
and Dean of the Faculty since 2003. Her special interests include Literature
and Technology, Postcolonial Literature and Modern and Postmodern Dance.
In addition to authoring books and articles, Browner has developed
extensive internet resources for use by teachers and students including
teaching sites on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. A former professional
dancer with the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati, Browner helped
to establish the Berea College Modern Dance Troupe, a contemporary
dance performance group with which she continues to perform. She holds
a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University.
For more information, McKinney can be reached at (859) 985-3141, and
Browner at (859) 985-3490 or (859) 985-3771.
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