Endowed Professorships in Humanities
Name of Professorship |
Appointment Date |
Current Holder |
Description | |
Centenary Research Professorship in Humanities #1 |
2007-2009 |
Jeanne Hamming |
During the time that Jeanne Hamming will hold the Humanities professorship, funded in 1991, she will be co-authoring a book with Helen Burgess of University of Maryland at Baltimore County. The book, tentatively titled Thinking through Code: Making Multimedia in the Academy, will consider the ways in which new media practice has informed and can continue to inform new media criticism and theory. This book will explore, in various contexts and from various perspectives, the relationships—rhetorical, ideological, and actual—that exist within the academy between multimedia, materiality, labor, and traditional models of research. | |
Centenary Research Professorship in Humanities #2/ Research #1 |
Summer 2008 |
Jeff Hendricks |
Funded in 1998, this professorship will allow Dr. Hendricks and Mindy McCoin, student researcher, to do the research and write a biographical essay on the avant-garde musician and performance artist, Charlotte Moorman, '55 alum. The team will then produce a short documentary film on the life and artistic significance of Moorman's work. | |
Centenary Research Professorship in Humanities #3/ Research #2 |
Summer 2008 |
Jeff Hendricks |
See above. | |
Centenary Research Professorship in Humanities #4/ Research #3 |
Summer 2008 |
Mary Robert Garrett |
Funded in 1998, this professorship will allow Dr. Garrett and student researchers, Cara Miccoli and Andy Osborn, to do research to improve upon current synthesis and methodology techniques. Chemists know how to make certain drugs and natural products, but want to develop new ways that are faster, less expensive, and more environmentally friendly. Dr. Garrett and her team's research will work towards achieving that goal. | |
Centenary Research Professorship in Humanities #5/ Research #4 |
Summer 2008 |
Mary Robert Garrett |
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Centenary Research Professorship in Humanities #6/ Research #5 |
Summer 2008 |
Greg Butcher |
Funded in 1999, the grant provided by this professorship will allow Professor Butcher and his students Deana Apple and Marco Rajo to further examine molecular regulators of rhythmic circadian behavior through two main lines of experimentation. First they will attempt to determine the precise localization of the light inducible CREB activators RSKs/MSKs within the SCN and examine the relevance of these kinases to light-induced behavioral phase-shifting. Secondly, in a new line of work, they will determine the presence of PKMζ within the SCN and examine its role as a putative post-translational regulator of clock protein stability and behavioral phase-shifting. | |
William Arceneaux Professorship in Foreign Language |
2008-2012 |
Dana Kress |
Funded in October, 2005, this professorship will allow Dr. Kress to further explore the Francophone literature of Louisiana. | |
Dr. Charles T. Beaird Professorship of Philosophy #1 |
2008-2010 |
Chris Ciocchetti |
Funded in October, 2005, this professorship will help Dr. Ciocchetti explore moral and ethical issues with his students and the broader philosophical community. | |
Dr. Charles T. Beaird Professorship of Philosophy #2 |
Fall 2008 |
Chris Ciocchetti |
See above. | |
A.C."Cheesy" Voran Choir Director Professorship #1 |
2007 |
David Hobson |
Funded in October, 2005. The Director of Centenary's Choir will occupy the Voran Professorships. | |
A.C."Cheesy" Voran Choir Director Professorship #2 |
2007 |
David Hobson |
Funded in October 2005. The Director of Centenary's Choir will occupy the Voran Professorships. |
Last updated May 29, 2008.