Heritage Studies Student Wins Arkansas Historical Association Award for Best Community History.

Wendy Richter, a doctoral student of the Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program, received the Best Community History award for her paper,  "The Impact of Blakely Mountain Dam on Northwestern Garland County, Arkansas", which was published in The Record, Garland County Historical Society.  

Wendy also presented her paper, "Becoming an American Spa:  Early Days at the Hot Springs" at the 62nd annual Arkansas Historical Association Conference in Monticello, Arkansas on Friday, April 26, 2003.  

  Wendy Richter   (Photo by Terry Thomas-Johnson)

 Dr. Andy Sustich appointed 

as the Interim Dean 

of Humanities and Social Sciences

July 1, 2003, Dr. Andy Sustich will assume the position of Interim Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Sustich first became Associate Dean of the current College of Arts and Sciences in July 2001 until February 2003 when he accepted the position of Interim Dean for the college. As the College of Arts & Sciences is being restructured into two separate colleges, Humanities and Social Sciences and Sciences and Mathematics, Dr. Sustich’s transition should be seamless. His primary charge now is to oversee the separation of the College, as well as, the separation of Social Work Program from the Department of Criminology, Sociology, Social Work, and Geography to its new home as a separate department within the College of Nursing and Health Professions. Dr. Sustich has done an excellent job as Interim Dean, and ASU is proud that he will continue to serve in such a capacity for the newly developed College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Heritage Studies Doctoral Student/Professor Present a Paper at the 2003 National PCA/ACA meeting in New Orleans

Gender Studies IV: Panel Discussion and Open Forum

When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women’s Studies in America

The Challenges of Beginning a Gender Woman’s Studies Program in the 21st Century

Deborah K. Chappel and Francesca Muccini, Arkansas State University 

The panel discussion draws upon a survey of women undergraduates conducted by the presenters at Arkansas State University which focuses on the challenges of beginning a gender/women’s studies program in the 21st century.  In addition, Marilyn Boxer’s book When Women Ask the Questions:  Creating Women’s Studies in America will be a part of their discussion.  Essentially we will be asking whether Gender/Women’s Studies programs are responding to the interests and needs of the current generation of undergraduate women and exploring how feminists can regain control of their own terms rather than having terms, such as “feminist,” be defined in the public sphere by those who are antagonistic. 

The presenters’ thesis is that the model for teaching women’s studies and gender studies that was so successful in the 1970s and 1980s may not be appropriate and effective for the changing environment and times.  They suggest that many feminists doing work in the area of gender seem to be speaking only to each other.  The focus of our discussion during the open forum session following the panel discussion will be to ask if we have lost control of the public dialogue on feminism—as witnessed by the fact that most undergraduate women agree with the goals of NOW but reject the term feminist—and what might be done about it..

Francesca Muccini                             Dr. Deborah Chappel

ASU hosts world film premiere of 

"A Painted House" by author John Grisham.

Heritage Studies Students, Staff and Faculty attend the World Premiere of John Grisham's "A Painted House" at ASU.

Heritage Studies Student Jodi Morris to direct Crowley's Ridge Nature Center.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will hold groundbreaking ceremonies at 10 a.m. Friday for Phase 3 of the Crowley's Ridge Nature Center. The ceremony will be held at the center's entrance at 600 Lawson Road.

Jodi Morris, the center's director, said many Game and Fish and state elected officials are expected to participate in the ceremony.

Scheduled to open in the spring of 2004, the Crowley's Ridge Nature Center is one of four nature centers being developed across the state. The first, at Pine Bluff, has already opened. Others will be located at North Little Rock and Fort Smith.

The main focus of the Crowley's Ridge center is the unique topography and environment of the Ridge itself, and the contrast of the ridge to the Delta surrounding it.

Jodi Morris (photo by Terry Thomas-Johnson)

ASU Celebrates Black History Month

President Les Wyatt Appoints Dr. C. Calvin Smith as the 1st Presidential Distinguished Professor of Heritage Studies