Recognitions
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in November 2010 announced that Michelle Boisseau, (English and Associate Editor of BkMk Press) is among one of the nation’s 42 noted poets to receive a $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. For more about Michelle and her work, see: http://cas.umkc.edu/english/our-department/people.asp. For more about the award see: http://www.nea.gov/news/news10/grant¬announcement-november.html
Miriam Forman-Brunell, (History), has been appointed to the Affiliated Faculty of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
William Black, (Economics), the author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One,” had an essay published by The New York Times in December, 2010 titled:“Worse Than You Think”. For more see: http://www.nytimes.com/ roomfordebate/ 2010/ 12/07/should-megabanks-be-broken-apart/big-banks-are-worse-than-you-think?emc=eta1
Pellom McDaniels, (History), has received word of an NEH grant to support his research in American Studies on the topic:The Prince of Jockeys: The Life and Career of Isaac Murphy. For more on the December 2010 NEH grants see: http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/December2010grantsstatebystatefinal%282%29.pdf
Daniel McIntosh, (Physics), was recently elected to the executive board of the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium and is the UMKC affiliate member. For more on MOSGP see: http://web.mst.edu/~spaceg/index.html
Clancy Martin, (Philosophy), has an essay as the featured cover story for Harpers in January 2011. See: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/01/0083250
He also had an essay published in December 6, 2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education. See: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Lie¬Guy/125582/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Clancy Martin (Philosophy) is interviewed by WBUR about his experience and his recent Harper’s cover story on AA.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/media-player?source=hereandnow&url=http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/01/13/alcoholics-anonymous/&title=Journalist+Examines+Inner+Workings+OfAlcoholics+Anonymous&segment=alcoholics¬anonymous&pubdate=2011-01-13
Pearlie Johnson (Black Studies Program) On December 26, 2010, the Kansas City Star Magazine published an interview that highlighted her research on African American quilters.
