Grants and Directorships

• National Endowment for the Humanities, project director, “Keeping and Creating American Communities,” three-year project to develop interdisciplinary resources for collaborative study of local, national, and international American community interactions; $245,000.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, project co-director for “Making American Literatures,” a 1997-99 curriculum development project linking teachers from three National Writing Project sites (at UC-Berkeley, U of Michigan and Kennesaw) with university scholars for collaborative research; $235,000.
• Georgia Humanities Council, “What It Means to Be An American,” Collaborative Literature Study and Summer Honors Program, $19,900.
• Regents’ Teaching with Technology Grant, University System project to develop a distance learning model for Women’s Studies courses; $19,000.
• Georgia Humanities Council, “The Journey from Childhood to Adulthood,” Collaborative Teacher Enrichment Grant; $16,000.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, project co-director for “Domesticating the Canon,” a 1995 Summer Institute offered for secondary American literature and history teachers and focusing on nineteenth-century women's writing; $57,000.
• National Writing Project, site director for the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, serving K-12 teachers of writing in northwest Georgia with an annual budget of at least $60,000 from federal, university, and school funds; $43,000 annual grant.
• Project Outreach, a program serving schools whose populations have a high percentage of at-risk students, supported by the DeWitt-Wallace Readers Digest Fund; $24,000.
• Write For Your Life, local site director for multi-site national literacy project funded by the Bingham Trust and Michigan State University.