THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Volume 103, No. 138
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Pavillion construction projected New Liberal Arts Dean to be complete January 2016 to start Fall semester LOGAN KIRKLAND & CLARA TURNAGE thedmnews@gmail.com
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According to the Department of Facilities Planning the new basketball arena, the Pavillion, is projected to be completed January 9, 2016. That will also be the first home game for the Rebels.
After about a year of searching for a new dean for the college of liberal arts, Dr. Lee Cohen, will serve as the new dean this fall semester. Cohen said he first learned about the position opening from an email sent by Dr. Michael Allen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, to the members of the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology . “Within a couple of days of seeing Dr. Allen’s email, a good friend and colleague of mine forwarded the job ad to me and encouraged me to apply – and I did,” Cohen said. Cohen said he had recently begun considering applying for dean positions at a very select group of schools. “The more I learned about the University of Mississippi and the city of Oxford, the more excited I became about the possibility of coming here,” Cohen said. After an initial Skype interview, Cohen was
pleased to learn that he was invited to campus for an on-site interview. Cohen said the overwhelming amount of support has really solidified the decision that the university is where he and his family need to be. “I recall that when I got home, I told my wife that this was a place I really wanted to be and when I got the offer I was thrilled,” Cohen said. “Since then, my wife and kids have been so incredibly supportive of the decision, and numerous people affiliated
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Southern Foodways Alliance hosts history workshop SUAD PATTONBEY
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The Southern Foodways Alliance will host a workshop on oral history from July 1317. This year’s workshop will have only six students, to create a less crowded, more intimate space for the students to share their ideas and apply it to their own work. “I think the interesting thing about oral history is that, traditionally, it’s always been processed for an academic archive,” Wood said. “So, once the interviews are collected, they’re put right in to the archive of a library or an institution and they kind of sit there for researchers or
historians or writers to find them.” Guest speakers will include locals, mainly, including Tina Antolini, Andy Harper, Alysia Burton-Steele and award-winning University of Massachusetts professor Erin Anderson, who has completed with digital publishing and experimental work with oral history. “I think, in the last decade or so, people who work in oral history are trying to find ways to bring those stories to the surface outside of the archive, and to put them into a consciousness of mainstream audience,” Wood said. The Southern Foodways Alliance records, studies ,and celebrates the diversity of
southern cuisine. The organization strives to place a common thread across racial and social lines; to remember the past and envision the future. “Oral history is essentially a first-person account of an event or a story,” said Sara Wood, oral historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance. “When I go out into the field, we usually pick a project stemmed around that.” Oral historians try to give the unsung a chance to speak their personal truth, even when accounts don’t line up with previous personal or historical records, Wood said. “I think that plays into the whole idea of folklore,” Wood said. “But at the same time, I think it complicates things
down the road once in a while for historians who are trying to find all of the facts.” Wood also said memories are a significant in capturing oral history. “Memories are a very interesting and complicated thing as well.” Research has shown that a person’s account of a recent event can change drastically with time, Wood said. Former SFA oral historian Amy Cameron-Evans founded the oral history workshop a few years ago. Evans’s process includes an introduction to oral history, defining what it was, its methods and practices, how to collect interviews and how to process materials after returning from
the field. Wood observed during last year’s workshop that many of the students had either just started or were far into an oral history project of their own. This year’s workshop will take a different approach, Wood said. She said she has found it interesting to take people into the field to learn fieldwork techniques. She thought it would be particularly useful to those who were already in the field, stuck, or were trying to process certain materials. The application was open to both undergraduates and graduate students. SFA re-
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