AHC Teaching and Research Grants 2004 Award Winners


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Teaching and Research Grants 2004 Award Winners

Dr.Willie Bauer
UW History Department

Dr. Willie Bauer received a grant for his course “American Indians in the North America West.” The class, to be taught during the 2004-05 academic year, will be an upper-division undergraduate and/or graduate level course which will use AHC collections to study American Indians in the North American West. Each student will research one AHC collection and then prepare a research paper for the class.

Dr. James Wangberg
UW College of Agriculture

Dr. James Wangberg, associate dean in the College of Agriculture, applied for a grant for the “Agriculture: Rooted in Diversity” class project. Besides the AHC grant, the class received support from the Wyoming Council for the Humanities, and the UW President's Advisory Council on Minorities and Women's Affairs. The students researched relevant AHC collections, and along with their class readings, discussions, and guest seminar speakers they produced professional exhibits. The students exhibited the results of their research at a public reception at the AHC. The displays eventually will be on permanent exhibit in various campus buildings and classrooms.

Dr. Amanda Rees
UW Geography and Recreation

Using a 2003 AHC Teaching and Research Grant, Dr. Amanda Rees of the UW Geography and Recreation Department had students in her “Tourism and Recreation” class research AHC collections related to dude ranching in the West. A dude ranching website, which can be accessed through the AHC's web page, resulted from the class. Rees received a 2004 grant to present a paper about the success of the class to the 2004 meeting of the American Association of Geographers, held in Philadelphia. Her session was titled “Teaching Tourism in the 21 st Century” and her paper focused on the use of historical documents in the teaching of tourism.

Landra Rezabek
UW College of Education

Landra Rezabek, associate professor in the UW College of Education, received a grant for her class “Visual Literacy for Life and Learning: Tools and Tactics for Visual Research.” This class has been approved as an Information Literacy elective in the new University Studies program. Dr. Rezabek wants her students to become familiar with AHC resources, formulate appropriate research questions that can be investigated using archival materials, conduct successful searches, request the duplication of critical visuals, and produce visual displays evidencing the results of their research. This will be similar to the highly successful class taught by Jim Wangberg this past semester, but will focus on visual materials. The class will be taught in the fall of 2004 and spring 2005.

Carol Bryant
UW College of Education

Carol Bryant, associate professor in the UW College of Education, received a grant for her proposal titled “Preparing to Use Primary Documents in the Social Studies Classroom.” The goal of the project is to use AHC materials to develop lesson plans for use in the students future classrooms. The focus for the class during the fall of 2004 will be on Constitutional issues relevant to Wyoming. The training helped the preservice teachers to understand that primary documents can be used in teaching a variety of disciplines. The students will display their research at the AHC at the end of the fall 2004 semester.