Distinguished Visiting Professor Nominations

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce a call for nominations for Distinguished Visiting Professor for the 2006–07 academic year. In an effort to increase faculty participation in the nominating process, a meeting will be held to identify potential candidates on Friday, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m. in Auerbach 427. All are welcome to attend this brainstorming session.

The Distinguished Visiting Professor (DVP) should be a person who is nationally recognized for his or her contribution to the study of the humanities, and whose work has direct implications for the way the humanities are taught at the University of Hartford. In the past several years, the DVPs have come from a number of disciplines, including English, women's history, anthropology, philosophy, writing and oral history.

The Distinguished Visiting Professor will join a one-week summer workshop conducted by the University of Hartford’s Distinguished Teaching Humanist. Participants in the summer workshop will be members of the University faculty and affiliate teachers from secondary schools in the area. The specific focus and syllabus for the summer workshop will be determined through collaboration between the Distinguished Visiting Professor and the Teaching Humanist.

The Distinguished Visiting Professor program will be reinvigorated this year through the addition of some significant elements, including:

• an increased stipend for the DVP to attract more prominent scholars in the Humanities.



• more intellectual collaboration between the DVP and the Distinguished Teaching Humanist (DTH) so that the DTH can further develop the Visiting Professor’s ideas in the summer session and in later workshops.



• more opportunities for those interested in the selected DVP to participate in the summer workshop through such activities as making presentations and leading discussions based on the DVP's scholarly work.



• an attempt to enhance the participation of faculty in the nomination process in order to increase the quality and quantity of the applicants for the DVP.

If you are unable to attend the Feb. 18 meeting to identify potential candidates, please forward the names of any individuals you think would be ideal for the DVP role to Joe Voelker, Jack Banks or Elizabeth Burt. Their contact information is as follows:

• Joe Voelker, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences: voelker@hartford.edu, 768-4255



• Jack Banks, Distinguished Teaching Humanist: jbanks@hartford.edu, 768-5277



• Elizabeth Burt, NEH Grant Project Manager: eburt@hartford.edu, 768-4968

To nominate someone for the DVP position, please include the person’s name, position, discipline, institution, and a brief statement of why you think he or she would excel as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Any additional material that would aid in evaluating these nominations would be extremely helpful, such as the location of a website for the person’s professional work or reviews of their work.