Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts’ Virginia Siegel was mentioned in a University of Arkansas News article, “$170,000 NEH Grant Creates New ‘Pandemics in History’ Summer Institute” (September 15, 2021).
AFTA’s Documenting COVID-19 Oral History project will be featured in the summer institute highlighted in the article. Quoting from the article:
Casey Kayser, assistant professor of English and director of the Medical Humanities Program, and history professor Tricia Starks have been awarded a $170,000 Summer Teaching Institute grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their project, “Pandemics in History, Literature, and Today.”
The duo will head an interdisciplinary team of university, medical and community experts to take participating institute teachers through the 1918 global influenza pandemic, discuss the history and artistic responses to the devastating events, and consider how to integrate these lessons into history, science and literature curricula.
Read the full article at the newspaper’s website.
