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Project Director<\/h2>\n

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Jessica DeSpain\u00a0<\/strong>is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and is the co-director of SIUE’s IRIS Center for the Digital Humanities. She is the author of Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book (Ashgate, 2014), and the lead editor of The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition<\/em>, an exploration of the reprints of Susan Warner’s bestselling nineteenth-century novel. She has published several articles on the intersections of book history and digital humanities pedagogy. DeSpain collaborated with faculty in English, History, Education, and STEM on the NSF-funded Digital East St. Louis Project, in which middle school students in East St. Louis built a digital project about the history and culture of their city. She is currently the director of the NEH-funded Conversation Toward a Brighter Future project wherein middle and high school students participate in digital storytelling studios about the value of intergenerational relationships.<\/p>\n

Project Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
Jen Cline <\/strong>is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at <\/span><\/span>Lewis and Clark Community College<\/span><\/span>. She designed and now coordinates their Honors College<\/span><\/span>, which is an interdisciplinary program primarily incorporating the humanities and social sciences<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> She has experience developing honors i<\/span><\/span>nterdisciplinary courses related to social problems including racial and ethnic relations. <\/span><\/span>S<\/span><\/span>he has continued her academic training by taking courses focused<\/span><\/span> on innovative teaching methods and service learning<\/span><\/span>.\u202f<\/span><\/span>She is also<\/span><\/span> Vice President of the Alton Main Street Executive Board<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> Cline has been particularly effective for imagining what shape the Pathway <\/span><\/span>project <\/span><\/span>will take at L&C.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nConnie Frey Spurlock <\/strong>is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the <\/span><\/span>Faculty Director of<\/span><\/span> SIUE\u2019s Successful Communities Collaborative, a cross-disciplinary program that supports one-year partnerships between the University and communities as a part of the national EPIC Network, an award-winning program for fostering university\/community partnerships.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
Michael Hankins<\/b> is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Deparment of Chemistry. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics in far-from-equilibrium electrochemical systems, role of cyclic\/oscillatory biological reactions in autoimmune disorders, and synchronization characteristics of battery systems.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nJessica Harris <\/strong>is an associate professor of historical studies in the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences and Interim Associate Provost. Harris\u2019 work at SIUE has included a special assignment as a Provost Fellow for Diversity and Inclusion. In this role, she collaborated with faculty colleagues, undergraduate and graduate students, the Honors Program, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of Student Affairs to launch a pilot of Sustained Dialogue, a powerful five-stage social action model encouraging dialogue across differences, as a curricular and co-curricular program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
Kristine Hildebrandt\u00a0<\/strong>is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her research profile includes language documentation and preservation. She is the principal investigator on two projects funded by the National Science Foundation\u2019s\u00a0Documenting Endangered Languages<\/a>\u00a0program, and previously directed a documentation\u00a0project<\/a>, funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies to document endangered\/vulnerable languages of northern-central Nepal: Nar and Phu. Check out her collaborative work with SIUE faculty and students at:\u00a0https:\/\/mananglanguages.isg.siue.edu\/<\/a>.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nKatherine Knowles<\/strong> is the IRIS Center Project Manager. She has has a BA in English and Music from Hanover College and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from the University of Birmingham\u2019s Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. She currently manages the Conversation Toward a Brighter Future 2.0<\/a><\/strong> project as well as the planning phase for the Digital Community Engagement Pathway.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
Jill O\u2019Shea Lane<\/strong> is the D<\/span><\/span>ean of Transfer Programs<\/span><\/span> at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois.\u00a0 Prior to her appointment to this position, Jill was an Assistant Professor of Speech at Lewis & Clark.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Jill has extensive experience in higher education and government.\u00a0 Jill served as the Director of Governmental Relations at the Illinois Community College Board where she lobbied the Illinois Legislature on behalf of the community college system in <\/span><\/span>Illinois<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 She also spent several years at the <\/span><\/span>University<\/span><\/span> of <\/span><\/span>Illinois<\/span><\/span> \u2013 <\/span><\/span>Springfield<\/span><\/span> as Projects Manager of the <\/span><\/span>Illinois<\/span><\/span> Legislative<\/span><\/span> Studies<\/span><\/span> Center<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 Jill has served as staff to the Illinois Legislature as an Analyst at the Illinois Citizens Assembly and as staff in the Illinois Governor\u2019s Office as a Budget Analyst for the Bureau of the Budget.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nHoward Rambsy\u00a0<\/b>is a professor of literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he has\u00a0taught a wide range of American and African American literature courses, and coordinated more than 300 public humanities projects concentrating on African American literature and cultural history.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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