National Endowment for the Humanities Funders Roundtable
Monday, February 13, 2023
Starts at 10:30 AM
Via zoom
Register here
For any questions please contact humanities@ucmerced.edu
About the speakers:
Julia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Her graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she was an assistant professor of history, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. She has published numerous articles on education, domestic service, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana.
John Cox is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Challenge Programs. He received his PhD in English from the University of Mississippi in 2000. Prior to coming to NEH, he was an associate professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Georgia College & State University. In addition, he has taught secondary school literature and composition in the United States and abroad. His book, Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2005. He has also written and presented on William Bartram, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and other topics related to American literature.
Jill Austin is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Public Programs.
