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Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007
- Kathleen Holt
- EDITOR
- Jennifer Viviano
- GRAPHIC DESIGN
- Leigh van der Werff
- PUBLICATIONS ASSISTANT
- Allison Dubinsky
- COPY EDITOR
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Tom Booth
- Brian Doyle
- Debra Gwartney
- Julia Heydon
- Marianne Keddington-Lang
- Guy Maynard
- Win McCormack
- Camela Raymond
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- Linny Stovall
- Rich Wandschneider
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Contributors
Mary Anne Beecher is an associate professor in the department of architecture at the University of Oregon where she teaches in the interior architecture program. She served as the 2006 Dean's Fellow in the History of Home Economics at Cornell University, where she studied the collected works of home economists from around the United States.
Lucy Burningham is a full-time freelance writer living in Portland. She's currently pursuing a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Portland State University, and most recently, her work has appeared in Portland Monthly, Sunset, and Men's Journal.
Diana Coogle is an OCH Oregon Chautauqua scholar with two lectures: "Reading Houses" and "Food for Thought." She has lived for thirty-five years in a house she built herself in the mountains of southern Oregon and is currently a PhD student at the University of Oregon.
John Holloran grew up in Seattle and currently resides in Portland, where he teaches high school history and humanities at Oregon Episcopal School. He received his PhD in early modern European intellectual history from the University of Virginia.
Bette Lynch Husted's memoir Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land (OSU Press, 2004) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the WILLA Award for creative nonfiction. She received a 2007 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Award for her work on a collection of personal essays about social class. Her poetry chapbook After Fire was published by Puddinghouse. She lives in Pendleton.
Michelle Inderbitzin is an associate professor of sociology at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Her areas of interest include prison culture, juvenile justice, and the civic reintegration of convicted felons. She is teaching her third Inside-Out class within the Oregon State Penitentiary this fall.
Theresa Koon is an OCH Oregon Chautauqua scholar and a singer and actress who has performed with many local and international theater companies and orchestras. Also a composer and librettist, she has written an opera called Promise. She currently teaches voice in her private studio in Portland.
Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches at the Northwest Writing Institute, Lewis & Clark College in Portland. She is the author of Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island, a biography of an Alaska Native healer. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is currently completing a book about the life of Mexican artist and healer, Eva Castellanoz.
Scott Nadelson is the author of two story collections, The Cantor's Daughter, recipient of the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Fiction Prize for Emerging Jewish Writers, and Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories, winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He is a visiting assistant professor at Willamette University in Salem.
Jamie Passaro lives in Eugene, where she is a freelance writer and newsletter editor for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Her last article for Oregon Humanities was about the wedding industry (Fall 2004).
Mary Rechner's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in several local and nation publications. Her small book, Hot Springs, was published by Cloverfield Press.
Daveena Tauber is an assistant professor in the University Studies program at Portland State University. She holds a PhD in English literature from Rutgers University, with an unofficial minor in urban planning and design. Her current reading preoccupation is the history of domestic labor and technology.
Leigh van der Werff is the publications assistant for the Oregon Council for the Humanities.
Published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Oregon Humanities.
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